Until a couple of years ago, I didn’t know just how easy it is to make homemade cranberry sauce. In the past, Crate & Barrel used to sell an incredible cranberry conserve the Barefoot Contessa whipped up, so that was easy. Open the jar, put in pretty serving dish, and [...]
I’m not quite sure how it happened so fast, but we’re now only nine days (!!!) from chowing down on turkey celebrating Thanksgiving. Considering how all the stores transitioned to all things Christmas weeks ago (yes, I actually heard “Silver Bells” while shopping the day after Halloween—absolute craziness), I think [...]
There’s nothing better than when two of your favorite foods come together and make something even tastier. Case in point: this homemade pumpkin granola. In what won’t be a surprise to anyone who knows me well, I’m a pretty ardent pumpkin enthusiast. Whether it’s in a pie, scone, latte, ravoli, [...]
I'm embarrassed to say that I got this for Christmas and (gasp!) finally got around to flipping it open this past week. Better late than never, right? Yes, I'm one of those people—the kind who practically devours cookbooks like good fiction. Like most things, I admittedly jumped on the Smitten [...]
Will and I have been on the healthy eating track as of late, but to make tonight’s Greek salad with roasted shrimp (mmmm!) a little more special (it is a Saturday night, after all), I decided I’d make my own croutons with the leftover rosemary bread in the cabinet. And [...]
You know it’s been a good day when you come home and your hair still smells like melted butter. Yes, I think even the Queen of Butter herself, Paula Deen, would’ve been a little jealous of me today because every single dish I cooked in my “Fast French” cooking class [...]
Confession time: So, I have a new lunch ritual… Well, when I’m not in the middle of 1,353 deadlines anyway, which was basically the case all this week. But when my work day isn’t quite so insane, I make my salad, pour myself a glass of green tea sweetened a [...]
When you’re a kid growing up in small-town Wisconsin, you can’t help dreaming about all the glamorous locales that exist outside of America’s Dairyland. It’s like Sandra Bullock’s character said so eloquently in While You Were Sleeping: “It’s amazing how exotic Wisconsin…isn’t.” But before you assume that I’m dedicating an [...]
It's no secret I was definitely rooting for Aarti to win the Next Food Network Star title. And now that she has, I have to say I absolutely, positively love her cooking show, Aarti’s Party. It’s so much fun that 30 minutes whizzes by like nobody’s business. Now while I [...]
Now I realize that I’m hardly the first person to profess my love for Trader Joe’s. Truth be told, my friends have told me about the cheap wine and tasty vittles for a while now. But for whatever reason, I thought it was simply Whole Foods’ trendier cousin. A cool [...]
