Web Coolness: David Bowie cocktails, Girl Scout cookie pairings, a new docuseries with Michael Pollan, and more.
Here are some of our favorite food links from around the web this week. We hope that you like them, too. The making of a David Bowie cookie or, technically, a Ziggy Stardust cookie. Totally mesmerizing. (RIP, Starman ?) If you prefer drinking your sorrow away:...
Healthy game day food (because you know you want to double dip).
For a lot of people, the best part about the Super Bowl is eating. I actually love football and even I still get more excited about what’s on the menu than what’s on the field. Unfortunately, though, it's usually a feast full of grease and belly bloating carbs, and I...
Weekend Toast: The perfect winter citrus cocktail and mocktail recipes.
The beautiful thing about citrus is that it tastes like summer, but hits peak season in winter, just when we need a pick-me-up. I can think of no better pick-me-up than to mix freshly squeezed citrus juices into a sweet mocktail or—even better—to spike them with booze...
Busy parent kitchen hack: Easy, semi-homemade sandwich cookie recipe. (Or, should we say “recipe.”)
My younger son's birthday is in mid-October and the older one's is on January 5th. That means that I go from birthday to Halloween to Thanksgiving to Hanukkah and Christmas to New Year's Eve. And when it's finally over for everyone else, I've still got a birthday to...
Helpful tips for baking with kids, and 6 recipes to get you started.
Research (and good common sense) shows that it's really, really good for kids to help with household chores, and even make mistakes while doing them. That includes letting kids help in the kitchen, too. I know: the mess! But baking with kids is a great first...
Healthy soup recipes that will have the kids asking for seconds.
I'm a big advocate of maintaining a good stash of healthy soup recipes when you've got kids to cook for. Whenever I’m stirring a big pot of soup, my girls start to weave around my legs like purring kittens. They know the inviting smell of sautéed onions and vegetables...
Game day recipe: Creamy Chicken Enchilada Potato Skins for the win. (Whether or not your team actually wins.)
There are a few ingredients I can't live without, and sour cream is one of them. Seriously, I can spoon the stuff straight from the tub into my mouth. And I have. (Sexy, right?) In addition to being supremely tasty, sour cream is also great to work with in the...
Web Coolness: New federal dietary guidelines, the value of kids in the kitchen, a new Starbucks espresso drink, & more.
Here are some of our favorite food links from around the web this week. We hope that you like them, too. The value of a mess: You should let your kids totally botch household chores from an early age. New federal dietary guidelines: cut sugar, eat more...
In season: citrus. Our tips for picking, storing, and cooking with winter’s taste of summer.
Citrus is widely available throughout the year, which is why we sometimes forget that winter is peak season. If you live in a cold weather climate like I do (California and Florida, humor me for a moment), the invigorating hue of a blood orange or the juicy zing of a...
Green juice cocktail and mocktail recipes. Yup, really.
Yup, it's the first Friday after New Year's Day and we're going there with a green juice cocktail recipe and a mocktail, too. Healthy eating is on the mind, but we still love ending the week with a cocktail or mocktail (or two), so we're bringing the two together....
How to organize spices: 6 easy ideas that let you find what you need, when you need it.
I love starting the year off with a kitchen clean out. I'm pretty good about throwing away foods that expire along the way—except for spices. I tend to imagine that they last forever (they don't) and often end up with multiples of certain spices or dried herbs that I...
5 easy, healthy food substitutions to keep it light and tasty, too.
Whether or not your new year’s resolution has to do with eating better, January is here and pretty much everyone is thinking about healthy eating. After a month (or two!) of rich, decadent food, our bodies have the right to demand more wholesome eats and, honestly,...
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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...