What’s New on Pinterest: Pho-nominal Dishes

Get ready to put away some Pho-nominal Dishes when National Noodle Month “March-es” in this week. Recipes for beef, chicken, pork, shrimp, tofu and veggie-full pho overflow from this board. Employ your slow cooker to manage making Crock-Pot pho or take the five-minute route to faux pho (spoiler alert, uses ramen). Bone broth pho chicken soup, ginger zucchini noodle egg drop soup, Thai boat noodles and zero-calorie zero-carb vegetarian shirataki pho nourish winter-weary souls. Vietnamese bun bo xao beef noodle salad and charbroiled pork vermicelli wiggle into the offerings…pho real.

What’s New on Pinterest: You Say Potato, I Say Potato

You Say Potato, I Say Potato, either way, we say “ah” and “yay” to National Potato Lovers Month. Choose your verb and recipe to crank the vibe in these tremendously versatile tubers: creamy slow-cooker mashed potatoes, perfect roasted broccoli and sweet potatoes, spinach artichoke twice-baked potatoes, grilled sweet potatoes, loaded baked potato soup and crushed potatoes. Don’t fret the fries and fritters, you’ll find recipes for baked Parmesan fingerling potato fries, baked sweet potato fries and pan-fried sweet potato fritters. Spiralize them on skewers or use them as bowls for tacos or a bacon-eggy Idaho Sunrise. Later, gator…off to bake some taters.

What’s New on Pinterest: Sweet Sips to Love

Get all kissy-kissy with Sweet Sips to Love, right on target for Valentine’s Day celebrations. Find libations to put a “Sparkle in Her Eye” (and maybe a ring on her finger). Sweetie martinis, Cupid’s Pink Arrow and Love Potion distill your affections into cutie cocktails. Strawberry sangria, vodka ginger twist and cranberry-ginger mimosa say, “I care about your whole being” by working those help-ya-stay-healthy fruits and spices into the menu. Gals, snag some ways to share the love with your special guy here. And while wine dummies and Jell-O shooter hearts thrill grownups, your young Valentines will love sipping strawberry Cupid floats through pink-striped straws.

What’s New on Pinterest: Chocolate Cravings

Hearts afire! February is National Chocolate Lovers Month, and our Chocolate Cravings are kicking in big time. Jump aboard our chocolaty chew-chew and turn out flourless chocolate cake (no flour means more room for chocolate), a multitude of chocolate mint desserts or a gigantic “Kit Kat” bar. Win brownie points for “Knock you Naked” brownies, healthier brownies made without flour or refined sugar and that church/women’s club cookbook classic, “chocolate delight.” Chocolate-dipped tea bag cookies and chocolate pudding cupcakes with fresh strawberry centers are cocoa party ready.

What’s New on Pinterest: Rave-Worthy Ravioli

Pillow talk time. In this case, we’re referring to plump pillows of Rave-Worthy Ravioli, yielding cold weather comfort in appetizers, mainstays, salads and even desserts like Nutella ravioli or chocolate ravioli with white chocolate mascarpone. Earn “oohs” and “aahs” over red beet ravioli with spinach and goat cheese, short rib ravioli, flower-shaped ravioli and homemade pesto, ricotta and mozzarella ravioli. Wonton wrappers hug fillings for pear and Gorgonzola ravioli with walnuts and rosemary butter. Ravioli lasagna and spinach artichoke ravioli bake are fast crowd pleasers. Paleo dieters, try folding thin slices of squash around a chicken, spinach and mascarpone filling and serving with caulif-redo sauce. Change out the usual game table cheese sticks with baked, toasted ravioli to dunk in hot pizza sauce or say “ole!” to nacho chicken ravioli.

What’s New on Pinterest: Kick That Cold

Kick That Cold with soothing, homeopathic recipes that appeal to under-the-weather appetites. Liquid assets include a cold remedy hot toddy, immunity tonic, tropical turmeric boost, cold-killer shots and a DIY electrolyte drink. Gut-healing bone or vegetable broth, detox immune-boosting chicken soup, cold-fighting couscous chicken soup and spinach and white bean soup tackle sniffles and coughs. Make flu and cold-conquering gummies for kids and adults or blend essential oils to create a healthy home atmosphere. Relieve scratchy sore throats with popsicles, golden milk, teas and a “natural antibiotic.” Wipe the nose, wash hands, start mixing and feel better soon.

What’s New on Pinterest: Light Delights

Your body yearns for lighter snacks, meals and desserts after a month of holiday indulgences. Still, no one wants to go cold turkey on naked carrot and celery sticks. These Light Delights stand in as satisfying imposters that taste more decadent than they are. Avocado chicken salad, some crudité along with Tricia Yearwood’s spicy edamame dip, wraps and pesto pasta salad brighten indoor lunchtime. Be the quinoa queen (or king), repping the “q” in apple cinnamon quinoa, hearty chicken stew with butternut squash, sesame chicken, curried chicken salad or easy and delicious roasted vegetable quinoa. You might eat the whole batch of caramelized onion and cauliflower. Shelly’s chocolate crunch protein ice cream, tropical yogurt parfaits and no-bake coconut brownie bites obliterate dessert deprivation.

What’s New on Pinterest: Holiday Happy Hour

Throw together a Holiday Happy Hour with these tidbits that are easy to prepare -- and hold and eat, beverage in one hand. Roasted cranberry brie crostini, cranberry brie bites and an onion-cranberry-pecan cheeseball highlight the seasonal tart red berry. Mini pecan pies and eggnog cheesecakes with gingerbread cookie crusts satisfy that I-just-want-one-sweet-bite craving. Same size but savory finds include sundried tomato pesto bites, filet mignon bites with creamy horseradish, mini baked potatoes and Cajun shrimp guacamole bites. In your other hand? A holiday pomegranate mimosa, coconut eggnog, cinnamon apple cider martini, cider and champagne cocktail, a glass of jingle juice holiday punch or any of the other spirited bevvies.

What’s New on Pinterest; Christmas Cravings

What’s on your Christmas Cravings list? Ideas for last-minute homemade gifts? Jars of easy apple butter and cinnamon honey butter to the rescue. Family fun, kitchen-y Christmas crafts? Make a forest of chocolate-covered strawberry Christmas trees populated by Oreo cookie snowmen lollipops. Need novel ideas to brighten the Christmas buffet? Turn out red and green deviled eggs with a holiday twist, caprese appetizers, a savory pull-apart Christmas tree loaf or create a red velvet pancake-making station. And what about crave-ables for the chefs and hosts on your list? Browse a satisfying array of gifts, small and grand, such as a cupcake-shaped timer or cute man-overboard Lid Sid stocking stuffer, the ultimate oyster knife, foodie subscriptions and cookbooks, recipe art, deluxe stand mixers, a wine lover’s care package and loads more.

What’s New on Pinterest

Coo-Coo for Cocoa nixes mixes in favor of the genuine article, luscious cocoas to cup and chocolates to covet. Mug shots of hot chocolate elixirs bring comfort and joy after cold weather activities -- Brazilian hot cocoa with snowman marshmallows and slow cooker white, paleo, Italian, Nutella, black cherry bourbon, non-dairy peppermint and even hot chocolate floats for those who want both hot and cold in one rich dose. Pop no-bake brownie batter truffles onto the dessert table or Santa’s plate and make spiced cocoa nuts to divvy up for gifts. It’s okay to nurture yourself with intensely chocolate pudding…avocado and banana are smooth secret ingredients.  

What’s New on Pinterest: Magnificent Margaritas

Magnificent Margaritas handle every occasion. Blackberry champagne margaritas toast with ease. A strawberry basil batch uses up the last of summer’s fragrant herb. Brewsters and cocktailers come together over tailgating beer margaritas. Soothe prickly situations with a prickly pineapple concoction. Blood orange screams Halloween boo-zing. Leave it to Paula Deen to turn this cocktail into a strawberry mousse dessert all ages can enjoy (read tequila-free). Unplug the watermelon and you can whirl up watermelon margaritas. And, there’s always a place at the table for classic lime margaritas, with chips or solo.

What’s New on Pinterest: Just Jalapeños

Pepper your day with some really hot topics by skimming headlines on our Just Jalapeños board. Jalapeños add zip to appetizers like hummus, cheese fondue, “insanely delicious” dip and pigs in a blanket as well as hearty hotties of jalapeño cheddar burgers, empanadas, grain-free shrimp veggie bake and creamy popper pasta. And while we’re on the subject of those popular poppers, try varieties involving pineapple, sausage, mac ‘n cheese, spaghetti squash, chicken casserole and bacon-grilling. So fired up, we are. 

What’s New on Pinterest: Crabby Cravings

Everybody has a crabby day now and then -- forgive them and let it go. On the other hand (or claw), Crabby Cravingsare forces to be reckoned with --- in the kitchen. Spicy crab sushi rolls, cilantro-lime crab salad in avocado halves, three-minute crab dip and super-easy crab puffs are a good start. Crab, cream and carb cravings call for creamy crab and shrimp enchiladas, creamy tomato and crab fettuccine, mac and cheese or baked hot crab dip. Crabby because carbs are out? Cold crab salad, ginger and scallion crab and low-carb crab cakes with roasted red pepper sauce are oh so in.

What’s New on Pinterest: Hungry & Healthy

Hungry & Healthy paves an off-ramp from summer’s habits of grabbing ice cream here (triple scoops because you couldn’t decide on one flavor), ballpark food there (bring on the loaded dogs) and fast food on the road to vacation destinations. Play around with roasted veggies, turn sweet potatoes into waffle breakfast sandwiches or a one-skillet meal with cheese, chicken and kale. One-pan Italian sausage and veggies yield clean eating (and one pan to clean). Pizza has its place: a cauliflower pizza crust base, portobello mushroom pizza or fruity watermelon pizza. Paleo pleasers include spicy tuna rolls, chicken lime lettuce wraps or a spaghetti squash casserole that’s protein packed with ground turkey. Go for a whirl and whip up smoothies to soothe after-school hungries in a flash.

What’s New on Pinterest: Berry Delicious

Have you noticed? Berries are front and center at the grocery stores right now. You could stop at strawberry shortcake. Or, you could opt for these Berry Delicious ideas. Bakers, mix berries into triple berry scones to smear with homemade raspberry butter, fix a pan of banana-berry baked oatmeal for breakfast or wow the dinner club with a multi-layer lemon blueberry cake. Drinks on the deck or potent potables for the pool? Mix up berry sangria, blackberry whiskey lemonade, blueberry mojitos, thyme berry sparklers or skinny berry smoothies. Counter rising temperatures with strawberry lime sorbet, blueberry popsicles and raspberry rose sundaes. Bottom line, bury your cart in berries and rejoice.

What’s New on Pinterest: Indulgent Eats

National “Eat What You Want Day,” on May 11, counterpoints clean eating with happy-go-lucky Indulgent Eats. Say, “Yes!” to brown sugar bacon breakfast sandwiches with chipotle mayo, baked BLT dip, pizza waffle fries, bacon-wrapped cheese hot dogs, and a double-carb dose in grilled mac and cheese sandwiches. Grilled Nutella and marshmallow sandwiches, a brownie-cookie unifying “Brookie” pie, and a peanut butter cup cookie skillet sweeten the diet caution-to-the-wind holiday.

What’s New on Pinterest: Grilled Cheese to Please

There’s a Grilled Cheese to Please cheese hounds of all ages during National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Month. Colorful sprinkles melting into a rainbow grilled cheese set little eyes to smiling -- as will pizza grilled cheese. Grown-up versions sandwich sweet and spicy caramelized onions, crispy bacon or roasted apple and brie, balsamic Brussels sprouts, pulled pork, meatball marinara and other unique filling combos. Yesterday’s spaghetti sees new life in a carb-loading spaghetti and garlic toast grilled cheese. Carb counters, cauliflower crust grilled cheese cuts out bread. Wake from grilled cheese dreams to blueberry breakfast grilled cheese or strawberry jam and brie on chocolate chunk bread. More fun than fondue and a lot less drippy.

What’s New on Pinterest:Sensational Sushi

Friday fish fries are a Lenten tradition, but what about choosing sushi for a change? Or, tossing sushi into the meal rotation on another day of the week? Sounds like a Sensational Sushi plan. Try rolling your own cucumber wrapped sushi, spicy tuna hand rolls or rainbow sushi rolls. Assemble healthy tuna or salmon sashimi rice bowls or collard greens sushi. Vegans can roll umami-rich smoky portobello rolls. Lure kids toward the healthy bites by making spring kazari maki zushi decoration sushi rolls or (gasp) PB&J roll-ups that resemble what mom and dad are eating. And, those who overindulged over Mardi Gras can rein it in with guidance from “the best and worst sushi for weight loss.”

What's New on Pinterest: Refreshingly Rejuvenated

Who needs a celebrity personal trainer/chef to prepare healthy eats when there’s our Refreshingly Rejuvenated board to spur you on? Start 2017 clean as a whistle by following a 72-hour juice cleanse. Counter winter dehydration by DIY-ing flavor-infused waters. Ginger power hot flu shots “blast away those nasties.” Wise chews and brews include Buddha bowls, acai smoothie bowls, avocado, kale and raspberry smoothie bowls, and banana almond flax or blueberry superfood smoothies.

What’s New on Pinterest: Slow Your Roll

Time to slow down after tackling the holiday hustle and bustle. Thank goodness January is National Slow Food month. Fire up the slow cooker and mosey on over to Slow Your Roll for comforting saviors like Mexican shredded beef, meatball subs, Parmesan chicken, sloppy Joes and baked ziti. Work in some veggies through chicken broccoli and rice casserole. Ladle bowls full of steaming hot “Olive Garden” pasta e fagioli, cheddar-bacon-ranch potato soup or creamy tortellini soup. And turn to the Crock-Pot for the easiest monkey bread ever…then roll over and sneak in a couple more hours of sleep.