Appetizer Recipes

This was supposed to be a fancy baked brie en croute. I had the puff pastry thawing on the counter, the wheel of brie sitting … Read more

I wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by my neighbor Claire’s place to return her hedge clippers—the ones I’d borrowed three weeks ago and … Read more

I wasn’t expecting cooking advice from my accountant, but there I was, knee-deep in tax paperwork, listening to Mr. Henderson describe exactly how to make … Read more

My brother-in-law asked why I couldn’t just skip the baking soda bath. We were standing in my kitchen, the afternoon before his annual football watch … Read more

The Super Bowl party was in six hours and I’d completely forgotten. I mean, completely. I was standing in my kitchen in my sweatpants at … Read more

By the third time I arranged a Halloween charcuterie board that week, I knew I had a problem. Not the bad kind of problem, though. … Read more

That first crack when you bite into a perfectly roasted pumpkin seed — the way the hull shatters cleanly, not stuck to the kernel, not … Read more

The doorbell rang at 4:17 PM on a Saturday. I had three brats in the fridge, a bag of pretzel buns I bought on a … Read more

I had this whole plan for a fancy Halloween spread one year. Like, Pinterest-worthy, with themed dips and carved vegetables and a cheese board shaped … Read more

I didn’t even like little smokies for the first twenty-something years of my life. There, I said it. The thought of those little sausages floating … Read more