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There’s a reason why we dedicate an entire chapter to dips in our book: they’re fun, they’re filling, and they’re easy to make in Super Bowl-sized proportions. As the countdown begins to the big Sunday, we highly recommend factoring a few dips into your menu. While size does matter on game day, Mexican and Southwestern flavors also seem to score extra points. So we’ve selected our cheesiest, heartiest dips for the football lovers at your table. Make them in advance, and don’t be shy about your quantities–commercial breaks are no time for replenishing!

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Even though we both grew-up eating it, especially in high school when Carolyn’s dad would bring this dish to field hockey potlucks, tofu has kind of gotten the cold shoulder on this site. Perhaps it’s because we both cook for our boyfriends (or fiancé, in Cara’s case), and there is just something about tofu that rubs some men the wrong way.

It wasn’t until Josh’s boss went vegan and he started grabbing lunch at Birdbath in the East Village, that I even considered tofu as a viable dinner option. But…

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We’re thrilled to be profiled in this piece about breakthrough websites for young women as part of PBS’ mediashift series. Check out the article here!

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Antipasti Grilled Cheese • Tomato Basil Soup • Coffee Sables • Irish Hot Chocolate

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Since the day we founded Big Girls, Small Kitchen, cooking and entertaining questions have arrived in our inbox and our comments section. At first we were like, “who? us? advice?” But after more than three years of solving culinary problems, we can honestly say we’re here for you. And since you might want to know the answer to other quarter-life cooks’ questions, we’re unveiling this new, ongoing q&a section to highlight your queries and share our responses.

If you’d like to ask us anything about quarter-life cooking, shoot us an email with your question to bgsk [at] biggirlssmallkitchen [dot] com!…

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In preparation for our talk next week at Franklin and Marshall college, we chatted with Lancaster’s local journal to give them a sneak peak of what we’ll be telling the Writer’s House on Tuesday, Jan. 24th. Hint: it’s about feeding your creativity. Read more here, and if you are in the greater Lancaster area, come out for the talk!

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It’s Slow Cooker Week here on BGSK!

We’re co-hosting a Slow Cooker Challenge (remember the awesome brown bag week we did over the summer?) with Small Kitchen College and Kelsey of The Naptime Chef and bringing you fabulous low and slow recipes all week long. Make sure to stop by SKC to enter to win a fabulous Delonghi slow cooker, courtesy of BigKitchen.com. And we hope you’ll join us on Wednesday at noon for a live twitter chat along with Food52, The Daily Meal, Punchfork, Fine…

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Back in May, right before our book came out, I moved out of the apartment I shared with Caitlyn for four years, and temporarily back into my parents’ place. Now, it’s 2012. And guess what? I’m still here…

As the idea of “temporarily” went out the window in mid-November, my mother and I began to have a bit of a turf war over the kitchen. Most of the time, she was happy to let me cook in peace. But come lunchtime, which as a fellow self-employed soul, could range from 11am to about 3pm, things could get…

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Warm Goat Cheese Spread • Boeuf Bourguignon • Garlic-Rosemary Mashed Potatoes • Crusty Bread • Chocolate Chip Cookie Squares

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We’re so thrilled to be mentioned by Julia Moskin in this week’s “What We’re Reading” column in The New York Times’ Diner’s Journal blog. Read the blurb on why she likes our 2012 food resolutions here.

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