For Valentine’s Day, Chef (that would be my husband) and Cook (that would be me) decided to spend the lover’s holiday at home. We both adore the kitchen and decided on a four-course dinner. Flipping coins for the courses, he pulled the starter and meat course, I, pasta and dessert.

Foodportunity (n): An opportunity to eat, drink, mingle, and meet. The subject on everyone’s mind? Food!
A regular attendee of Keren Brown’s Seattle Food Blogger events, it would have been foolish not be present at her inaugural Foodportunity event. I marked the date on the calendar, lightly twisted my husband’s arm to come with me, and [...]

Once a month our mailbox is filled to the brim with bound pages of cooking tips and recipes. I lay each magazine on our kitchen counter, say eenie meeni miney mo, and retreat to a well-lit corner of the house to read one from cover to cover. I dog-ear the pages that inspire me, make [...]