Cooking Tips

Avoid holiday pounds by enjoying your food

Weight-loss experts have some surprising words of advice for dieters worried about holiday weight gain: just say yes.

Kitchen calamities afflict even seasoned chefs

Slumped cakes, charred turkey, doughy rolls. Whether you are a novice cook or a seasoned baker, chances are there is at least one kitchen calamity in your past.

Sweet but not sugary

Here's a primer on some of the non-sugar sweeteners on the market.

Sage advice

Stock up on holiday spices

Walnut Uses

We often think of ripe walnuts as a favorite holiday nut, used in baking or the festive nut bowl. But walnuts can be picked and used when they are green (unripe) or half-ripe.

Simmer Dinner

Families living in Brigham Young University's married-student housing have been bit by the slow-cooker virus, experiencing repeated outbreaks of home-cooked meals and stress-free evenings.

10 Slow Cooker Tips

Want to make cooking easier? Here's some slow cooker tips.

Safety Tips

Warning: Germs can spoil holidays

As Utahns sit down for the feast that marks the start of the holiday season Thursday, it's important to make sure the guest list doesn't include names like hepatitis A and E. coli.

Specialists field food-safety queries

Toll-free telephone services and Web sites offer a variety of specialist answers to cooking and food-safety questions during holiday preparation times. Here are some of them:

Food safety is a hot holiday topic

Keeping food safe is not just an outdoor sport. Neither weather nor time of year puts eaters at risk, but rather whether food is allowed to languish in the 40- to 135-degree range called the "danger zone," because that's where bacteria multiply the most.

FoodSafetyAnswers.org

Search — either by keyword or by browsing a list of categories — for answers to more than 500 of the most commonly asked food-safety questions