Tag: Recipes

Floral artist Ashley Woodson Bailey uses fresh flowers and nontraditional colors like black, gold, and hot pink. She decorates the tree with white silk roses, carnation balls, and camellia blossoms.

The Southern menu includes pimento cheese dip with vegetables, watermelon salad, and chicken salad sandwiches. The Texas cake is always a hit.

With their tricked-out kitchen and beautifully landscaped yard, it’s obvious that entertaining is a priority for this family. Recently I was fortunate to join them for a summer cookout.

There is dancing and general revelry, but eating is the core activity. The parade of meats roasting over open flames is impressive: a whole lamb on a spit, kondosouvli, lamb chops, and lamb fricassee. Greek dishes like spanakopita and dolmathes, plus an entire room of desserts, round out the feast.

When I met Alisa Barry 18 years ago, she was launching her Italian-inspired pantry products business, Bella Cucina, and my family had just started making annual summer treks to the Ligurian coast—where we now own a second home. Needless to say, we Italophiles bonded immediately.

We gathered around a platform of old planks, with burlap sacks scattered on the ground as seating. The sylvan tablescape included centerpieces made of moss, ferns, and foraged branches; scattered votives; and, of course, R. Wood Studio dishes in a variety of natural hues.

Miller Union chef Steven Satterfield takes us to Freedom Farmers Market, where he finds plump eggplants, vibrant tomatoes, and crisp beans.

When I received my invitation to a Swedish midsummer-themed engagement party, I was not surprised to see the host was the impeccably stylish Helen Ballard, founder of Ballard Designs.

This vibrant side dish pairs asparagus with radishes quickly roasted together. In our video series, this spring dish is prepared with fresh produce from the Grant Park Farmers Market.