by Cool Mom Team | Jul 19, 2023 | Tips + Tricks
Most good cooks weren’t born with smart kitchen habits. Getting comfortable in the kitchen takes time. Here are 7 smart kitchen habits that made us better cooks. If you’re looking to up your kitchen game, we bet these can help. 1. Meal planning Planning...
by Cool Mom Team | Jun 3, 2022 | Tips + Tricks
Summer has arrived and I’m ready for a week at the beach, or in the mountains, or anywhere but here! In an ideal world, every vacation home renter would stock the kitchen with everything you need, but many of us have arrived for a week of vacation to find dull...
by Caroline Siegrist | May 18, 2022 | Shopping Finds, Tips + Tricks
With inflation and supply chain-related shortages upon us, I know a lot of us are considering CSAs for practical reasons as well as ethical ones. Plus, that fresh chard and those vine-ripened strawberries. Yum! When I first wrote about community supported agriculture...
by Kristen Chase | May 11, 2022 | Shopping Finds
May might just be my favorite month of the year, because along with my birthday, and Mother’s Day, it’s AAPI Month, or Asian American Pacific Islander month, which gives me, a biracial Chinese American a chance to talk a little more about my heritage. And...
by Christina Refford | Mar 8, 2022 | Tips + Tricks
A few years ago, I read Marie Kondo’s book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing and could not wait to apply it to my house. Using her mantra of only keeping things that “bring me joy,” I first tackled...