Recipes

6 Homemade Simple Syrups to Amp Up Summer Drinks

6 Simple Syrup Recipe Ideas

Though the official start of summer is still six weeks away, sultry days are already, albeit sporadically, showing up. After thirteen years in Northern California, you’d think I would have learned by now that the weather is both fickle and extreme. Come late May, I often leave the house at eight wearing a down jacket [...]

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7 Leafy Superstars to Steer You Away from Side Salads Forever

7 Superstar Salad Recipes

I have a deep loathing of side salads. It’s partially due to the fact that they often (and prominently) feature raw onions—which I find offensive—but it’s mostly because of what’s implied by being on the side to begin with. When your greens are an ancillary part of your meal, let’s be honest, they’re really just [...]

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6 Steps to a Healthy, Family-Friendly Easter Brunch & Hunt

Healthy, Family-Friendly Easter Fun

Whether or not your holiday includes going to church, Easter is all about celebrating new life, ushering in spring, and the pleasure of spending time with family and friends. Though the explosion of cotton candy-colored plastic toys and sugar-coated marshmallows might lead many people to believe otherwise, focusing on the simple beauty of the changing [...]

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8 Tried-and-True Meatless Comfort Food Recipes

Vegetarian Comfort Food Recipes

Though my husband and I—and our kids—eat mostly grains and vegetables, we somehow become quite the carnivores when we entertain. It’s partially because, though I know better, there’s the perception that vegetarian dishes require more prep work for company. And it’s partially the urge to meet the expectations of our omnivore friends. When close friends [...]

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Our Top 10 Kid-Friendly Food-on-a-Stick Picks

Penguin Snack on a Stick

Tastes may change but one thing remains constant. Food—whether it’s on a pop, skewer, toothpick, or kabob—is more fun when it’s on a stick. People of all ages seem to gravitate to snacks, from classic candied apples and corn dogs to trendy cake-pops and hand pies, when they’re bite size and impaled for quicker consumption. [...]

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5 Uber-Healthy Versions of Classic Muffins

5 healthy muffin recipe ideas

Walk into your local Starbucks or Peet’s and you’ll see a case filled with muffins marketed as breakfast options. Some of them even pretend to be healthy, but we all know that your average muffin is just cake in sheep’s clothing. My feeling is, if it’s cake you want, eat cake! But if you’re looking [...]

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5 Reasons You and Your Kids Will Love Making Spring Rolls

healthy spring roll recipe

I’m obsessed with salad. Not your standard on-the-side variety with the requisite red onions and gratuitous carrot shreds—I mean salads that are composed or at least tossed deliberately with a freshly prepped dressing and a perfect balance of tastes and textures. But there are times, even for me, when spearing tender greens with a fork [...]

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6 Secret Ingredients for Healthier Cookies

healthy cookie recipes

Once upon a time, cookies were evil. Laden with refined flour, excessive amounts of sugar, hydrogenated fat, and Frankensteinian preservatives, there was really nothing redeeming about them. The Bad Cookie was Public Enemy Number One. Well-meaning super-innovators looking to be heroes have long tried to rehabilitate the Bad Cookie. First there was the valiant attempt [...]

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5 Quick Breakfast Recipes Every Busy Mom Should Try

No disrespect to Z-Bars (Clif Bars for kids) as a last-minute breakfast option, but when I can do a little cooking from scratch in advance to serve a real-food breakfast, my kids are more well-nourished and I can avoid the self loathing that comes with handing out breakfast bars in the car. I won’t be making a different breakfast [...]

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Kitchen Craft: How to Make Citrus-Infused Finishing Salt

There’s nothing more satisfying than getting crafty with edibles. Concocting condiments, infusing spirits, baking bread, canning veggies, making fresh cheese, or simply piecing together a meal from start to finish with your own bare hands feels incredibly rewarding. And while I very much admire the groovy moms out there who make their own Kefir, pickle [...]

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