Kate Etue, Author at Cool Mom Eats

5 nights of comfort foods: A meal plan to get you through heck of a week

by Kate Etue | Jan 13, 2021 | Meal Plan, Recipes

2021 is going to have to shape up soon, because we didn’t think we’d be hitting the comfort foods so hard right now. How are we coping with the early sunsets, cold weather, anxiety-provoking news, and kids that still need love and care and feeding? Um,...

10 of our readers’ favorite pie recipes for the holiday season. Move over bread, we’re baking pie!

by Kate Etue | Dec 22, 2020 | Holiday Cooking, Recipes

Several weeks ago, a member in our Recipe Rescue group sent out a plea for your favorite non-pumpkin, non-pecan, non-cherry/apple/strawberry rhubarb pie recipes (to please a picky husband, should that matter), and our readers all seriously delivered. What a fabulous...

Save time and money with 5 slow cooker dinners under $10 each! | Meal Plan 233

by Kate Etue | Dec 20, 2020 | Meal Plan, Recipes

Budget slow cooker dinner recipes are my whole mood right now. I don’t know about you, but I’m short on time with the holidays here, not to mention all those holiday gifts taking a healthy bite out of my budget. So for this week’s meal plan, I...

9 helpful tips for making a homemade gingerbread house. Learn from my successes….and uh, failures.

by Kate Etue | Dec 16, 2020 | Recipes, Tips + Tricks

I never thought I’d be the person offering tips for making homemade gingerbread houses, but you know, 2020. Chalk it up to the baking bug so many of us caught in 2020, but my kids and I attempted our own homemade gingerbread houses for the first time this year....

8 practical gifts for home cooks, all from small businesses we love | Holiday Gift Guide

by Kate Etue | Dec 10, 2020 | Gift Guides, Shopping Finds

So many of us are shopping for more practical gifts for the home cooks and foodies on our holiday lists this year. After all, we’ve all been forced to cook a lot more in 2020 — whether you’ve got a huge family needing 21 meals a week (plus snacks!)...