Savor Sarasota is well underway. In case you need a little help deciding what to have, we've got some appetizer ideas just for you!| dineSarasota
Savor Sarasota turns 20 years old this year! We've got all the details on the best three weeks of local dining this year!| dineSarasota
Which of these school lunch challenges do you hate most? No matter what I pack in that lunchbox, my kid doesn’t eat it! Packing lunch makes our mornings even more stressful. It’s such a dull, relentless chore. Every. Weekday. All of the above. This time last year, I’d have picked d), no doubt about it. But these days I’d add a write-in option e): Challenges, shmallenges. My kid packs his own lunch! See, I figured out the secret to packing school lunches. Making this one change before ...| Debbie Koenig, Writer
Hanukkah ends tonight. We’ve eaten approximately eleventy million latkes, and Harry has opened nearly as many gifts. (If you dread stinking up the joint with latkes one more time, maybe you’ll do like me and make crispity crunchity smashed potatoes instead.) My birthday was yesterday, and to celebrate I stuffed my face at Pok Pok—more on that another time. Now all that’s left for my interfaith family is to make it through Christmas. This year, Harry’s jonesing for a tree ratcheted u...| Debbie Koenig, Writer
Do you know what you’re looking at? Only the cutest thing you’ll see on a Thanksgiving table this year. They’re pumpkin rolls that look like pumpkins, and are actually made with pumpkin. For stems I used broken pretzel pieces, to keep them nut-free. Yes. That’s right. I can take no credit for these, not the recipe nor the shape. All I can do is pat myself on the back for baking them three years in a row, and tell you that since I pulled this year’s double-batch out of the oven...| Debbie Koenig, Writer