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Recipes from our kitchens


This Chocolate Life with Christina, Christopher, and Dan Abel Jr. of Bissinger's Chocolate
The Matriarch of Chocolate: Inside the Bissinger’s Chocolate Factory Courtney and Whitney step straight into a world of pure imagination when they welcome Christina, Dan, and Christopher Abel, the family behind the 350-year-old Bissinger’s Chocolate legacy. The sisters learn what it was really like growing up in a working chocolate factory, from sneaking chocolate graham crackers off the line to possibly inventing the Take Five bar prototype long before it ever hit shelves.


Turkey Talk, Dressing Confessions, & Tryptophan Truths
Turkey Talk, Dressing Confessions, & Tryptophan Truths This week, the sisters and Momma Ashley breakdown Thanksgiving 2025. In Dallas, Momma and Whitney go out for Thanksgiving for the first time ever while Courtney was in Los Angeles cooking up all of the Ashley Family faves for The Dads including an apricot 'mousse' that requires ingredients only found on eBay. They compare notes on Momma’s controversial Uncle Ben’s dressing shortcut, Courtney's "perfectly fine" rotten oran


Birthdays, Bondage Sets, and Bedside Tomatoes .
Birthdays, Bondage Sets, and Bedside Tomatoes The sisters are finally catching their breath after pulling off what might be Whitney’s most ambitious idea yet: turning her house into a full 1920s speakeasy for Lance’s 50th. Whitney admits there was no way she and Lance could have managed it without Courtney, her college bestie Amber, and Amber’s husband Bruno coming to town to move furniture, crank out dozens of floral arrangements, and still find the energy to party until alm


The Sisters Go to Washington... D.C.
Courtney and Whitney swap their signature martinis for beer flights with Cody Martin and Dylan Stefanos of Fort Worth based Martin House Brewing Co. in Fort Worth, TX. The brothers share how an engineer’s curiosity turned into Texas’ most inventive brewery where they’re brewing a new flavor every week including their Mustard Beer for the State Fair or Texas.


Court & Whit's Trader Joe's Black Bean Soup
Court & Whit's Trader Joe's Black Bean Soup Why it's on our list When we were young, broke and living together in LA in our 20's, we often relied on Trader Joe's Black Bean Soup (AKA BBS) in a can. Seriously, we probably ate it 3 times a week! One Sunday during our weekly trip to Trader Joe's, we received the heartbreaking news that our beloved BBS had been discontinued. OUTRAGED, we made it our mission to bring it back by writing letters, sending emails and accosting store m


From Buffets to Bestsellers with Rachel Holtzman
Courtney and Whitney swap their signature martinis for beer flights with Cody Martin and Dylan Stefanos of Fort Worth based Martin House Brewing Co. in Fort Worth, TX. The brothers share how an engineer’s curiosity turned into Texas’ most inventive brewery where they’re brewing a new flavor every week including their Mustard Beer for the State Fair or Texas.


The Brew Brothers of Martin House Brewing Company
Courtney and Whitney swap their signature martinis for beer flights with Cody Martin and Dylan Stefanos of Fort Worth based Martin House Brewing Co. in Fort Worth, TX. The brothers share how an engineer’s curiosity turned into Texas’ most inventive brewery where they’re brewing a new flavor every week including their Mustard Beer for the State Fair or Texas.


Momma Carla's Dolmas
Brew brothers, Cody Martin and Dylan Stefano of Fort Worth's award winning Brewery, Martin House Brewing Company love just about anything their Momma Cara makes but her Dolmas, (stuffed grape leaves) they claim, is her signature dish. Momma Cara's Dolmas Why it's on our list Combined from two different recipes, these Dolmathes were a staple at any family gathering in the Stefano home. While Dylan's dad is the only real Greek in the family, the boys mom, XXX became of fan of
I was looking for a good reason to throw a dinner party and the first to come to mind is that I wanted to have a couple extra martinis before dinner.
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