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When visiting Japan, one of the tasty local Japanese foods is okonomiyaki, a savory pancake.

6 Tips to Expand Your Palate While Traveling

One of the best experiences when traveling is trying new food. It’s your chance to taste the local flavors, something that’s not available at home or anywhere else, for that… 

The smell of baking banana bread will warm your kitchen and your family'heart.

Recipe for Easy Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips and Nuts

I confess…I love to bake!  Baking relaxes me and puts me in my happy place. Since my teen years, my favorite go-to dessert to bake has always been banana bread. The smell of the baking banana bread in the kitchen and tasting the moist banana nut bread with melted chocolate chips fresh out of the oven is the best reward. So many have asked for the easy banana bread recipe with two tasty extra ingredients, and so ta-dah, here it is!

Honey is sweet – that’s a given as honey is Nature's sweetener. But did you know that honey also adds a special touch to almost any recipe?

10-Minute Honey Recipes and Holiday Hosting Hacks

How naturally sweet it is!  Using nature’s naturally sweet ingredient, honey, creates a perfect holiday treat for your next party. The National Honey Board sweetens your home with these easy-to-make 10-minute honey and holiday hosting hacks.

What are the essential pantry staples that you should always have on hand?

Pantry Staples: Ingredients You Should Always Have

My family was overzealous pantry purchasers. We lived a ways out in the country on a farm, and we never knew when drifting snow would close our rocky off-the-beaten-path road. Even though I’m now a city-dweller, I carried that tradition into my own home, maintaining pantry items to stock up on – sometimes to the extreme. Which really worked out for me during the COVID-19 pandemic, when grocery shelves were emptied of the pantry essentials. Read on for pantry staples for ingredients you should always have on hand.