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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 Core Peppers
Learn how to remove the core and seeds and segment a pepper with these simple (and clean!) steps.
How to Chop Onions
Most chefs cut onions in a very specific fashion—its similar to the technique here with one difference. They make a horizontal cut into the onion halves. It puts your fingers at risk and no one’s ever given a good reason for making that extra cut—except that it’s how they were taught in culinary school. Here's an equally effective way to chop onions.
How to Peel Pearl Onions
Pearl onions are about the size of a grape and have a mild flavor. They can be cooked (they are often creamed) and served as a side dish, pickled, or used as a condiment or garnish. Because they’re so small, it can be a tedious job to remove their papery skin. Here's a quick and easy way to remove the skins from pearl onions.
Freeze Fresh Spinach for Quick Chopping
Freeze fresh spinach instead of buying frozen cooked spinach. The fresh flavor remains, and it's easy to prep when you need it—plus clean up is non-existent!
Use a Pastry Blender for More Than Pie Dough
Your pastry blender can be used for more than pies and pastries—it's perfect for chopped avocados, eggs for salad, and mashing cooked potatoes and squash.
How to Prepare Potatoes Ahead and Keep Peeled Potatoes From Browning
These simple tips makes it easy to prepare potatoes ahead, by keeping them as fresh and white as when you peeled them!
How to Easily Squeeze Spinach Dry
Frozen spinach contains a ton of excess liquid that must be removed before it's used. Here are a few simple tips to get a better handle on drying spinach.
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Recipes
Limoncello Prosecco Spritzers
Set up a bar with a bucket of ice-cold (and affordable!) prosecco, a bottle of limoncello, seltzer, fresh lemons, and ice cubes. Prosecco is perfect for this cocktail, but seltzer is great for a lighter option.
Minty Melon Mojitos
Frozen cantaloupe cubes make this cool cocktail even more perfect for warm evenings with friends.
Fried Chicken Katsu
This easy recipe with tonkatsu sauce, made of malt vinegar, yeast, and fruit and vegetable purées, may be your new favorite way to eat fried chicken.
Asian Chicken Tacos
Inspired by the Vietnamese sandwich bahn mi, these tacos will have you counting and recounting the number of ingredients because the flavor punch you get with each bite defies the laws of five ingredients.
Chicken Shiitake Marsala
We’ve taken this Italian American dish and added our own flair. We love the rich flavor of the shiitake mushrooms with the mildly sweet Marsala wine.
Curry Pork Chops
A creamy, spicy coconut milk sauce keeps pork chops moist and vegetables tender. Serve over brown rice to make sure not one bit of this deliciously addicting sauce gets left behind.
Crispy Gnocchi Primavera
It’s time to let the pot of water take a back seat, because your sheet pan is the hero in this. With fresh flavors— and plenty of sharp pecorino cheese— you’ll be wondering why you haven’t roasted gnocchi before now.
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Raspberry-Banana Pudding
Try this fruity new spin on the classic summertime sweet.
Strawberry Pretzel Tart
Use the leftover strawberries from making the syrup to dollop on ice cream.
Frozen Berry Swirl Sheet Cake
No time to make the raspberry sauce? No worries. Use ¾ cup seedless raspberry jam mixed with ¼ cup water instead of the homemade sauce.
Shoestring Okra
These little strips of fried okra get tossed in a homemade lemon pepper seasoning; serve this dish right away, as the okra will lose its crispness if it sits too long.