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Instant Pot chicken and spinach ramen Ramen gets a major upgrade from the 10-cent packs you ate as a college student with Tieghan Gerard’s flavorful Instant Pot chicken and spinach ramen soup. Don’t let the ingredient list scare you. Despite the number of additions, this comes together quickly and you can easily customize it with your favorite veggies and preferred level of spice. Instant Pot BBQ whole chicken Roasting a chicken in the oven can take an hour or more, but this Instant Pot BBQ whole chicken, from Pressure Cook Recipes, will be ready for you to chow down in around 30 minutes....

The sexy bedhead It is hard to beat the effortlessly sexy look of loose curls, which was made famous by the models walking the Victoria’s Secret catwalk. Whether you call it a beach wave, an undone wave or the tousled curl, it is surprisingly easy to pull off. A post shared by Sofia Jamora (@sofiajamora) on Sep 1, 2017 at 12:16pm PDT NEXT PAGE: Create your own sexy bedhead look »...

Meat or no meat, the choice is yours. Make up several batches and freeze them for lunches or dinners throughout the month. Green pesto vegetable soup Our first featured recipe is this gorgeous green pesto vegetable soup from Well and Full. With a base of onion, celery and zucchini, it’s topped with green pesto made from cilantro and basil. This unique soup is delicious, full of color, and simple to make....

Dalton has spent the last five years building out her productivity and coaching company, inkWELL Press. Born out of her passion for teaching and getting things done, the company has allowed Dalton to share her well-honed tips and tricks with others through her courses and her popular Productivity Paradox podcast. Her recently published book, The Joy of Missing Out, compiles the core tenets of her counterintuitive approach to getting things done....

What’s better: Cookie dough or a made-from-scratch brownie? With this recipe, you don’t have to choose! This outrageously rich dessert joins your favorite sweet treats in heavenly layers of brownie and chocolate chip cookie dough, all lavishly covered with chocolate ganache. These sweet, impressive nibbles can take center stage of your dessert table, be presented as edible gifts, or be offered to lucky visitors any time of year. Though they require a little work and planning, you can make them days in advance so you aren’t stuck in the kitchen waiting for the brownies to cool and for the no-bake cookie dough to chill....

Crescent moon cookies are a Christmas classic beloved by many generations. They look deliciously pretty on your cookie platter, and their light, delicate texture, and sweet, buttery flavor make them a delight to eat! My mother was not a big fan of baking, and most of the year she relied on microwave dinners and store-bought cookies to feed our family. But Christmas was an exception to the rule. Mom would pull an old tin recipe box from the cabinet and find cookie recipes that had been passed down through our family for generations....

These cute little hot cocoa shots are perhaps some of the easiest DIY Christmas gifts you can make. When it comes to holiday crafts, it really doesn’t get much less complicated than layering cocoa mix with mini marshmallows and chocolate candies in cute hermetic glass jars! Even someone with an epic #pinterestfail history can get this homemade gift right. Simple, yes — but so adorable. Doesn’t everything look positively charming when presented in a glass jar?...

Why is this delicious cocktail called a “buttery finger?” Because it resembles the popular candy bar, the Butterfinger, of course! So any Butterfinger candy bar lover will enjoy sipping this sweet, chocolaty, and creamy drink. It’s such a rich and decadent cocktail that it’s perfect around the holidays or any other time when everyone has a sweet tooth. And while you can enjoy this over ice, it also makes a tasty shot!...

Dried apples and oranges are easy, crafty country accents that you can add to wreaths, swags, baskets, or any craft using dried natural items. On their own, you can use them to make ornaments, garlands and much more. Be sure to dry several different sizes of apples and oranges so you have a lot of fruit with which to create! You will need: Apples – green or red Lemon juice Salt Knife Wire racks Matte clear acrylic spray Paper towels...

If you’re preparing a formal Thanksgiving dinner, dust off that fine china and apply these tips as a guide for setting the perfect formal table. Steps to setting a formal dinner table Looking for a more casual Thanksgiving dinner setting ideas? Check out our guide to setting a proper family-friendly Thanksgiving table.

In my humble opinion, everything tastes better on the grill. This might sound strange coming from a vegan, but it is a common misconception that the grill is meant for meats. Grilling allows us to apply high temperature dry heat to our food, resulting is charred marks on the areas that come in direct contact with the grates. That adds a beautiful dimension of flavor, especially when cooked over coals....

Potatoes au gratin is a traditional holiday side dish for many families. Loads of bubbly cheese combine with whole cream, butter, garlic and sliced potatoes to create a dish so delicious that it steals the attention from the main dish! Au gratin refers to a French style of cooking that buries ingredients under a thick, gooey layer of cheese (and sometimes breadcrumbs) and browning to a crispy perfection. Don’t confuse au gratin with scalloped potatoes, though; the latter usually features thicker slices of potatoes, and no cheese....

For this macaroni and cheese recipe, I combined my three favorite things – cheese, beer and caramelized onions. To make it even more festive, instead of just normal beer, I used a seasonal favorite — pumpkin beer. It adds a nice touch of warm pumpkin flavor and pairs perfectly with the sharp cheddar cheese, sweet onions and little sprinkling of sage. Add this Thanksgiving macaroni and cheese side dish to your table and all your guests will rejoice....

Well, that, and the fact that all this mommin’ can drive a gal to drink. On a daily basis, we answer to the call of our name roughly 4.7 billion times. Incessantly, and often high-pitched. Sometimes accompanied by scream-crying, and often ending in a question like, “Why do dogs fart?” We’re the kissers of bloody boo-boos, even when it grosses us out. We’re the ones who have mastered the art of war, uh, we mean motherhood via the tactic of distraction....

Looking for an outrageously rich pumpkin dessert to celebrate fall and all its warm, cozy flavors? Make these pumpkin cream cheese swirl bars, inspired by Sally’s Baking Addiction, and you’ll find yourself throwing a weekly harvest party just to eat dessert. What makes these pumpkin cream cheese bars so special? Every tasty bar is a hand-sized piece of intensely spiced pumpkin cake lusciously joined with a cheesecake-like swirl and sprinkled with toasty cinnamon-dusted pepitas....

If you serve macaroni and cheese with your Thanksgiving feast, this recipe is the perfect fall side dish — but it also makes an awesome weeknight dinner or lunch idea! This cheesy dish is loaded with creamy flavor and comes together quickly and easily. You can also use your favorite cheese; it doesn’t have to be sharp cheddar! A satisfying pasta recipe, this dish will keep you full for a long while....

And then there are the rest of us. The proverbial we can’t help but remember boiling dozens of eggs last year, wrestling with those plastic-egg-wrap-shrinky-things that never seem to work. We recall (not so fondly) how long the fluorescent dye took to fade from our kids’ fingertips (not to mention everything else). MORE: All natural ways to dye Easter eggs Don’t get us wrong; we love the holiday and the quality time with our families....

Need a fun and flavor-packed appetizer that your holiday guests can eat gracefully with their fingers? Put these tasty turkey cranberry meatballs, inspired by Shutterbean, on your Thanksgiving menu and we guarantee that you’ll be eager to serve them for all of your fall and winter celebrations. From family gatherings to game days to holiday cocktail parties, turkey cranberry meatballs are a finger food favorite. Who can resist grabbing a toothpick skewered into a mouthful of juicy, herbalicious and slightly sweet turkey meat?...

Turns out, it was a lot more of a challenge than I anticipated. Testing beer boba We started by testing spherification and reverse spherification techniques. (That’s right, we’re getting scientific over here.) Let’s not get into too many specifics, because, otherwise, you’ll spend all afternoon reading this article. But, basically, we purchased some calcium lactate and sodium alginate — two substances that are supposed to make spherification super simple. To achieve spherification, all you have to do (the simplified version) is mix some sodium alginate with the liquid you want to spherify (in our case, beer)....

MORE: At-home face masks that are a little pricier but worth the splurge for Mother’s Day Real talk: Put your listening cap on (now I sound like my mom), because you need to hear this truth. Ready? Spending Mother’s Day alone doesn’t make you a bad mom. Like, at all. In fact, it kinda just makes you a mom, period. Think about it. You spend practically every waking minute worrying about the well-being of your children....