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Posts tagged “summer”

Recipe Roundup: 15 Dishes To Dole Out On Labor Day

We always say we're going to make fabulous things for holiday parties with family and friends. Our heads are filled with meats that are stuffed, desserts that are tart and drinks that are cool and r...

Do You Cook Less In The Summer?

Even though summer is filled with an abundance of fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables, it also brings higher temperatures. When the mercury is rising outside, do you still cook as much as you do dur...

Recipe: Dark Chocolate Ice Cream With Fig & Cardamom

Summer is in full swing and there's nothing we crave more than ice cream. So when we found ourselves with some uneaten figs and a little free time, we whipped up a batch of this extremely decadent ...

How To Cook Frozen Fresh Pasta (Without a Stove!)

Thanks to Faith (and her mother-in-law) we've been making pasta on end recently. It's been unusually cool here in the Midwest and knowing it wouldn't last long (and it didn't), we took advantage b...

What Do You Cook When The Summer Heat Doesn't Come?

This summer has thrown us for a bit of a loop. We're used to sweating our way through June, July and August in the sweltering Chicago humidity, sticking with cold dishes as much as possible and refusi...

Recipe Review: Gourmet's Strawberry Dumplings

Summer fruit always leaves us with the same dilemma – we long for pies, cobblers and crumbles, but we hate to turn on the oven when we're already struggling to keep cool. Enter the stovetop fruit d...

National Food Roundup: Olive Bread
From Nationwide Newspaper Food Sections 05.27.09

It may be the season for salads and grilling, but comfort food doesn't seem to be going anywhere – it's just a little lighter for summer. We've rounded up a few recipes below, and why not start with...

Recipe Review: Arugula Vichyssoise from Epicurious

We love the cool creaminess of traditional potato-leek vichyssoise, especially on humid summer days like we've been getting. So when Elizabeth mentioned an Epicurious recipe for arugula vichyssoise i...

Look! Cute Cocktail Glasses for Summer Entertaining

While you're busy getting your drink on with all the fun summer cocktail recipes we've given you, don't forget to look cute, and hold a stylish glass. ...

Lambrusco is the New Rosé

Rosé has been the Pink King of picnic baskets and pool-side cafe tables the past few summers. Again this summer we see rosé displays blooming in wine store windows. While rosé is still enjoying "...