Crostini and Chianti

Christmas had a couple of surprises for us: First we had a white Christmas, even though the show didn't show up until late in the evenin...

Day 4 The kitchen started to look like a kitchen again, but a really messy one. Today they installed the new cabinets, the pantry and the de...

Twas 17 days before Christmas and all through the house Not a chef was stirring not even the mousse The plastic was hung by the island and c...

I have a rule that at Thanksgiving you should only eat until the button on your pants pops off and hits the chandelier or as my son says ...

Many of you know that I test recipes and shop for groceries for Cook's Illustrated. This is a recipe that I tested several months ago, a...

One of my favorite cookbook authors is Pam Anderson, no not that Pam Anderson, this one is married to a minister. The reason why I like her ...

I hate to bake, but every year I am tasked with making my wife a birthday cake. This often becomes the cake for my son's and my birthday...