Gouda Have It: Staycation Cheese Plates, Because Cheese
When you’re Staycationing, a cheese plate is a wonderful thing whether you’re hosting company or you plan to eat that entire board all by your fucking self (I support you in this).
37 Recipes That Prove the Egg Comes Before the Chicken
EGGS.
Get Baked: This Chocolate Cake
Sometimes you want a chocolate cake to hit you in the face like a moist, fragrant, delicious brick. With sprinkles.
100 Leafy Salad Recipes that Aren’t Just for Silly Wabbits
Here’s some inspiration for how to chomp down on lettuce, cabbage, herbs, and a lot of the amazing shit Mother Earth gave you ’cause she loves you.
35 Recipes to Help You Get Lucky at the Potluck
Make your next potluck contribution the belle (bowl?) of the ball.
Sunday Top Ten: Heartwarming Midwestern and Southern Restaurant Chains I Miss
Nobody does breakfast like Bob Evans.
Get Baked: New Year’s Spring Rolls
This year on New Year’s day, I’m going to call my mom and my closest friends to exchange New Year’s greetings, give oranges and red envelopes to my friends’ kids and have a tiny but extravagant banquet with my friends in town.
28 Delicious Things to Put on Toast, Champion of Breakfast & Beyond
Warning: There will be crumbs.
40 Noodle Recipes Because Seriously, Who Isn’t Excited About Noodles, They’re Great
Whether sauced, fried, floating in soup, mixed with vegetables and proteins or delightfully minimalist, they’re never unwelcome.
Top Chef’s Melissa King: The Autostraddle Interview
We convinced her to share her top secret tips for cooking perfect scrambled eggs!
Liquor In The Snow Day: Perfect Penguin Martinis
“Optional: grab a chive and tie it around its tiny penguin neck like a wee scarf.”
35 Soft Foods For People Who Don’t Have Teeth (Or Whatever)
Also good for people with cold sores, upset stomachs, or an interest in what I ate last year.
14 Alternative Lifestyle Sodas I’ve Sampled This Winter, Ranked
Reject the sodanormative standards that society tries to force upon you!
30 Food Fusions to Confuse and Delight Your Palate
It’s kind of like a “best of” for food mashups from around the world.
20 Dishes that Taste Just as Good (or Better!) the Next Day
Because not all leftovers are created equal.
35 Recipes Stuffed Full of Goodness
I pinkie-swear you won’t find a single turducken on this list.
Homosteading: Preserve Lemons, Impress the Hell Out of Everyone
Got boatloads of lemons? Turn them into boatloads of respect.
30 Healthy Snacks for Crunching Your Way Into the New Year
Perfect for hosting your New Year’s Eve bash for your friends who have all declared they’re going to go gluten-free, vegan AND paleo in 2015.
27 Foods You Can Make in the Microwave
If it requires a stove, oven or toaster, you won’t find it here.
Get Baked: Homemade Gingerbread for all Your Festive Needs
“At some point, probably around the time I became a surly teenager and wanted something of my very own to craft and control and create, I decided to start making gingerbread too. At first this was just something I did alone, but gradually my younger brother began helping me, then my older brother, and it kind of became a tradition by accident.”