Delight in the exquisite wine selections from Herzog and Bartenura wineries this Valentine’s Day. Please enjoy responsibly. With my recent posts being centered around ‘basics’ and accessible home meals, I decided I wanted to feature some wines that I could imagine pairing with, say, my recent meatloaf, or as an aperitif to my Fig and…
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Savoiardi Cookies (Italian S Cookies)
These light, crisp cookies boast of warm citrus and almond essence. They are not too sweet but are buttery and delicious when served with a hot cup of espresso. I honestly never meant to be posting so close to Christmas – and for some(most?) of you, this post will appear ‘on’ Christmas. However, I found…
Christmas Dessert Tablescape featuring Mulled Apple Cider
We’re sharing some of our favorite tips for pulling together a festive, elegant holiday tablescape with ease, but no holiday spread is complete without Mulled Apple Cider. Today we’re showing you how with our favorite slow cooker recipe! I held a small dinner party this past Sunday, and my brother and son were talking, and…
Italian Butter Cookies (+Video)
Soft, buttery cookies are sandwiched together with raspberry jam then dipped in chocolate and sprinkles for the classic, bakery favorite we all grew up loving! Make a batch of these Italian Butter Cookies for an unforgettable holiday this season. My first ‘commercial’ experience with food before Living the Gourmet came in the form of a…
Bacon Wrapped Herbed Turkey featuring Agiorgitiko
Slow roasted and wrapped in a layer of bacon with an herbed butter underneath, this juicy Thanksgiving roast will truly shine at your holiday table! Bacon. Everything is better with bacon. Aside from butter and money, what else can we really say “makes everything better” simply by its presence? And please, spare me the purple…
Thanksgiving with Decoy Wines
Thank you Decoy for sponsoring this post. Complete your own tablescapes with Decoy this holiday season. We’re celebrating Thanksgiving a little differently today by upping the ante with a delicate tablescape featuring mini goat cheese bites, pumpkin ravioli in an orange and sage sauce, then finishing it off with a melt-in-your-mouth Caramel Pumpkin Flan. Sometimes…
Walnut Tea Cake
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #TeaProudly #FallforBigelow #CollectiveBias This buttery, light cake is speckled with walnuts and notes of citrus then layered together with a fruit preserve center. It’s a seasonal treat that is perfect for cozy Autumn days and holiday occasions as…
July 4th Menu
The recipes we have selected for you today are easy to put together, cool & refreshing, but more importantly, they are seasonal, making them apropos for all your summer soirees and cookouts. It’s hard to believe tomorrow is 4th of July. I feel like we have waited an eternity for the warm weather here in…
Crab Cakes, Crostini, and Torresella Prosecco
Thank you to Torresella Wines for sponsoring this post. All opinions expressed are my own. The following message is intended for those 21+. Please enjoy responsibly. Complete the holiday season and ring in the New Year with this simple yet elegant spread featuring plump crab cakes and ciabatta crostini with a tomato and artichoke salad…
Lemon Snowball Cookies
Thank you to Limoneira for sponsoring this post. All opinions expressed are my own! Add some sunshine to your winter days with these soft, buttery Lemon Snowball Cookies! A few weeks ago, our favorite lemon company sent us a beautiful box of crisp California citrus fruits. For a food blogger, this was like celebrating Christmas…
Greek Butter Twists
Celebrate this season with a delicious batch of soft, Greek Butter Twists and cup of our favorite Gourmesso brand coffee! There’s a cliché about autumn in New York, whose origins lie in the inherent charm of leaf dusted sidewalks strolled by those cloaked in long coats and scarves. It’s a scene that’s been put to…
Holiday Leftovers with Damaris Phillips
We are pleased to welcome Food Network Star Damaris Phillips to Living the Gourmet today as she shares her best tips and tricks for serving up holiday leftovers. After the crowds are gone and the ovens are cooled down, most household refrigerators are bursting with delicious leftovers. Damaris Phillips is here to show us her…
Wines for Hanukkah
This post has been sponsored by Yarden Winery. All opinions expressed are my own. The following message is for 21+. Please enjoy responsibly this holiday season! “One of the unyielding charms of wine, and of viniculture in general, is the constant state of flux in which it exists. No two bottles are ever truly alike,…
Delicious Food & Gorgeous Decor for the Upcoming Holidays
Today we are pleased to welcome Executive Chef Jeff Anderson and Design Expert Debi Lilly to share their best tips, tricks and recipes this holiday season! The holidays are a joyous time of year when people come together to celebrate with family and friends. Delicious food and beautiful decor often become the centerpiece of these…
Top 5 Easy Party Tips for the Holidays
We’re pleased to welcome Lifestyle Expert Alejandra Ramos to Living the Gourmet today as she shares her top 5 easy party tips for the holidays with us! During the holidays, parties and gatherings with family and friends make the season extra fun and exciting. And the snacks and foods that come along with the entertaining…make…
No-Bake Dessert Bars for the Holidays
We are so pleased to welcome Jamie Johnson of My Baking Addiction and Melissa Sperka of Melissa’s Southern Style Kitchen to LTG today as they share one of their favorite holiday desserts with us – scotcheroos! The holidays are a time for family, fun, and food! And what better way to celebrate than by making…
Holiday Entertaining with Kia Malone
We are pleased to welcome Lifestyle expert, Kia Malone, to Living the Gourmet today as she shares some of her best and creative ideas for holiday entertaining this season! As we head into the holiday season, now is the perfect time to step out of the box and blow your party guests away with style….
Holiday Wines from Montes Winery
This post is sponsored by Montes Winery. All opinions expressed are my own. The following message is intended for those 21+. Please enjoy responsibly. Early last month I was contacted by the representatives of Chile’s Montes Winery asking if I would be interested in sampling some of the bottles, describing the winery, and its owner…
French Holiday Wines
This post has been sponsored by Sommailier Winery. All opinions expressed are my own. The follow messages are intended for those 21+. Please enjoy responsibly. It is that said “Chaos breeds life, while order breeds habit, which begets decay. For it is from the great and eternal flux of the cosmos, the endless cycle of…
Thanksgiving 101 with Shelly Jaronsky
We are pleased to welcome food blogger & cookbook author, Shelly Jaronsky of the popular blog, Cookies & Cups, to Living the Gourmet today as she shares her best tips for the Thanksgiving holiday! Pressed for time this Thanksgiving or feeling a little intimidated by trying out new ingredients or techniques? Well, here is some…
Wines for Thanksgiving
Today we’re sharing some of our favorite wine suggestions and pairings for the Thanksgiving holiday. This message is intended for 21+. Please enjoy responsibly! In reviewing wine, one quickly learns that a wine’s vintage is not just a mark of how long the liquid within has been aging, but that it is an encapsulation of…
Gluten Free Chocolate Cranberry and Almond Biscotti
These chocolate biscotti are loaded with almonds and cranberries and rich in chocolatey goodness. The best part, however, may be that they are completely gluten-free! This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Bob’s Red Mill. On a recent trip to a local pork store I’ve been frequenting on and off since…
Baked Egg Muffins & Strawberry Shortcakes for Mother’s Day
Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Tyson Foods, Inc. All opinions are entirely my own. Surprise Mom for Mother’s Day with an elegant brunch featuring Baked Egg Muffins & Strawberry Shortcakes! “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a word of what I am saying,” Oscar Wilde remarked. Any of my…
Italian Easter Pies
Italian Easter Pies are a traditional dessert made of a sweet whipped ricotta filling that’s baked over a flaky crust! While I am a fervent classicalist, perhaps one of my favorite lines of dialogue comes from the movie Blade Runner, specifically Roy Batty’s brief exchange at the end of the film, which ran “I’ve seen…
