Apartment Therapy: Entertaining

Doileez from Modern-Twist

One of our favorite ways to make serving a cake or cookies slightly more special is to put a paper doily on a plate. It's an old-fashioned touch; it feels sweet and a little extra special. So we love ...

Living the DIY Wedding: The Cake

We've finally reached dessert in a series of posts about making my wedding a couple of weeks ago. I've already written about the main dishes and the accessorizing of the fish. Even though I knew it wo...

Living the DIY Wedding: Smoked Fish and a Woven Mat of Leeks

I cooked all the food for my own wedding (50 attendees) a couple of weeks ago. Well, I didn't cook everything. I bought 25 pounds of smoked fish from Acme Smoked Fish in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. They smo...

Living the DIY Wedding: The Food

I got married a week ago. Instead of the usual fears -commitment, weather, stepkids' sabotage - I spent the weeks leading up to the event wondering if I was capable of cooking a meal for 50 hungry peo...

Entertaining with Moo: Dinner Party Mementos and More

We saw this post over at Apartment Therapy: Chicago about Moo on-demand printing, and immediately thought, "Oooh! Dinner parties!" Cute and crafty, Moo gives us the ability to reproduce our favorite ...

Partyware! Customizable Wooden Ice Cream Spoons

Last fall we catered a wedding for a friend. It was just a dessert reception, so we served bonbons, cookies, meringues, and ice cream. We served the ice cream in pleated paper soufflé cups, eac...

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....

Weekend Entertaining: Throwing an Iron Chef Dinner Party

Whose cuisine reigns supreme?! We may not be quite up to battling Bobby Flay over cuttlefish, but we think we're game for challenging our next door neighbor over flank steak! Lately, we've heard abo...

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 ...

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...

What Was the Best Wedding Meal You Ever Had?

Summer is high season for weddings - do you have invitations coming by mail already? We have blogged extensively in the past about DIY wedding food - elegant finger food, for instance, and a whole men...

Entertaining Tip: Put Herbs in Your Pit Bowl

There are a lot of cocktail foods that require the eater to bit something off or spit a pit out of their mouth - olives, shrimp with tails, summer cherries. We always include a small bowl on our hors ...

Good Quote: On Cooking and Soul

"Flavor comes from the heart" implies both cooking with one's whole soul and giving thought to the right atmosphere in which to serve the results. When care is paid not only to placing the dishes on t...

How To Throw a Summer Wine Party: Tips and Ideas from Swirl Events

Wine parties seem instinctively to belong to the dark, velvety nights of winter and fall, but we have been thinking about one of the best ones we ever attended, and it was in high summer! The sweet, s...

Look! Green Disposable Plates

For years, we've known that disposable plates aren't so green, but sometimes we've found that we couldn't do without. When hosting large gatherings, or going for a picnic, sometimes regular plates jus...

Simple Chip 'n' Dip Plates from Crate and Barrel

We imagine the inventor of the chip 'n' dip plate sitting at home, stroking his patent, counting his money, and thinking, "Ha! And all I did was glue a bowl onto a platter." True, this is a simple ...

What Is Your Dream Dining Setup?

We talk a lot about cooking, but frankly, dining and eating is just as important to our development as cooks; we love the final satisfaction of sitting down to a well-laid table. Do you dream of spac...

Easy Appetizer: Goat Cheese with Parsley and Lemon

Since Nora has let us all know that spring is high time for goat cheese, we thought we'd share a quick appetizer that frequently shows up at our dinner parties... ...

Long Weekend? Come Have a Cocktail in The Kitchn

Happy Memorial Day weekend - the unofficial start of summer. We've been posting spring and summer cocktails all week, and we're not finished. We'll be around all weekend, posting lightly, and then we'...

Best Burger Toppings

Sometimes the best parties are the do-it-yourself ones. This weekend for Memorial Day, we'll be flipping those burgers we showed you earlier this week, and setting out a huge tray of condiments and t...

Entertaining: Q&A with Jessie Saunders, author of The Two of Us...and Friends

Jessie Saunders knows what it's like to cook and entertain in a tiny kitchen. For years, she and her husband lived in a small apartment in New York's Greenwich Village, where, she says, "If everyone ...

Entertaining: Garden Entertaining Tips

A dinner party in the garden sounds lovely and genteel. But rather than risk a frazzled host running back and forth from inside to outside, make sure you plan ahead! Earlier in the week, we gave you t...

Dinner Party Planning: Scheduling Backwards

Earlier this week, we talked about five great tips for dinner party planning. As our Cure takers gear up for their big dinner party, we'd like to take a minute to look at one of those tips in more dep...

Recipe Revamp: Cheddar Olives Become Black-Eyed Susans

Has anyone tried our recipe for Cheddar Olives? Perhaps for a cocktail party? Well, we were at a wedding a few weeks ago, where they passed around something called a Black-Eyed Susan. We recognized th...

Dinner Party Timing: Five Tips for Cooking a Full Meal

One of the most frequently requested tips in our Cure this spring was advice on cooking a whole meal - each dish balanced to be ready in time and on time. This means that your work is balanced precise...

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