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Eating Our Way Through Copenhagen
We ate our way through Copenhagen -- from pastries to fish to artful plates of delicious delicacies.


Last Blast of Summer Dinner Party (with menu)
Choose your own adventure with the Last Blast of Summer Menu — lots of options to take advantage of what's still ripe and delicious where yo


Christmas Tree Chocolate Miracle Cake
While I do love baking and decorating Christmas cookies, every year I find myself wanting to serve a dramatic dessert for the holidays....

Eating Missouri: A Culinary History Dinner (and book!)
While Missouri may be known as the “show-me” state, it turns out I should be much prouder and more aware of our rich food history. A new...


Secret: Best Chocolate Chip Cookies in the World
what is the secret to amazing chocolate chip cookies? PATIENCE.


Dinner Club: Hawaii
Inspired by our trip to Hawaii, we planned a Sheldon Simeon "Cook Real Hawai'i" inspired night. Some of these items are decidedly...


How to Create a Dinner Club
Want to have a cooking club? Read this to see how our Gourmet Club works.


It's My Birthday...
I Can Wreck It If I Want To I love desserts and for my birthday, I don't like being disappointed. So I usually make the cake myself, so...




Pizza: My Mom's Secret Recipe
Pizza really is the perfect food—protein, dairy, vegetables, carbs. Let's think of it as a balanced meal because then we can justify...


Buzzy Read
I never imagined I would be enthralled with a science laden cocktail recipe book—but I loved it! Jamie Evans (also known as The Herb...


Silky Tarte Noir + Dorie Love
Dorie Greenspan's Recipes Never Disappoint Me My copy of Dorie Greenspan's Baking: From My Home to Yours is splattered and bent and has...


Dinner Club: Searching for Italy
Each episode of Stanley Tucci's Searching for Italy could inspire its own dinner party...but our friends rolled the whole first season...


Sugar: The Sweet Stuff from A to Z
In other words: Hey Sweetie, there's more to sugar than the white stuff Choosing the right sugar for the job can be trying for the...
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