THE LATEST FROM FRAN BERGER
Home Entertaining
Recipe for the Perfect Poached Egg
The mystery of poaching eggs is lifted. I love poached eggs. My mom and dad used to have them with toast just about every Sunday morning. It’s a fond food memory for me. I think more people would eat them...
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Home Entertaining in Style: The best way to build a collection of fine silver and crystal
The secret: estate sales, flea markets, thrift stores. And they’re fun! For some folks, having the perfect set of home entertaining “ware” is a matter of inheritance. If you are one of the lucky ones to have inherited crystal, china,...
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Two Drink Recipes, for a Nice Summer Afternoon Spritz
Bringing you 2 fabulous spritz drinks to help you keep cool during California’s dog days of summer-early fall. It’s not the end of summer in California until we endure those final “dog days” through early fall. It’ll be boiling here...
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Summer Drink Recipe: Grapefruit Aperol Spritz
Brings you this fabulous spritz drink to help you keep cool during California’s dog days of summer-early fall. It’s not the end of summer in California until we endure those final “dog days” through early fall. It’ll be boiling here...
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A Quick and Easy Weeknight Dinner Recipe for Tomato Feta Galette
Nothing fancy and so very easy; you can even serve this recipe at room temperature! A long time ago I learned that the tomato is a fruit and not a vegetable. So, for years now I have been enjoying the...
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How will you pick the perfect wine glasses for your home?
With so many options, designs, and ideas sometimes it’s hard to settle on a choice – unless you have some professional help. They say that if you really know what you want in life, making decisions is easy. But, that...
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Elevate Your Mixology: 8 Essential Tools for Your Home Bar
Spare yourself the last-minute run-around – get these 8 handy home bar tools now. Next to food, drinks are a main hospitality ‘go-to’ especially if you plan to get serious with home entertaining. Of course, I’m talking specifically...
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Pantry Power: 7 Items for Instant Meal Magic
You’ll be ready for just about anything if you keep these items in stock at home at all times. I keep my pantry well-stocked at all times. I owe that habit to years in the restaurant business. One of...
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Indulge in Frozen Wine-Marinated Grapes: The Ideal Adult Snack
If you love frozen grapes, you’re going to absolutely swoon when you try this idea. One of my favorite summer treats is frozen grapes. I love them, don’t you? They’re so easy to do – clean them, dry them,...
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Summer Cocktail idea for you and your friends
La Dolce Vita with a Negroni cocktail recipe: gin, Campari, Vermouth and a twist of Orange peel. Even if you’ve only been following me for a little while, you know that I love anything Italian and I’ve been very fortunate...
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Flowers for Home Décor – How to keep Hydrangeas fresher longer
A popular ornamental plant is our favorite home flower decoration – hydrangea! The name “hydrangea” may or may not ring any bells. But if ornamental horticulture happens to be your “thing” or if you have ever seen the plant and...
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Home Entertaining Tip – How to speed-chill a bottle of white wine
Guests on the way? Forgot to chill the wine? Here’s an old restaurant trick that will get you chilled wine in 15 minutes FLAT. A restaurant – an excellent restaurant – will never have a shortage of good wine chilled...
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We love our Avocados GREEN
An easy to remember trick to keep your cut avocados from turning that unappetizing brown. If you have been following me for a while, you know that I collect little stories about this and that. I think that’s one of...
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How to get the perfect rug size for your dining room.
Tips for Home Décor – creating the right “balance” between look and function. When I buy rugs for my home, I think about how they’ll look in my home – color and style, and how they will ‘get along’ with...
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Enjoy Al Fresco Dining – Even in Winter!
What a great opportunity – to cozy up with warm drinks, hot food, and close friends. The Italians love dining outside so much that there’s a term for it in Italian – Al Fresco; dining in the fresh air. Dining...
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A Sparkling ‘Welcome’ Drink for Your Guests
A great recipe for a truly fruity drink: Freixenet, Cointreau, Cranberries, and Oranges! When entertaining at home planning is everything. If it’s a themed party, you want just the right decorations for your guests to enjoy. If you’re hosting a...
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Upgrade your Coffee Table or Dining Room Table
Make a statement with cool accents and fabulous conversation starters. A lesson I learned from my mother: if it has dust on it, it’s been out too long. The lesson from that idea may not be what you immediately think....
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The Perfect Valentine’s Day Adult Beverage
Celebrate love and friendships with this favorite cocktail recipe. There’s more to a mixed drink than a chunk of fruit, a swizzle stick, and a little paper umbrella. Most people think of mixed drinks as “cocktails” and some mixes are...
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How to host an EASY and fun Super Bowl Party
Two big tips and one great recipe idea for #Superbowl #SB52 – Good Food, Good Friends, Great Times. I have hosted a ton of Super Bowl Parties at my home and, I’ve been a guest at quite a few of...
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Tips and Hints for your Outdoor Winter Décor
Because your home should look as good on the outside as it does on the inside. Yards look so sad this time of year, especially the backyard. The grass goes brown and the trees are mostly bare. Add to this,...
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