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This is where you can find recipes for cooking for a crowd! Whether it’s for a gathering of friends and family, or for a special occasion or holiday, the Zen of Slow Cooking has a recipe for you. This is where your slow cooker or Instant Pot really come into their own, so you can still be a guest at your own party. Browse our best dishes for entertaining at home, potlucks, BBQs, cocktail parties, and more.
Thursday last while Meg was airborne to Mumbai I caught a ride on the tailwind of her flight, to England. Meg’s trip is a long anticipated retreat in Pune in India with Frances Murchison of Mindfully Fed, and also a spice information gathering mission. My …read more
Some months ago our friend Susan Kelsey, the city’s Economic Development Coordinator who started the incubator program in Lake Forest, knowing that we were trying hard to emulsify our zen spice and blog concepts, urged us to ‘get moving” on our product in time for the Lake …read more
For the final Veterans Cookbook recipe of the month we’ve elaborated on a Chile Verde by Diane Mercier to incorporate some of those leftovers from a traditional Thanksgiving Turkey dinner.
It’s the end of July, and in Chicago we’re in the unseasonably cool and wet aftermath of a brief heatwave. So it’s with consummate timing that as our month of celebratory posts closes, we can feature the work of my great friend Charlotte Bland in London. …read more
After a long day I walked through my front door yesterday evening to a welcoming and seasonal smell: the mulling of wine. We’re branching out. The new recipe made it’s intoxicating debut in our new little red 2 quart Crock Pot, rather than the 6 …read more
Thanksgiving illuminates some of the things we are appreciative of. Aside from the obvious, one of the unexpected surprises which I’m personally thankful for and which has consumed me this year is being propelled into a working partnership and friendship with Meg.
