I still remember the very first holiday party I hosted as an adult. I spent three days cooking complicated pastries that nobody really touched. Then my aunt walked in with a slow cooker full of these christmas cranberry meatballs. Within twenty minutes the pot was empty and people were using toothpicks to scrape up the extra sauce. That was the ...

I still remember the first time I hosted a holiday party. I was so stressed about the main course that I completely forgot about appetizers until an hour before guests arrived. I had a sheet of puff pastry and some leftover cheese in the fridge. That panic turned into the best discovery of my culinary life. These baked cranberry brie ...