Serves: Makes eight muffins Prep time: 15 minutes
Former White House Social Secretary and co-author of Treating People Well with Jeremy Bernard.
Beach House Flowers
If you’re going to be spending some time at the beach, it’s always nice to add a few simple blooms to your house to cozy up the space. A blossom or two in a simple container brings the outdoors inside and can add a gentle fragrance that will always remind you of this special vacation time. And isn’t that what we remember first and most fondly – those little moments of perfect happiness when the blue delphinium fluttered in a […]
Are You a Good Guest?
There’s more to being a good houseguest than showing up with a bottle of wine and a box of chocolates under your arm. Hostess gifts are lovely, but a thoughtful guest can set the tone for others, and can even be the social glue that makes the weekend comfortable for everyone. For a host, putting together a guest list of congenial people for the weekend is a bit like setting up a group blind date; it won’t work unless everyone […]
Stone Fruit Cocktails
Stone fruits – all those voluptuous peaches, plums, nectarines, cherries and apricots! Their season is fleeting, and right NOW, so make the most of them while you can. A stone fruit cocktail feels decadent and indulgent, so it’s in the very nature of late summer that nothing should be too difficult or time-consuming. Here are recipes for three simple cocktails that use stone fruit. We could get a lot more complicated, but would you make any of these recipes if […]
Cherry Margarita
Serves: 2 Prep time: 5 minutes
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