Starting around 11am (eastern) I'll be broadcasting LIVE all afternoon as I prepare our Thanksgiving meal. Viewers will get a few peeks at cookbook recipes, too!

The event will be hosted on HH's Ustream Channel.

I'll also be able to live chat, answer questions, etc. I hope to you tune-in!

Living in New York City sort of hampered my ability to meal plan or keep a well-stocked kitchen. For one, our fridge was really, really tiny---a step up from a dorm "beer cooler" at best. Our pantry was also small--- a skinny bookcase to be exact. 

Plus, it wasn't realistic to do big shopping trips anyway because no one wants to lug bags and bags of groceries up and down subway stairs and then several blocks to your apartment.

So, …

For today's Top 10 Tuesday, I'm doing 10 Things You Didn't Know About Me (or maybe you do!)

(1) I'm adopted, yet strangers frequently stop me when with I'm with either parent to say how much I look like them. I also, apparently, look so much like my sister (also adopted) that my husband, and our mother, wrongly identified who was who in this photo. Lets see how you fare:

(2) I am a chronic nail biter. Someone once told …

Here's the skinny on my cookbook's release date (I know some of you are getting emails from Amazon saying it's been further delayed--it hasn't!)

The official pub date is January 25 (that's the day the cookbook will be available in all stores). We have no control over when Amazon ships, but typically, Amazon always ships on the official pub date (Jan 25th). 

For the life of me (and my publisher), we cannot figure out why Amazon is sending out emails …

At the grocery store this week I passed by some rather cutesy shiitake mushrooms and realized they were an underutilized ingredient in my cooking. 

Sure, I love oyster mushrooms and the mighty portobello--heck, I even cook with white mushrooms from time to time, but shiitake? never. So, I picked a few up and headed home with my new fungi friends.

For a few days we engaged in starring contests; mostly I was just mystified about what to do them, …