We have just added some great new summer outdoor recipes to inyourkitchen.com including grilled chicken with fresh herbs, garlic and lemon , watermelon and feta skewers , jicama, mango and radish crudite , grilled fruit with maple cinnamon mascarpone cheese , guacamole and a lemonade strawberry sparkling cocktail . These are some of inyourkitchens’ favorite recipes for entertaining outdoors in the summer months. If you have some favorites you want to share, why not get out the video camera this weekend and have your friends film you cooking your favorite grilling recipes. Then all you have to do is simply upload them to inyourkitchen.com for all of us to enjoy!
Don’t forget to checkout Laura Jong’s In Season guide, letting you know what’s fresh, delicious and ready to eat right now. Laura is a produce merchandiser for specialty produce right here in San Diego. Laura also has some great video guides to choosing produce.

Looking for the perfect gift for the cooking enthusiast that seems to have everything….the great knives, the emersion blender and every kitchen gadget you can think of? Why not make a personalized gift? No I’m not talking about homemade cookies or a jar of last year’s pickles. How about a chopping board with a picture of Dad on it for Father’s Day next week or a bottle of bubbly with a picture of the bride and groom on it for a bridal shower gift?
Recently I just couldn’t decide what to get my friend that seemed to have everything and so I ordered her a chopping board from Snapfish.com with a picture of some cupcakes she made and a few fridge magnets with pictures taken a party she hosted. They were original, gratefully received and you can be assured that they won’t end up with two of the same gift. Check out all the different cooking related gifts you can get at snapfish gifts. The chopping board below was $24.99.

So finally the day has come, www.inyourkitchen.com is live! An idea over dinner with a friend just over a year ago has materialized and inyourkitchen.com is launched.

There are over 100 videos of top chefs, wine makers and food purveyors filmed on location in their kitchens, vineyards, stores and warehouses.
So far we have filmed in San Diego and Napa Valley but we are already planning our next locations. If you have any ideas for our next shoot or know a really great chef or food fanatic that should be featured on the site just let me know. Don’t forget that you can become a member and share your own food videos with other members.

This month we have partnered with Parade magazine to bring you Parade In Your Kitchen. You will find all the recipes featured in Parade magazine’s ‘What America Eats’ issue on the Parade In Your Kitchen pages and videos to accompany each recipe. This month features some great guilt free desserts. I’ve tried them all, they tasted great and I have to say there were no feelings of guilt after!

We hope that www.inyourkitchen.com will be a fun, interactive and entertaining way to cook,

Enjoy!

Diane

Hi and welcome to the In Your Kitchen website!

“Eating well and having the opportunity to enjoy preparing the food we eat is something which we hope to bring to a wide audience with www.inyourkitchen.com.”

Come share our passion for food and eating through an hd video experience.

Diane Stopford

Over the last week I have been doing a little cup cake research before I attempt to make my sister’s wedding cake. The first place I went was ‘Do it with icing’ my local cake decorating store. The ladies here were extremely helpful and even gave me some really important information regarding travelling with cake decorating ingredients. Apparently you can no longer fly with glycerin, the TSA may mistake it for bomb making equipment. I told my friend Fran over at Parade.com and she even chose to write about it in her blog Eat My Words check it out!
The first part of the decorating I thought I would attempt was the gum paste flowers. It’s been a while since I made them so I picked up a pack of Wilton ready to use gum paste.
I made a nice light cake using only the egg whites and not the yolks in the batter…not sure if it may be a bit dry though and a nice light buttercream that also used egg whites as the base (I will have to make lemon cured with the left over yolks).
Below are the results…still a lot of practice needed but you got to start somewhere.