Introducing a new feature on Jen Spends.com: video cooking tutorials! I love to cook and bake, and had promised my friend Joe that I would teach him what I know. I thought it would be a fun premise for a video series, and I lured my camera-shy friend in for this first episode with a [...]

My grandmother made tabouleh on a couple occasions, and I liked it from a very young age. It’s a nice refreshing salad-type dish that comes from the Middle East. I had been wanting to make the recipe for years, but one thing stood in my way: I couldn’t find one of the main ingredients, bulgur [...]

I have been making almost all of my son’s baby food since he started solids at six months old. I hope someday soon I’ll be able to document and share some of my experiences – it’s been something I have truly enjoyed! Once he started to approach one year, I realized that I couldn’t feed [...]