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 ...
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...
Here's a question from Alana on a creative idea for a beachside wedding. My fiance and I are getting married beachside in June. Originally we were going to have scattered fire pits along the beach f...
Honey is in the air! On the heels of this post about hard 100% honey drops from Honibe, here's a local New York honey question from Cindy. Jump in if you have another answer. Do you buy local honey wh...
Was last night an especially good night for you? Did you perhaps get engaged on the purportedly most romantic day of the year? Well. If so, here is a good question for you. Benjy wants to know what t...
We have finally got around to pulling together all the resources, recipes, and tips we picked up in the process of throwing a dessert reception for a wedding with over 400 guests last month. ...
Chances are you're going to lay out a buffet table for a party sometime this holiday season. It might be for a huge party (like this wedding reception for 400) or a simple get-together with a dozen pe...
We went looking for a way to easily serve ice cream at this wedding reception last weekend, and we came up with this idea of using inexpensive paper soufflé cups - the little pleated white on...
We were so busy putting desserts in place for almost 400 people at our friend's wedding reception this weekend that we didn't have much time for taking pictures. It was eventful (think a minor catas...
How do you roll 700 chocolate truffles? With lots and lots of help. We're elbow-deep in dessert preparations for a wedding reception we're cooking for this weekend. One absolutely essential ingred...
3 Days Until The Big Day! We are settled on the Mendocino Coast, whose stunning beauty erases wedding stress and puts our minds at ease. As mentioned last ...
Serving and presentation are the biggest challenge in cooking for large parties. Serving cups and plates usually need to be disposable, and disposables are often ugly. More presentable glass cups an...
and we're gonna get married! That's right, one week from Saturday we'll be standing on a bluff in Mendocino, California exchanging vows before skipping off to a Bacchanalian feast of local food and wi...
We're hard at work on the preparations for this dessert reception we're helping throw for a friend's wedding - 350 people! We have the cooking equivalent of a barn-raising coming up in a couple weeks,...
Building a menu for a wedding or other large party is quite different from developing a menu for dinner, but there are still some basic similarities. So if you've planned a dinner party you can plan a...
It's happened again - a friend is getting married in the fall and I enthusiastically volunteered to make all the food for their dessert reception. Then I discovered that the guest list numbers about 3...
I am planning my mother's wedding with her and we need some ideas for the food for the reception. We don't want to do a buffet so we would like to have food coming out, but different trays of food. ...
[Desserts for a Crowd is our February series looking at tips, hints, and recommended recipes for beautifully and economically throwing a big party or even a wedding reception!] Last time, we talked a...
[Desserts for a Crowd is our February series looking at tips, hints, and recommended recipes for beautifully and economically throwing a big party or even a wedding reception!] So, you're planning fo...
In honor of Valentine's and in anticipation of spring's wedding season rush, here's a look at an upcoming February series. I recently helped cater the desserts for a friend's wedding - another friend...
Dear The Kitchen, How can I feed the folks at my wedding reception on a budget? What finger-foods would you reccomend? And for the love of god, can we make it ourselves? Best, Amanda in San Francisc...
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