It's Christmas vacation and kids are hanging around the house, so master cookie baker Anna of Cookie Madness finds a cookie recipe that's easy enough kids can make it themselves. Just click this post's title to see Anna's daughter in action making the Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies, then bookmark the recipe for your own kids to make during the holidays.

When Tammy from Food on the Food makes tortilla soup she fries a bunch of tortilla chips and puts them in a plastic bag so she can take photos of the soup the next day, when the light is better. Tammy tells her husband not to touch the chips, but click this post's title to see how what happened later turned this recipe into Tortilla Soup for Optimum Marital Health.

Mother, entrepreneur and blogger Caroline Lubbers from the food blog Whipped thought she'd never be one of 'those' moms to make homemade baby food. But after a conversation with her baby's physician, she's obsessed and Mini Whipped (the baby!) loves it. For details and tips and inspiration, just click this post's title.

This time of year a lot of sweet potatoes recipes start appearing on food blogs, but from Amanda at What We're Eating comes the ultimate foodie sweet potatoes, stuffed with blue cheese and herbs, wrapped in proscuitto, and then baked to a state of crispy goodness. If you need a serious sweet potatoes recipe to impress your Thanksgiving guests, click the title of this post to see Amanda's amazing recipe.

There's lasagna, and then there is true Italian lasagna as it's made in Italy. Click this post's title to see how The Italian Dish makes an authentically Italian version of Roasted Vegetable Lasagna that is almost surreal, it looks so gorgeous and delicious. There's a recipe too, so if you can find the thin sheets of pasta where you live (try an Italian import store) you can try making it at home.

Remember the old Campbell's Soup advertising slogan, "Soup is Good Food"? It was a brilliant stroke of marketing genius. ... [Soup] can be, and is, very good food, especially when it's homemade from your very own kitchen. ... The key to a great soup is to start with a rich, flavorful stock. Once you have that, you can play around with different ingredients until you have the perfect soup for you.

So a lot of us struggle with weight. We *itch and *oan. We *uss and *ume. Unlike us, Lyn from Escape from Obesity is doing something about it, she's not dieting, she's up-ending her very life. She writes with brutal honesty about the binge-ing, with great poignancy about not being able to play on the floor with her kids, with particular common sense about dealing with life issues and food issues both at once. She's had a break-through: Every Bite Counts. Every. Bite. EVERY BITE. Click this post's title to read all about it.

Check the ingredient list on most commercial brands of vegetable broth, you'll see why making your own is a good idea. Click this post's title to follow along with 2008 Veg Bloggy Awards winner Lolo from Vegan Yum Yum as she shares fantastic step-by-step photos of how to make delicious homemade vegetable broth.

A midlife blogger shares the story of her first day back to work, after breast cancer.

From depressing to depression, that's the range of the year's news. But WiseBread thinks there might be Upside in the Downturn, no Pollyanna, no rose-colored lens, just another perspective. Click this post's title for some inspiration.

Move over Martha Stewart, Wing-It Vegan makes the cutest little Halloween ghosts, perfect little peanut butter snacks for kids, grandparents, neighbors, the mailman, heck - ourselves! They're as fun as all get-out and easy to make with pantry ingredients, too. Just click this post's title for a picture and the recipe.

The talented photographer Bea from La Tartine Gourmande takes her readers along as she visits Crete. Click this post's title to experience it with her through an amazing collection of stunning photos, plus recipes for a couple of classic Greek dishes.