Healthy cooking tips: Five easy ways to add flavor without fat.
The headline for this article is the kind that you see all the time at the beginning of the year, when everyone's thinking resolutions and turning new leaves. I get it. Who doesn't want to lighten up after a month (or two) of holiday eating? But here's the thing: I...
Adios, cheese quesadillas! These 8 tasty, family-friendly quesadilla recipes go way beyond the basics.
In addition to staples like bread and peanut butter, I try to always keep a bag of tortillas and grated cheese in my kitchen. My daughter is basically a quesadillatarian (if that's a thing), so I've perfected the art of the cheese quesadilla over the last few years....
Web Coolness: Gender stereotype baby food, a new favorite foodie Instagram feed, and a bowl that lets you get all the cereal milk.
Here are our favorite food links from around the web this week. We hope that you enjoy them too! We're loving this gender stereotype baby food ad campaign from The Anxiety and Depression Association of America. (h/t Parents) Um, yes. This whiskey-infused magic...
How to roast chicken perfectly: Tips and recipes for mastering the ultimate comfort food.
Perfect roast chicken is one of those dishes that every cook longs to master. Achieving that sought-after crisp, golden skin and perfectly tender meat is seemingly simple, but learning how to roast chicken is something that takes a little practice. However, with the...
Spring cocktails and mocktails with flower power.
Gorgeous flowers blooming all around is, hands down, the best part of spring—and they aren't all just eye candy. Spring also brings edible flowers, which can lend both visual beauty and subtle flavor to your food and drink. Though you can eat the entire flower of any...
6 kid-friendly fish recipes, plus some easy tips for selecting safe fish.
Chicken, check! Beef (well, at least burgers), check! Pork, check! Fish, not so fast! Other than meatless meals, we know that getting kids to eat fish can be a tough job. It's not made any easier by the confusing info about what seafood is safe—and what seafood is...
Get adventurous with these Poke Bowl recipes: Making the latest food trend family-friendly.
By now you know that we're all about keeping it real. Like making dinners that honestly take 30 minutes-real, using pretzels to get the kids interested in dinner-real, and microwaving veggies-real. Parenting can be noisy, messy, crazy, adventurous, imperfect and fun,...
How to roast sweet potatoes in a slow cooker, plus 4 outrageous recipes for devouring.
Sweet potatoes are a favorite in my house: I love them because they are incredibly good for you and my kids love them because, well, sweet potatoes. The boys have been gobbling them up ever since they were 6-months-old, when I severed them mashed with coconut oil and...
9 healthy birthday cake alternatives and first birthday party treats that go easy on the sugar
Even though your baby won't remember the day, their first birthday party is a special milestone and a chance for you to celebrate how much your life has changed in just a year. (Whoa, right?) They also won't remember what you served, so it's a chance—probably the last...
Web Coolness: Photos featuring good taste, what Gwyneth’s “smoothie” really tastes like, bad news for California wines & more.
Here are our favorite food links from around the web this week. We hope that you enjoy them, too! This 50's pop-art style photography series is all about good taste—both kinds. Must watch: Washington Post editors taste-test Gwyneth Paltrow's $200 "smoothie"...
13 amazing peanut butter and jelly recipes for National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day — or any day!
Believe me, as much as we love food, the non-stop food holidays get old for us, too. But, as parents, we feel it only natural and right to honor National Peanut Butter and Jelly day with these amazing peanut butter and jelly recipes that go way beyond a sandwich. The...
Weekend Toast: Tropical cocktail recipes done right (with umbrellas, without syrupy sweet pre-made mixers).
It's spring break time! Whether you're just finishing up vacation like me and my family, or break is about to start, it's tropical cocktail o'clock. Maybe you want to keep the good vibes going at home or you want to get yourself ready for all those beachside Pina...
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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...