While some people approach cooking Thanksgiving dinner with about as much disdain as the requisite root canal, I’ve been secretly looking forward to making this meal for weeks now. In fact, I’ve been looking for new recipes to try (and adding my own personal flourishes) since mid-October and rather than [...]

Believe it or not, it’s already chilly in Minnesota (and it’s only September 7!!), so I thought it was the perfect day to make a pot of delicious homemade chili. So I got out my trusty Le Creuset (one of my favorite wedding presents from my mother-in-law Jo Ann Banister) [...]

If you know me well, you probably already know that I’m a bit of a Food Network addict. I guess I’ve always had a cursory interest in cooking. I mean does it count that I spent many a Saturday afternoon baking peanut butter chocolate chip cookies when I was growing [...]