by Jane Sweeney | Nov 8, 2019 | Holiday Cooking, Tips + Tricks
Cooking a Thanksgiving turkey is always a little stressful – whether this is your 23rd Thanksgiving turkey in a row or your very first. What I’ve learned over the years is that guests (and their dietary restrictions!) change, budgets go up or down, labeling laws...
by Jane Sweeney | Oct 26, 2019 | Recipes
Full disclosure: I am not on the Keto diet. This may explain my confusion when I started seeing “chaffle” recipes pop up everywhere from low-carb Instagram feeds to some of my favorite big-name cooking websites. At first, I wondered if chaffle was a typo....
by Jane Sweeney | Oct 17, 2019 | Halloween, Party!, Recipes
Spooky spiders, creepy bats, and even a little blood splatter: It’s amazing what Oreo Halloween treats you can make with a bag right from the store and just a few extra items. Yay for semi-homemade! A little scary but mostly sweet, I found an abundance of easy Oreo...
by Jane Sweeney | Sep 30, 2019 | Recipes
Every once in a while a recipe takes flight – on the internet, that is. The recent posting of Grace Parisi’s Speedy Skillet Ravioli Lasagna at Food52, and from the new cookbook, Lasagna: A Baked Pasta Cookbookby Anna Hezel (available from our Amazon affiliate) is...
by Jane Sweeney | Aug 13, 2019 | Recipes, Tips + Tricks
Every year I grow as many tomato plants as my garden will hold. If I’m lucky and #thosedarnsquirrels don’t eat them all, I have a bounty of juicy red and yellow fruit that lasts through September. Inevitably some tomatoes will ripen too quickly or blister in the sun....