7 easy icebox pie recipes that you can make ahead for summer entertaining. Or whenever.
May is packed with teacher appreciation, end-of-year school parties, Memorial Day cookouts, picnics with friends, birthdays and more, so I've been on the lookout for some easy and relatively quick dessert recipes that will still impress. If I can make them ahead so...
Web Coolness: the new Instagram logo (in jellybeans), Prince cookies, a hilarious commercial about working moms & more.
Here are our favorite food links from around the web this week. We hope that you enjoy them too! Artists' renditions of the new Instagram logo. How are you feeling about it? Oh, just the coolest refrigerator ever. How to make cold brew coffee at home. It's not...
Weekend Toast: Skinny cocktail recipes for warm weather sipping (and more ice cream).
I hate to admit it, but it's true that I start thinking more about what I eat and drink in the warmer months. After all, here in New York City, it's time to drop the big coat and show what's underneath. Since I'm not one for dieting, I prefer to make small, healthy...
How to make homemade vinaigrette in 5 easy steps and just 5 minutes.
In my new cookbook, Make It Easy, I share 8 things that I think every cook should know how to make well—and you might be surprised by the list. It isn't full of culinary school principles, but rather foods that family cooks tend to make over and over—and when they...
Roccbox lets you make delicious brick-oven pizzas (and so much more) without the brick oven.
At the top of my current list of completely unnecessary splurges that would be really, really fun to have is the Roccbox portable stone pizza oven. This portable, propane-powered brick oven can be set up in a semi-permanent spot on your back patio or packed up to take...
Grilling for a crowd: Tips and over 10 easy ideas for your next outdoor party (including dessert!).
Outdoor entertaining when I can cook on the grill is my favorite part of warm weather evenings: Al fresco dining feels more festive and drinking, well, it's just more fun outside. Grilling is typically easier than cooking in the kitchen, but grilling for a crowd can...
A mom’s take on this year’s James Beard Award winning cookbook, Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking.
Over at Cool Mom Picks, we make sure to cover award-winning children's books each year, so we decided that it was only right for us here at Cool Mom Eats to cover the big award in cookbooks each year, too: the James Beard award. But how often are the James Beard award...
6 creative, delicious homemade spring salad dressing recipes that can turn even just a plain bowl of greens into a gorgeous meal.
I still remember visiting a friend's house as a teenager and learning that people make salad dressing from scratch. Wonder of wonders! As a child raised on a solid stream of store-bought, low-fat ranch, I had no idea this was even possible, much less easy and...
Web Coolness: Fried-chicken flavored nail polish, a last-minute Mother’s Day breakfast idea, and one more reason to drink coffee.
Here are our favorite food links from around the web this week. We hope that you like them, too! Finger-lickin' good fingernail polish—for real. In Hong Kong, at least. What you need to know about the listeria recall in frozen foods. We'd love to try this...
Weekend Toast: 8 Mint Julep recipes, from classic to creative, for the Kentucky Derby and beyond.
I have big dreams of buying an even bigger hat and making my way to the Kentucky Derby one day. But until then, I will sip on a Mint Julep and watch the races from the comfort of my couch (no hat required). When I first set out to find Mint Julep recipes, I was...
How 5 small diet changes led to huge changes in my appetite and energy.
We didn't have a particularly cold winter here in Brooklyn, but I still managed to eat my way through it as though in hibernation. I feel it—and it shows, too—which is why I recently decided it was time to change my diet. When I've made this decision in the past, I've...
Move over avocado toast: 5 healthy ways to top your toast quickly, easily, and most deliciously.
Confession time: I like kombucha, spend too much money on coconut water and, yes, I eat avocado toast. You can roll your eyes and I'll understand, but of all my eye-roll-worthy foodie vices, avocado toast is my least embarrassing because it's delicious, quick, and...
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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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Change your margaritas with 10 delicious margarita variations
While we all love a classic margarita, these delicious margarita variations let you celebrate Cinco De Mayo, National Margarita Day, or just a well-earned weekend night in style. Pair them with one of the recipes from our favorite authentic Mexican food blogs and...
The best authentic Mexican food blogs: 6 favorites for Cinco de Mayo and every other day of the year.
I've had the best time seeking out the best Mexican food blogs serving up authentic Mexican cuisine in honor of Cinco de Mayo. I've always loved this holiday; in my hometown of New York City, May 5th marks a point in early spring when we're absolutely sure there's...
5 easy, delicious dinner ideas for those weeks that get unexpectedly busy | Weekly Meal Plan
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...