Click on the video screen above to watch the final webisode in a series documenting The Dinner Belle’s A Feast Fit for a Queen soiree. In this webisode, we take you behind the scenes of Queen Latifah’s lavish fragrance launch event to give you a sneak peek of life in our catering kitchen. If you [...]
Archive for the ‘Fall’ category
January 5th, 2010
A Feast Fit for a Queen
December 15th, 2009
Chocolate-Peanut Butter Anything
I love anything made with the classic chocolate-peanut butter flavor combo. Anything. But because I avoid eating processed foods, I’m constantly trying to recreate the joy that is a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup.
In my kitchen, I’ve tooled around with frozen chocolate-peanut butter ice cream sandwiches, chocolate-peanut butter cupcakes filled with Nutella, a chocolate-peanut butter [...]
November 30th, 2009
A Tribe Thanksgiving
Click on the video screen above to watch my Tribe and I celebrate the season with a Thanksgiving Champagne Toast! With so much to be thankful for this holiday, I hosted my annual Friends Thanksgiving soiree and invited everyone around the table to share their stories of gratitude. In an effort to convert our British [...]
November 25th, 2009
Market Report: Gobble, Gobble
I have this friend, a certain Mr. Snotty McSnobster, which, if you can believe it, is not his real name, and with whom I disagree on just about everything… except maybe the reigning superiority of cheese as the world’s perfect food.
When he says “slow-food eating locavore” the words are dripping with derision; when I [...]
November 13th, 2009
Market Report: Scallops, Santa & Scrooge
Like any through-and-through New Yorker, I have a secret, almost an illicit fantasy – moving. In this recurring dream, my destination is Northern California, where I’d live in an actual house, somewhere near the sea or grape vines, and do California things: like become a morning person and walk a big beautiful dog on the [...]
November 6th, 2009
Market Report: Mornings At The Market
Click on the video screen above to watch the first webisode in a series documenting The Dinner Belle’s Fit for a Queen soiree, celebrating the launch of Queen Latifah’s new fragrance “Queen” at Macy’s, or click here to get my recipe for the featured Brown Butter Sage Pumpkin Ravioli. Shopping at the Union Square Farmers’ [...]
October 30th, 2009
Market Report: Don’t Play With Your Food
My first crush was Jason. Jason was way too cool for school, and way too impressed with boy toys to notice my bouncing blonde curls. An example: in second grade I brought in one of those glitter wands filled with purple sparkles and twirled it like a baton during show-and-tell. Jason fell asleep at his [...]
October 28th, 2009
Brown Butter Sage Pumpkin Ravioli
You know what’s better than making handmade pumpkin ravioli? Handmade pumpkin ravioli someone else makes for you!
Here’s the thing. You might think it’s a bit of a cop-out, but the truth is that I know how to make ravioli; I’ve made them several times with many different fillings, but unless I’m settling into an [...]
October 23rd, 2009
Market Report: Sniffles & Truffles
It happens every year. After six blissful months during which I almost forget that I have sinuses, a little bit of blustery weather comes along and boom, it’s back – that persistently annoying if not terribly severe, stuffy-runny-nose common cold. It’s nothing to miss work over, certainly not swine flu, but [...]
October 21st, 2009
Crush-a-belle: The Blind Tiger
Sara drinks lite beer. I enjoy a cold one myself, but “lite” is rarely what I’m after. I’m a lot pickier, and a lot more partial to dark brews. Before leaving for Buffalo, she suggested we meet for a pint to help drown my broken heart, so I suggested The Blind Tiger Ale House. The perfect pub [...]
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