I have always loved entertaining guests for brunch, dinner, and overnight stays. Recently, we have had two sets of dear friends come visit. We had Bryan, Christina and Harper come down and visit us for a long weekend, and decided what better way to welcome them to the south than […]

I created this recipe after watching Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives on the Food Network last week, which featured a place calledTaco Taco in San Antonio. The owner is this adorable Greek lady who decided to start a taco restaurant, and they showed her making her pulled chicken, which looked incredible. […]

This is a chicken spread that Granny made for us growing up during the summer, and I loved having on days spent at her house playing in pool. It is delicious and filling, but doesn’t leave you feeling like a brick in the pool. I have made it and taken […]

I’m sure many of you like me get home from work and are starving and exhausted and don’t want to labor over a stove like you did over your computer all day. In my current “retired” state, I am still finding that by the end of the day, I have […]

Mac and cheese is one of my favorite foods ever; one I think I probably could eat daily, and probably have for more days in a row than I should admit. The only way to make the creamy and cheesy deliciousness better is to add some truffle flavor and lobster. […]

Everyone seems to be sick lately, and I am betting the doctors got the vaccine wrong when guessing which flu-strand would be the worst this year based on the flu trends in the U.S. Last week, I started getting a sore throat, lost my voice and then went through various […]

Cold weather makes me crave hearty meals, and for some reason hearty meals always mean meat to me–steaks, burgers, ribs, wings, chili. This year for my birthday, Jason gave me a smoker, which has been a fun new toy to entertain me and fill my cravings. I started with the […]

After I took the bar and started working full time, I discovered how nice it was to grill something in our backyard on the UWS (yes, we had a backyard and a grill in Manhattan! Amazing, right!?!) and have a bottle (or most likely, three bottles) of wine on Friday […]

Last year for my birthday, Jason gave me the Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking after we saw it on The Colbert Report. It is a six volume set of books that starts with the history of food and moves through techniques and skills that have landed us […]