Introducing The Good Cheer Co, a collaborative project with Kelly Carambula. Check us out! Also, please note, since one half of the Numnum Girls has moved to the West Coast, I (Caroline) felt that i...
Ever go to a restaurant and have a dish and vow to recreate it at home, then do a massive trial and error and it comes nothing close to what you had? Well, this is one of those stories except along t...
A couple months ago, (yes, I know, I know. Why is it so hard for me to keep this blog up-to-date?) I entered the 7th Annual Brooklyn Casserole Party at the Brooklyn Kitchen. Full disclosure, Lisa was...
Communal Table, Book Two: Something to Celebrate is complete and ready to ship! It is a self-published book about food and they way it brings people together and this book’s theme is celebrations. ...
If you’re in New York, please stop by an upcoming event that Kelly (from Eat Make Read) and I are catering this Thursday. The Shiny Squirrel’s Pop-Up at Smith & Butler. We’ll b...
Chicken is one of my favorite things to eat, maybe its from my childhood memories of my parent’s taking me out to Kentucky Fried Chicken (it was NOT KFC back then) for family meals but ever sin...
On a recent trip out to Los Angeles I stopped by Cookbook LA on the recommendation of a friend. He mentioned that it was a beautifully curated store of fine artisinal goods and carefully selected pr...
Fall is upon us, which means the bountiful produce at the Farmers’ Market is going to start dwindling down. SAD FACE. Before all of the tomatoes are gone, I urge you to make this super simple ...
Sometimes when I wake up, I’m just ravenous. As if I haven’t eaten for days and all I want is a filling, easy but savory meal. This breakfast comes from my childhood days of being a Kore...
As you Numnum readers know, we love mussels, it seems like a difficult shellfish to cook but its really fairly simple and quite affordable. A visit to the farmer’s market recently led us to th...
The farmer’s markets are filled to the brim with goodness. Corn that’s as sweet as candy, juicy, heirloom tomatoes, and deep, dark eggplant. When I shop at the farmer’s market I ...
Oh, we know, we’ve been gone forever. What the hell have we been doing with our lives other than cooking and blogging about it right??? We’re bad bloggers, but seriously, the hea...
Is it hot where you are, because here in New York, its pretty steamy! Did you say its time for ice cream?? Why yes, we agree completely! How about an ice cream cake? Or even better, an ice cream ...
Philly Homegrown, a project grown out of the Philadelphia tourism group that promotes local eats, recently sent a batch of artisanal goodies. It included stuff like pasta, Jersey grown canned tomato...
So a couple weeks ago we asked our friend and favorite chef, Corey, to give us a lesson in knife skills. Among the basics of julienne-ing, slicing, dicing, tourneau-ing we also learned how to fillet...
For Oscar night, we threw a “Oscar-themed” party. (We know, this is SOOOO late.) But some of the things we made for that night were so delicious (and witty, if we do say so ourselves) t...
The more and more we cook and bake, the more we are able to experiment. Yes, its scary and sometimes not the result doesn’t taste good at all but sometimes you create something new and incredib...
Making food for a group of people is challenging and a but intimidating, not only do you have to have enough food to go around at about the same time but its gotta be tasty. There’s people to ...
We have something to share with you, something that we’ve both worked on and I (Caroline, speaking) am extremely proud of. I started doing a series of cookbooks, and just got done with Book On...
Here’s the awesome thing about Supper Club: no matter how fun and tasty the last one was, the next one will be just as good. When we started out we weren’t sure that would be the case, bu...
Winter isn’t always the fun; the cold weather, the lack of sun, the shorter days. Winter vegetables are easy to relapse to the usual winter squash soup or mac and cheese, don’t get us wr...
When we come across a cocktail recipe its hard to pass up an at-home taste test. Sometimes several, you know, just to make sure its delicious. So when Daily Candy (LA edition, don’t ask why w...
Whenever pumpkin season and Fall comes around, we just want to stuff our faces with pumpkin galore. Pumpkin muffins, pumpkin beer, pumpkin pie, pumpkin pancakes! Mmmmmmmmm! The best thing about panc...
There rarely is a person that we meet that can rival our very own Lisa Butterworth’s sweet tooth, but we think we may have met her match. Meet Meredith Jenks, bright, cheery, talented photog a...
As we’ve said before, one of the things we love most about food is the way it can bring people together. So when we heard about Community Cooking Club, the new project from Tracy Candido (the g...
Gather around folks, let me tell you a little about our 2nd Supper Club. Our official, authentic run of Supper Club which we had last month at a lovely loft in Williamsburg. I’ll let the phot...
One of our favorite meals we had in the past year is from Frankie’s Spuntino and it included Ricotta Cavatelli and Sage Brown Butter with Italian Sausage. Such a simple dish but so hearty and n...
We’re always curious as to what goes on behind the scenes of a restaurant’s kitchen; how the food is made, the sexism in the kitchen, the different stations, the burns, blah, blah, blah. ...
photo by Jessica Oshita This past weekend, we had our inaugural Supper Club dinner with Spring’s bounty. It was a blast and a great group of people came through, all who seemed to enjoy the co...
A couple of weeks ago, we decided to go on a detox to cleanse our bodies of, well, toxins. We ended up eating a mainly vegan, gluten-free, no caffeine, no alcohol diet for about 2 weeks. Honestly, it...
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