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We appreciate your feedback!

As regular dishers know, we send a survey to every customer following their In-Store, Dish-n-Dash or DishDelivery session.  You may not realize that we get over 1000 completed surveys each month… and we read every single one!  Your feedback has been essential in helping us develop some of our new services and programs, including:

Freezer Freedom: Our newsletter […]

Which Pie’s For You? Buy One / Try One at 50% OFF

Man, we love getting emails like the one below. While I personally am a documented aficionado of our S’mores Pie, Julie W makes a strong case for the creamy cool richness of Frozen Strawberry Margarita Pie. Which is better? See for yourself! Just print this blog post and bring it into […]

Enter Our Recipe Contest and Win $100

Share favorite recipe and your next Let’s Dish! session could be FREE. Raid your family’s cookbook and send us your best - entrĂ©e, side or dessert. You could win a $100 Let’s Dish! gift card, and may even see your dish on our menu. Entries must be sent to recipes@letsdish.net by July […]

Walk-in Wednesdays now available!

We have gotten thousands of customer suggestions and requests over the last few years, and none as often as the request to be able to walk in and dish at Let’s Dish! store without an appointment. We’ve heard your feedback and are excited to launch Walk-In Wednesdays!
Now on Wednesdays, you can walk into any of […]

1 Dish? 6 Dishes? 11 Dishes? We’re Flexible.

It started out as “8 or 12″ dishes per Let’s Dish! session. Then, with much fanfare, we added 4-meal sessions. And this spring, SingleDish Trials.
And now, welcome to the final frontier of session flexibility. Dish however many meals you want: 1, 3, 7, 14 or anything in between. OK, our technology is limited, so you […]

You Help Make Our Menus So Wonderful

How do we create such fantastic menus? Well, our talented food team is always cooking up the best recipes months in advance. But did you know our customers play a big role as well?
Through the “My Orders” link once you log in to letsdish.com, customers can rate the meals they’ve dished [1 […]

Fall In Love With S’Mores Pie

Back in May, our Let’s Dish! food team of Holly and Holly came to me with an all-new S’mores Pie they had invented. One warm, gooey, chocolatey bite later, I was in love. It was pretty much the best thing I had ever tasted. Now you can get it FREE when you sign up […]

Let’s Dish!: The savings might surprise you.

Gas station. Coffeeshop. Dry cleaners. Just about any place you open your purse or wallet these days, you’re spending more than ever. This is especially true when it comes to shopping for food. According to a report from the Department of Labor (cited in the Boston Globe), a year-on-year increase in food prices like this […]

Kid-Friendly Let’s Dish! Meals featured on WUSA9

Want to keep your kids happy, healthy and full for less than $4 a serving? WUSA9 in Washington DC shares how you can do just that with a little help from Let’s Dish!. Today, reporter Lesli Foster features our store as the one-stop shop for kid-friendly meals for you and your […]

Don’t miss the Bon AppĂ©tit Top 100

On May 13th, Bon AppĂ©tit launches their new website, and the most interesting feature for those of you who are “foodies” is that it focuses on the Top 100 recipes from over 50 years of the magazine. Yes, these “100 Dishes you need to know right now” are their favorite, Test Kitchen-approved (and reader-rated) […]

Let’s Dish! celebrates Mother’s Day on WBAL-TV

In case you missed it, our own Lisa Hardiman and Jeremy Kugel hosted Sunday Brunch on WBAL-TV on Sunday, May 4th. Lisa and Jeremy shared a few ways Let’s Dish! can help you make your Mother’s Day celebration special this year and dished up our popular French Toast Peach Cobbler. It’s the perfect for brunch […]

Make Your Mom’s Day Even Brighter

Top 5 Ways Let’s Dish! can make your Mom’s Day even brighter:

5. Cook Mom dinner! With help from Let’s Dish!, anyone can be an expert chef (yes, even your husband)!
4. Get Mom a Gift Card from Let’s Dish!. Guaranteed she’ll eat it up (so to speak).
3. Make your Mother’s Day brunch special (and especially easy). […]

More time and money is just a “dish” away.

No matter where you’re getting dinner, it’s hard to find a better value than Let’s Dish!. You can efficiently make dinner at a terrific cost per serving. Who wouldn’t like MORE time and money?!
With the busy lives we lead these days, time is precious. And, it’s about more than a few extra minutes during […]

Guess the kitchen gadget?!

“Gadget Gal” Holly Cole has a little surprise for you today! She recently traveled to Sweden for the 2008 World Skating Championships where she happened to have a little extra time to shop for - you guessed it… kitchen gadgets?!
Can you guess what this mystery Swedish kitchen gadget is?
Here’s the answer:
As my husband and […]

Fresh Ideas from Let’s Dish!

April is here - the unofficial start of spring for many of us - and we’re bursting with fresh new ideas from Let’s Dish!.
Over the next month or so, we’ll share with you a bunch of new ideas on how to make your life, and your dishing experience, even better. Stay tuned for […]

“There’s a new chef in your kitchen” (The Examiner)

Valerie Harding, our new chef and Director of Food Services, was profiled today in The Examiner (Baltimore, MD; March 31, 2008). We thought all you “dishers” out there would enjoy reading the article, since Valerie and our food team are the part-time chefs in your kitchen as well!

MORE “THE DISH ON…” POSTS:
> Meet Valerie Harding, […]

Thank you for coming on our culinary adventure!

Thanks, everyone, for joining us on March’s culinary adventures.
Whether you’ve got a worldly palate or prefer home-style cuisine, we hope you learned something about your own tastes, and the dishes that inspire them. Every meal can tell a story, and we’ve enjoyed taking this adventure with you.
Next month, the blog will change focus, […]

The Dish On… Wine Selection

Culinary adventures aren’t limited to just the food on the table. We asked our wine partner, Neil Smith of WineSmith (Ashburn, VA), to help guide us in wine selection.

And, don’t forget that with the help of wine experts like Neil, Let’s Dish! makes it even easier to select a wine for dinner by pairing a […]

A trip to the moon(pie) - yum!

If you’re still wondering about moonpies after my last post on starting a Family Book Club, here’s the answer!  I found this recipe on allrecipes.com, a favorite site to try new things.
 Southern Moon Pies
SUBMITTED BY: Jody Crout

“Now you can make this Southern favorite at home. Full of chocolate and marshmallow goodness! Vanilla extract may be substituted with coconut or mint […]

Family Book Club: A Literary & Culinary Adventure

Ever thought of creating a Family Book Club? It’s a great activity for the whole family - and you would be amazed at how you can bring food into it!
As I embarked on this culinary adventure with Let’s Dish!, I had no idea where it would take me. I have spent many hours thinking […]

More noodle adventures!

I hope you’re enjoying the culinary adventures brought to you this month by Let’s Dish!.  Today we continue our noodle adventures!

Last week, we began our focus on noodles around the world with a post on spaetzle, German noodles.  Today, we move on to Asian Noodles, which are by far the most popular. They have many kinds… so, why […]

Go Global with Epicurious…

Culinary Adventures aren’t limited to Let’s Dish!
As I sit at my computer contemplating all the many places I would like to visit in the next few years (naturally inspired by our culinary adventure menu this month at Let’s Dish!), I happened onto Epicurious’s website. I was delighted to see that they too have […]

Grab an OXO gadget!

Here’s a quick gadget recommendation from the Let’s Dish! “Gadget Gal,” Holly Cole:
Are you or someone you know having trouble with arthritis? Can’t grip your kitchen tools as you once could? Don’t worry - you’re not alone.
I get a new OXO gadget for myself every so often just to make life a little easier. […]

Host a Progressive Dinner Party - Let’s Dish! can help!

Who doesn’t love to throw a dinner party? But…no one wants all that work! Why not organize a Progressive Dinner Party? Here’s how it works: At a progressive dinner party, guests share the duties of cooking, entertaining and cleaning up. Dinner often begins with appetizers and drinks in one location, moves on […]

Plan a weekly “geography” dinner!

Are your seatbelts still fastened? Are you still with us? Have you learned anything new so far on your culinary adventures with Let’s Dish!? Speaking of learning something new, here is a great way to get the whole family on board and involved on this little adventure we are taking…
Pick one night […]

The Dish On…Asian Cuisine

As you may have noticed, at Let’s Dish! we try to maintain a variety of different cuisines that hold a broad family appeal. Today, I’d like to introduce you to one of our favorites: Asian cuisine.
Asian Food at a Glance (and a side dish recipe for you!):

Asian food, particularly Chinese, Japanese, Thai and […]

Tools for a trip to your own backyard

We’re back with our “gadget gal,” Holly Cole, with another recommendation! This time, her finds are for an adventure in your own backyard. Whether your quest is to be an all-year, outdoor cook or, like the best of us, a fair weather friend of the grill, here are some gadgets we love:
The season […]

Try a noodle adventure!

What is your child’s favorite meal? Most moms would say when all else fails….. Macaroni and Cheese. But, why not try other types of noodles from around the world?

German Noodles:
Spaetzle
The Germans call their noodles spaetzle.

Spaetzle is a very popular side dish in Germany which is surprisingly almost never offered in the United […]

Around the world in 17 dishes!

When talking through menu “themes” for Let’s Dish! in 2008, the idea of a culinary adventure was exciting to us.
I am curious…it’s my nature…What do you think? Is it too different for your family or do you see this as fun and exciting? A change from the everyday?We will return to our regular menu selections […]

Rum Punch and Real Simple: Dining at Sea

We absolutely love Real Simple Magazine. It’s a good day when it arrives in the mail at my house each month. I suspect if I asked a random sampling of our Let’s Dish! customers and Food for Thought readers out there, thousands of you would say the same.
Just last week Real Simple […]

How does your (indoor) garden grow?

This month’s adventure isn’t just about international flavor! As a part of our Culinary Inspiration category, we’ll be discussing all sorts of topics for foodies (or those aspiring to be one) as cooking can be its own daily adventure. The Let’s Dish! food team in the mid-Atlantic knows their way around the kitchen and […]

How to introduce new foods to children

So, you want to take your family on a risk-free culinary adventure - how do you begin?
Well, it’s no different than taking an actual trip … you don’t just find yourself at the destination. Before you go, you determine where you want to go, what sights you want to see, how you’re going to […]