Guess what: Parties are back! Doesn't that sound great?? After so many months in quarantine, we're ready to celebrate, well, just about anything, and I know I want to make these moments extra special -- - graduation , birthdays , "we sur…
With Father's Day coming up -- not to mention engagements, weddings, babies, hostesses, and alllll the summer entertaining, we've all got food and kitchen gifts on the brain. And lately, we've been actively supporting more AAPI-owned com…
We've been thinking about creative Father's Day gifts for a while now, and how much the idea of gifting has changed over the past year. We've always valued experience gifts, together time, and keepsake Father's Day gifts from the heart, …
Wow, I feel like we just started this school year and now, here I am getting graduation invitations and planning graduation gifts to celebrate. Thanks to the vaccinations, our friends are finally ready to throw some small, outdoor gradua…
Can you believe we're already looking at the end of the school year? I need to get on these teacher appreciation food gift ideas , pronto, especially since my own kids in the Nashville area get out in just 3 weeks, GAH! Whether shopping …
A kitchen gift for Mother's Day may once have been the purview of serious home cooks, but no longer. (Thanks, pandemic!) After 14 months of cooking breakfasts, lunches, and dinners for my family of five, I would love a Mother's Day gift …
Yesterday, when Dolly Parton tweeted "I’ve teamed up with @jenisicecreamsto create my very own flavor in support of @dollyslibrary! Strawberry Pretzel Pie is available at Jeni’s April 8," I mean...sold, right? Not that you need another r…
I'm eagerly awaiting for all the Passover jokes on Twitter like, "You thought 40 years in the desert was rough, try surviving 13 months in a pandemic!" Or something. But hey, unlike the olden times, we can enjoy our unleavened bread deli…
It's super trendy right now but I admit I have always loved a charcuterie board . They're great for snack trays at parties of course (remember those?) and special treats for the kids , but as lots of us have learned during these so-tired…
No matter how I personally feel about the goofily coined term " Galentine's Day, " I do agree that this is the year I might send Valentine's gifts to friends . And I don't mean friends with benefits! Just...friends. As we are approaching…
Hot chocolate bombs have been blowing up (heh) my Instagram feed lately, so I decided to find some great recipes to make my own hot chocolate bombs at home. And wow, so many! It turns out that whatever your commitment level, you can find…
I totally get the last-minute holiday gift problem. Believe me! I mean, we may have started amassing ideas for our 2020 Holiday Gift Guide in, like...February, but hey, we're busy moms. And we're busy shopping for you sometimes at the ex…
The pandemic has really put a damper on my food tourism this year, so tracking down amazing mail order cookies from small bakeries across the country has been like...virtual travel for me. I'm so happy to recommend them, because so many …
While so many homemade food gifts are best eaten fresh, these make-ahead food gifts will let you get you into the Christmas spirit right away. I've found so many terrific DIY food gift ideas, from your own homemade vanilla extract, to sc…
Even if you've picked out your perfect Christmas cookie recipe already, you might be looking for ways to package those Christmas Cookies as gifts. Though the big crowded cookie swap I usually attend every December is canceled this year d…
During a year that so many of us want to make homemade food gifts for friends and family -- and are home enough to do it, it feels like the right time to re-up a favorite sugar cookie dough recipe that was first shared here a while back.…
'Tis the season to shop, which, in moments, like maybe today after Black Friday can feel overwhelming. You know what helps, though? Getting some of your shopping done through gifts that give back, too . We're big fans of any mission driv…
This native New Yorker is big on sending NYC food gifts this year around the country. That's because I'm firmly on Team Stay At Home this holiday, hard though that may be . Not only does Covid mean that New York won't be receiving our an…
I know I'm not alone when I say I'm obsessed with The Crown . And I would happily take any The Crown gift this Christmas, because escaping to 80s London, if only through my screen, has been a very nice retreat from our home these days. (…
Get ready to have sticky fingers! Because Nutella is offering the coolest holiday kit for making gingerbread pancakes -- topped with Nutella, of course -- while also benefitting No Kid Hungry . The pandemic has caused food insecurity to …
Want to make that warm cup of cocoa even more soothing? If your answer is yes, give me all the comfort, then you might need a mug buddy , AKA, a tiny gingerbread house that perches on the lip of your mug to keep you company. And make you…
Yesterday, my daughter who is attending graduate school for social work in Denver, called to tell me that she thinks it is best for her to cancel her planned trip home for Thanksgiving thanks to the new COVID warnings and restrictions in…
The best food Advent calendars of 2020 do not include the one in the drugstore with the waxy chocolate behind thin cardboard doors -- but no surprise there. So before you end up with that as your only option, let me stop you and share so…
Are you ready for the best frozen cookie dough? Truly, the absolutely 100% best, better than all the rest (sung Tina Turner style), magical, worth-busting-through-my-WW-points, eyes-roll-back-in-your-head cookie dough? Because, my friend…