In the heat of summer (when everyone else is eating salad), the Chatelaine Kitchen is knee deep in Christmas cookies, holiday turkeys and all the trimmings.

It’s too hot to cook…but Merry Christmas anyway!

Christmas

<img src="http://www.chatelaine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Triple-Tested.png" style="float:left;padding-right:4px;width:120px;"><strong>Welcome to The Chatelaine Kitchen.</strong>
 
What is triple-tested? Our Food Team creates, develops and tests every recipe at least three times (sometimes more!) to make sure it’s delicious and foolproof. We also make sure it’s easy to follow and shop for. Our professional testers weigh all the ingredients for nutritional analysis, verify how long it takes to prep and cook each recipe and check if it can be made ahead. We re-taste and adjust as needed. To confirm results in different kitchens, recipes are also tested at home — by us or by you. Sign up to be a home tester: testing@chatelaine.com

Recipes

Chatelaine Kitchen

This laid-back garden style is colourful, charming, practical and a cinch to plant. Bonus: It's easy on your wallet too! Here's how to create a beautiful cottage garden.

How to create a cottage garden: Tips from Frankie Flowers

Gardening

Home Decor

This week's Chatelaine Cooking Club challenge is the gorgeous Very Berry Galette on the cover of our August issue. Find out the details at Chatelaine.com!

Your next Cooking Club challenge: Cook the Cover!

raspberries

<h3>Welcome to the Chatelaine Cooking Club!</h3>

How does it work? The first Friday of every month we send out the call for you to recreate a winning dish we’ve selected from the current issue of Chatelaine.
Then what? All you do is chop, stir, cook or bake it up, snap a photo of your culinary prowess, send it to us, and at the end of the month, check back at Chatelaine.com to see if you submitted the prize-winning photo, or have been featured in our Chatelaine Cooking Club gallery! 

Cooking Club

For our last challenge, we chose the ultimate BBQ food—burgers. Check to see if your photo made it into our Cooking Club gallery at Chatelaine.com!

Chatelaine Cooking club: Your best burger photos!

When my boyfriend and I broke up, Dale and I started hanging out more. We'd go out to eat at restaurants or for drinks, but it'd often be at upscale places that Dale likes going to. Then he would insist on paying for me because I can't afford it — and he can. The problem is that I'm fairly certain he has grown to have romantic feelings for me.

Dating and friendship social quandary: Is it okay to accept gifts from an admirer

Social quandary

Living

Take a city tour, dance a highland fling, and make sure to hit the summer sale rack! Check out these Canadian events and festivals for mid-July.

Canadian events and festivals: Five cool things to do in July

weekly events

Cuff bracelets: It's time for an arm party! Perfect for day or night, give your wrist some cuff love with this embellished accessory. 

Five cuff bracelets we love

Accessories

Style

Fashion

The stove stays off, and you stay cool with this refreshing and summery dinner menu of no-cook recipes. Find more recipes at Chatelaine.com!

No-cook recipes and menu (to beat the heat)

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shrimp

Menus

Add instant style to your backyard table setting using vintage postcards and washi tape. Here's how to make a personalized postcard place setting. 

How to make a pretty postcard place setting

table setting

Digital manners guide: Don't commit a digital faux-pas! Follow these dos and don'ts on social media, emailing, texting and more from Emily Post's great-great-grandson, Daniel Post Senning, author of <i>Emily Post's Manners in a Digital World</i>.

Digital manners guide: 12 tips from an etiquette expert

etiquette

Beauty products for summer: During hot summer months, it's a fine balance between wearing makeup that won't melt under the heat, but still feels light on the skin. Avoid the icky smudges with these top products that allow skin to breath but still bring a dose of glam

Beauty products for summer

beauty, summer makeup tips, waterproof mascara, Benefit lip and cheek stain

Beauty

Canadian actress and new mom Malin Akerman talks to us about her non-negotiable foods, her morning routine and whether she's more Lululemon or LV.

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