Recipes & Cooking

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...

Baking with Dorie: Sweet, Salty & Simple

Dorie Greenspan cookbook review

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...