Meet Sophie and The Winner is…

Meet Sophie I slipped away to my calming blue-walled office to do some blog reading and commenting.  A few clicks here and a couple of comments there, I noticed a slight rustling sound just outside my office door.  Since I was the only person on the second floor of the house, I went back to [...]

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: Zesting

Zest makes my recipe taste bitter.  What am I doing wrong? While attending a Pampered Chef party, I watched in agony as the hostess fiercely ground the peel of an orange down to its soft flesh.  I explained to her the proper way to zest was by only removing the outer peel of the citrus based ingredient.  This [...]

Ask Culinary Cory: Food Photos

Your photos always look amazing.  What’s your secret? Darius T. Williams of Everyday Cookin’ asked me once to share some food photography tips to help him improve the photos on his blog.  Since I believe great food photos is about 80% of the success of a food blog.  I couldn’t wait to include these tips in [...]

Ask Culinary Cory: The Series

Brent and I recently purchased a modest three-bedroom house in the great city of Pittsburgh.  It is outfitted with two and a half baths, a walkout basement and a decent sized yard.  In the spring, we expect to convert a window into a new door, and build a deck for entertaining and dining alfresco.  Ahh, [...]