Valentine's Day is just around the corner. Find great ideas for spoiling your loved ones, including recipes that will satisfy your sweet tooth and your sweetie! Everything from chocolate-dipped strawberries to decadent cheesecake will do the trick.
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, sweet treat can be found everywhere. Get all the great flavor of chocolate-covered strawberries without the mess and fuss in a great cookie that's perfect for sending to school or the office.
Some food is more than just a sweet treat. Sometimes, it's the stuff of memories. That's where chocolate chip cookies fit into the picture for many of us. But do you know how these sentimental morsels came to be? Find out in this fun journey down memory lane.
After record highs and pouring rain, plummeting temperatures and falling snow have settled in. How do you respond to such a strange switch in the weather? With comforting chocolate, of course. It's time to make hot chocolate and enjoy a few fun twists on the tried and true standby. After all, watching the snow fall with a cup of cocoa in your hands makes it all better!
Record temperatures bringing ongoing rain and fog leave lots of room for comfort food menus. Mine includes a creamy chowder that's chock full of vegetables, turkey, and a creamy broth. Float a slice of crusty bread in the center of your bowl and you've got a great lunch or dinner for any day of the week.
Sure, beets are great roasted and sliced into salad or pickled and served alongside fish, but in dessert? I've found adding grated beets to a basic chocolate cakes takes it from nice to outstanding without adding any fat. Beyond that, you find yourself with a cake that just doesn't dry out and seems to taste better with every day … if it manages to last at all!
Mushrooms are super anytime of the year, but winter affords us an opportunity to pair them with intense ingredients like blue cheese and serve them alongside everything from roasted meat to slow-cooked soups. What's more, if you happen to have a gluten allergy, this approach doesn't leave you in appetizer limbo since they are entirely gluten free!
Crockpot cooking is one way to keep your family all warm and well-fed during the cold winter months, and planning a weekly menu keeps you out of the cold and icy weather more often. By planning just one weekly shopping day with one goal in mind - creating enough crockpot meals for a week - you can feed your family hearty meals and stay toasty warm indoors, coming home to those wonderful aromas of a delicious, slow cooked meal all ready for you and your family to enjoy.
Dried beans are inexpensive, healthy, and usually annoying to use in cooking. Between soaking overnight and hours and hours of cooking time, most people just opt to use canned versions of the same. But if you have a heavy, lidded pot and a working oven, you can take advantage of dried beans without all the fuss. And you can enjoy South American Black Bean Soup on a day when winter has you chilled to the bone.
Did your resolutions this year include making better use of your space? The kitchen is a great place to start with that and we're helping you out with some great ideas for doing just that! Pick one or two ideas or get great space-saving by mixing and matching lots of options.
