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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

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!

How to Evenly Cook Asparagus

Overcooked asparagus is a sad, mushy occasion! Here's a simple trick to ensure your steamed asparagus turns out perfectly every time.

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.

How to Achieve Salad Perfection

Salad greens sometimes reject the dressing, causing it to pool in the bottom of your bowl and ruin your salad. Here's a simple tip to help the dressing cling to your greens — and add more flavor!

Don't Throw Out Those Radish Leaves!

Don’t throw out those fresh radish leaves! Instead, try adding them to salads, soups, and vegetable side dishes just as you would any green herb or greens like arugula.

How to Trim Hearty Greens

Many popular dishes now use peppery greens like collards, turnips, mustard, and chard. But trimming them can be a pain. Here's a simple and efficient way to trim the stem out of hearty greens.

How to Make Perfectly Caramelized Vegetables

Roasting vegetables can be delicious and exciting, especially if they are perfectly cooked with a caramelized crust. Here's how to make perfectly roasted, caramelized vegetables every single time.

The Secret to Perfect, Fluffy Potatoes

For mashed potatoes with more potato flavor and no sogginess, use this method for cooking your potatoes. An added benefit: the potatoes stay fluffy, even with less dairy or butter added.

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 Keep Potatoes Fresher for Longer

Do your potatoes start sprouting before you can use them all up? Here's a quick tip to keep your potatoes fresher for longer.

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!


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

Summer Squash Gratin

Just because you’re assigned “vegetables” for the potluck doesn’t mean your contribution can’t be a hit! Bring this gratin side dish starring fresh yellow squash and zucchini. Enhanced with Parmesan, sage, and cayenne, the flavor is good through and through. Still, everyone’s favorite part will inevitably be the toasted topping, so use a larger-than-necessary dish for more surface area, ensuring there’s plenty in every serving.

Grilled Green Beans

Foil pouches are a great way to get perfectly steamed, crisp-tender vegetables. This quick and easy side dish grills right alongside the rest of the meal.

Grilled Parmesan Asparagus

A side of asparagus tossed with olive oil, salt, and black pepper, then quickly grilled, proves that even the simplest recipes can be sophisticated.

Cool Broccoli Salad with Lemon-Buttermilk Dressing

Broccoli salad is classic picnic fare. This version has a cooling and bright lemon-buttermilk dressing, golden raisins, and sunflower seeds for crunch.

Asparagus with Rémoulade

If you take your party on the road, these spears are just as delicious served at room temperature, but keep the sauce chilled. Rémoulade [ray-muh-LAHD] is a classic French mayonnaise-based sauce that’s particularly good with crab cakes.

Cauliflower Crunch Salad

Toss crisp cauliflower and carrots with a jazzed-up ranch dressing, top with crunchy, salty cashews and bacon, and what do you get? The best side dish to serve at picnics and potlucks.

Quick Dill Pickles

Don't limit yourself to pickling just cucumbers — any of your favorite (or most plentiful) vegetables are prime for pickling — cauliflower, okra, asparagus, summer squash, carrots, to name a few — just keep in mind, thinner-skinned produce like cucumbers, zucchini, and corn work best. Learn more about How to Make Quick Pickles here.

Roasted Vegetable Salad

Roast a plethora of vegetables and top with a herbs, a red wine vinaigrette, and goat cheese for a colorful veggie-focused side dish.

Squash Ribbon Salad with fennel & chives

To keep things on the light and summery side, Squash Ribbon Salad with fennel & chives makes a great side dish for grilled fish or meat.

Creamy Avocado Hominy Salad

Hominy is a whole grain that provides some health benefits — it’s low in fat, has a good amount of fiber, and is cholesterol-free.

Creamed Peas & Carrots with pearl onions

Complete this colorful holiday spread with a slew of full-flavored side dishes. Start with a medley of vegetables in a delicious cream sauce. It feels fresh, but is far more satisfying than steamed veggies.

Quick-Pickled Vegetables

The sweetness of these Quick-Pickled Vegetables complements the Nashville Hot Fried Hens perfectly. Try them on the side with other spicy fried or barbecue dishes, too.