[PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED] Some of the best and most delicious busy week-night comfort food you can put together for your family may not be the fanciest or prettiest, but it certainly delivers satisfaction. These recipes often also leave you with baking pans that have a crust of baked-on food that...

Food can be non-intuitive if you eat mindlessly. When you fall into a rut with your daily cooking or if you never venture out of box or frozen food from the store or are always eating out in restaurants sort of like they are your dorm cafeteria, you miss an opportunity to hear what food...

(Chicken Fried pork medallions, fried green tomatoes, sautéed garden spinach, white pan gravy) This is a both a cookbook review and a giveaway. Five copies of this cookbook will be given away, the winners being selected on October 31, 2010 when there will be a simultaneous live event by Meredith Laurence, the author, on QVC...

Thanks to the generosity of the CSN Stores, their site Cookware.com and their great social media outreach people I have been given an opportunity to review several kitchen tools that are basic but, in my mind, are “good things to have.” The one I am going to share with you today is a piece of...

When I was offered an opportunity to review the book “Viva Vegan!: 200 Authentic and Fabulous Recipes for Latin Food Lovers” by Terry Hope Romero I was intrigued. Knowing latino cuisine as I do, the thought of a vegan adaptation of this heavily pork laden foodway boggled my mind. You can see from the traditional...

[Follow this link for a recipe for Whole Wheat Cheddar Cheese Kefir Irish Soda Bread] St. Patrick’s day is almost here and I feel like I am getting whiplash with how fast this year is passing already! The stores put out St Patrick’s day decorations right after Christmas so by now, all that Chinese import...

BlogHer has teamed up with Kelly Ripa and the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund to bring us a fun way to raise money for this important cause. You can design a virtual cake and Electrolux will donate $1 to the fund! In addition, Electrolux is donating $100 to OCRF for every new range sold this month....

[This was cross posted at my raw food blog Raw+Simple] I had an opportunity to dive into the book, written by by Mark Reinfeld, Bo Rinaldi, and Jennifer Murray, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Eating Raw. I had not previously read one of these Idiot’s Guides but I found that they use uncomplicated first person...

Does the idea of mixing pomegranate juice with iced coffee make your eyes bug out like the cute little lamby slippers above? POM has done this craaazy thing with their POM iced coffees. .. (click for more)...

(This is a compensated review from BlogHer and Samsung Home Appliances) [This contest is now CLOSED. Please click here to see who the winner was.] At the end of this post I will share with you how you can win a $200 gift certificate from BestBuy! You will see that you’ve got 8 chances to...