In case  you didn’t get to see it, check out the Grub Street article about what a typical Mad Hungry week is like for me. Let me know what you think! Click here to read the article. Photo credit: Melissa Ham.

Here’s a sneak-peek from tomorrow’s Valentine’s Day episode! Tune in at 11 a.m. ET for a delish meal you can enjoy without the kids…

After 40+ entries, 10 finalists, and a week-long face-off, the MAD Hungry Game Grub Bowl has come to an end with only one recipe left standing. Big Congrats to  Melissa Coleman, who’s hugely-popular chili recipe won her a Mad Hungry cookbook, t-shirt AND a Weber grill! Gina Knuppenburg’s delicious onion rings earned her the runner… View Article

While the Game Grub Finals rage on, we thought it would be cool if we shared some of our own game day recipes, in case you were looking for another idea or two. So kick back, relax and get ready to grub hard. Sam’s post is below, and stay tuned for Lo’s tomorrow! Sam’s Short… View Article

Congratulations to Melissa Coleman and Gina Knuppenburg on taking their game day dishes all the way to the red zone! Now we just have to see who can take it all the way: VOTE for your winning game grub recipe and one of these two contestants will win a Weber grill!

Get the recipes for Judy Cuoto’s Bacon Honey Chicken Wings (little bite, lotta meat), Linda Bolz’s BLT Dip (it’s got all the right moves for a make-ahead app!) and Mary Weiss’s Hot Crab Dip (we loved it hot and cold!). Tomorrow is the last day to vote, so check out all 9 semi-finalist entries and… View Article

Get the recipes for Susan Jacobsen and her Stewce (stew + sauce = delicious), pantry-raiding pro Melissa Coleman and her Chili, and Gina Knuppenberg’s Onion Rings (pair these beauties with your favorite condiment). Vote for your favorite and come back tomorrow to see the last three semi-finalist recipes! Susan Jacobsen: Stewce Olive Oil 1 lb… View Article

Get the recipes for Susan Scollin’s Spicy Baked Beans (with crispy bacon as a topper), Sara Marshalek’s Dreamy BBQ Chicken Squares (BBQ sauce and Cream Cheese are a heavenly combo), and Susan Johnson and her punch (the beloved “double wide shandy”!), our new happy hour fave. Check back tomorrow for 3 more semi-finalists recipes and… View Article

Drum roll, please……. Congratulations to the semi-finalists of the MH Game Grub Bowl! We tested all the entries and picked the best of the bunch to move on to the next round. Now it’s up to everyone else to VOTE on who they want to send to the finals to compete for the ultimate title,… View Article

How it Works: It doesn’t matter what your best game-day dish is; we want to hear about it. Starting NOW we’re taking entries—we like to think of this as the play-offs—so send us your best original recipe including a photo, your name, phone number , the story behind your dish and why your recipe should… View Article

Williams Sonoma recently partnered with Omnivore Books, the amazing independent food-centric bookstore in San Fran, to start a book of the month. Omnivore selects their favorite books and recommends them to WS customers for that month; ushering in 2011 at #1 is Mad Hungry! We have to agree, bringing back the family meal with MH… View Article

Congratulations to Brian M.! His “Visions of Sugar Plums” cocktail had us seeing visions—it was THAT good. The blend of ingredients brought the overall flavor to a higher level and made a really elegant drink with a gorgeous orange color. We’ll definitely be making this classy cocktail for our next holiday get together. Want to… View Article

We’ve been toiling away testing all these entries, but we’ve gotten some really good ones which has made it all worth it. Check out the pics below to see some of the taste-testing in action at the MH headquarters and stay tuned because we’ll announce a winner TOMORROW! [picasa username=”lsq713″ albumname=”HolidayCocktailContest”]

Congratulations to Marshall Woods on winning the MH Wings Challenge! We totally dug his wings and we hope he’s enjoying his MS turkey. You might be wondering what happened to that other turkey we mentioned… After going through every entry (many were missing important pieces which disqualified them) the MH team determined that only one… View Article

Brining and oven-roasting are great ways to prepare your turkey. We like to grill ours, too. Check page 138 in the MH cookbook to get the scoop on grilling your bird. Here’s how we do it:

The numbers are in, you voted and now we’ve got a new BEC champ in town. My NY deli style breakfast sandwich was given new life with Scott Hargrove’s sausage, gravy biscuit BEC. Congrats Scott! Big thank you to everyone who participated and voted— your BECS were delish and we’ve certainly got a few new… View Article

My nieces Callie and Bella visited NYC with their little bro Pierson, their dad–my brother Peter and his amazing wife Jenny. The girlie’s joined me at MH to cook some kid-adult friendly recipes. It’s the thing I love about our show–being with my family, cooking and eating together. Calder filmed a show in the morning… View Article

photo credit: Damion Reid, New York Post Most Mad Hungry son, LJQ (#4) battles it out this week in a duel between the two top New York City High School soccer teams. Here he’s being congratulated by his teammates after the only point scored for his team. Still they fell to the MLK powerhouse of a… View Article

TUNE into MAD Hungry TODAY: Serve up a steakhouse meal in your house. Cheesy scalloped potatoes, carrots agrodolce & iceberg wedges with creamy blue cheese dressing accompany pan fried steak with a simple steak sauce. I’ll show you time-saving tricks that will get this restaurant style dinner on the table in no time and without the… View Article

[picasa username=”lsq713″ albumname=”Menlovepie”] PIE: simple. delicious. Sweet or savory, it’s something that men find irresistible. David Letterman says it best, “It takes a pretty good cake to equal pie.” TUNE in TODAY for a show all about pie: savory beef empanadas that can be served with my tomato, cilantro and cilantro salad; my husband, Ritchie’s… View Article