We have all been there; entertaining a group of eight of your closest friends, perhaps a wine group or neighbors who you are just dying to impress with your culinary and entertaining skills. Then disaster strikes. Your show-stopper dessert doesn’t turn out …

I'm sure many of you have experienced this scenario. It's the night before your annual work party or neighborhood cookie exchange, and you're in the kitchen, sweating profusely, cursing your procrastinating ways and desperately using every short cut to get your cookies …

Instead of stressing about getting a table at an overcrowded restaurant this year for Valentine's Day, why not celebrate with your sweetie in the warm comfort of your own home?