by Jane Sweeney | Sep 28, 2016 | Tips + Tricks
Hands down, the reason restaurant food is better than home cooking is that chefs know how to properly use salt. It is the essential ingredient in every meal–in every bite, really–that knocks your socks off. Chefs aren’t afraid to let it rain down on top of steak; they...
by Kristen Chase | Sep 27, 2016 | Tips + Tricks, Back to School
With four kids—ages 12, 9, 7, and 5—in school all day, four school lunches need to be made every night. (Or once I get past the first few weeks of being prepared, every morning.) Given that my kids can make their own snacks and even some meals at home, I decided to...
by Caroline Siegrist | Sep 20, 2016 | Tips + Tricks
During my first trimester, only a few select activities appealed: watching the Great British Bake Off, napping, and chugging liter bottles of ginger ale to ease my morning sickness. And then napping some more. I lost interest in all of my favorite foods and made a...
by Caroline Siegrist | Sep 14, 2016 | Tips + Tricks
Drop the scissors (or, uh, gently set them down) and trash those circulars. It turns out that your phone has everything you need to save a bundle on your regular groceries. That said, some grocery store coupon apps far outperform their competitors, so I’ve given...
by Jane Sweeney | Sep 13, 2016 | Recipes, Party!, Tips + Tricks
Have you ever wondered how to make rainbow pasta? Believe it or not, even with two small kids at home, I hadn’t. But when I was asked (dared?) to make rainbow pasta for my color-obsessed preschooler, I had to try. This pasta is not your typical weeknight...
by Stacie Billis | Sep 10, 2016 | Tips + Tricks
If you’re like us, you may not have time for canning, but you always have a jar of your or your kids’ favorite pickles in the fridge. Well, there’s more deliciousness in that jar than the pickles themselves. That brine that you’ve been dumping...