Valentine’s Day is known for intimate candlelit Dinners and Chocolate & Whipped Cream Desserts, but what about easy Valentine’s Day cocktails? Maybe a sweet pink cocktail? Possibly a raspberry infused spritzer? How abut a luscious gin sour with bright flower…
8 Easy & Delicious Romantic Valentine’s Day Dinner Recipes
Valentine’s Day will be here in no time at all! Not quite sure what to cook? Don’t worry, I have a plan for that very special supper! I’ll help you out with a collection of some of the best recipes…
The Best Stuffed Potato Skins with Sour Cream & Bacon
It’s that time of year again: the Big Game is right around the corner! This has been a strange season for every sport, but one thing hasn’t changed – I always feel that fun, indulgent, football food is one of…
Simple and Juicy Roasted Chicken with Thyme
If there is any dish worth presenting to your family straight out of the oven, it must be a whole roast bird. They are shockingly easy to get right, but also shockingly easy to get wrong! I spent most of my…
Luxurious Chocolate Trifle with Raspberries and Champagne Cream
With the year wrapping up, and a much needed calendar page flip on the horizon, 2020 is finally coming to a close. It’s a time to look forward and celebrate the coming New Year. Like most people, instead of going…
How to Build a Savory Winter Charcuterie Board
If you don’t live in a big city, where there are thousands of reliable Yelpers and food critics, you begin to learn very quickly that ‘word of mouth’ is everything! Where we live there are critically acclaimed restaurants that make…
10 Easy Holiday Appetizers
Cooking for friends, and cooking with friends are two of my favorite things to do, especially around the holidays! There is something so joyful about being in the kitchen with people you can share a laugh with; I always look…
Spiced Cranberry Gin Punch with Frosted Rosemary
The Christmas countdown has begun, and Hanukkah lights are already sparkling! The radio stations are saturated with carols, occasionally bringing out my conditioned ‘dancer’s shudder’ when music from ‘The Nutcracker Suite’ has a turn. It seems like we need something…
Simple Thai-Style Leftover Turkey Green Curry
I think we are finally recovered from the ‘holiday that wasn’t’. Even though we had a much smaller Thanksgiving celebration, we still tried to make it feel special. In a way, I think one way to define ‘making it special’…
How to Create a Budget Friendly Holiday Flower Centerpiece
It’s been wall-to-wall Thanksgiving posts here at Straight to the Hips, Baby, and we were so proud to have this much seasonal content to provide in this very strange year, when so many of our traditions have to be modified!…