9 timesaving kitchen cheats to make holiday cooking (and everyday meals!) easier.
Sometimes people assume that because cooking is a part of my work, I must love everything about being in the kitchen. Unfortunately, that's not true. While I do love cooking and often find it relaxing, sometimes it can feel like a chore. But a good kitchen cheat can...
5 election day sweets for election day stress eating, because oh my goodness it’s finally election day.
It's finally here: election day. No matter who you're voting for (and you are voting, yes?), chances are you're excited for the day to be over—or is it just me? In the meantime, these last 24 hours are no joke. Since I don't want to be eating—ahem, biting—my nails, I...
5 must-try fall coffee drink recipes, because daylight savings.
With so much happening in the world (like, uh, this week), I feel silly taking issue with daylight savings, but seriously? As far as I'm concerned, this institutionalized tradition, which surely once had significance, does nothing but decimate family sleeping...
Web Coolness: Bad Hombre and Nasty Woman cocktails, a no-talking Japanese restaurant, and more.
Here are our favorite food links from around the web this week. We hope that you enjoy them too! A wildly popular no talking allowed Japanese restaurant has expanded to the US. We're guessing there are no kids' menus. (Top: Photo by Rebecca Fondren for Ichiran...
How to make instant oatmeal as nutritious as the slow cooked kind.
With temperatures dropping, my kids are asking for hot breakfasts which, of course, take more time—which, of course, I don't have on busy weekday mornings. I love that they enjoy oatmeal, but have always thought that I had to make the slow cooked kind to keep it...
Next week’s meal plan: 5 easy recipes for the week ahead, from a fancy one-pot chicken and rice to a four-ingredient chili.
It’s time to get a head start on your meal plan for next week. From a fancy one-pot chicken and rice that's easy enough for weekdays to a four-ingredient chili, we’ve got five weeknight dinners that will get you through the week. So grab a pen, make your shopping...
How to store produce to keep it fresher longer, all year around.
I hate the feeling of reaching into the refrigerator to discover a tomato that's sunken and bruised, a head of kale that's wilted beyond use, or an onion that's given up on being eaten and has decided to sprout fresh green stalks instead. But sometimes I just don't...
How to cut an onion without crying. Well, mostly. | Testing Cooking Tricks
There are some questions I feel like humans have been asking since the beginning of time. At the top of that list is how to cut an onion without crying or wanting to jab your eyes out. And please don’t tell me to put on a pair of ski goggles, because I just can’t go...
Power pregnancy foods for plenty of protein, tons of nutrients, and best of all, no heartburn.
Now that I've finished the first trimester of pregnancy, I've said good riddance to morning sickness (well, for the most part) and hello to a lot more energy and a bigger appetite. Which is great, since I can finally focus on (i.e, stomach) proper prenatal nutrition,...
7 tasty ways to use up your (okay, your kids’) leftover Halloween candy.
My kids love to come home from trick-or-treating and binge on candy the rest of the night. I usually let them, because then they get it out of their systems and don't want much more after that. However, that means we tend to have more leftover Halloween candy than I...
Web Coolness: Ugly fruit emojis, beer pairings for Halloween candy, and how politics is interrupting our dinner parties.
Here are our favorite food links from around the web this week. We hope that you like them too! Whoa! These pies are incredible (top, @ThePieous on Instagram). Um, yikes: A Red Bull & Vodka is basically the equivalent of a hit of cocaine. Your last-minute...
Mastering fall (and the coming winter too) with 6 chili recipes that cook in 30 minutes or less.
I've been willing it to be fall since, oh, mid-August. Now that I'm finally seeing the first leaves change, no one's stopping me from making chili. Lots and lots of chili. I'm partial to the kind that melts cheese and sour cream upon contact. And also the kind with a...
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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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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...
These 9 recipes are most delicious ways to use hard-boiled eggs this week
These five truly awesome hard-boiled egg recipes may be the best, easiest, and most creative ways to use hard-boiled eggs, should you have a stockpile after Easter egg decorating. And don't worry, I'm not talking egg salad sandwiches a dozen ways either -- though...