It's only February 5, and my New Year's resolution to eat healthier is about to be severely tested: It's World Nutella Day ! To celebrate, I've pulled together a few super easy recipes that sound perfect for today, or really any day in w…
My husband spends his spare time watching Top Chef , reading restaurant reviews and weeding through the artisanal chocolates at our local gourmet markets. So needless to say, a box of red hots isn't going to cut it for his Valentine's Da…
For some reason my daughter has been obsessed with the idea of make your own cupcakes lately. Oh wait...I remember why. Because cupcakes are good. Or at least they're supposed to be. We've tried a few DIY kits recently have been hardly w…
One thing we moms all have in common is the need to feed our families. We always have our eye out for the coolest foods, the tastiest treats, and the most helpful websites and cookbooks to help us make it all easier. And maybe more fun? …
While Christmas is drawing ever so close, I know the hostess invitations and house visits will extend well into the new year. I can't stop browsing hostess gifts , looking for something more interesting than candles or flower bouquets. I…
We often think of the art of food, and the art of cooking, but we don't necessarily think about the artfulness of the cooks themselves, and their own environments. Now a new quarterly magazine from the minds behind art magazine Where Wom…
A lot of us are probably more used to popping bottles of milk and apple juice than champagne these days. But the holidays call for sparkle--and I'm talking fancy shoes, party dresses, and champagne, not Elmer's glue and glitter (as much …
Perhaps you've poked around our holiday gift guide this year and come across the category called Gifts Under $15 That Don't Seem Cheap at All . If so, you very likely spotted the gourmet lollipops. You know the ones. The ones that call t…
That growing anxiety I feel is because Thanksgiving is right around the corner, like a really long race I have to run and if I down, I'll never catch up again. Luckily, there are some food-tastic sites and bloggers who are a great help t…
As my milk-allergic daughter will tell you, the Thanksgiving table can hold one big heaping of "no" for kids with food allergies. No, you can't have that. Or that. Or that. And nowhere is this more apparent than when desserts are brought…
I've been gluten-free for coming up on a couple of years, now, and while I've learned to bake a few essentials, I've mostly given up on cookies. Because gluten-free cookies--by and large--suck. And I love to bake, but I'm certainly not g…
I'd like to think of myself as somewhat of a yogurt connoisseur. I grew up on Dannon and over the years have tried everything from the healthy and organic to the junky and gimmicky. And apparently I've passed on the yogurt gene to my son…
It's soooo haaaaard to open my inbox and find an email inviting me to sample a new artisanal chocolate bar. Really, it's right up there with letters from Nigerian Princes and notices about my "Paypol Account," but you know. I am so devot…
We are what you'd call foodies at my place, despite my sigOth absolutely hating that term. Whatever it means when your pantry is filled with lots of little jars, and you tend to have more kinds of mustards in your fridge than most superm…
When Kristen and I had the opportunity to sit down with Sam Talbot, our Top Chef crush for the last few years, it was hard not to say yes. (Frankly, it was hard not to get all sweaty and nervous for days beforehand.) It was a bit intimid…
If you've flown on a particular airline, then you're probably familiar with the scarily yummy Biscoff cookies. And as a wife of a pilot who flies for said airline, I have to giggle every time someone tells me that they hoard them, mostly…
With some Halloween candies containing loads of hydrogenated oil, artificial colors and even high-fructose corn syrup, I appreciate why so many of us are taking a closer look at what we drop into those pillow cases come October 31st. Eve…
You might think that I'm obsessing about marshmallows because I'm pregnant. I mean, c'mon, marshmallows? Aren't there like 4000 other yummy sweets that one might pick over those things people stick in S'mores or on top of hot chocolate? …
My sigOth, the culinary school grad, has turned me onto the joys of scissors in the kitchen. While I use them mainly to cut off the stupid packaging I can't pull open with my hands, he has always used kitchen shears for cutting herbs qui…
Although it makes my southern grandmother fan herself and say, Lawsy , I'm not much of a cook. When I do need a recipe, I hop on the internet and zap from recipe site to recipe site, trying to find just the right one. Oh, and it has to b…
To say I'm not a baker would be like saying childbirth is somewhat uncomfortable. But I also happen to be a major baked goods addict, which means lot and lots (and lots and lots) of store-bought cookies and cakes make their way into my h…
I'm in heaven. Floating above the clouds, birds tweeting around me, angels singing sweet melodies heaven, all because I've discovered the sweet caloric glory of Elsylee cookies . Let's just say these handmade-to-order artisanal cookies f…
So what do I have in common with some of the coolest celebrity moms in America? And no, it's not rock-hard abs; it's an appreciation of Organically Raised: Conscious Cooking for Babies and Toddlers , an intriguing new "cookbook with a co…
Some like Epicurious , some prefer FoodNetwork.com . But me, I tend to head straight to Chef Google when I need help finding a specific recipe, even though it takes a decent amount of time to nail down something that's quick, simple, and…