How to Make Your Own Pancake Mix

The morning rush makes breakfast the easiest thing to miss. A great way to bypass the stress of fitting in time for food is to prepare something ahead of time. 

You can cook delicious, fluffy homemade pancakes in little time when you make the batter the night before.

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How to Vary your Strawberry

Perhaps the most delicious member of the rose family, strawberries have impressed me with their beauty and variety. With 600 different species of strawberry found today, it appears that we all have a lot of berry tasting to catch up on. Take a trip over to your local farmers market and hopefully you'll be able to witness some of the assorted colors and shapes. 

Typically, a strawberry's size is linked to the size of its water content: larger strawberries have a larger water content, while smaller ones have a more intense flavor. Beyond intensity, different species of strawberries actually do taste different. Learning more about the different types will help you to navigate through the strawberry fields forever.

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Beans, Beans, They're Good for Your...

Protein intake as well as your cholesterol level.  

Learning more about beans will help you add variety and nutrition to your diet. 

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Ten Foods You Can Now Dip in Chocolate

Strawberries are too cliché and pound cake is for amateurs. I’ve conducted tedious, pain-staking, chocolate-covered research, and, at the expense of my love-handles, landed upon ten new foods to get excited that you can now dip in chocolate.

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New Cheeses for our Macaroni

Mac n’ cheese – the beloved comfort food that warms the hearts of people ages 6 to 60. Whether you’re boldly ordering it off the kid’s menu or secretly forking it off of your child’s plate, you’re a loyal macaroni patron and you deserve to change up the cheese every once in a while.

So break out the macaroni, and please, for all of us, put the Velveeta away. Here are some tasty, new ways to make your noodles happy. So, get prepared. This ain’t your mama’s cheddar.

There are almost too many ways to make mac n’ cheese, and it’s basically impossible to go wrong. So, before you start, you must narrow down the options. You’ve got your tangy and your creamy, there’s the thick and then the steamy, not to forget the baked and of course the stringy.

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How to Preserve Excess Fruit

Summer is a time when stocking up on fresh fruit seems like a great idea... until the moment you realize that half the fruit you bought had to be tossed and your refrigerator is left with a funky smell. 

Right as your fruit starts to lose its firm ripeness, it should be eaten or cooked immediately. If you choose to cook it, there are several different techniques that will help to expand the edible lifespan of your fruit.

Click here to read my article on goodbite.com about things you can do to get use out of your leftover fruit.

Foods that Take Longer to Eat

For most of my countless hours spent snacking, I’m not actually hungry, I’m just eating. Can you relate?

This wonderful phenomenon that some people naively misconstrue as a “problem” helps me to relax right before I begin to stress over the realization that every component of my pantry now lies in my stomach.

Does this mean we should stop snacking? Blasphemy! Let’s not be overdramatic. I believe the best course of action is to simply choose foods that take longer to eat. 

Read my tips on foods that take longer to eat on goodbite

How to Grow an Indoor Garden

It requires serious dedication to maintain a constant supply of fresh herbs and edible produce in your kitchen. And if you do make the effort of continually visiting your local market to pick up some basil for a pasta dish or chives for a garnish, you'll most likely end up wasting more than you use.


Why not get a steady flow of ingredients without the market and without the waste? Regardless of the size and layout of your apartment or home, you can grow your own ingredients right in your own kitchen. Click here to learn how.

How to Smoke Meats without a Smoker

It's summer and time to light up the grill! You step outside and the muggy, hot, mosquito-infested air fails to measure up to your romanticized vision of a summer barbecue.  


It turns out that you don't need to own expensive tools or even be outside in order to prepare savory smoked favorites. Click here to read my article on Good Bite about how you can smoke meats right at home without a smoker, grill, or without even stepping foot outside!