*This post is the third in our Date Night In series with Chateau St. Jean. They (and we) believe wine and date nights are a great pair. This month we’re[...]

When it comes to the end of the year I’m just so excited to say good riddance to the current year and a big waving arms hello to a bright and shiny new year.[...]

What an amazing season it’s been for cookbooks. Stacks have formed in every corner of the house, on the kitchen counter and threatened to tumble off the[...]

Our first ever NWS Holiday Gift Guide is happening!! For well over a month now I’ve had a Google Doc open clicking over to it frantically as I’ve[...]

I start making dinner around 5. The cupboards are bare, the fridge even more so but there’s enough. It becomes a game to me. I’ll pretend I’m on a game[...]

*I’ve partnered with Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker to bring you this bittersweet flourless cake with a torched meringue cap. With only four ingredients in[...]

When I set out to create my holiday menus I always start with the basics. It’s not Thanksgiving without turkey, potatoes, cranberries, rolls, stuffing,[...]

*This post was created in partnership with Marriott Hotels. As always the words and images are mine, this time though, the recipe was a collaboration with[...]

About a month ago I received a very powerful and vulnerable email from a reader. She had just finished reading Date Night In for the second time and this[...]

Thank you so much for your kind words from the last post. Sharing all of that left me with a bit of a vulnerability hangover but I was so lifted by your[...]

Comfort. That’s the word that keeps rolling around in my mind today. Our new pup, Lily, cozies up in her dark blue bed sitting next to the fire.[...]

*This post was created in partnership with Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker.  In the below recipe Scharffen Berger’s bittersweet chocolate, with a floral[...]

*This post is the second in our series with Chateau St. Jean Winery in Sonoma. Wine and date nights are like peanut butter and jelly; made for each other. So[...]

I can’t think of a way to start this post that doesn’t sound flippant or trivial and yet I can not begin to fill this place with food again until[...]

Anything goes with summer cooking. Well, let’s be honest anything goes with anytime cooking but in the summertime it’s easier to get away with simple, quick[...]