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August is the perfect time to curl up with a good book. This hot-and-steamy month is, appropriately, Read-a-Romance Month, 31 days dedicated to swooning and melting, yearning and burning. We asked Bobbi Dumas, founder of this homage to romance novels, to pick her favorite book each week. Naturally, we’ll be complementing her suggestions with something to snack on. And since you’re likely to get hot and bothered, we decided to go with food pairings to help cool you down.

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Blackberry Chia Jam

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Homemade jam is a little luxury of love. Spending an afternoon preparing the fruit, cooking it down with sugar and lemon juice, and then washing and filling jars should be rewarded with a batch of thick, flavorful jam. Occasionally, though, we home jammers are left with a batch of runny or loose jam instead of the perfect jam we worked for. Here are a few tips for troubleshooting loose jam.

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Labor Day weekend is upon us, and if you’re wondering what to do with your brood, why not get the gang involved in a summer preserving project? It’ll keep everyone busy and you’ll be rewarded with delicious treats for many months to come.

We asked Aimee Wimbush-Bourque, the Simple Bites blogger and author of Brown Eggs & Jam Jars to share what a day of preserving looks like for her and her family of five.

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Preserving the season’s bounty in a whirlwind jamming session is one of our very favorite things to do. Pots, pans, and jars crowd every available surface; bundles of ripe fruits and veggies stand at the ready; our hair is tied back; and our aprons are tied on.

But before we hull our first strawberry or rinse our first blueberry, we like to set the mood with some tunes. Something easygoing, but lively enough to keep the energy up while we’re simmering, stirring, and straining.

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From Apartment Therapy → 7 Simple Daily Habits that Will Make You Less Wasteful

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How To Grill Perfect Steak

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The summer may be winding down, but that doesn’t mean you have to put away the grill for the year. There are still plenty of nice days left to master the grill and get quick, delicious dinners on the table. The first step is knowing the basics. Although there are many brands, shapes, and sizes of grills on the market, there are a few things that will always stay the same. Turn to these five tips for grilling success every time.

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This is the final post in our Summer Countdown series. What a delight it has been to explore with you the many ways summer is experienced through our traditions and celebrations, and our appetites.

Of course, summer isn’t totally over. Nature doesn’t use a calendar, so we drift and slowly turn towards autumn: the hints already began back in August and we won’t really be in full fall until October. We may be packing up the summer house (both metaphorically and physically) this weekend, but don’t say goodbye to summer quite yet. The sun is still with us.

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Blueberry Pancake Casserole

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When it comes to easy cooking, the 9×13-inch pan is the single piece of cookware we reach for most. We know it’s a mainstay for cold-weather casseroles and cakes, but it also pulls its weight from breakfast through dinner when lighter, summery dishes are on the menu.

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Open Slideshow

I think I can skip the sales pitch here and get right down to brass tacks, yes? I love noodle cups. You love noodle cups (you know you do). But none of us really loves the weird artificial ingredients or the flavorless nubs of dehydrated vegetables that come along for the ride.

Let’s fix this situation. Rather than give up our torrid noodle-cup affair (as if!), the obvious solution is to make our own DIY cups — and you’ll be surprised at how easy that really is.

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Do you have a jar of turmeric languishing in your spice cupboard? Or perhaps you’re looking for ways to add it to your diet in response to all the recent studies indicating its health-promoting and disease-preventing properties. Turmeric has long been a staple in Indian curries as well as in foods like mustard (it provides that golden yellow color!), but there are lots of other ways to eat and drink this spice. Here are seven easy ideas.

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