Note from Pam: Here’s one more of our original videos from a year ago. Here, Sharon demonstrates her Mini Classic Twice-Baked New Potatoes, another great Super Bowl finger food. Sharon says… I’m not a huge football fan, so for me, the Superbowl is all about the food. These tiny twice-baked potatoes are fun, finger-friendly,

Note from Pam… I got an e-mail this morning from someone  wanting our Oreo Truffle Football recipe. I headed over to Three Many Cooks to grab the link, and that’s when I realized that although this recipe ran about this time last  year in USA Weekend, it never ran here. There’s also an accompanying video–one

One of the greatest things about blogging is being inspired by other bloggers. I will not wax poetic about how much I love food blogging and social media (which I’m prone to doing), I will simply share with you the recipes and posts that really caught my eye this week. 1) I’m sort of on

December food is abundant, rich, opulent. And then winter sets in. After all the stuffings and roasts, sweet potatoes and cranberries, January food should be warm and cozy but with a little edge. Which was exactly the kind of dish I was looking for when we invited friends over for a buffet supper a few

A couple months ago, Joy the Baker shared an Orange Pomander tutorial on her site. That post brought me right back to my childhood when Mom, Sharon, and I would make pomanders and hang them around the house at Christmas. With that vibrant orange, the colorful ribbon and the fresh scent, we happily left them up through winter

It was about this time last year that Maggy, Sharon, and I started producing videos for our weekly column in USA Weekend. That first day we shot four videos, enough for a full month’s worth of columns. To avoid wardrobe changes we wore black chef’s jackets in every segment, plus I had a horrible cold.

Over the  years I’ve been on most of the national morning shows, but it wasn’t until last week I got my invite to The Martha Stewart Show. I don’t think I’ve ever been as excited, nor have so many people been excited for me, as my Martha debut. The segments went well. Here’s why. 10.

One of the best moments of The Martha Stewart Show was meeting Adriana, head of hospitality, who shared her recipe for Puerto Rican Egg Nog which she (and we) adapted from AllRecipes. The original recipe calls for 1/2 cup each: rum and water. Thanks to Adriana, the recipe now reads 1 cup rum! Adriana’s Puerto

On Sunday afternoon I had the privilege of co-hosting my friend Anna’s baby shower. I met Anna 18 months ago through her blog, London Foodie in NY. We bonded quickly over our mutual love of food and the fact that she and her husband are English. Our friendship is yet another testament to why I love the

I’m sick and have been for two days. The kind of sick where you can barely lift your head off the pillow. Achy body, chills, headache, stomach pain. And when you’ve got a flu virus, there are only two things that heal: a hot bath and a home-cooked meal. A hot bath is easy enough,

Besides the wedding reception following Sharon and Anthony’s ceremony we parents have been throwing little parties for the couple these past few weeks. As someone who’s attended my share of weddings over the years I like this way of introducing the couple. If we had invited everyone we loved to the wedding, many couldn’t have

Dressing for Maggy and Andy’s wedding over five years ago and then again for Sharon and Tony’s just a few weeks I go, I distinctly remember being grateful that I didn’t have to crash diet for either event. For nearly seven years I’ve kept off the forty pounds I lost between 2004 and 2005. How

All photos by the incredibly talented and wildly hilarious photographer, Ralph Alswang, former Clinton White House photographer. On December 17, 2011 Sharon and Anthony were married at Marquand Chapel at Yale Divinity School where they met over two years ago. Sharon was radiant, gorgeous and glowing. Anthony was handsome–no, dashing! And their wedding was the

Note from Pam: Sharon sent me her Christmas Eve sermon for preaching class at seminary. The story moved me so that I asked if we could post it here. She reluctantly agreed and wanted you all to know that the inspiration for it came from Luanne Panarotti. After reading Sharon’s sermon my assistant, Kirsty Hughan