Author archives: Jill Waldman

  • Mamma Mia! Meatballs

    • For years now, I have been trying to make meatballs. I mixed the meat with veggies, ketchup and other choice ingredients, rolled them into balls and then placed them in a saute pan to cook.  Invariably, they would fall apart and my spaghetti and meatballs always became spaghetti with Bolognese sauce[...]

  • Wedding Wars in Denver

    • Short of being selected to be a contestant on Survivor, the next best thing was to be selected to participate in Wedding Wars, a wedding design competition which was held on Friday, January 18, 2013 at 6:00pm at the City Hall Events Venue in Denver!  The Main Event was  one of four planners at this [...]

  • Menu printed on Napkin

    • When my daughter had her birthday party last fall I bought plain white linen napkins and  colored markers that would withstand the wash and let all the kids decorate the napkins.  I loved that the project was creative while creating a eco-friendly take home favor.  Today, on pintrest, I came across [...]

  • Carried Away at Catamount

  •   Oh what fun to plan a wedding with fellow New Yorkers.  Brooklynites to be exact.  Jake and Zalika were not the first couple from Brooklyn whose wedding I helped plan, but they were among the most creative!  From Zalika's hand selected lace for her custom designed dress to the unique votiv[...]

  • Twix Pie

    • Shortly After Halloween I entered the local bake off contest.  I decided to enter all four of the categories: cakes, cookies, pies and miscellaneous.  I had been working on a chocolate cake for some time so I knew I would go with that as my cake submission.  For the miscellaneous category I entered [...]

  • Luna Loves Lima Beans

    • Perhaps it was Camilla Cream, the main character from the book A Bad Case of Stripes, or perhaps it was just my curiosity.  Whichever the inspiration as I was strolling down the bean aisle of the grocery store I picked up a bag of Lima Beans.  After unpacking the groceries I must admit the beans wer[...]

  • Tarragon Latkes

    • When you grow your own Tarragon, you end up with A LOT of dried tarragon each fall.  I harvest it, dry it and put it in containers to give as gifts, and I still have more than I can use till the next harvest!  So, this year, to spice up my latkes, I of course added some Tarragon. Ingredients 1[...]

  • Fall Mountain Wedding

    • Katie and Stephen are surely in love!  You can just tell by the look in their eyes!  Andy and Emily Barnhart did such a great job capturing the emotion of the day with their beautiful photography.  It turned out to be a very interesting day weather wise, with a perfect break in the clouds right [...]

  • Italian Cooking with Hannah Hopkins

    • My friend Hannah Hopkins, Executive Chef at Steamboats' Mambo Italiano, asked me to assist her at last weekends Culinary Arts demonstration as part of the All Arts Festival.  So of course I said "YES." What a treat to cook with such an accomplished chef and all around great woman (and she's a fel[...]