Hello Readers!
Today we’re launching the Sixth Annual Homies Awards — our linkfest celebration of great food and home design blogs. We invite all of you to share your favorite blogs and to help us spread link love. Read on for more details on how The Homies work, or get right to it and nominate your favorite food and home design blogs in these categories.
Best, Maxwell & Faith
This category of family-friendly cooking blogs is for blogs that put a lot of energy specifically into family cooking and cooking for kids.
Nominate as many blogs as you like! Just make sure that this is the best category for them.
The blogs from abroad category is for all those amazing blogs written by cooks in countries outside the United States.
Nominate as many blogs as you like! Just make sure that this is the best category for them.
These are our 10 finalists in the Favorite Daily Read category. Five of the finalists were chosen by you through nomination count, and the other five were chosen by our judges and editorial team.
Vote on your favorite (one vote per person please).
The sweets & baking category is for all those blogs who focus on Pinterest-worthy desserts, amazing cakes, and gorgeous baking.
Nominate as many blogs as you like! Just make sure that this is the best category for them.
Enough of this long, cold, winter; we’re having a Valentine’s party this weekend, and it’s going to involve a lot of cooking, which inevitably means a lot of dancing. I’m one to shake a tail feather while I cook. Are you? This is grounds for a playlist. As a Valentine gift to you, we’re sharing it.
Most of us are familiar with that uncomfortable feeling that comes from eating too fast, or eating something that didn’t quite agree. Indigestion, overfullness, gas, bloating… However you want to phrase it, it’s not fun! Fortunately, there’s a simple, effective way to soothe the belly, and it comes in the form of a cup of tea.
In my quest to put the Internet’s most intriguing, promising and potentially mind-blowing tips to the test, I stumbled onto a tip I had never heard before: you can pop popcorn on the stove with a tablespoon of water instead of oil. A fat-free popcorn option for those of us without an air popper or a microwave? I was definitely intrigued, but would this technique actually work? I had to put it to the test.
This recipe is one that I often teach in cooking classes because you can make it year-round (just use frozen blueberries when you can’t find them fresh!) and because the crumbly topping — once you’ve done it once — is something you can begin using to top just about anything. I use it on apple crisps and cobblers, any fruit bar I make these days, and even bake it up on its own to scatter atop vanilla ice cream. I love this topping because it’s slightly nutty, very subtlety-spiced, and not at all too sweet — plus, it’s so simple to throw together.
Yesterday I shared Chelsea’s lovely kitchen, the charming little space in Portland where she does all her home cooking, prop styling, and floral arranging. Chelsea describes her self as a ‘lazy cook’ — hardly! She whip up the most delightful one-pot meals with only a few tools. Here are the tools she uses most often and what she makes with them.