If you’ve been indulging a little more than usual, who could blame you? Holiday feasts, cookies, and cocktails are all part of what makes the season so fun. But it can also take a toll on your body, and healthy detox diets are a great wa…
There's still plenty of time to get ahead of your holiday cooking (our Thanksgiving cooking schedule can help!) but, let's be honest, no matter how well you prep, cooking a Thanksgiving meal can be stressful the day of. The more you can …
You may think the only question related to Thanksgiving stuffing is, “To stuff or not to stuff?” There are, however, many other pressing questions to be answered: Add meat or keep it vegetarian? What kind of bread to use? Use interesting…
I admit it: There’s something kind of naughty and appealing about the jellied cranberry sauce from my youth. The imprinted ridges and the way it slides so easily from the can—it conjures up serious Thanksgiving nostalgia. But when it com…
Whether this is your first time hosting Thanksgiving or you’re a seasoned pro, your focus will probably be on the turkey. Too often, vegetables are last minute or uninspired. Unintentional, maybe. Big mistake, definitely. With a little b…
Our Thanksgiving meal tends to be dominated by white foods, from the turkey and mashed potatoes to the rolls. Though I wouldn't have it any other way, I've decided to brighten things up just a little with one of these colorful fall salad…
For some, macaroni and cheese and casseroles are the ultimate comfort food, but for me, having grown up in New Jersey, nothing is less fussy and more cozy than Italian American restaurant dishes like Meatballs, Baked Ziti and Eggplant Pa…
Halloween is on a Saturday this year, which means that the evening should be less stressful—at least the getting ready part of the evening. Instead of rushing home from work and school, scrambling to get everyone’s costumes together, fra…
I can hardly believe it, but we're getting bored of Taco Tuesdays at my house. While we don't eat tacos every Tuesday, we do eat them a lot. Everyone in my family is a big fan of Mexican food and, well, aside from tacos, I think they'd e…
While scouring the web for the best skinny slow cooker recipes I could find, I came across a genius trick that I have to share: how to cook spaghetti squash in a slow cooker . Did you know that you could do this? I had no clue and, in fa…
I've been seeing the #MeatlessMonday hashtag in my Facebook feed for a while now, but have been slow to jump on the bandwagon. Other than the trusty black beans and rice that I cook when I forget to thaw meat for dinner, I don't have man…
This past week, I I joined Stacie and her husband at a wonderful ramen restaurant, where everyone at the table was flipping over a fantastic shishito pepper appetizer. (And fortunately, our children didn't look at the word on the menu lo…
Now that we're in the back-to-school groove, I've noticed one huge change in my kids: they are absolutely famished at the end of the day. They ask me to swing through the drive-thru and get them milkshakes on the way home, every day. Umm…
There are those summer fruits and veggies that are fleeting—we wait for them all year and then, just like that, their season passes—and then there’s zucchini. It’s easy to grow and seems to be everywhere this time of year. If you have so…
It’s happened. Finally. I grew tomatoes, and they are perfect. My family and I are eating them up, but I also want to save some so that I can relish summer’s goodness long into winter. If you've ever wondered about how to preserve tomato…
If your family is anything like mine, you’re eating fresh, sweet corn on the cob several times a week. It’s such a treat and, really, the highlight of summer eating. First I cook it up: Mostly I follow these directions for how to boil co…
I wait all summer for the moment when I can toss long strands of spaghetti, fettuccini, or earthy soba noodles with a no-cook pasta sauce. Not just because they cut down on time spent cooking over heat, though that’s nice, but because a …
The glorious thing about summer produce—besides the fact that it tastes so damn good—is that it hardly needs adornment. Fresh and gently cooked fruits and vegetables are perfect without fanfare, especially in simple summer salads. Even s…
During the summer, I love to have some fix-ahead meals that I can take with me to the pool or park for dinner. While a juicy burger is delicious on the back porch, when it's this hot outside I crave something cold and refreshing. These g…
Hey, you there! Yes you with the timer set to 12 minutes and the canister of sugar out on the counter next to that big pot? You're not boiling your corn right. Wait...I know we all have methods we swear by but I'm telling you, after year…
If you've got grilling on the brain for family dinners, Father's Day or summer entertaining overall -- because who doesn't, really -- we've gone through our archives over the years to pull together enough summer grilling ideas to get you…
When the temperature starts to climb, I have no problem reaching for something frozen on a stick to cool all of us off. And I especially love when that popsicle treat is actually pretty good for our bodies, too, with healthier ingredient…
There aren’t many vegetables that I don’t like, but asparagus is among my least favorite. When my kids bellyache about the green stalks (and, yes, how their pee will smell afterwards), I get it. I pretend like I enjoy asparagus more than…
Reducing meat is one of the hardest shifts I’ve ever made in my family’s eating. Even though I’d been a vegetarian through college, I had no idea at the time how to go meatless healthfully. (My youthful diet of pizza, pasta, and more piz…