Tag: Food and recipes

We love bread. Baguettes, pull-apart bread, country loaves, sourdough boules, you name it. But there is one problem we encounter on a tragically regular basis: bread goes bad quickly, sometimes before we can eat it. If you have a small household or just don’t eat bread that often, it can be hard to finish a

You can have all of the cookbooks in the world, but without the right tools, the holiday meals you dream up in your head will never come to fruition. We’re not talking super fancy Viking range stoves or futuristic turbo ovens, though – you just need to make sure you have the basics. Yes, you

Every year in the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving we start frantically planning our menus and wonder how we’re going to get everything done. Think about it – it’s the one day a year for most of us that we turn our kitchen into a restaurant, serving a huge amount of people a huge amount

Thanksgiving is arguably the biggest cooking day of the year for lots of families, and even the weeks leading up to the big day can be filled with tasks like deep cleaning the house, preparing make-ahead gravy and cranberry sauce, and freezing rounds of pie dough. It’s a busy, hectic time, and the last thing

Thanksgiving is almost here, and that means many of us are getting ready to host an epic meal for our loved ones. But when you’re hosting, there’s nothing more stressful than having a house full of hungry guests, two more hours of waiting until the turkey is done roasting, and nothing but canned cranberry sauce

We have to admit that every year, there’s a part of us that wishes pumpkin spice season would never end. It’s a magical time of year, the transition between summer and fall, so we get sad when it’s time to say goodbye to our pumpkin spice lattes for another year. But the thing that makes

Fall means apples, from cider to sauce, from apple-scented candles to trips to the orchard. We love sipping warm spiced cider to start our day, and nothing beats the smell of a slow cooker simmering with homemade apple sauce – nothing but an apple pie baking in the oven, that is. We make apple pie

We’re kind of obsessed with pumpkin. We love pumpkin bread and pumpkin coffee, pumpkin beer and pumpkin pasta, and we’ve never met a pumpkin patch we didn’t want to frolick through like a joyful little lad dancing for berries and cream. But one of our favorite treats ever is pumpkin pie. We only have it

Every year at Thanksgiving, we wonder why we don’t eat turkey more often. That’s right, you turkey hating naysayers – around these parts we don’t swap our Thanksgiving turkey for ham or lasagna, we unabashedly love it. When cooked properly, turkey is juicy, flavorful, and just begging to be eaten cold out of the fridge

The holidays are almost here, and that means our favorite season – where we gather with friends and family, reflect on the things we’re thankful for, and cook up a storm – is about to begin. Making delicious food for our loved ones is one of the most meaningful ways we like to celebrate, but

Every year we begin a quest as old as time itself (or so it seems). With the onset of autumn, we become determined to perfect our pumpkin recipes. Whether it’s a pumpkin spice latte cake, a fancy pumpkin mousse, or a platter of cheesy pumpkin carbonara pasta, we’re determined to make pumpkin perfection. But there’s

When the nights are cool and the leaves are changing, or it’s downright cold and there’s snow outside, there’s nothing we crave more than a hearty pasta meal. But when we’re working, the kids are in school, and it starts getting dark out at, like, 4 PM, the last thing we want to do is

If there was one perk to the last year or so of working at home, it’s that our lunches became pretty awesome. When not relying on take-out from whatever place is closest to the office, we discovered the pleasures of a well-balanced homemade lunch, and we’re not ready to give that up, even if we

Holiday shopping is no joke, so we’ve been known to start stocking up on good presents as early as, well, right now. Sometimes there’s an item that catches our eye and we know it would be perfect for someone we love, but it will probably sell out before Christmas, so we start filling our secret

We still remember the first time we walked into an Aldi. Little did we realize that we’d basically be getting a glimpse at the future of grocery stores! This chain keeps prices low by renting carts for 25 cents so customers have to put them back themselves, having you bag your own groceries, and displaying

We’ve been getting cooking lessons from Rachael Ray since we were kids. 30 Minute Meals was one of the first cooking shows we ever watched, and it legit taught us how to make homemade tasty meals that didn’t take all day, something that we didn’t realize was possible. But Ray has totally evolved over time,

Oh Oprah, is there anything that we don’t trust you on? From life advice to skincare, we’ve been counting on Oprah to guide our hand when it comes to all sorts of things. But we especially rely on her product recommendations, so when we saw that HexClad cookware was on her Favorite Things List, we

We always hear that we should be eating more fish, but as someone who didn’t grow up eating seafood, it can be hard to know where to start. Do you boil it or broil it? Bake it or fry it? The answer is yes, because it turns out there are more ways to cook fish

Our favorite thing about cooking in the summer is that the produce is so ripe, so flavorful, and so fresh, that you don’t have to use a lot of fancy cooking techniques to make a delicious meal. One of the masters of this style of cooking is Giada De Laurentiis, probably because she gets so

It’s summer, and the long hot days mean that entertaining the kiddos can be a little challenging. Playing outside in the sun all day can lead to serious overheating, but the good news is that cooling off can be just as fun! Whether you’re at the pool or at the beach, lounging on a splash