Rosh Hashanah recipes that make a killer holiday meal, or a menu for any fall dinner party.
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, begins tomorrow evening and, as with so many holidays across so many cultures, it brings with it delicious food traditions. If you’re celebrating this year, we hope you’ll whip up these Rosh Hashanah recipes—our dream holiday...
Weekend Toast: Raise a glass to (early) fall with these sparkling apple cider drinks.
It’s been a slow ramp up—at least for those of us in NYC, where it seems we’ve started school later than everyone else in the country—but everyone is officially back to school. And back to school means fall fun, from apple picking to pumpkin lattes and, of course,...
Let these 6 great grocery delivery services do the shopping for you.
This fall, I'm all about simplifying. My kids have seriously cut back their after-school activities and I'm saying no to more. Having extra time at home has been awesome, but the responsibility I'm most happy to let go of is shopping for groceries. Instead, I've been...
How you can help the No Kid Hungry movement this month.
In a country with so much abundance, it's ironic and sad to think about the astounding numbers of food-insecure people both here in the U.S. and around the world. In fact 16.2 million American kids go hungry at some point during the year because their families lack...
9 shishito pepper recipes from easy to outrageous: How to prepare the hottest (ha) new veggie these days.
This past week, I I joined Stacie and her husband at a wonderful ramen restaurant, where everyone at the table was flipping over a fantastic shishito pepper appetizer. (And fortunately, our children didn't look at the word on the menu long enough to start uh...well,...
Web coolness: Emoji treats, the Mindy Kaling burger, and an ice cream sandwich recipe that’s calling our name
Here are some of our favorite food links from around the web this week. Hope you like them too. S'mores Ice Cream Sandwiches from What's Gaby Cooking let you squeeze a little more summer out of summer. (You know how we like S'mores!) We loooove these ideas...
DIY Star Wars macarons. May the force be with you to resist them.
We're jumping head first into the pool of #ForceFriday because we admit it. We're huge Star Wars fans around here (yep, we have an entire Pinterest board dedicated to it) and we can't wait for Star Wars VII: Force Awakens as much as the next person. That's why we...
Awesome vegan baking mixes that pass the non-vegan taste test
Now that we're in the back-to-school groove, I've noticed one huge change in my kids: they are absolutely famished at the end of the day. They ask me to swing through the drive-thru and get them milkshakes on the way home, every day. Umm, no. Well, okay, once in a...
FED UP Movie: How to help them get more kids eating better
When I first watched the FED UP documentary, produced by Laurie David and Katie Couric, I admit that some of the info I knew, lots I didn't, and lots more made me squirm. But then, that's what a good documentary should do. I have such a heightened awareness of the...
Personalized plates for kids that make playing with food perfectly acceptable
I was so smitten with the clever Little Me personalized plates for kids when we featured them a few months ago. Talk about fabulous gift idea for kids! But now, she's added these new Motors sets that I'm loving too. The new Trains and Drivers sets are a very cool...
Big batch cocktail recipes (and mocktails, too) for easy weekend entertaining.
With Labor Day—and the official end of summer—upon us, I will be spending the weekend eating and drinking outside with friends and family. Instead of mixing up precious drinks, I plan on making big pitchers of cocktails and mocktails to keep everyone happy and...
ChopChop Cooking Club: Free, online cooking lessons for aspiring little chefs.
Thanks to shows like Master Chef Junior, my kids now know the difference between sauté and flambé -- and they want to do both in our kitchen at home. The problem is, they either get bored trying to choose a recipe from my text-heavy cookbooks, or they manage to choose...
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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...