This week’s Most Popular Pin of the Week takes a classic and hearty soup and makes it healthy: French Three Onion Soup. A small dose of gruyere cheese on top of a bowl of steaming French Onion Soup goes a long way, so you don’t have to pile it on to get the flavor.

For more recipe inspiration for healthy weeknight dinners, visit Food Network’s Let’s Get Healthy board on Pinterest.

Get the recipe: French Three Onion Soup

Bored of the old pepperoni and cheese combo? This week’s Most Popular Pin of the Week opens up the realm of possibilities for pizza toppings with 50 different and easy varieties of this classic comfort food.

For an instant party, try the BBQ Chicken pizza (#27) topped with chicken, barbecue sauce, jalapenos and cheddar. Or try a tasty breakfast-for-dinner twist on pizza night with #33, a Bacon-Egg Pizza.

For more comfort food recipe inspiration, visit Food Network’s Let’s Get Seasonal: Comfort Food Feast board on Pinterest.

Get 50 Easy Pizza ideas from Food Network Magazine

With a snap — and a tap — of your fingers, Food Network Favorites: One-Pot Wonders delivers a new repertoire of easy dinner ideas and almost-instant party food. Go from weeknight quick-cleanup solutions to wow ‘em Big Game get-togethers using all-new and best-of recipes from favorite Food Network chefs like Alton Brown, Rachael Ray and Paula Deen. One-Pot Wonders is packed with delicious no-side-dish-needed comfort food like chili, lasagna and mix-and-match macaroni and cheese, plus healthy and international twists on classics. With just a skillet, slow cooker, Dutch oven or other basic tool from the kitchen cabinet, the new app shows you how to save time and energy while enjoying mealtime.

It’s filled with more than 50 all-in-one-solution recipes, tips, shortcuts, pantry ideas, videos and our chefs’ most-creative tricks to make chicken, pasta and other go-to ingredients interesting. There are even “casserole” desserts like a super-moist, can’t-miss One-Bowl Chocolate Cake. The result? Family dinners on the table every night, no stress from start to finish.

Download it now: One-Pot Wonders in the iTunes Store

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Food Network Magazine is kicking off 2013 with a year’s worth of birthday cakes and this week’s Most Popular Pin of the Week shines a spotlight on the month of May with a Cookies-and-Cream Cake. The crushed cookies on the outside of this cake are a hint at what’s inside: The cake layers are filled with crushed cookies and white chocolate frosting.

For more recipe inspiration for desserts that impress, visit Food Network’s Let’s Bake Board on Pinterest.

Get the recipe: Food Network Magazine’s Cookies-and-Cream Cake

This week’s Most Popular Pin of the Week uses low-fat cream cheese to construct the perfect substitute for cream in this lighter alfredo by Food Network Magazine. It creates a thick, luxurious texture without extra calories.

For more recipe inspiration for healthy weeknight dinners, visit Food Network’s Let’s Get Healthy Board on Pinterest.

Get the recipe: Food Network Magazine’s Low-Cal Fettuccine Alfredo

You don’t have to sacrifice flavor to start your new year’s goals of eating healthier. This week’s Most Popular Pin of the Week, Food Network Magazine‘s Lemon-Garlic Shrimp and Grits, eliminates the sticks of butter you would normally find in this comfort food. Don’t worry about flavor, though; these shrimp are plenty zesty from the lemon and garlic.

For more recipe inspiration for healthy weeknight dinners, visit Food Network’s Let’s Get Healthy Board on Pinterest.

Get the recipe: Food Network Magazine‘s Lemon-Garlic Shrimp and Grits

The holiday parties may be over, but the entertaining season continues with the Big Game right around the corner. This week’s Most Popular Pin of the Week: Food Network Magazine‘s Crispy Fried Ravioli, a sure crowd-pleaser for any get-together. There will always be plenty of chips, dips and chicken wings present, so why not bring something different to the table?

For more recipe inspiration for entertaining, visit Food Network’s Let’s Celebrate Board on Pinterest.

Get the recipe: Food Network Magazine‘s Toasted Ravioli

When it comes to helping Food Network fans get healthy in the new year, we couldn’t think of a better way to provide motivation than to combine two of our favorite things: delicious food and Pinterest. Food fans: We present to you the Feel-Good Food Sweepstakes.

Here how to enter the sweepstakes: Choose one of the six healthy recipes featured here, then fill in your email address. Next, pin the selected recipe to any of your personal Pinterest boards. It’s as easy as 1-2-3 — and five lucky fans will win a home juicer kit from the Food Network Store.

You don’t have to sacrifice flavor to look and feel fabulous. Enter the Food Network Feel-Good Food Sweepstakes and start your year off strong.

The holiday season may be jolly for many of us, but let’s not forget that in the United States, 16 million kids are at risk of going hungry, especially at this time of year. If you’re still looking for that perfect gift, give one that will really make a difference. Share the spirit of the season by donating to No Kid Hungry to help hungry children in America.

Five reasons to donate this holiday season:

1. There are 16 million kids in the United States who will face hunger this year, but they don’t have to. As a nation, we have plenty of food and we also have programs in place that are designed to feed kids. No Kid Hungry is making sure these kids are getting connected with these programs. Childhood hunger is a solvable problem.

2. The No Kid Hungry campaign is making sure more kids start the school day with a healthy breakfast so that they’re ready to learn.

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We have an all-star line-up of holiday-themed Facebook and Twitter chats coming your way. Mark your calendars for these upcoming social media chats:

• December 6: Iron Chef Geoffrey Zakarian will be joining us for a Twitter chat about this season of The Next Iron Chef at 1pm/12c. Find out what it’s like to sit at the judges’ table this season by tweeting your questions using hashtag #NextIronChefQA.
• December 11: Food Network Kitchens will be back to chat about holiday cookies with Food Network Facebook fans at 3pm/2c.
• December 18: We’ll be answering all of your holiday cooking, baking and entertaining questions with Food Network Kitchens on the Food Network Facebook page at 3pm/2c.