New Video of Giada!!

Check out the latest show of Giada cooking!!
She is an inspiration!
How does she stay so thin and fit when she is constantly cooking and eating food?!
We here at The Food Network love her, and am proud to call her one of our rising stars!

watch this!


~ Lauren

Sneak Peak - Summer Decor and Food!

Here is a sneak peak of the fun stuff you will be seeing in the near future as summer quickly approaches us!

Summer decor:

Special thanks to Dining-Delight for this beautiful summer table setting!

Beautiful Summer centerpieces for your tables! Using simple bright flowers, lemons, limes, and oranges as decoration!

Summer inspiration for your sun room or deck!!

Adding bright colors, plants, and paper lamps does the trick!

Summer Food:

Fruit pizza perfect for barbecues and other summer outings!

Homemade Popsicles for those hott summer days!

Grilled veggies! Great for cookouts, and parties!!



Stay tuned for full blog and How-To!

~ Lauren

News on Home Magazine, and The Food Network

New fall and winter addition of Home Magazine is now in stores!
Go check it out to get even more ideas on how-to's
for cooking and decorating your home!!

Also pick up a copy of the new fall Better Homes and
Gardens Magazine for our feature article in there!!

NEW SERIES on The Food Network!
Starts Thursday October 21st at 7pm!!
Tune in for live how-to's on seasonal cooking
for the fall and winter!!!

Our new fall magazine is now in stores also!

~ Lauren

It's Beginning To Look Alot Like Christmas......Around Your Home!!!

Dining room table decorated = Check!
Living room table decorated = Check! Check!
Shelving around the house decorated = Check! Check! Check!

Now on to the rest of your home!
Easy as 1-2-3 decorations for around your entire home!

These projects wont take you but 10 to 30 minutes a piece to accomplish! Spend a couple hours one Saturday afternoon and your house could be done! :)

Use Simple hurricane vases,and put in clear stones, silver snowflakes, and pine cones from your backyard. For the snowy look on the pine cones, simply spray with a "snow spray" that you can get from any craft store. You can use as many or little as you want, and vases of different sizes and shapes to create this simple, elegant winter decoration!

Alot of these winter/christmas decorations you can get from your own backyard or your neighbors backyard. Stumps of wood, pine cones of different sizes, and tree branches. Add some candles with a couple vases and silver/white sprays and you have a wintery/christmas decorated home!

This one is beautiful and unique. All of these pieces can be found at your nearest craft store. Vases, fake snow, candles, Silver branches and berries. Put them all together, and you have a masterpiece! Easy as 1-2-3!

Another favorite of mine is taking vases yet again, and ornaments of different shapes and colors plus a little bit of fake snow and adding them all together in one vase to create a pretty christmas scene on any surface!

Enjoy your white Christmas,

~ Lauren

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...on your furniture!!

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas! Everywhere we go......

Have you ever wished this song could be describing your home? Well this winter, it can!

Try these simple do it yourself projects at home to lavish your home with the beauty of Christmas!

Idea # 1

Thanks to the creativity of Dining-Delight we have a beautiful example of how to decorate your kitchen table with the most beautiful adornments!! Use those red and gold hues to really make your center piece an elaborate one!

Idea # 2:

Remember back during one of our fall blogs called "The Smell of Fall is Here!", and we had you pick pumpkins and decorate your shelving in your house? Well we're going to do that again but with Christmas decorations. Pick prominent shelving in your home, and use white candles, and snowflakes, lights, and silver berries and whatever else you have to decorate with! You will end up with a beautiful shelf that you created all by yourself! :)

Enjoy your white Christmas,

~ Lauren

Winter Delicacies!

Walking into a home during the winter, smelling that fire burning, and those cookies fresh out of the oven is one of the most comforting smells ever. Or how about that turkey roasting, or that bread cooking!
Now is the time to get your thinking caps on and come up with your menu for winter!
It's always the main courses everyone knows what and how to make. But its those side items that people are always stumped on.
Well here are two side items and a dessert to which are perfect for the winter season, or Christmas Holiday.

Strawberry Nut Festive Salad

Click here for Recipe:

http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/festive-strawberry-nut-salad-64836.aspx

This red and green salad will certainly turn heads at your table. With the bright fresh colors, the sweet smell, and the different textures, this salad will be a big hit with your guests!

Original Green Bean Casserole

Click here for Recipe:

http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/cheesy-green-bean-casserole-62541.aspx

Yes, a green bean casserole is a must have at your christmas dinner! So why not try this inexpensive version, and new recipe! It's delicious, and well presented all at the same time.

Black Forest Cupcakes with Cherry Puree Buttercream Icing

Refer back to a post in the fall called: Desserts for Fall for the How-to on these great cupcakes!

Enjoy,

~ Lauren

It's Winter Tme!!!

Oh how we here at Home Magazine and the Food Network LOVE winter time! There is the beautiful snow, pretty lights, holidays like Christmas and New Years, and delicious food! This winter you are in for a treat with these new spunky ideas on how to decorate with jaw dropping ideas, and how to make the most taste-bud frenzy foods!

So as to speak from this winter song:
Take a journey with us as we go, "Over the river and through the woods to grandmothers house we go. The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh through white and drifted snow!!...."

~ Lauren