Yearly Archives: 2019

Casseroles are the perfect one dish meal. They usually contain several food groups and are an easy option to reach for when entertaining a crowd. But, they also can dirty several cutting boards, pots, pans and utensils in the kitchen during preparation of the one perfect dish. So, make best use of your […]

Shapes make presentations special during the holidays. Turn any small bites into a tree and watch heads turn. Celebrate the season with whatever food being served arranged in a special way. Since a tree is a particularly easy shape, let’s focus on that.

The basic tree […]

Do the holidays make you stressed, frazzled and tired? That doesn’t sound like a holiday! If it sounds familiar then read on for some creative solutions that will help relieve stress and provide for easy entertaining.

Planning is key to carefree entertaining, and planning a buffet table (where food is set out for people to grab a plate and serve themselves) can make entertaining even easier. Although a sit down family style dinner is often preferred, the ease of a buffet style dinner cannot be denied and […]

Browse through these gift suggestions, and easily order them online if you see something that someone might like. Most cooks would enjoy a fun little tool to make things a little easier around the kitchen.

A sponge holder that’s kept high and dry, yet full […]

Thanksgiving is over, but the cranberry sauce may have lived on. Speaking just in shelf life terms, cranberry sauce will last at least twice as long as the leftover turkey. Where can leftover cranberry sauce be used to add a splash of flavor in the weeks following the big holiday? We have […]

Whoops, forgot to make that large pasta dish we had planned last month. Here it is a month after the “use-by” date on this jar of pesto sauce. Generally, we urge people to use up products that have a “use-by” date within a week or less of these dates. If […]