Weekly meal plan: 5 easy meals for the week ahead, including the most outrageously delicious burger toppings
A new batch of weekly meal plan recommendations are here, with easy, low-stress meals your whole family will enjoy. We promise, these five recipes will get you through this week ahead easily and deliciously. So grab a pen, make your shopping list, and stock up on...
6 family-friendly meatball variations for dinner: Make on weekends, devour all month.
Dear meatballs, I love everything about you. I love that you can be healthy or decadent, quick or slow cooking, meaty or vegan, and that you can easily span multiple meals. Meatballs are a blank canvas for spices, herbs, sauce; the options are endless. And meatballs...
5 beautiful and easy Mother’s Day cakes the kids can make themselves
This Mother's Day, we think mom should get a break from the cooking (unless that's her happy place, of course), so we've found 5 beautiful and easy Mother's Day cakes that the kids can make themselves. We're looking at sheet cakes that don't require crumb coats or...
How to make crispy, chicken cutlets: A 10-minute main that goes with just about anything.
If my family could pick only a few dishes to put in our dinner rotation, breaded chicken cutlets would be at the top of the list. Learning how to make perfectly crispy chicken cutlets is easy, and once you do it a few times, you won’t even need a recipe. Even so, I...
These OMG Mother’s Day cupcakes give back to other moms too
This Mother's Day, I've been so moved to discover the fabulous Mother's Day cupcake collaboration between Baked by Melissa and Every Mother Counts that's helping provide maternal care to mothers who need it. And okay, especially because supporting this cause involves...
Weekly meal plan: 5 easy meals for the week ahead, including better-than-takeout Orange Chicken
A new batch of weekly meal plan recommendations are here, with easy, low-stress meals your whole family will enjoy. We promise, these five recipes will get you through this week ahead easily and deliciously. So grab a pen, make your shopping list, and stock up on...
Farewell, stews! Here are 7 ideas for lightening up family dinner for spring
I love a good chili as much as the next mom, but I'm always happy when I can start making some fabulous, lighter family dinners for spring and summer. There are just so many great ideas to be found, and I love all of these. Plus, these dishes are a lot more creative...
You can support some incredible women food makers with this Mother’s Day cheese collection
As I mentioned in our roundup of favorite Mother's Day food gifts, I couldn't imagine how this Mother's Day Cheese Collection assembled by the outstanding cheese mongers at Murray's earned its name. What makes it specifically a "Mother's Day" collection? I read a...
Cinco tasty, creative tequila cocktail recipes for Cinco de Mayo.
Cinco de Mayo is coming up, and we're looking for some creative, delicious tequila cocktail recipes to go with our Mexican dinner recipes and guacamole. We've found some imaginative but simple twists on the classic margarita, a delicious Paloma, and even an inventive...
The best classic guacamole recipe. Plus an easy 3-ingredient guacamole variation.
I love a classic guacamole recipe, a tropical one with pineapple or mango, and -- my favorite -- guacamole with smoky chipotles and gobs of shredded sharp cheddar. You kind of can't go wrong when you mix a perfectly ripe avocado with lime juice, salt and, well,...
14 of our favorite Mother’s Day food gifts, for every kind of mom
We love giving Mother's Day food gifts -- probably because we love getting Mother's Day food gifts! (And yes, that's a massive hint. Just so we're clear, family members.) So we've put together this gift guide of wonderful gourmet food gifts for Mother's Day, many from...
This new baby-lead weaning cookbook is packed with recipes you’ll want to eat too. Whoa.
Feeding little kids day in and day out can be draining, so I was so happy to discover the Baby-Led Weaning Recipe Book: 120 Recipes to Let Your Baby Take the Lead by Annabel Karmel, the popular UK-based child nutrition expert who's written dozens of books about...
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How to use up overripe tomatoes – and bruised ones too! 4 delicious ideas.
Every year I grow as many tomato plants as my garden will hold. If I’m lucky and #thosedarnsquirrels don’t eat them all, I have a bounty of juicy red and yellow fruit that lasts through September. Inevitably some tomatoes will ripen too quickly or blister in the...
Starbucks drink hack: Save $2 ordering your iced venti drinks this way.
Leave it to my teen to find this Starbucks drink hack on TikTok that's currently making the social media rounds with Starbucks-obsessed consumers everywhere. Iced venti money-saving hack Order a tall iced drink. That's a "small" for those of us not fluent in...
Don’t toss it! Clever ways to use foods you might otherwise throw away.
If you're like us, you've found yourself in the precarious situation of playing "toss or save" with bread heels, almost-compostable vegetables... you get the idea. Should they stay or should they go now? Ha, okay. Enjoy the earworm. Well, thanks to the brilliant...
The ice-cream lickers are disgusting. But are they creating legit health risks?
Like we don't have enough food recalls and assorted food fears to contend with, now it's the so-called #icecreamchallenge, also known as the ice cream lickers. It goes like this: Person removes ice cream lid in store. Person licks ice cream from the tub. Person...
Baking tricks: How to remove brownies from the pan without them falling apart
On a recent thread in our Recipe Rescue Facebook group, I noticed a particularly long discussion around the topic of the best way to cut brownies. Specifically, how to remove brownies from the pan without them breaking into pieces. The author posted a photo of an...
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Weekly meal plan: 5 easy meals you can cook in 30 minutes or less
In our experience, dinnertime is like the witching hour. The kids are tired and hungry -- never a good mix -- and you just want to get something on the table fast. So this week we've found 5 family-friendly meals that are all 30-minutes or less to get on the table....
Weekly meal plan: 5 easy meals for busy back-to-school weeknights.
This week my kids started back to school (gulp!) and in the next few weeks most of the rest of the country will be too. So we're looking for easy, family friendly meals you can prep ahead or make quickly...and still get to those Parents' Night meetings or football...
How to use up overripe tomatoes – and bruised ones too! 4 delicious ideas.
Every year I grow as many tomato plants as my garden will hold. If I’m lucky and #thosedarnsquirrels don’t eat them all, I have a bounty of juicy red and yellow fruit that lasts through September. Inevitably some tomatoes will ripen too quickly or blister in the...
6 favorite no-cook recipes using fresh tomatoes and basil in season.
I don’t think I will ever get sick of no-cook recipes using tomatoes and basil. I play them on repeat during the summer months because I know that although the ingredients are widely available year-round, it’s this time, right now in August, where the taste of...
Weekly meal plan: 5 easy meals using August’s in-season produce
This week's weekly meal plan recommendations are here, and we've found some easy meals that feature August's best produce. I don't know about you, but my tomatoes are tasting perfect right now, so we're making the most of that! So grab a pen, make your shopping...
