Apartment Therapy: Inspiration

How Do You Like Your Carrot Cake?

There are two requisites for good carrot cake: carrots (of course) and cream cheese frosting. We think we can all agree on that much! Beyond those absolutes lies a whole range of strong opinions, fam...

Grills as Decoration: Chicago's Weber Grill Restaurant

Maybe it's because we have grilling on the brain this month, but this patio caught our eye the other day. It's Weber Grill Restaurant in Chicago, and they've created a patio border with fences made fr...

Sense of Place: The Flavors of New England

To understand the flavors and cuisine of New England, you need to understand one basic idea: It gets COLD up here! Our growing season is pretty darn short, with heavy emphasis on fruits and vegetable...

Out of the Bottle and Into the Pan: The Beer Advocate on Cooking with Beer

Apparently we're not the only ones getting hooked on cooking with beer! The most recent issue of Beer Advocate Magazine features five "brew chefs" from around the country who have been experimenting ...

Have You Seen This Tiny NYC Kitchen?

House Beautiful highlights a kitchen in every issue (we've written about the archives on their website before), but they are often big, aspirational spaces. Well, this month's issue was all about sm...

Monday Breakfast: How Do You Start Off Your Week?

As we sprinkled cinnamon over our cottage cheese and fruit this morning and reminisced about the weekend, we were struck by how differently we eat on weekdays and weekends. No matter how (or what or ...

No-Bake Desserts: Two Recipes from Domino

We're contemplating a no-bake dessert this weekend, which is not difficult considering how much gorgeous fruit is available right now. Here are two recipes from Domino that take advantage of summer fr...

Weekend Cooking: Creative Meal-Planning from CookThink

Lacking inspiration this weekend? Is everyone in your family begging for something different? Trying to use up the remnants of your CSA before the next box arrives? Whatever our conundrum, CookThin...

Weeknight Cooking: Grilled Zucchini, Brie, Artichokes...

OK, so maybe we can't really call our dinner inspiration tonight "cooking." It's really just an easy collection of light snacks that together make up a very nice summer meal. We found this particular ...

Two Slow Cooker Meals for Hot Weather

We mentioned in a recent weekend roundup that we were planning on using the slow cooker for our weekend cooking. The slow cooker is invaluable in hot weather; you can start it up in the morning and th...

Eat This! Strawberry Walnut Salad

We're captivated by this strawberry-walnut salad on Alyson's lovely blog, Milk, Eggs, Chocolate. It just looks so cool and refreshing. Strawberries are finally (really) in season, and all we want to e...

Table Setting Inspiration from Madame Figaro Magazine
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French magazine Madame Figaro has a regular feature called Idées diner (Dinner Ideas) that features various themed and often high-concept table setting ideas, plus buying info for all of their finds....

DIY Wedding Inspiration: How To Make Your Own Wedding Cake (Without Losing Your Mind)

Time to talk about wedding cake and how, honestly, it's not that difficult to do it yourself - or at least keep it inside the family, if you have a good home baker to help you out. This is the next ...

Seasonal Spotlight: Cooking With Lavender

Yesterday we realized that we had given you three whole recipes with lavender recently, and that this reflects our current inclination to throw lavender into dessert left and right. This craze for lav...

Blogging Donna Hay: What's Cooking in the Southern Hemisphere

We don't know a lot about Australian cookbook author and writer Donna Hay, but she reminds us a little bit of Ina Garten. Her recipes are simple, fresh, and comforting, and she seems like the ki...

Word of Mouth: Lagniappe

Lagniappe, lay-GNAP: a Cajun-Creole word meaning a small gift given by a merchant to the buyer at the time of purchase, often of food. Flipping through the most recent issue of Gastronomica, we notic...

Drink This! Sangria 2.0 from New York Magazine

Hot! New York Magazine is tired of the same old sangrias, and so they've gathered up inspiration from some of New York's hottest bartenders. Sangria may be our favorite summer drink - especially as in...

Dish the Dish: Panna Cotta in Ainsi de Suite's Moka Cups

We like to dream up dishes inspired by the actual dishes we own, or by little treasures we see online. Right now we're inspired by these Moka cups from French tableware company Ainsi de Suite, availab...

Seasonal Note: Try Fresh Strawberries in Frozen Margaritas

Maybe Monday morning is a little early to be talking about margaritas, but what the heck. We made frozen margaritas last weekend, and while the margarita is not usually our cocktail of choice, these w...

Nostalgia: The Recipes Our Fathers Have Taught Us

Dads who cook get short shrift. While talk around Mother's Day centers around the recipes that Mom taught us, and all the lessons we've learned from her, the best Dad gets are some *hot* new tools for...

Help! What Should We Do With This Coconut Jam?

Hey, look what we found (and couldn't resist buying)! Coconut jam! Only... we don't know what to do with it. ...

Best Foods for Conversation?

Last night we were out with a dear friend, and we ordered a favorite dish for both of us: grilled artichokes with remoulade. It was smoky, crispy around the edges, and tender in the leaves. We strippe...

Summer Pies! Strawberry, Rhubarb, Lavender & Blueberry

Fresh strawberries and blueberries, rhubarb, raspberry and lemon. It is high pie season! Summer pies are classics - have you baked one yet? We look forward to summer pies all year, and we're starting ...

Summer Meals: What Are You Cooking Tonight?

OK, it's hot out. It's really hot. The kitchen looks not as appealing as it did in the cold, dark winter. And yet there is a flood of fresh, beautiful produce in the markets (scapes, anyone?). We are ...

Good Food With Evan Kleiman: Weeknight Meal Tips

Cooking a weeknight meal at the end of a long day can sometimes feel like a tall order. We're tired and most likely hungry, and picking up the phone for take-out feels like a much better option than ...

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