A single flat of strawberries at peak season costs about $8 at most farmers markets. With two flats and a few pantry staples, you can set a brunch table that looks like you spent the morning in a bakery — and nobody has to know you did most of it the night before. That’s the…
Plant City, Florida calls itself the Winter Strawberry Capital of the World, and if you’ve ever been to the Florida Strawberry Festival in late February, you know they’re not exaggerating. The festival draws close to 500,000 people over eleven days — and if you live within an hour of it like I did for years,…
Planning a Galentine’s Day party usually starts with good intentions and ends with a half-formed plan in your notes app. You want the night to feel special, but you don’t want it turning into a full-blown project. That’s where these pink cocktail ideas come in. They’re meant for the kind of get-together that fits into…
Every February it starts the same way. You run into the store for one thing and walk out with a buggy full of things you don’t need or you’ll never use. It adds up fast, and before you know it Valentine’s feels way more expensive than it ever should. This year I’m determined to change…
I don’t throw a Galentine’s Day party every year, but every February I start thinking about how nice it would be to do something simple — not in a “go buy twelve new things” way — more in the way that makes your kitchen smell like citrus, your counters cluttered with empty glasses, and your…
