Handmade pasta is a (quick) labor of love

Easier than expected and tender with tenderness, make fresh pasta in a snap. And a bonus clam sauce

The gym will totally still be there after you finish that creme brulee.

Japanese BENIHANA VILLAGE Las Vegas Hilton, 732-5111. Japanese tabletop cooking at its finest. The chefs deliver great steaming-hot food, as well as an entertaining show.

Craving kreplach, the Yiddish dumpling

While modern menus for Rosh Hashanah have tended to focus on the spice-rich cuisines of North Africa, Deena Prichep thinks the food of Eastern Europe deserves a place at the holiday table, too. She'll show you how easy -- and satisfying -- it is to make your own kreplach.

Cooking can be a handful - and that's a good thing

By DANIEL NEMAN BLADE FOOD EDITOR You come home from a long, hard day at work. You just don't feel like whipping up a magret de canard en croute de sel (duck breast in a salt crust) or a quasi de veau aux pommes de terre nouvelles (veal sirloin roast with baby potatoes). And a dessert of Crme froide caramlise la cassonade (let's see, that would be a cream custard caramelized with brown sugar ...

Our Jason rises to the top

FORMER Bathurst chef Jason Saxby was named the Josephine Pignolet Young Chef of the Year at a glittering ceremony on Monday.