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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.
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How to Toast Tortillas
Toasting your tortillas brings out the corn or flour flavor and helps soften the tortillas for filling. Here's how to do it over a gas stovetop.
Steam Potatoes for Potato Salad for Better Texture
Boiling potatoes for potato salad is time-consuming and often waterlogs the potatoes. Here's a simple way to cook your potatoes for a better texture — no pot of boiling water required!
Pizza Herb and Lettuce Cutter
Your pizza cutter is more than a unitasker in the kitchen! Put it to good use to help chop fresh herbs — minus the bruising.
Build a Better Lasagna
Didn't think a classic lasagna could be improved upon? Here's a new way to assemble your lasagnas that help hold their shape better and give more structure to the pasta dish.
How to Soften Tortillas in Bulk
Tortillas are often fried or steamed one at a time in a skillet before filling and rolling. This can be time-consuming when you have a lot of tortillas to work with. Here's a simple tip to soften a lot of tortillas at once.
Pre-Made Muffin Mixes
No need to panic when unexpected guests call to stop by! This simple make-ahead muffin mix can save those moments — or lazy mornings when you can't be bothered to measure!
Easy Artichoke Holders for Steaming
Artichokes tend to fall over in the pot when steaming, but there's an easy way to keep them upright in the pot...and with a pantry staple, too!
Splash-Free Cherry Pitting
When pitting cherries with a handheld pitter, the juice usually splatters everywhere— especially on your apron and clothes, potentially staining them. Here's a less-mess way to pit cherries.
Mess-Free Meatloaf Prep
If you don't like mixing and mashing your meatloaf ingredients together with your hands, here's a mess-free way to prep the recipe. This is great for getting kids involved in the kitchen too.
Juice Your Citrus in Reverse
Keep those pips out of your mixing bowls when juicing citrus with this simple tip!
An Easy Way to Emulsify Dressings
A broken salad dressing equals a broken heart, in our opinion. Here's an easy, no-stress way to emulsify your dressings.
How to Roast Cherry Tomatoes
Grape tomatoes are expensive, so if they’re a little past their prime (a bit wrinkled), don’t throw them away — roast them. Here's an easy way to do it.
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Graham Cracker Butter
Cookie butters are more popular than ever. Jumping on that bandwagon, meet our Graham Cracker Butter. It’s smooth, creamy, and every bit addictive — perfect for spreading on toast, waffles, or pancakes. It also makes a great dipper for apple slices or even as a dessert topping — you’ll want to put this butter on anything and everything.
Apricot Chutney
Kind of jam-like, chutneys are condiments made of fruits, vinegar, sugar, and spices. This Apricot Chutney includes mustard, and can be made a day or two ahead to complement the Crown Roast of Pork.
Key Lime Mousse with graham cracker tuiles
Here’s a fun twist on the classic Key lime pie. And like the pie, Key lime juice is the main ingredient — but now it’s in a mousse lightened with whipped cream.
The graham tuile [TWEEL] is a take-off on the pie’s traditional graham cracker crust. Tuile is French for “tile,” and these thin, crispy cookies are molded while still warm—traditionally into the shape of roof tiles. But they can also be formed into edible bowls! Molding does take practice (we broke several at first), but just…
Pear-Vanilla Compote
This Pear-Vanilla Compote makes a sweet accompaniment to a comforting braised brisket dinner. A splash of pear brandy or nectar enhances the overall pear flavor, and vanilla makes it taste like home.
“Quiche Lorraine” Breakfast Sandwiches with avocado & mixed salad greens
All the flavors of a classic Quiche Lorraine are rolled into one easy-to-make breakfast sandwich.
Tomato Jam and Smoked Paprika Granola
Savory granola is the perfect addition when you want to add a little crunch or umami to puréed soups, salads, or roasted vegetables.
From snacks, dips, and condiments to soups, braises, and desserts, Marisa McClellan does a fabulous job transforming your preserves into some new and exceptional dishes. If you’re looking for ways to use up jams or fruit butters, granola is the answer. By using jams in granola it allows you to toss your nuts and oats in a slurry of sweet preserves with a…
Shanghai Mule with White Claw Lime Hard Seltzer
Hard seltzer water is a popular canned cocktail that’s flooded the market. Whether you’re already on board or just curious, these easy recipes turn the bubbly beverage into some of our new favorite refreshing cocktails, like this Shanghai Mule. The kicker in this mule is the candied ginger — swizzle a slice and see what we mean.
Black Cherry Smash with Budweiser Black Cherry Hard Seltzer
This Black Cherry Smash cocktail makes the case that bourbon and black cherry have a taste affinity that’s meant to be.
What started with everyone drinking posh sparkling waters has manifested into “hard seltzer” or soda water mixed with neutral-flavored alcohol, plus flavoring. Hard seltzer is sparkling water, aka club soda, instilled with attitude; generally between 4.5% and 7% ABV. Citrus, berry flavored,…
Iced Carajillo with Pabst Hard Coffee
Hard seltzer water is a popular canned cocktail that’s flooded the market. Whether you’re already on board or just curious, these easy recipes turn the bubbly beverage into some of our new favorite refreshing cocktails, like this Iced Carajillo with Pabst Hard Coffee and Licor 43. Made from 43 different ingredients, Spain’s Licor 43 is a vanilla-ish flavored liqueur with citrus, botanic, sweet, and floral notes.
Artisan Fire Pizza Dough
Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet knows how to create some tasty pizzas on the grill. The Food + Fire cookbook has pizzas for every meal — breakfast, lunch, dinner, or dessert. The hard part is deciding which one to make first — but they all begin with this Artisan Fire Pizza Dough.
This dough uses a blend of bread flour and Caputo Tipo ‘00 flour — the Italian flour used by Neapolitan pizza restaurants due to…
Bread-and-Butter Pickles
Sweet, salty, and crisp — you can’t go wrong with these classic Bread-and-Butter Pickles!
Miso Butterscotch Sauce
This butterscotch sauce is like none you’ve had before — it’s sweet, but slightly salty with a touch of umami essence — your ice cream is about to get real happy. Butterscotch sauce benefits from salt, too. Like salted caramel, it keeps the sauce from becoming saccharine sweet — it’s perfectly balanced.