Food & Dining

I thought this Kellogg's recipe was a cute idea: use a leaf-shaped cookie cutter to cut out your Rice Krispies treats and then decorate with orange frosting. Check out Kellogg’s website for other Rice

This site offers fun and family friendly ways to teach your child about nutrition - the best part of the site is that it breaks down its Family cooking recipes into "Parent" and "Child" duties

Is the new book, Deceptively Delicious, by Jessica Seinfeld, too deceptive? Where do we draw the line between hiding veggies in our kids food and being honest about what is healthy? Let's compromise! 

I've been looking for healthy lunchbox options and a friend told me about FruitaBu Organic Fruit Twirls. My kids love them. They look like fruit by the foot, but with much better ingredients and no added sugar

Enjoy these recipes for Creepy Cuisine and Potent Potions.  Not only are they fun, spooky and "gross" for kids, but they are healthier than other traditional recipes. 

Here's an easy October treat: Find non-powedered, non-latex gloves in the cleaning section or drugstore. The cheaper ones are the best because they are thinner. Drop one candy corn into each finger to be fingernails

These pumpkin bars are great!  Many of the ingredients you probably already have in your house, which makes preparation easier!  (Just make sure you really do follow the directions and wait until they

The Healthy Lunchbox by Marie McClendon and is a book full of ideas and recipes for school lunchboxes.  It offers help in how to plan, prepare and pack stress-free meals kids will love.  I'm completely

Interesting! It's not what you eat, but how much you eat. Read this short article and DO try this at home, kids.

I'm really enjoying the site Really Natural - it's a great blog with tons of ideas to be as eco- friendly as possible.  I love their article on cars, bottles and new cook books on the market. 

Try Panera's Pink Ribbon Bagels. This is from their website: NEW! Made with cherry chips, dried cherries and cranberries, vanilla, honey and brown sugar. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of each Pink

My daughter bought a huge can of French's Fried Onions for a recipe (Dad said they didn't have the small cans!?) Anyway, they were going to get stale, so I started throwing them in the salad, which added

The National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition has come out with recommendations suggesting that pregnant women eat at least 12 oz. of fish every week, saying that the threat posed by mercury contamination

They say necessity is the mother of invention.. and I suppose the adage applies to cooking as well as anything else! This is what I came up with tonight when what started out as "clean-out-the-fridge-night"

Here's a simple (just four ingredients!) recipe for yummy biscuits perfect for breakfast or dinner.  Bake some up quick and enjoy!  Or use the dough to make indian fry bread...so good with butter

We recently stumbled upon What's Cooking Weekly, an online meal planning subscription service, and it has changed the way my family eats! Every week, we get healthy and seasonal recipes, organized grocery

Really easy to make - classic New England dessert. Buy your cranberries now while they are available and pop a few bags in the freezer to make this later too.  Yum!  1-cup fresh cranberries ½

My friend at What's Cooking Blog in California has come up with a great granola recipe! Check out her blog for the yummy how to's!

This is my favorite pumpkin bread recipe, which we make all fall and winter. It’s from Cooking Light, but no one ever guesses that it’s light! It’s easy to make with kids and makes two loaves

My kids love apple slices but when I have to bring them for a snack when we are out, I often have the problem with them becoming brown b/c they are sliced.  My problem was fixed when I found apple slices already

OK, friends, I'm going to let you in on a secret-the best dinner I've made in maybe a year only took me 15 minutes to cook!! I just threw this together, and it is absolutely divine. Bonus: my vegetarian

I have a quick and easy recipe for baked fish.  I used cod fillets but I am sure this would taste fine with any other white fish.  Ingredients: any kind of white fish fillet, italian dressing, italian

I don't know why it took me until last year to find out about spaghetti squash. You just buy a nice looking squash, pierce it with a fork in 5 or 6 places, microwave about 10 minutes or so, until soft. Let it

If you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with your mixer for a few minutes. You can double it in size. You get to frost more cake/cupcakes with the same amount. You also eat less sugar/calories

A friend brought this cake over last Fall.  It was simply delicious!  A moist, apple cake suitable for a decadent breakfast, a satisfying snack, or a simple dessert.  The friend didn't

I have often said if someone made a juice box that was half juice and half water they'd make millions.  Well not that Mott's needs the extra cash but...THEY DID IT!  Yippee!  Mott's recently

When you have leftover pizza, heat it up in a non-stick skillet on top of the stove.  Set heat to med-low and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No more soggy microwave pizza.  I saw this

I bought a bag of beautiful frozen shrimp for very low cost, and came home to look for a recipe online. Betty Crocker has this webpage with 44 shrimp salad recipes, some low fat, some quick and easy, some spicy

Ever get part way through a recipe only to discover you're out of an ingredient you thought you had?  I just found a great resource for the occasional recipe rescue!  Joyofbaking.com has a list of

My mom passed this apple crisp recipe along to me a while ago....it makes for an easy and DELISH fall dessert! Jill's Apple Crisp Slice peeled apples almost to the top of a 9x13 pan.  Sprinkle with

This webpage has a few different articles with more school lunch ideas and discussions. I don't know about you, but I can never have enough good ideas for healthy lunches and snacks, and how to make/package

This helpful chart has nutritional information about the best and worst options for the top fast food chains. When schedules change and we get busier, we may be opting for these kinds of meals, so it makes sense

All Recipes is a super helpful site.  After a long day, I'm often at a loss for dinner ideas...not any longer.  Now I can plug in the ingredients I have on hand and this site will give me a list

Several times I've almost bought those cute individual cupcake plastic containers, so that the kids can take a cupcake to school without squishing the icing. But we so rarely have cupcakes, I know that we'll

I haven't tried this one yet, but it sounds absolutely yummy, and not too difficult. Plus, I love to find new things to use my bundt pan for!

For years, even pre-kids, I've taken shortcuts to delicious meals that tast gourmet and take only a few minutes. Stonewall Kitchen makes amazing marinades, mustards, dressings, jams, etc. You can get them at

Now that school is back in swing, I often find myself struggling with new and healthy items to pack in my kids' lunchboxes.  This means striking a balance between what they will actually eat

Old Fashioned Strawberry Swirl Shortcake from Family Circle Magazine Makes 8 servings Prep time 10 minutes Bake at 450 degrees for 10 minutes Ingredients 1-1/2 pounds strawberries, washed, hulled and sliced

Try this easy and yummy recipe for southwest relish. It has all the best flavors, including avocado, which has the "good" fat and tastes wonderful. Serve with grilled chicken, meat or fish, or on the side

FoodieView.com is a search engine for recipes all over the web, but it also has a new restaurant guide. It collects reviews from newspapers, magazines, review sites and food bloggers, so you can find information

This recipe is a surefire pleaser at our house, everyone from my husband to my toddler loves it!  When these flavors mix and the cheese gets all gooey this classic dish is mmmmmm...yummy!! Ingredients:

We made this Martha Stewart recipe for Halloween night dinner last year, and it was very yummy! The "bats" are bowtie noodles, and the "cobwebs" are cheese.  Your kids will get a kick out

The taste of fresh herbs is irreplacable! But if you don't have them in potted plants around the house they can be hard to keep fresh. Plus buying by the bunch can get expensive! That's why I was so excited

This cute pot clip hangs on the rim of your pot and holds your spoon, so the spoon doesn't drip all over your stove. Even with a spoonrest on my stove, there's usually a big mess, or at least, a gooey spoonrest

If you need a quick and easy dinner to make, try the marsala sauce from Trader Joe's.  All you do is sautee some chicken breast until it is fully cooked, add the sauce and simmer for about 10 mins and

Check out these adorable crust cutters for sandwiches. The set includes a dinosaur, heart and teddy bear.

Think of it as Web 2.0 for wine.  Cork'd is a free service for reviewing, sharing and discovering wine. Cork'd lets you catalog, rate, and review wines in your Wine Journal; Find out what your buddies

Here is a great recipe for pickles from Cooking Light that I’ve used twice already with the cucumbers from my garden.  There’s no preserving necessary and they will keep in the fridge for up to

Here’s a fun article that was in The New York Times last week where the author gives eight summer tomato recipes.  Enjoy those summer tomatoes while you can!

It's the inevitable question:  "Mom, what's for dinner?"  Problem is, half the time we don't know ourselves!  Enter Rachael Ray!  The queen of thirty minute meals now has