Cooking and Recipes

Christmas Tree Chocolate Miracle Cake

While I do love baking and decorating Christmas cookies, every year I find myself wanting to serve a dramatic dessert for the holidays....

ST. LOUIS TOP 12 BITES

In a 2021 year-end review of my phone’s food photographs, I found I could almost taste some of the best in my mind. This list is of the...

Eating Missouri: A Culinary History Dinner (and book!)

While Missouri may be known as the “show-me” state, it turns out I should be much prouder and more aware of our rich food history. A new...

Secret: best chocolate chip cookies in the world

what is the secret to amazing chocolate chip cookies? PATIENCE.

DINNER CLUB: HAWAII

Inspired by our trip to Hawaii, we planned a Sheldon Simeon "Cook Real Hawai'i" inspired night. Some of these items are decidedly...

DINNER Club

Want to have a cooking club? Read this to see how our Gourmet Club works.

It's My Birthday...

I Can Wreck It If I Want To I love desserts and for my birthday, I don't like being disappointed. So I usually make the cake myself, so...

PIZZA FOREVER

Pizza really is the perfect food—protein, dairy, vegetables, carbs. Let's think of it as a balanced meal because then we can justify...

Silky Tarte Noir + Dorie Love

Dorie Greenspan's Recipes Never Disappoint Me My copy of Dorie Greenspan's Baking: From My Home to Yours is splattered and bent and has...

DINNER Club: Searching for Italy

Each episode of Stanley Tucci's Searching for Italy could inspire its own dinner party...but our friends rolled the whole first season...

Sugar: The sweet stuff from A to Z

In other words: Hey Sweetie, there's more to sugar than the white stuff Choosing the right sugar for the job can be trying for the...