What to Do With That Oil From Your Holiday Turkey

Hillsborough County has launched a cooking oil recycling effort.

If your holiday plans include deep-frying a turkey – or anything else delicious – Hillsborough County has just the place to take cooking oil that is past its useful life. The Public Utilities Department has launched the Cooking Oil Recycling Effort (C.O.R.E.). It is a new program that offers residents a convenient way to recycle their used cooking oil. Free cooking oil jugs are available from five cabinets located in selected areas. Used, cooled cooking oil can be stored in the jugs or other sturdy, spill-proof, nonbreakable containers, capped securely, and taken to one of the cabinets. Look for the brightly colored C.O.R.E. cabinets at: Used cooking oils are a serious problem for home plumbing and Hillsborough County's wastewater …

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Cooking with Chef Anne

Cooking ... Love it or Hate it?

Sharing your love of cooking with others can be just as satisfying as eating that great meal.

When people discover that I’m a chef and own a restaurant, I get one of three responses. First, there are the people who think it’s a wonderful, glamorous career and that I’m jetting back and forth to five-star restaurants every week. Boy, are they off base! These people have obviously been watching too many celebrity chef shows. The second group is comprised of people who have a love of cooking and a secret desire to own a restaurant of their own someday. This is really a dream of more people than you might imagine. The third group, and the one I’ll address in this article, consists of the people who instantly tell me how much they hate to cook and ask incredulously, “How can you do that all day every day?” Let me make something very …

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Author Serves Up Delicious Recipes

Warren Caterson gave a cooking demonstration at the Seminole Heights Library Tuesday night.

Mouths were watering at the Seminole Heights Library Tuesday night as a Florida gourmet demonstrated how to prepare shrimp scampi – with samples for the lucky guests. Warren Caterson, author of Table for Two: The Cookbook for Couples, shared some of his culinary secrets and he signed copies of his book. “Don't cook this with the windows open and neighbors working in the backyard,” said Caterson, as the smell of sizzling shrimp wafted through the library, and more patrons drifted over. Caterson's shrimp scampi has just four ingredients: shrimp, olive oil, lemon, and white wine. The wine makes salt unnecessary, just one of the author's many tips. Caterson has been cooking for 25 years, and wrote this book specifically for couples. He said …

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