Next week’s meal plan: 5 easy recipes for the week ahead, from a Ritz cracker-topped casserole to an easy foil packet dinner.
It’s time to start thinking about your meal plan for next week. From a Ritz cracker-topped casserole (yum!) to an easy foil packed chicken dinner, we’ve got five weeknight meals that will get you through the week. So grab a pen, make your shopping list, and stock up...
Holiday food gifts that give back. Because more of that, please.
In all of the hustle and bustle of the holidays, it's easy to lose sight of what really matters -- giving to others -- even when we are giving gifts. Because for so many of us who already have all that we need, gifts are icing on the cake. Don't get us wrong: icing is...
9 easy, delicious homemade food gifts for people who love to eat (i.e., everyone) | Cool Mom Eats holiday gift guide 2016
My mom worked at a school when I was growing up, and to this day, some of the gifts she received -- like Mrs. Anderson's pumpkin bread and Mrs. Hutcheson's spiced tea mix -- are among my favorite holiday traditions. Now, as a busy mom on a budget, one of my favorite...
An Eggnog Smoothie so you can get your fix every day without drinking eggnog every day (because oof).
I'm a big fan of eggnog, but with eggs, cream, whole milk and sugar, it's no joke. Especially if you make yours boozy the way that I like to make mine. So, yea, it's a once a year treat in my house, which is too bad given how much the kids and I love the flavors....
12 prep ahead holiday cooking tricks to ease last minute stress (and cleanup!) in the kitchen.
This year, I chopped and prepped many of my holiday dinner ingredients ahead of Thanksgiving. I still had plenty to do in the kitchen the day of, but it was more relaxed -- my mom and I peeling apples (and sipping champagne) instead of chopping onion after onion. Even...
Allergy-friendly baking ingredients so that everyone can go nuts on the holiday treats. (Heh!)
Cookies, cakes, gingerbread, oh my! The holidays are here and they're made even sweeter by the treats that mark, oh, pretty much every holiday occasion. If you're baking sweets to give as gifts, bring to your kid's holiday party at school, take to your annual cookie...
Web Coolness: the best restaurants of 2016, a hilarious (and edible) lump of coal, and a new peanut allergy patch.
Here are our favorite food links from around the web this week. We hope that you enjoy them too! We want to eat everything on the @mister_krisp Instagram feed. (h/t Extra Crispy) One reason I'm looking forward to my next birthday: Birthday Cake Lasagna. The...
11 of our favorite classic Christmas cookie recipes. Because we can’t choose just one.
Let's be totally honest here: The very best part of Christmas is the cookies, right? Getting in the kitchen and baking with my kids is one of my favorite traditions of the season. Of course, we can't choose just one, so we end up making six or seven different...
Next week’s meal plan: 5 easy recipes for the week ahead, from a delicious twist on baked chicken to my favorite one-pan shrimp.
It’s time to start thinking about your meal plan for next week. From an easy flavor bomb chicken dish to the easiest one-pan shrimp dinner (one of my personal favorites!), we’ve got five weeknight dinners that will get you through the week. So grab a pen, make your...
The one genius shortcut that makes these 7 amazing holiday dinner recipes even easier.
Our dedicated readers know that I'm all about using healthy shortcuts to help me get my cooking done faster -- especially around the holidays when time is at a premium and I'd rather spend more time with my family than in the kitchen. I've recently shared a lot...
Fantastic food-themed stocking stuffers for gourmets, big and small | Cool Mom Eats holiday gift guide 2016
Next up in our Cool Mom Eats 2016 Holiday Gift Guide, we had the best time finding the most fun food-themed stocking stuffers for you. Because sometimes it's those little sips and bites and baubles and tees that really are the crowning touch on all the gift giving....
Fabulous gift ideas to get kids in the kitchen | Cool Mom Eats holiday gift guide 2016
Some of us here at Cool Mom HQ have adventurous eaters, while others have wildly picky eaters -- and then there's pretty much everything in between. But you know what all of our kids have in common? They love being in the kitchen. Especially with us. Whether you have...
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Non-toxic spring cleaning with salt: 8 unexpected uses in the kitchen beyond cooking.
Springtime means spring cleaning in my house and that means cleaning with salt. Yes, really. While there are some great natural cleaning products out there that are worth every dime (we love Better Life around here, and even housecleaning services use it), the...
Create a more sustainable kitchen with these 10 easy, eco-friendly ideas
With Earth Day coming up in April and spring cleaning season here, it's a great time to reflect on ways we can create a more eco-friendly home and a more sustainable kitchen. If your family spends as much time as my family of five does thinking about, preparing,...
Kitchen spring cleaning checklist: 7 kitchen tasks everyone forgets
With spring having sprung (and the words of Marie Kondo echoing in my head all these years later), I've been doing my best to kick-start kitchen spring cleaning before summer arrives. But one thing I've learned after all these years is it's so easy to miss certain...
Healthy comfort food recipes to get us through the winter without the extra pounds
Healthy comfort food recipes can be hard to come by. I mean I totally get the desire to start new diets in the new year, what with fresh beginnings and all. But when it's winter, I just want to cuddle up on the couch with a blanket and a big bowl of cheesy soup or...
How to tell if food is fresh: Tips for 7 of your top pantry staples
It's good to have some tricks for how tell if food is fresh and still good to eat -- as you know if you've ever opened a jar of half-used tomato sauce that seemed fairly new...only to find furry white spots of mold floating on top. While some spoiled food is quite...
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This time of year always gets busier than we anticipate, and I always want to have easy weeknight dinner ideas on hand for those kinds of weeks. As the end-of-school commitments start ramping up, with hectic evenings driving everyone around -- let alone a quick...
7 spectacular macaroon variations for a big finish at Passover
We've explained many times that macarons are not to be confused with macaroons, the latter being a flour-free, gluten-free, generally chewy coconut cookie that's a favorite treat to finish off your Seder. This being Passover season, it's a perfect opportunity to...
5 easy spring recipes for the week ahead, from 35-minute lemony chicken cutlets to a fresh take on quesadillas | Weekly Meal Plan
It’s time to start thinking about your meal plan for next week. From 35-minute lemony chicken cutlets to sheet pan quesadillas, we’ve got five dinners that make good use of spring produce and lighter nights (yay!) to help get you through the busy week ahead. So...
A week’s worth of family-friendly spring recipes | Weekly Meal Plan
It's finally spring around here with daffodils popping up and flowering trees, which means it's time to start planning some spring dinners and easing out of all those heavy winter dishes. These are the spring dinner recipes that feel a bit lighter and brighter to...
These 11 light spring recipes help you shake off winter at the dinner table
When warm, spring weather hits I immediately lose all appetite for the heavy dinners like chili or pot roast that I craved during winter, and instead, I'm finding myself adding light spring recipes to our dinner roatation, like light pasta salads, cold, fresh...