Whenever I eat at or order take out from my favorite Thai restaurant, I feel hesitant to order anything other than my favorite dish: Pad Thai. Though there are plenty of tasty items on the menu, some that my friends swear by, I trust the Pad Thai at my reliable neighborhood noodle shop. I could try something new at any point, but if I’m indulging in an order of greasy-but-delicious noodles, I don’t want to risk winding up with a…
A few years ago I made monkey bread for my friend Jen and her boyfriend and while I thought that it would be the guy in the room who devoured the majority of it, that wasn’t exactly what happened. Instead, Kevin looked on with amusement, making little to no attempt o mask his apparent disgust, while Jen and I polished off approximately 3/4 of the bread. Yes, that happened. You’ve probably heard of monkey bread before but this recipe is…
Three of my favorite things in the world are cookies, dinner parties and kitchen appliances…and not in that order. I especially love it when all three things merge: using kitchen appliances to bake cookies for a dinner party. Recently I was contacted by Del Webb, a home building company that has partnered with KitchenAid to encourage philanthropy and community this summer with 1,000 Cooks for the Cure, which challenges America to host 1,000 dinner parties to raise money for breast…
Does your table look like this when you sit down to eat a meal? Do you even have a table? In my college apartment, my two roommates and I had a small kitchenette table with four chairs that I think we sat at about three times in two years, opting instead to eat on the stools that surrounded our counter. In my first apartment out of college, we didn’t even own anything that remotely resembled a kitchen table and when…