I am someone who firmly believes brunch isn’t brunch without a mimosa, so when it comes to organizing a festive brunch for Easter, there will definitely be a cocktail on my table. Pitcher drinks are the best route to go when you’re serving a crowd, and for Easter I believe they should be extra fresh and seasonal, as the holiday is also a bit of a celebration of the early days of spring. Here are seven pitcher cocktails that fit the bill.
Here’s the thing: In addition to being a meal everyone loves, pizza is also the ultimate problem-solver for home cooks. Delivery or takeout pizza helps us fix our dinner dilemmas, but homemade pizza? Well, this workhorse can be tailored to solve a whole range of situational dinnertime struggles.
Here are 10 of the most common dinner conundrums and the pizzas that step in to get dinner (and breakfast!) on the table.
Cleaning a dishwasher is an odd prospect, for sure. Shouldn’t dishwashers be inherently clean? You’d think so, but over time, dishwashers can collect food debris, soap residue, and inexplicable gunk that needs to be wiped away to ensure your dishes are getting a proper shine.
About once a month, it’s a good idea to give one of your most-appreciated appliances a little TLC (live without one for a few years if you don’t fully appreciate it).
I have issues with food. And to a degree, I think it’s impossible to avoid some issues with food, whether that means not stopping when full, feeling guilty about overindulging, or emotionally eating or restricting.
What I hope is possible is not passing down my personal issues to my kids. Feeding kids is already tricky enough. Add to that the idea that you could maybe hurt them psychologically and it’s enough to make a mom like me lose sight of logic all together.
That’s why I decided to speak with a couple of professionals. Cheryl Kornfeld, Psy.D. is a clinical psychologist with extensive experience working in eating disorder facilities. She told me the most important thing I needed to do was accept that many people suffer from issues with food, and it’s totally OK (and Kornfeld urges, important) to acknowledge them and deal with them as best we can.
Here’s what else Kornfeld and Tzivie Pill, an eating psychology coach and student at Wurzwiler School of Social Work, have to share about navigating food issues between parents and children.
If you ever want to derail a conversation, all you have to do is get people talking about whether or not various foods are sandwiches. I once saw a professional meeting devolve into 30 minutes of utter chaos while two food editors yelled at each other about whether or not a hamburger was a sandwich. And the beauty of this is that you can do it with just about anything. Is a wrap a sandwich? Is a taco a sandwich? Is a ravioli a sandwich? Is a Smuckers Uncrustable a ravioli? I’m pretty sure you could say that a bowl of spaghetti was a sandwich, and someone would find a way to support it.
A big pot of chili would be nothing without chili powder. The spice blend is an all-in-one source of flavor, bringing the heat of chiles along with the aromatics of ingredients like garlic and cumin. Since it’s a blend of spices, however, no two are created equally and they all contain various quantities of this and that.
We scoured Amazon to see what kind of chili powder game they bring — as always, they bring a strong one. Here are five unique blends that are worth trying in your next pot of chili.
While pizza night is a weekly staple in my house, it’s never just pizza. I grew up with the mentality that dinner isn’t dinner unless there’s a vegetable on my plate and I’ve never been able to shake that. That’s hardly a problem in my opinion, as incorporating a salad or side of veggies with our favorite pies keeps the meal well-balanced and, I’d argue, even more delicious, since there’s more to dig into.
Here are my five favorite healthy sides to serve with pizza.
Sheet pan pizza is the minivan of the pizza world. It’s not as classically cool as thin-crusted Neapolitan-style pizzas, nor does it have the trendiness of flatbread pizzas, but what it lacks in presentation it makes up for in utility, dependability, and downright delicious ease.
That’s because sheet pan pizzas are all about the heavy lifting. They quickly and efficiently feed a crowd. The crust is sturdy enough to hold everything you throw on it, so don’t be shy. Load it up! Our recipe for meat-lover’s pizza will show you how to make this crowd-pleasing pizza so that you too can feed the masses (aka the gaggle of kids you piled into the minivan without breaking a sweat).
At this point, it seems like almost every fast food restaurant has some kind of dollar menu — and we’re not mad about that. But when you’re shouting into a drive-thru speaker, how do you know when (and if) you are really getting the most nutritional bang for your buck?
Wellio, an online meal-planning assistant, decided to investigate which meals were the most (and least) nutritious per dollar spent, and the results might be enough to make you drive away without getting your McDinner.
While bone broth is pretty simple to make yourself (here’s an awesome recipe), its rapidly increasing popularity has resulted in a number of new store-bought options popping up at various retailers. Some appear legit, while a few seem to be co-opting a trendy marketing term without delivering a delicious and nutritious product.
So how do you know which to choose?