Better than store-bought: focaccia.

As far as bread goes, focaccia is one of the easier varieties for a home cook to tackle, and this recipe makes it a snap.

Better than store-bought: Homemade yogurt.

Greek yogurt is THE food trend, and with good reason. Here’s how to make your own delicious plain yogurt at home.

Better than store-bought: Homemade chicken stock.

Good quality packaged chicken broth will do in a pinch, but it’s a snap to make fantastic homemade chicken stock.

Better than store-bought: Homemade chocolate-almond spread.

If you love chocolate-hazelnut spread, here’s an easy homemade version with chocolate and almonds. Yum!

Better than store-bought: compound butter.

I regularly have herb butter on hand in the freezer—so last weekend when Rob grilled some good steaks, I topped each one with a sliver of basil-garlic butter made with ingredients from my garden. My herb …

Better than store-bought: Homemade blueberry jam.

As I’ve found myself in complete control of my own schedule this summer for the first time in, like, a zillion years, I’ve been doing things I’ve long wanted to do but never seemed to have …

Better than store-bought: Homemade strawberry jam.

Hard to admit, but I’ve never before made strawberry jam that I’ve processed in jars. As a kid, I’d go strawberry-picking with the family and we’d make freezer jam (super easy!). But I haven’t done the …

Better than store-bought: Homemade tabbouleh.

Rob and I do enjoy our happy hour snacks on weekends, when we pull up a cool adult beverage and something noshy to stave off the before-dinner hungries after a busy day. Sometimes the snack of …