Cute cookie recipes for, well, the cutest cookies ever that are not impossible to make.
There's something about back-to-school that makes me want to bake cookies. Maybe it's that start of the school year energy that makes me feel like I can take on the world and balance work, school lunches, after school activities, and homemade cookies. Check back with...
Amazingly impressive fruit recipes for a party. Move over, cake.
If you're anything like me, when throwing parties you want to put out an awesome dessert spread without baking a 7 layer ombre rainbow cake or piling on several sugar-loaded desserts. That's why I found these 6 super impressive fruit recipes for a party that will...
With the new Katie Workman cookbook, Dinner is Solved!
Katie Workman's first book, The Mom 100 Cookbook, came out just as I'd decided to work from home in order to run a more functional and rewarding household. I was going to use my Dutch oven, bake from scratch, and put homemade dinners on the table as often as possible....
Web coolness: Pride Doritos, a plan to reform picky eaters, making a real life egg emoji, and more.
Here are some of our favorite food links from around the web this week. We hope that you like them, too. 13 outrageously cool food art Instagram feeds. 10 rules and a plan to reform any picky eater. Well, anything's worth a try, right? Go ahead, give your...
9 awesome bake sale recipes, so you can win parent of the year (even if you leave baking to the night before).
I'm usually a decisive person, but when it comes to choosing a recipe for a bake sale at my kids' school, I'm as indecisive as they come. Everything always looks so ridiculously yummy! This year, I'm getting ready ahead of time with these bake sale recipes that I've...
Weekend Toast: Apple cider drinks to usher in fall.
I admit it, I've been fighting off fall, being grumpy about pears and insisting that apple drinks be made with sparkling cider only because, you know, summery vibes. Slowly but surely I'm coming around and accepting the inevitable. These apple cider cocktail and...
A spice of the month subscription service that sends handpicked blends and recipes to make using them easy.
If you ask me, ground spices are a best friend to busy home cooks (I'm looking at you) since they are the easiest, fastest way to build flavor into simple cooking without added fat. Because of that, I'm always surprised by how few home cooks keep a well stocked spice...
13 outrageously cool Instagram food art accounts with photos you can replicate never.
I have this growing obsession with Instagram food art accounts. It kind of blows my mind to see plates as canvases, only instead of watercolors or pastels, the media of choice include fruits and veggies, candies and cookies. Not that I'd ever present these as here,...
How to clean lunch boxes with all natural cleaners so that you can feel good letting your kids eat out of it.
My kids' lunch boxes come home from school looking pretty nasty some days -- like when the peanut butter seems to have exploded inside, or when we open it on Monday morning to find a banana was left inside over the weekend. Gross. So we've been looking for some...
The new (no) peanut butter and jelly sandwich: 6 easy, healthy, nut free spreads for school lunch ideas.
My boys started a new school this year that is hardcore about keeping out nuts and even sesame seeds. No peanuts. No store-bought hummus! What’s a busy mom to do?! Lots of lunch ideas happen to be nut-free—you can grab a few from our list of gluten-free lunch...
Our favorite yogurts to buy for easy school day breakfasts and snacks (lunches and desserts, too).
Thanks to a long shelf life, I can honestly say there’s always yogurt in my fridge, even when I’m just back from vacation. I use it all the time, especially for breakfast, snack time, lunch and dessert—and am always happy to taste test a new, healthy yogurt product....
Web coolness: Unicorn Tears gin, healthier Oreos, a Harry Potter bar, and more.
Here are some of our favorite food links from around the web this week. We hope that you like them, too. Unicorn Tears Gin Liqueur: The drink our 11-year-old selves dreamed we'd drink on our 21st birthday. How you can help the No Kid Hungry movement this...
Our favorite tips, tricks, and kitchen hacks
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...