Got holiday travel plans? You’re going to need some healthy travel snacks – and some good entertainment – to keep everyone in the family happy. Let’s start with travel snacks: Who has ever enthusiastically packed a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, only to open it up on the road and find it completely smooshed? Travel […]
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Flash Netflix Giveaway – Tag a Friend!
We are SO close (so, so, so close!) to the October 27 debut of the second season of Stranger Things on Netflix. Don’t you want to be in on it (and maybe catch up on the first season) before it all goes down? Here’s the scoop – We have TWO three-month Netflix subscriptions to […]
Apple Salsa – Spicy, Fresh, Perfect for Fall
Picture our family in the kitchen, surrounded by 27 pounds of apples that we’ve picked. We’ve already made apple pie, applesauce, and we’ve eaten what seems like an endless amount of apples out of hand. What’s left to make? “Apple salsa!” declares one of the kids. Apple salsa… Hmmm… That might just work. Turns out, […]
Avocado Roses, Beauty, and the Little Things
This has been a tough week for so many people…With so many hearts broken in our hometown and beyond, what we’d like to see is less violence and anger and more flowers, specifically avocado roses. Flowers? Avocado roses? Well, there may not be much that a food blog can do, but what we can do […]
A Thoughtful Feast: 1950s Cuisine
Why is it that we treat food history throughout the ages with reverence, except for the 1950s, which seem to be considered mostly a joke? While Spam, aspic, and over-the-top garnishes were the haute cuisine of the day, those items have since been relegated to the punchlines of the food world. We had a chance […]
Make Your Own Kombucha
A few weeks ago we promised we’d do some more science-y food projects, and now here we are, with a glass of home-brewed kombucha in hand. How did we get here? It’s really quite simple. First, for the uninitiated, kombucha is a fermented tea that tastes fizzy, spicy, and somewhat sweet. It’s full of probiotics […]
Hi! I'm Jeanne Fratello - a writer, reporter, and a mom who is on a mission to find great food for kids and to keep parents up to date on the latest nutrition news. You can read more about me here.
