Photo: Jen/Green Wedding Shoes via Megan Welker Celebrate the cooking-couple-to-be in your life with a shower that reflects their culinary personalities. From enchanting invitations to delicate desserts, the heart and soul of wedding showers begin with choosing a theme that captures a couple’s personality and creative taste. Photo: Shea Shoemaker/Something Turquoise 1. Green Garden Wedding Shower The Theme: Dig up your favorite gardening gloves as you shower your happy couple with succulents, fresh herbs, and sprouting vegetables. Host your wedding  shower outdoors in a garden or g ..read more

Photo: Betsy Garcia/Juan of a Kind Creation These easy and DIY costumes are so darn cute you’ll want to eat them right up. From serious to goofy, there is something delectable about a baby being all decked out. For this Halloween, consider dressing up your toddler or baby  as a favorite dish.  Not baby-adjacent? Go ahead and check out these grin-worthy outfits anyway, they’ll be the most deliciously delightful part of your day. Photo: Brandy/Pretty Plain Janes 1. Spaghetti and Meatballs Costume Pastafarians and  Lady and the Tramp fans alike can agree a spaghetti and meatballs ..read more

Photo: Kelly Nardo/Eat the Gains Looking for inspiration for your first—or next—Whole30? These nine bloggers will help you get started. The Whole30, a wildly popular health program that eliminates specific food groups for a full 30 days, can be intimidating to beginners, especially those who have a difficult time fathoming a month without sugar, grains, dairy, and legumes. What Is the Whole30? The Whole30 is very similar to a Paleo diet, and the rules are short and sweet (full guidelines can be found on the Whole30 website): Enjoy moderate portions of meat, seafood, and eggs; plenty of fruits ..read more

Photo: Inspiralized/The Inspiralizer Quick! Grab one of these go-to kitchen gadgets and dig into our most popular recipes. Our forefathers made do in the kitchen with a few pans and an open flame. They also didn’t have avocado toast, cronuts, or paleo pancakes made from nothing but eggs and bananas. We live in the future now, which means we have a world of tools at our disposal. But how do you separate the clutter from the culinary clutch players? We did the research for you, that’s how. We culled through thousands of recipes on CookbookCreate.com to find our users’ absolute favorite recipes f ..read more

Create a high-quality cookbook that will raise thousands of dollars for your organization. Creating fundraising cookbooks used to be time and labor-intensive—I know from experience. I remember helping my mom collate and bind mimeographed cookbooks that she and a co-chair produced to raise money for my elementary school’s PTA. But it’s not like that anymore! Today, technology like Cookbook Create’s group collections feature and cookbook design software makes it remarkably easy to gather, edit and organize recipes and to create high-quality printed cookbooks for your fundraiser. And because ..read more

A chance to create a cookbook they’ll keep forever is the gift that keeps on giving. When I was a kid, I turned my nose up when I received a gift certificate for a special occasion. But as an adult, the freedom of choice contained within that tiny package is everything! Looking for a special gift for the culinary enthusiast who has everything? Look no further — you can now purchase Cookbook Create gift certificates for any occasion. An eGift to make one of our customized, beautifully printed cookbooks are perfect for birthdays, holidays, and even wedding and anniversary gifts for your loved on ..read more

Photo: Jessica/Jessica in the Kitchen You’ve never had avocados like this before, and they are so good! What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of avocados? For some people, it’s probably guacamole, aka one of the best dips in the world. But the avocado is capable of so much more. I’ve grown up in different countries in the Caribbean and have eaten avocados in their purest form, and in the most transformative ways. After a recent anniversary trip to Tulum, Mexico, and experiencing avocado in many sweet and savory forms, I’m dying to share the wonders of the avocado! Here ..read more

A little help to ensure your cookbook photos look their best Congratulations! If you’re reading this post, you’re probably well on your way to creating a beautiful customized cookbook using Cookbook Create. The collection of recipes you’ll add to the pages of your cookbook tell a story, but the photos really bring that story to life. (You don’t have to be a professional photographer or Instagram celebrity to have great photos, by the way — we’ve got photo tips for you!) When you’re choosing photos to include in your cookbook, there are just a few nitty-gritty guidelines you’ll need to fol ..read more

Photo: Jen/Craft-O-Maniac Easy ways to capture, update and save recipes from all the great cooks in your family. As a cookbook author and local food magazine editor, I get lots of opportunities to write, review and test recipes from my community. But my favorite recipes to play around with are those from my grandmothers, Ruth and Dorothy. They were excellent cooks, in different ways: Ruth enjoyed baking and favored fancy dishes that were fit for company; Dorothy cooked simply using produce from her vast backyard garden. While both of them have passed away, I still feel them standing over my sh ..read more

The freshman 15 have nothing on teens with these healthy life skills. You’ve created so many memories around the dining table with your college-bound teen; now that they’re leaving the nest, let’s get them cooking and shopping healthfully for themselves! I learned to cook, both from recipes and from my parents, who have a love of cooking and eating. I’ve had life-threatening food allergies for my entire life and I was a lacto-ovo vegetarian all through college. There was a lot to juggle diet-wise, but I prepared food and cooked for myself through college, with a spirit of creativity and play ..read more