My Most Common Cooking Mistake

While sipping on a Lemon Drop Martini, my most favorite beverage, I was having a great conversation about this website. My dining companion asked me, “What is your most common cooking mistake?”
I took another sip, thought for a moment and then answered, “I always burn nuts when I’m toasting them.” Out of the thousands of [...]

4 Tips for the Perfect Dinner Party Wine

You’re invited to a dinner party and you want to bring a nice bottle of wine. A quick trip to the wine store and you become overwhelmed by the racks upon racks of bottles. What to choose? That is the question of the moment. Should you pick a red, a white or a lovely forbidden [...]

8 Football Game Day Recipe Ideas

The trees bordering my backyard have turned from deep greens to rich shades of fiery red, yellow, and gold. Clearly fall is upon us in Pittsburgh and I’m trying to take advantage of the last droplets of sunshine by writing on my back patio. Sophie is following my lead by doing laps and getting dirty [...]

Tips for Creating the Perfect Antipasti Platter

What Tuscan meal would be complete without a platter of meats, cheeses and roasted vegetables? There was no set recipe when it came to creating a perfect antipasti platter for my Party on the Porch. It just took a little creativity, a flair for styling and a love of great flavor. Here are a few [...]

5 Favorite iPhone Apps from a Profoodie Perspective

This was the post I wrote while traveling home from a business trip this past Saturday. Enjoy!
I’m sitting at the airport waiting to board a flight back to Pittsburgh.  For most of last week, I was in Atlanta conducting market research for my job.  I’m exhausted, my mind is racing and I’m so looking forward [...]

My Most Favorite Chicago Restaurants

I had the privilege of living and working in the heart of Chicago for five years.  This city offers the incredible energy of a major city, combined with a melting pot of cultures and flavors through its diverse network of neighborhoods.  I have since moved to Pittsburgh, but I still get asked from time-to-time my [...]

Impromptu Dinner Party: Appetizer & Place Settings

This was the appetizer and casual setting for my Impromptu Dinner Party.
When it comes to dinner parties, I am a firm believer in serving some sort of appetizer with drinks before the full meal.  It doesn’t have to be fancy, overly complicated or a huge portion.  It just needs to be something for your guests [...]

Crab Rangoon – The Four “F’s” of Failure

I have something really important to say that has been eating me up inside for weeks.  If I don’t share it with the world soon, I just might explode like the three Easter Peep’s I “accidently” left in the microwave.
I have a weakness for Chinese buffets.
Insert heavy gasping and moaning here.
Don’t ask me why.  I [...]

Ask Culinary Cory: Finale & Cookbook Giveaway!

The boxes are unpacked and we are settling in pretty well. Now it will be time to focus my energies on creating fabulous holiday meals in my new kitchen. Brent jokes the reconfiguration has transformed a very modest domestic space into a mini studio test kitchen. Well, once I finish building my light box for [...]

Ask Culinary Cory: Unsalted Butter

Why do you prefer to use unsalted butter?
For years, I never really cared about the type of butter I used in recipes.  The decision was almost always influenced by what was on sale.  It could have been the bottom-of-the-barrel margarine, and I wouldn’t have flinched for a second.  Now I that my focus has shifted [...]

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