I absolutely love my cast iron cookware. When I was first married (many, many years ago,) someone gave me a cast iron skillet. I did not think I would like it. It was heavy, and hard to take care of. I think I let someone borrow that skillet for a camping trip, and I never got it back.

Several years later, I bought another. I learned how to properly care for it, and now it's my absolute favorite. Cast iron heats evenly and thoroughly, unlike so much of my other cookware. It doesn't scr ...

If you're like me, you have tons of recipe files, cards, books, magazines, etc. Recipe Builder software is the way to keep it all organized in one handy place - on your computer.

The software comes with 12,000 recipes built in. Of course, you don't have to keep or use those recipes, there's plenty of room to add your own. How much easier could it be to add all the recipes you find while online, than to st ...

I love my new dishes I got for Christmas. When the kids asked me what I wanted, I said "pretty plates!" They asked if I wanted a new set of dinnerware, but I told them "no." What I wanted was a variety of different pretty plates for photographing my recipes for the Real Home Cooking website and my other food blogs. I was getting tired of seeing everything on my generic white plates, and even though my wedding china is pretty, it doesn't look right for my food photos.

What I got was fi ...