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How to Eat Garden to Table
Eat fresh from your own backyard! The words “garden fresh” appear on food labels and menus for a reason: There’s nothing more appealing than the idea that the produce you eat (and feed your family) was just picked from your garden. Here's how to put your (or someone else's) garden to good use in the kitchen.
All About Artichokes
Artichokes are strikingly flower-like with an olive green and sometimes purple color which makes them stand out among other vegetables in the produce section. They may look intimidating, but they’re very easy to cook. Here's how to prep and cook artichokes.
All About Arugula
While arugula may get passed off as just some fancy lettuce, beneath its mundane exterior lies a plethora of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants just waiting to do a body good. Here is everything you need to know about arugula, from what it is and how to prep and store it to the health benefits of this leafy green.
All About Asparagus: Growing, Buying, Storing, and Cooking With Spring's First Veggie
Although it's now available year-round, asparagus is one of the first fresh vegetables you’ll see in the spring. Here's everything you need to know about asparagus, from how to grow and buy it, to storing and prepping tips, and some of our favorite asparagus recipes.
Vegetable Love: The Indispensable Vegetable Cookbooks in Our Kitchens + Cuisine at Home's Cook the Book Cookbook Club
Want to eat more vegetables or make them in new and exciting ways? Check out our list of the best vegetable-focused cookbooks full of thousands of delicious and creative vegetable recipes. Then join our new cookbook club to find new inspiration, learn and grow as a cook or baker with our community.
Tips
How to Freeze Mushrooms
Believe it or not, raw mushrooms can be frozen! If you can't seem to use up fresh mushrooms before they go bad, stop wasting and start saving with this tip for freezing.
How to Revive and Reuse Leftover Vegetables
Don't let that leftover vegetable tray go to waste. Make the most of the veggies with these creative ideas!
An Easy Trick for Making Homemade Broth
Homemade broth ups the flavor ante in any recipe that calls for broth, making it is easy with this tip!
How To Seed Squash
Seeding squash can be a messy task. Not anymore with this quick tip that uses a unique kitchen tool.
How to Easily Peel Garlic Without Smashing
Stop the constant battle of separating and peeling garlic cloves with this simple test kitchen-approved tip!
How to Revive Limp Celery
Limp celery isn't hopeless, save your stalks and crisp them up with this simple and easy-to-do tip.
How to Safely Slice Chiles
Avoid getting potent spice from chiles on your fingers while chopping with this simple kitchen hack.
How to Make Herb-Minced Garlic
Mincing garlic is a common kitchen job, but make it easier, and less messy with this tasty tip.
An Easy Hack for Thawing Meat
Find yourself in a pinch with frozen meat and dinner closing in? Use this tip to speed up thawing time!
How to Freeze Zucchini
Zucchini seem endless in the summer, but come winter they're pretty sparse. Follow this tip for zucchini all year long.
The Best Way to Store Fresh Spinach
Don't let fresh spinach go to waste anymore with these tips on how to best store your leafy greens.
A Simple Hack to Remove and Drain Capers
Brined capers are a pain to remove and measure—the jar opening is just too narrow for a spoon to fit inside. Get capers out of the jar without dumping out all of their brining liquid with this simple trick!
How-To's
Canning with Confidence: How to Can with a Water Bath
Vegetable season is ending, so take advantage of your garden-fresh beauties or farmers' market finds through the process of canning. Canning seems to get a bad rap. And to some people it’s intimidating. But not anymore! We’re going to walk you through the simple process of water bath canning, and debunk the seemingly daunting steps that come with this craft.
How to Make Homemade Stock
Stocks are the foundation of classic cooking — they won't dazzle you with their good looks, but surely will with what they bring to your cooking endeavors. Simply follow our fundamental guidelines, including our six principles for making from-scratch stock, and you'll soon be creating amazing soups, stews, and more.
How to Flavor & Tenderize Meat and Vegetables with Marinades
Look around your kitchen, and you’ll see everything needed to add extra layers of flavor or to tenderize your favorite meal — vinegars, juices, milk, vegetables, spices, even wine. In this step-by-step tutorial we explain all that you should know about marinades and how they work . . . while you relax.
How to Preserve and Save Summer Tomatoes
Don’t let summer’s bounty shrivel on the vine. Learn how to preserve the season in this quick tutorial on slow-roasting or freezing summer’s sweetest tomatoes. It’s a surefire way to keep their fresh flavor alive all winter long.
Learn All About Indirect Grilling
What is indirect grilling? It's bascially a technique that turns your grill into an outdoor oven so you can cook big items, like whole chickens, pork loins, pizzas, etc. So the next time you fire up the grill, follow these four simple steps, and take the indirect route to perfectly cooked meats, vegetables, and more.
How to Make Quick Pickles
For an easy, detailed guide on how to make from-scratch quick dill pickles, look no further.
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Recipes
Sautéed Swiss Chard with Raisins & Almonds
Sautéed Swiss Chard is a quick and easy — not to mention healthy — side dish that you can throw together on weeknights in 15 minutes or less. Golden raisins and toasted almonds add a bit of sweetness and crunch to the final dish.
Roasted Autumn Vegetables
Roasted fall root vegetables are an earthy — and healthy — side dish for any meal.
Cheese-Stuffed Chiles
A Greek dinner deserves a side of cheese-stuffed chiles — also loaded with the staples of Greek cuisine, like kasseri and feta cheeses, kalamata olives, and sun-dried tomatoes.
Corn & Avocado Salad with Creamy Lemon Dressing
This easy side dish can be made year round with fresh or frozen sweet corn. With a creamy lemon dressing and avocado, this salad is a refreshing addition to any menu.
Mushroom Stock
Mushroom stock may not grace the pages of culinary textbooks, but we love its versatility. Its earthy flavor complements pastas, Asian dishes, and classic French foods. And it employs a method similar to that used to make Beef Stock, but it’s portobellos instead of bones that we’re roasting. This enhances the flavor of the mushrooms and the flavor of the finished stock. Dried shiitakes add pronounced mushroom flavor. If you can’t find them,…
Parmesan Spaghetti Squash
This healthy side dish is low-carb and easy to make. To loosen the thread-like pieces of squash flesh, scrape a fork around the inside of the skin, then toss the spaghetti squash with parsley, Parmesan, and butter.
Edamame Salad with Fresh Blueberries
Health-conscious party-goers will truly appreciate this salad of edamame and blueberries — two big-time superfoods. And with pecorino cheese and a blueberry vinaigrette in the mix, everyone else will agree it’s a pretty tasty side dish, as well.
What you’ll love most, though, is how convenient the recipe is. Only a fraction of the required time is hands-on. And the tossed ingredients will look and taste just fine even if you have to travel to the gathering.
Roasted Broccoli with Cheese Sauce
The whole family — even the pickiest of children — will suddenly love a side dish of this broccoli when it’s doused in cheesy goodness like this!
Green Beans with Bacon & Mushrooms
Green beans and bacon are always a winning combination. Here, sautéed mushrooms add a little more heft to this easy side dish.
Asian Broccoli with garlic
This simple broccoli side dish is not only super easy to whip up, but it packs a major flavor punch from sesame oil, garlic, and soy sauce. Just 20 minutes and five ingredients is all this side dish takes.
Roasted Marinated Peppers
Authentic Greek cuisine emphasizes freshness, so it’s no surprise that many traditional dishes showcase the seasonal vegetables and herbs that thrive in the country’s sunny, temperate climate.
The four great culinary loves of the Greeks are olives, grapes, herbs, and garlic, all of which grow in abundance. A drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil, a splash of red wine vinegar, and a sprinkling of aromatic garlic and herbs can transform almost any ingredient—from lamb to seafood to bell pep…
Spinach Salad with Red Peppers
Cap a Spanish meal with a spinach and red pepper salad with a zesty orange vinaigrette ... and maybe even a glass of Rioja wine.