by Jane Sweeney | Jan 31, 2019 | Recipes, Party!
Valentine’s Day is getting closer, and I’ve been searching for some fun, easy ideas for decorating heart-shaped cookies with my kids. Emphasis on easy. Because as much as my kids and I love a wow-inducing, Instagram-worthy Valentine’s Day cookie, we live...
by Liz Gumbinner | Dec 10, 2018 | Recipes, Christmas, Holiday Cooking
I know everyone makes fun of recipes that start with long, drawn-out intros about life and love and cooking and family and the smell of cocoa powder and blah blah blah. But in the case of my dad’s perfect peanut brittle recipe, which he’s been kind enough...
by Jane Sweeney | Oct 24, 2018 | Recipes, Tips + Tricks
I can’t write an article about the best way to cook brussels sprouts without thinking how far we’ve come since I was a kid. Back then, my best friend’s mother used to say when you cooked brussels sprouts, it smelled like the Jolly Green Giant farted in the...
by Cool Mom Team | Sep 24, 2018 | Back to School
Next up in our Back to School Lunch Guide we’re talking about lunch help for your picky eaters. We know how hard it is to stay inspired when it comes to packing school lunches (what with 200 or so of them to do in a year) let alone when you add in that layer of...
by Anne Wolfe Postic | Apr 24, 2018 | Tips + Tricks
Bread past its prime will ruin your day — or at the very least, your sandwich. Did you know there’s a trick for saving stale bread — and that this cool food hack really works? Turns out that running a stale loaf under water (no, really) and steaming...