Style & Entertaining
Throw Your Own Wedding: Herb & Pepper Goat Cheese Coins
Appetizers should be easy, not complicated since you are making so many individual portions. Here I simply sliced a 11 oz. log of goat cheese ten equal portions then pressed the flat sized into a [...]
Throw Your Own Wedding: Shades of Summer Cake
Shaded or gradual tones as seen in the world of fashion and textiles for centuries, here fashioned into a cake. This version is done in yellow for Summer! This recipe is fashioned for two, with [...]
Throw Your Own Wedding: Layered Dip in a Jar
So who can’t do this? It’s super easy and best of all can be done even a few days beforehand. Served in 1/2 pt. wide-mouth Ball canning jars – you can even serve them with [...]
Throw Your Own Wedding: Chorizo Tomato Skewer Bites
4 links smoked Chorizo sausage 1 pt. cherry tomatoes Slice sausages into 1/2″ coins. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a medium saute pan over medium heat drizzle olive oil. When oil begins to shimmer [...]
Throw Your Own Wedding: Brown Sugar-Bourbon Cake w/Brown Sugar-Bourbon Buttercream
Autumn was the inspiration for this cake, and my recent obsession with making 6″ cakes. You can easily convert it into a 9″ layer cake AND make this any time of year. Planning this cake [...]
Bachelor(ette)s and Bars: Hit the Town
Dressy or casual, your last night on the town as singles is worth celebrating in style. Lavender visited LUSH Food Bar, The Town House, 19 Bar, the Brass Rail Lounge, and the Gay 90′s for [...]
Throw Your Own Wedding: Cherry Coke Jalapeno Meatballs
1 tsp.salt 1 1/2 tsp. Archer Farms smoked paprika 1 tsp. Archer Farms onion powder 1 tsp. fresh-cracked pepper 1 tbsp. brown sugar 1/2 tsp. garlic powder 2 lbs. Archer Farms ground beef or chuck [...]
Throw Your Own Wedding: Savory Stuffed Baguette
1 Archer Farms medium baguette, roughly 16″ long 8 oz. Archer Farms cream cheese, room temperature 4-5 oz. President goat cheese, room temperature 2 garlic cloves, chopped 1/2 c. Kalamata olives, chopped 4 oz. Columbus [...]
Throw Your Own Wedding: Fig & Olive Tapenade
2 – 7 oz packages Sun-Maid Mission figs, chopped 1 cup water 2 tablespoons olive oil 1/3 cup Archer Farms Balsamic vinegar 1 tbsp. fresh rosemary 1 tbsp.fresh thyme 1 teaspoon Hot Shot pepper/cayenne blend 1 [...]
Throw Your Own Wedding: Mini Cheddar, Bacon & Dried Cherry Cheeseballs
I recall as a child getting so excited whenever we were having a party or went to a gathering at someone’s home and they would have a cheeseball. There truly was something magical about these [...]
