As parents in the kitchen, much of our time is invested in quick weekday breakfasts and well-loved family favorite dinners that keep us gathered round the table. Our goals aren’t often about learning from our children or even really intentionally teaching them, but life lessons are a joyful by-product of dinner with kids.
Here are the best stories on life in the kitchen, around the table, and eating with kids from this past year.
It’s 20 degrees outside, but only in the sun. Your guests have trekked over for dinner, but before you can get down to making pasta together or get help setting the table, everyone needs to thaw out. There’s always mulled wine or spiked hot cider, but not every guest will want to start with booze. Enter: the tea steamer.
When it comes to breakfast it seems like all of us are pretty much on the same page with what we’re making. How can I be so sure? Well, there’s a distinct common theme in all the breakfast recipes you guys have been saving this year. It’s clear that you’re into make-ahead breakfasts, baked breakfast treats, and eggs.
Thinking about a New Year’s resolution to help you save money in 2018? Heck, even if you’re not, these stories might come in handy. Here are the best posts we ran in 2017 about saving money on groceries and other items.
The major downside of chopping onions is that they make you cry. In the past, we’ve talked about the five basic tips to cut onions without crying. They have to do with actual culinary tips as opposed to old-wives tales. We’ve also talked about things that sound a bit more out of sorts, like holding a piece of bread in your mouth while chopping or soaking your onions before chopping. And you know what? They all work! But what if they didn’t have to?
I have good news for anyone with good taste in books and who loves a great adventure. Limited-edition Lord of the Rings wine is now available to purchase and it actually sounds like it might be tasty.
When it comes to baking, there are two camps of people: those who like projects, and those who prefer to stick with the recipes that are easy enough to whip up on a weeknight. I fall firmly into the latter group. My favorite recipes are the ones that are simple, straightforward, and come together without any fuss, and we’ve shared quite a lot of these recipes on the site this year.
From one-bowl chocolate cake to peanut butter cookies, these were our most popular easy baking recipes of 2017.
Pork loin roast is a cut that most of us buy infrequently, favoring pork tenderloin for everyday dinners and saving this larger cut for special occasions. So if you’re headed for the grocery store with our pork loin dinner menu in hand and need a refresher, this is it. Here is everything you need to know about buying pork loin roast.
It’s inevitable: Someone is going to give you a gift this weekend. Someone you weren’t expecting to get anything from. And you’ll have nothing to give her in return! You could run out to the nearest drugstore and pick up a generic gift card and a candy cane-shaped box of candy to get something super ho-hum right away, or you order this Craft Brew Drinkware Set now, just in case, to have in hand by Tuesday.
Lots of couples get engaged this time of year, which means you might be asked to be a MOH in the next few weeks. Yay! That also means you might be tasked with throwing a bridal shower in the spring. Is that excitement turning into panic? Don’t worry! We’ve got everything you need to pull off the party without a hitch so that your BFF can get, well, hitched.