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Sara’s Cooking Class: Spil Games Knows Tween Girls (Part 1)

November 12, 2012Kristen Rutherford

Much as I don’t like to admit it, Spil has done extensive research into the mind of the tween girl, as well as the mothers of tween girls. The age range listed was roughly around 8 to 9 years old, and it basically said that at this age, young girls are dreaming about their “first kiss.” In my head, I had a knee-jerk reaction of NO WAY TOO YOUNG ARE YOU KIDDING. And the next thing they said was that their studies showed that the mothers of tween girls HATE this fact.

Warm Up With Delicious Recipes from the Moufflet Muffin Cookbook

November 7, 2012Nicole Wakelin

There’s also nothing quite like fresh-baked muffins on a cold day or first thing in the morning. Although there are old standards I make every year, I’m always looking for tasty new recipes. Moufflet: More Than 100 Gourmet Muffin Recipes That Rise to Any Occasion provides a selection that will keep me happily baking until Spring.

Lonely Planet’s Coffee Table Books Bring Adventure Into Your Home

November 6, 2012Jenny Bristol

Last month, Lonely Planet published two gorgeous new books that will both inspire you and decorate your coffee table. When I think of Lonely Planet, I think of travel guides that you take along on your travels. But these new books will instead plant the seed for future adventure. Great travel books include magnificent photography that evokes emotion and paints a scene. These books definitely succeed there.

Eat Like a Geek: Persimmon Jam

September 28, 2012Natania Barron

Many people around here remember fondly eating persimmon jam in the fall, but their memories are often amended with “my grandmother used to make that.”

The Unofficial Downton Abbey Cookbook

September 11, 2012Nicole Wakelin

Depending on which side of the pond you call home, you’re either just days away from Season Three of Downton Abbey or you’ve got to wait until January. I am in the later group and take consolation in having The Unofficial Downton Abbey Cookbook so I can at least eat like the Crawleys while I await their return.

Eat Like a Geek: The Moscow Mule

September 6, 2012Natania Barron

Okay, so technically this is “drink like a geek”–and, right off the bat, let’s make it clear this is not a recipe for the kiddos (though you can certainly omit the alcohol, and you’d be good to go). In our house, we’re always looking for geeky adult beverages. I prefer things bourbon and whisky based, but my husband Michael discovered this delicious concoction that’s quite good, and uses vodka. Its name? The Moscow Mule.

Eat Like a Geek: Pesto Five Ways

August 30, 2012Natania Barron

The best way to keep basil tasty for a while, I’ve found, is pesto. If you can make a jar of pesto, you’ve got concentrated flavor and dozens of options.

Muffin Tin Chef

August 27, 2012Laura Grace Weldon

Make dinner faster and more appealing–in a muffin tin.

35 Ways to Make Summer Last

August 23, 2012Laura Grace Weldon

Stretch summer well into autumn with these 35 fun (and cheap) activities.

Eat Like a Geek: A Medieval Feast

August 23, 2012Natania Barron

So you don’t have time or energy or the extra cash to get to a Renaissance Faire this year? Why not make our own at home!

Julia Child’s 100th Birthday Celebrated Online

August 15, 2012Natania Barron

If you grew up in the 80s like I did, there’s a high probability that you came across Julia Child the same way: through PBS. The ebullient and impressive host of a variety of programs, she had a way with food–a casual, almost childlike enthusiasm for great ingredients and everything French.

9 Fictional Beverages You Can’t Have (And Recipes for Them)

August 14, 2012Ruth Suehle

In part one of this post, we gave 14 fictional foods and recipes for re-creating them. Now we turn to the potent (and not so potent) potables of our favorite far-off places.

Fourteen Fictional Foods You Can’t Have (And Recipes For Them)

August 11, 2012December 14, 2017Ruth Suehle

Our favorite fictional worlds are often fantastically full of fantasy flavors–some better than others. It’s hard to resist trying to create Earthly versions of them, so why try? Here are fourteen foods from fiction and ways to make them yourself, along with three you can find without much invention.

Eat Like a Geek: Hundred Years’ Pork

August 9, 2012Natania Barron

Today we bring you a recipe for my Hundred Years’ Pork with a complimentary history lesson, to boot!

Gadgets For Grilling: Brookstone Talking Remote Meat Thermometer and More!

August 9, 2012Nicole Wakelin

The Brookstone Talking Remote Meat Thermometer takes the guesswork out of summer grilling. It’s one of the biggest challenges all us would-be Bobby Flays face. How do you know when the meat is done?

Summer Food: 30 Fun Ideas For Your Geeklets

August 2, 2012Laura Grace Weldon

30 ways to make food fun for kids.

Georgetown Cupcake Opens In Boston!

June 20, 2012Nicole Wakelin

The business quickly outgrew that first shop and the sisters expanded to a larger store nearby, but now they’re expanding outside the DC area and opening shops across the US. In addition to Bethesda, Maryland and New York City, the most recent shop on Newbury Street in Boston, Massachusetts opened last weekend. The grand opening was celebrated with a preview night with mini cupcakes galore and champagne.

Geeky Gifts for Your Geek Dad!

June 14, 2012Helene McLaughlin

Ever since becoming a writer for GeekMom, I’ve found that there are geeky gifts lurking around every corner, you just have to know YOUR geek. Read about some last minute suggestions for Father’s Day.

The Big Green Egg: A Whole New World of Grilling to Explore

June 14, 2012Nicole Wakelin

It’s a ritual that marks the beginning of summer. The weather warms up and you finally get to fire up the old grill and make some burgers. The thing is, it’s never really that simple. Everyone has what they think is the perfect combination of seasonings and technique to make the absolutely most wonderful, amazing, tasty, delicious food that anyone has ever tasted in the history of the world. Admit it. You went to your friend’s house and you looked at how he grilled and just knew you could do it better. Well, the Big Green Egg looks at all of you using traditional gas grills and thinks the very same thing. It knows how to do it better.

Father’s Day Gifts with Ulterior Motives: iGrill

June 11, 2012Marziah Karch

On Mother’s Day, they tend to advertise a lot of things like vacuums and ironing boards. I think that’s a little mean. It’s like giving someone a gift that says, “Clean my house!” I’ll admit that I’m occasionally guilty of doing this for Father’s Day, although my gifts usually say “Cook for me!” He likes cooking, and I like eating, so I refuse to feel guilty about it. This year, I received a review model of the iDevices iGrill, and I wanted to see if it qualifies as good gift encouragement for tasty smoked meats.

Kitchen Experiments: What Flour Makes The Best Biscuits?

May 16, 2012Ruth Suehle

I’m a biscuit geek. Full on biscuit-obsessed. I couldn’t even begin to count how many biscuits I’ve made in pursuit of biscuit perfection. Thus I share that wisdom with you, such that you might jump ahead a few steps.

Skylanders, Star Wars, and Game of Thrones Cupcakes by Just Jenn Recipes

April 29, 2012December 16, 2017Nicole Wakelin1

I love making cupcakes and have enough cupcake books that if I made a new batch every day for a year, I think I’d still have plenty left to try. But most of my cupcakes are not as fantastic as the ones created by Jenn Fujikawa of Just Jenn Recipes. I interviewed her on the […]

The GeekMoms Podcast #20 Geeky Cupcakes And Food With Just Jenn Recipes

April 27, 2012Nicole Wakelin

As Moms, we’ve probably baked about five gazillion cupcakes. Some of them were simple but some, usually the ones that were special requests by the kids, have been a bit more challenging. In this episode, GeekMom Nicole Wakelin talks with Jenn Fujikawa of Just Jenn Recipes about her geeky food creations, especially cupcakes. From Star Wars […]

Are You the Parent of a Train Geek? Throw a Birthday Party at a Tourist Railroad!

April 21, 2012Patricia Vollmer4

I almost didn’t post anything for Birthday Week. It wasn’t until GeekMom Kelly posted about banning the goody bags that I remembered a clever goody bag idea… which was in itself part of a wonderful birthday experience for my oldest son. In 2006, when the family was living in Apex, North Carolina, we had the […]

Funny Food

April 21, 2012Laura Grace Weldon

Play with your food. Go ahead. Make a banana truck, pancake guitar, pineapple boat, or cereal face. Artfully silly food takes on new appeal thanks to a man who has plenty of experience making creative meals. Bill Wurtzel, an art director and jazz musician, has made amusing breakfast for 50 years to serve his wife […]

Birthday Week: Conquer Kaos with a Skylanders Birthday Party

April 20, 2012Amy Kraft3

A few of you have been asking in our previous Skylanders posts for ideas on what to do for a Skylanders birthday party. Couple that with the fact that I’m planning a party for my soon-to-be-seven Skylanders fanatic, and my tech gears have been turning. Here are some of my ideas and I invite you […]

Birthday Week: Buffy Cake for the Win

April 20, 2012Marziah Karch

Don’t ever let yourself think that being a grownup means you can’t have an awesome birthday cake. You don’t have to go all out and have a themed birthday party to enjoy it, although I had one friend this year who threw herself a Firefly birthday party complete with costumed guests. How fun is that? […]

Birthday Week: A Beatles-Themed First Birthday

April 20, 2012Helene McLaughlin2

Throwing a first birthday party is usually a festive affair, filled with balloons and cake and presents. When our first son turned one we centered the whole party around his favorite stuffed animal, a Paul Frank Monkey. We knew we wanted to do something different for our second son’s first birthday party, something that even […]

How to Make a Super Easy Zombie Cake

April 19, 2012Jessamyn

What’s better than birthday cake? Zombie birthday cake, obviously. I have few domestic talents, but this is a cake that even the most clueless chef can tackle with ease. Mistakes? No such thing. This zombie rises up out of a grave of chocolate cake, frosting, and crumbled cookies. What you need: foil cardboard box Oreo […]

How to Throw a Pre-School Pirate Party

April 17, 2012Sophie Brown5

Last September was my son’s second birthday party. Unlike with his first, I spent a long time considering what theme to go with; at two he was certainly old enough to have an interest in his own things, but not yet old enough to choose his own party theme. I eventually picked a pirate […]

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