Food and Cooking

Now is the time to figure out your Thanksgiving meal plans. Do you want a complete Thanksgiving meal prepared by a store or entirely home-cooked? Only order a turkey or dessert? Do you want to make dinner reservations and...

My kitchen has been under construction for the last couple of months. It was completely gutted and renovated. We were lucky enough to escape the heavy demolition period and stay at my in-laws' vacation house for a month this...

It’s that time of the year. The twinkle and promises of the holiday season are fading away, leaving us with broken resolutions and frozen noses. There’s a reason January is both hot tea month and national soup month–after the...

Early evenings before dinner are often the busiest time of my day–they don’t call 5:00 "the witching hour" for nothing! I’ve just gotten off work. The kids all want to talk to me at once, and they all seem...

As I explained in the first part of this Whole30 series, the Whole30 is a “reset,” not a diet. You eliminate commonly problematic foods from your diet for 30 days, then reintroduce them for ten days to identify any...

Southern fried cabbage/asparagus is a simple, delicious, and addictive side dish! As a mama of three littles, it's difficult to find foods we can all agree on, but this is one of those dishes that even my pickiest eater...

You’ve probably seen them while searching on Pinterest, Google, or reading this blog. Those amazingly thought-out and detailed “bento" style cold lunches that moms across America are sending to school with their kids. They seem to be what’s on...

I admit I was a little late to the cookie butter game. I'd seen bakers use it on my favorite reality TV baking competitions, heard my friends and neighbors sing its praises, and given it the side-eye in the...

Oh, how I love Ina Garten. This is not news to anyone into whose home I have brought a potluck item. Her cookbooks are in heavy rotation in my kitchen; their grease-splattered pages lovingly disclose my all-time favorites: roast...

Easy One-Skillet Recipe: Unstuffed Peppers - Stuffed peppers are complicated, but unstuffed peppers are easy and cook all in one skillet! Try this easy weeknight dinner recipe that is chock full of vegetables, but so full of beefy flavor...