Lou wanted to bring a vegetarian meal to a party over the weekend and began asking me for help making a chili more than a week ago.
I enjoyed a sweet but quick time baking yesterday with my friend Jackie. Chocolate Valentine’s Day bark (don’t tell my kids!) and cinnamon biscotti were the treats du jour yesterday, something quick ...
There’s always enough time in the day to spare an hour to bake beautiful little Valentine’s Day cookies, especially with a friend. After all, isn’t life about the journey and not the reward?
“The best bacon I’ve ever had” was the most recent perk of living a few houses away from Lou. That’s what my two older kids said after tasting a sweet, smoky piece of Lou’s Maple and Brown Sugar Cure...
I love when my friends send me text messages with photo attachments of their cooking adventures.
Four tall soup pots and a skillet gave Christina’s stovetop a good workout.
Suzy has no real need to ever cook in my little kitchen again.
Sometimes the best cooking dates happen spontaneously without any pre-planning at all. It’s was my good friend Jackie’s birthday last week, an endlessly fun time celebrating.
I scored a first edition 1950 copy of a Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook at an estate sale last Friday and I am having a hard time containing my excitement.
My parents never cease to find new and interesting kitchen gifts for me. As an avid cooking gadget collector, I know it’s a challenge to find something I don’t have already have.
It’s a potent concept that can strike those who least expect it. Yes, friends, it happened to my non-cooking, food loving husband on a recent business trip to New Orleans.
I’m too impatient to enjoy piping and flooding sugar cookies alone. In fact, I find it tedious and virtually impossible.
Suzy showed up for our latke cooking date yesterday in her old t-shirt and jeans, leaving her nice fleece zip up in the car so the distinct scent of canola oil wouldn’t have a comfy place to settle i...
If you can believe it, my friend Debbie and I started cooking and freezing hors d’oeuvres for the holidays and the clock hadn’t yet struck December.
I’ll make this one short and sweet. It stems from a comment my dear friend Jackie made the other day.
Thanks to a communal effort, our Thanksgiving feast was a resounding success. It took a bit of time to get into our groove this year, as my Dad needed to adjust himself to having me in his compact NY...
While sipping my coffee, the photo on the cover of the Dining section of this mornings’ New York Times grabbed my attention. With my imminent visit to Manhattan to view the inflation of the Macy’s Th...
I just got word of an amazing sale which starts tomorrow, the day before Thanksgiving, NOT the day after.
Cooking with Kathe for Thanksgiving was fun as always. With pots, pans, baking dishes and countless ingredients strewn about the countertops, we were Tazmanian Devils spinning feverishly around the k...
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It’s Christmas Day at my friend Debbie’s house, an extravagant food-filled event with family and friends.
I was busy rolling spring rolls in the kitchen when my son Cory walked in, wide-eyed and curious. I was eager for company and invited him to join me.
I never knew it could be so fun to stuff and fold Chinese wontons until Christina, Suzy and I had our wonton making date.
I cooked alone and didn’t enjoy it. Yup, you heard me. I don’t mean to grumble and complain, but this is just another casualty of the bizarre storm we just experienced.
My first white Halloween came with strange and eerie consequences. Heavy snow settled on leaf-filled branches, the weight of which caused many downed limbs and uprooted trees.
I was asked back to the Montclair Farmers’ Market to meet and greet neighbors and talk about Cooking With Friends. It’s always a nice day, running into people I know and meeting new folks who ask wha...
Suzy arrived for her regularly-scheduled Tuesday cooking slot bearing ground turkey to make meatballs and ripened bananas for banana bread.
I have bags and bags of assorted apples, from my CSA share and from an apple picking excursion over the weekend with my husband and kids. I have so many apples that I get the extreme guilt’s unless I...
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Cooking with Suzy on Tuesdays is always so much more than just the food.
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