Wine from a Box
When our friends, Nick and Marcy, invited us to a dinner party/box wine tasting earlier this week, I was skeptical. I pictured cardboard boxes with... Read more
Author: Emily (The Culinary Couple)
Oyster Feed
Four years ago my parents hosted an oyster feed on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Since then we’ve spent the holiday in Savannah and New York... Read more
Pumpkin Gingerbread Trifle
Despite all the pumpkin we’ve eaten this fall (from pumpkin pecan waffles to pumpkin sausage pasta to pumpkin oatmeal cookies), we haven’t had enough. (In... Read more
Pumpkin Pie Bars for Thanksiving
500 miles. Two families. An inch of snow. Two brined turkeys, one roasted turkey, and one deep-fried turkey. Six football games. Raw oysters, steamed oysters,... Read more
Thanksgivings Past
2007 in Savannah with the Wileys 2008 in New York City with the Rowlands 2009 in Pennsylvania with the Bomgardners We wish you a very... Read more
Schaffhausen and Rhine Falls, Switzerland (part 11)
(Previously: Cannstatter Volksfest and the German Jonas Brothers.) We decided to leave Germany a day early. To go to Switzerland, that is. Isn’t that one... Read more
Cannstatter Volksfest, Germany (part 10)
(Previously: We see family in Stuttgart.) Stuttgart’s city district of Bad Cannstatt hosted its first harvest festival in 1818, and just over 30,000 people attended... Read more
A November Plate
We’re rallying to wrap up our Germany trip recaps and Oktoberfest party recipes this week. And then we have a lot of catching up to... Read more
Oktoberfest: German Potato Salad
Germans like meat almost as much as they like beer. In fact, on the morning of our Oktoberfest party, our fridge was stocked with five... Read more
Oktoberfest: Pretzels
In Munich, we indulged in pretzels as big as our heads. Unfortunately, it wasn’t possible to make dozens of gigantic pretzels for our Oktoberfest party.... Read more