Mallory Brasseale

Mallory Brasseale is the Associate Editor for CookingLight.com and she tends to bring her work home to her kitchen daily. Coming from an athletic family, healthy eating and fitness have always been top priorities for her. She enjoys dairy-free baking, grilling out with her husband, and spending way too much time perusing grocery store aisles.

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Food and Drink

Five on Friday: Start Celebrating Cinco de Mayo

May 3, 2013 | By Mallory Brasseale | Comments (3)

Each Friday, we share five things that are getting buzz around the Cooking Light offices—from what we’re reading around the Web, to what’s hot on Instagram, or even our latest favorite ingredient. In honor of Cinco de Viernes, we’re starting Cinco de Mayo a couple days early with five top Mexican-inspired recipes to get you celebrating. 5. Sweet and spicy: Bittersweet chocolate […]

Our Favorite Recipes

April’s Top 10 Recipes

April 27, 2013 | By Mallory Brasseale | Comments (2)

Here are 10 of the most popular Cooking Light recipes on our sister site MyRecipes.com, and our top-pinned recipes on Pinterest for the month of April. Did you try any new recipes this month?

Giveaways

Instagram Contest: Show us your pretty produce!

April 10, 2013 | By Mallory Brasseale | Comments (6)

In honor of the new Cooking Light Pick Fresh Cookbook, we want to see your best photos of gorgeous, seasonal produce on Instagram! From April 10th through May 15th, snap a photo of what’s growing in your garden or what you’re picking up at your local market, upload it to your Instagram account, and tag it with the hashtag #CLpickfresh. […]

Five on Friday: Game of Thrones or Mad Men?

April 5, 2013 | By Mallory Brasseale | Comments (0)

Each Friday, we share five things that are getting buzz around the Cooking Light offices—from what we’re reading around the Web, to what’s hot on Instagram, or even our latest favorite ingredient. 1. How does your garden grow? We’ve got spring gardening on the mind lately, and apparently we’re not the only ones. Yesterday, the White House Kitchen Garden was planted for […]

Our Favorite Recipes

Top 10 Recipes of March

March 27, 2013 | By Mallory Brasseale | Comments (2)

Spring—and spring produce—is finally here this month, and your recipe favorites are proof. Here are 10 of the most popular Cooking Light recipes on our sister site MyRecipes.com, and our top-pinned recipes on Pinterest for the month of March.

Five on Friday: Thow-Together Dinners and How to Get Kids to Eat More Veggies

March 22, 2013 | By Mallory Brasseale | Comments (3)

Each Friday, we share five things that are getting buzz around the Cooking Light offices—from what we’re reading around the Web, to what’s hot on Instagram, or even our latest favorite ingredient. Great News: New research finds that when schools are required to offer fruits and veggies as part of meals, kids tend to eat more—on average about 0.45 more cups of […]

Food for Thought

Five on Friday: Quinoa, Yellow Dye, and a School Lunch Challenge

March 8, 2013 | By Mallory Brasseale | Comments (0)

Today we kick off our new blog series, Five on Friday. Each Friday, we’ll share five things that are getting buzz around the Cooking Light offices—from what we’re reading around the Web, to what’s hot on Instagram, or even our latest favorite ingredient. Earlier this week, Cooking Light presented The Great American School Lunch Challenge at the Building a Healthier […]

MyPlate

Fireside Hangout with the First Lady

March 4, 2013 | By Mallory Brasseale | Comments (2)

Join First Lady Michelle Obama for her first-ever Google+ Hangout to discuss Let’s Move!, her initiative to ensure that all our children grow up healthy and reach their full potential. Watch here, or at youtube.com/letsmove:

Our Favorite Recipes

February’s Most Popular Recipes

February 28, 2013 | By Mallory Brasseale | Comments (2)

With spring just around the corner, we’re slowly starting to move away from the casseroles of January and on to veggie-packed dishes and seafood. Of course, a top-rated, Valentine’s-worthy chocolate treat also climbed its way to the top. Here are February’s 10 most popular Cooking Light recipes on our sister site, Myrecipes.com, and our top-pinned recipes on Pinterest.

Books

Bloggers’ Connection Cookbook Alert!

February 27, 2013 | By Mallory Brasseale | Comments (0)

A few members of the Cooking Light Bloggers’ Connection recently launched cookbooks or have them coming out soon and we want to spotlight a few: This past fall, Faith Gorsky from An Edible Mosaic launched her cookbook, An Edible Mosaic: Middle Eastern Fare with Extraordinary Flair, featuring over 100 Middle Eastern recipes. I recently tried her fabulous Chocolate Cupcakes for […]

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