All posts by Jen Laskey

Today, a friend reminded me of this funny Saturday Night Live skit in which Chris Parnell,

[caption id="attachment_1936" align="alignleft" width="203" caption="Budget-Friendly Bubbly"][/caption]One of my best girlfriends is 3,000 miles away right now, but she just called and proposed that we drink our first

It's hard to go wrong when there's butter, sugar and dark chocolate in the mix. This is the recipe for the English toffee I made as part

In my previous post, Last-Minute Homemade Holiday Gifts, I mentioned that I was planning to make some dark chocolate peppermint bark and English toffee as

I have to admit that I share Kim’s disdain for crafting, but each December I do enjoy playing a bit of Santa’s Workshop and making

CSA has become a fairly well-known household term — even among us urban folks, but if it hasn’t yet shot up on your radar, the acronym stands

In Italy, la cucina povera is a term that embraces the idea of cooking with basic farm-fresh ingredients, but the original concept more or less assumed that you

This is my most recent experimental collaboration with my ice cream maker. The recipe makes about 2 pints of gelato. [caption id="attachment_1217" align="alignleft" width="165" caption="Blackberry Lavender Gelato with Bittersweet

This past 4th of July, Kim shared some of her thoughts on economic independence and a few weeks ago, Joelle offered some interesting financial