If you want to amp up your March Madness schedule this week, or you happen to be combining a watching party with a St. Patrick's Day celebration, may we suggest some beer cocktails? (No coincidence they're both the same week, say beer an…
Of all the holidays, I always seem to need the most help finding cool St. Patrick's Day recipes, because no thank you to recipe after recipe of artificially dyed green food. (And can we all agree that green doesn't work for every dish?) …
Ah, the Shamrock Shake. That once-a-year emerald colored, minty concoction that makes St. Patrick's Day feel like, well, St. Patrick's Day. If you can't do without one, but would rather skip loads of artificial green coloring or just pre…
There is no way that we could let National Cereal Day pass without sharing a super fun recipe. Ok, fine, we could have, but why when I've recently whipped up an amazing original recipe for Baked Cereal Milk Donuts. As in, donuts made wit…
It's hard to imagine a birthday kid who doesn't like cake, but it happens. And when you're the parent of the birthday kid who doesn't want cake, you're left figuring out what to serve that's just as festive, delicious, and easy to serve …
Since the release of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens , kids all over planet Earth and Jakku are begging for a Star Wars Force Awakens birthday party that incorporates Rey, Finn, BB-8, and yeah, Kylo Ren along with our favorite p…
One of my favorite baking recipes of all time is the one for Julia Child's Best Ever Brownies . They are amazing, but—and this is a big but— over the course of the recipe you use five different bowls. Yes, FIVE! Needless to say, I hardly…
The most glamorous evening in Hollywood is coming up and I, for one, am happy to use Oscar night as an excuse to get fancy. At least with my cocktails. Whether you're hosting a viewing party, watching with your family, or curling up in y…
This post has been updated for 2019 Even if the only movies you've seen this year are the animated kind (no judgment, parents!), it's always fun to have an excuse to get together with friends and ogle all the Hollywood glamour over a gla…
Forget the Super Bowl or the Grammys, my favorite TV event of the year is, hands-down, the Oscars. Even though I don't host viewing parties like I used to (before kids), I still enjoy celebrating the biggest night in movies with my famil…
By now you know that we're obsessed with winter citrus . Not only are citrus fruits—grapefruit, in particular—at peak season right now, but they are a bright taste of summer especially needed here in the Northeast. So with grapefruit alw…
If there's any worthwhile excuse to treat myself to a fun drink with dinner, it's Valentine's Day, the day when calories don't count and we can eat chocolate for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. So in honor of all things sweet, I've found 6…
If you're looking for Super Bowl recipes for your game day party, from big hearty food to fun appetizers and even cocktails and mocktails should you need a break from beer , we've got you covered. Here are some of our favorite past posts…
I just discovered @mariesaba on Instagram, which might be my favorite food art feed of all time. Because puns + food = the perfect entertainment. Marie uses pie dough (or are they cookies?) to shape letters that she pairs with food to pl…
Sure, the commercials are noteworthy and the halftime show entertaining, but I think that we can all agree that the best part of watching the Super Bowl is indulging in game day eats with abandon. In the spirit of eating with abandon wit…
It never fails that I remember I need to take treats to the party in my kids' classes at the very last minute. Or that, after a week of procrastinating, I remember, oh yeah, Valentine's Day is tomorrow and I should probably make a little…
I was browsing Etsy, looking for some fun Valentine's treats from smaller makers around the country and then I stumbled onto A Secret Forest , the shop whose wares made my jaw drop. These are the kinds of artisanal, artful, transcendentl…
Up to this point, I've only thought about kid's birthday parties in terms of little kid themes, from construction vehicles to dinosaurs—or whatever my kids are obsessed with at the moment. As my older son grows up, though, the themes are…
I love Valentine's Day projects, and when my boys were young, would try (hard) to make Valentine's Day crafts with them to hand out to their classmates. But the year I found myself speaking, uh, heatedly, to my 5-year-old about how he wa…
For a lot of people, the best part about the Super Bowl is eating. I actually love football and even I still get more excited about what’s on the menu than what’s on the field. Unfortunately, though, it's usually a feast full of grease a…
My younger son's birthday is in mid-October and the older one's is on January 5th. That means that I go from birthday to Halloween to Thanksgiving to Hanukkah and Christmas to New Year's Eve. And when it's finally over for everyone else,…
Total Star Wars score! I just discovered these awesome printable Star Wars Force Awakens coloring pages from Etsy's DJ Penscript and I know my kids will be clamoring to get their markers on them, stat. This is no rudimentary clip art; Ne…
Despite appearances, we're not big drinkers here at Cool Mom Eats. Some of us hardly drink, while others don't drink at all. And the rest of us, well, we like the idea of drinking more than the reality of it. (Thank you, parenthood.) If …
Three-ingredient cocktail party recipes are one of those staples you need to always have on hand. I mean, if you've got festive New Year's Eve cocktails and mocktails ready to go, you can't forget the food right? You can either plan a fu…