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My Top 9 Favorite On-the-Side Recipes…Celebrating 3 Years!

March 21, 2012

Three years ago this week I decided to branch out from panini-making a bit and start this blog “on the side”. I hoped to discover some hidden gems among the recipes I found printed on the food labels in my kitchen…I wound up finding a real treasure trove. To celebrate Cooking On the Side’s blogoversary [...]

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A Visit to the Nestlé Kitchens

March 29, 2011

These ladies with the gorgeous smiles standing with me in the photo above are Ani Simón and Chris Garboski, managers of the test kitchens at Nestlé USA. I took a little road trip up to the Los Angeles area last week to visit the Nestlé headquarters in Glendale, see firsthand what goes on in the [...]

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Holiday Q&A with Lucinda Scala Quinn + Panettone French Toast

December 21, 2010

Holiday entertaining tips and traditions were the topics of a lovely conversation I had last week with Lucinda Scala Quinn, Executive Director of Food & Entertaining at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, cookbook author and host of Hallmark Channel’s Mad Hungry with Lucinda Scala Quinn. Whether you’re attending a holiday party this week and need ideas [...]

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Congrats to the Windows Phone 7 Winner!

December 8, 2010

Congrats to our Windows Phone 7 “Do More With Less” giveaway winner, Schmidty (#169)! Thanks to everyone who entered. I’m glad I asked you to share the ways you make your life easier in the kitchen – I’ve already adopted many of the great tips!

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Cooking On the Side for iPhone

December 1, 2009

It just got a whole lot easier to navigate Cooking On the Side from your iPhone – welcome to the mobile version! So often I need to look up a recipe while I’m away from the computer – I love it when a recipe site has a mobile version I can access on the fly [...]