The Culinary Cellar

Check out this blog from General Mills about our three-generation Bake-Off family: http://blog.generalmills.com/2012/03/the-ultimate-bake-off-family/ Also, check back later in the day today, when Pillsbury will have another blog and I’ll post the link! 

After almost a year of writing my Bake-Off blogs every Wednesday, I thought it might be fun to put together the grocery list it took to prepare all fifty winning recipes.  Remember, there are not 44 winners in the last 44 contests, because in Bake-Off’s 23 through 28 there were two grand prize winners in each of those […]

If you didn’t read about the wild Curtis Stone party from yesterday’s blog, scroll down and read part one.  As we left off on day one, I promised a fun giveaway from the party.  No, it’s not Curtis, but you get to see his face! This was the party bag given to us as we left Paris […]

This is the entryway into the Curtis Stone party at Paris Club in Chicago, one of the hottest places in town at the moment.  During his stay at the recent International Home and Housewares Show introducing his new line of kitchen items, Curtis threw a heck of an invitation-only party.  My daughter Kristina and I were […]

Mad Men is back on the air next Sunday, March 25th,  for a new and exciting season.  But before the premiere, how about hosting a Mad Men party?  Everything you need is in this great new cookbook, “The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook.”  The book contains tips on throwing a successful ’60’s cocktail party, and a guide […]

It’s St. Patrick’s Day!  I’m getting ready to make my favorite corned beef and cabbage, new potatoes, and carrots, served with a horseradish sauce.  It’s an old Sunset Magazine recipe that I have been making every St. Patrick’s Day for over twenty years.  For dessert, I will make my husband’s favorite sugar cookies with the dough tinted green, of […]

After writing all the Bake-Off blogs for almost a year, Pillsbury asked me and my daughter Kristina to be the official bloggers at Pillsbury.com in the “Behind the Scenes” about the contest!  Our first blog is up now at: http://www.pillsbury.com/Bakeoff/Blog/ViewBlog/bake-off45blog/2012/03/14/three-generations-of-bake-off-174-fun/19034 We will be writing again on the 22nd, and more during the contest itself, which […]