Appetizer Recipes

I need a Halloween appetizer that looks like a prop from a horror movie but is actually just vegetables. That’s the thought. Not “what’s cute … Read more

My friend Jenna asked why I couldn’t just use cookie cutters on cheese slices instead of carving little ghosts by hand. I started to explain … Read more

Third Halloween party in a row, and I am standing at my kitchen counter with a piping bag full of egg yolk mixture, muttering to … Read more

The woman at the next stall watched me picking through pumpkins last October, frowning at each one like it had personally offended me. She didn’t … Read more

I figured a black charcuterie board would be mostly about the food coloring. It took about five minutes of smearing black sesame paste onto a … Read more

The kitchen was quiet, which is rare in my house. It was almost ten at night, the October air had that particular chill that seeps … Read more

Little strips of crescent dough dangling everywhere, half of them stuck to my fingers, the other half wrapped around little smoked sausages that looked nothing … Read more

That first crackle of the cheese board’s wax paper as I unfolded it on the coffee table — that sound, the one that promises a … Read more

I was elbow-deep in flour, trying to salvage a batch of sugar cookies that had spread into one giant, sad-looking disc, when my accountant, Mr. … Read more

My niece Mia asked why I couldn’t just use sparkling white grape juice instead of real champagne for the New Year’s Eve jello shots. I … Read more