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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.
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.
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
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.
Vegetable Pearl Couscous
Steer your eating habits in a healthful direction by bulking up pasta with loads of fresh vegetables. This makes a great vegetarian dinner or easy side dish for a Mediterranean-inspired meal.
It’s easy to eat healthfully — and stay full — with this couscous dish. The trick to getting it on the table quick is chopping the vegetables into small pieces. Virtually any vegetable will do. Produce like broccoli, carrots, and grape tomatoes are available yearround, but for bigger impact, add …
Caprese Gratin
A gratin [GRAH-tn] is any dish that’s covered with cheese or bread crumbs, then browned in the oven. This one features fresh tomato and mozzarella slices dressed with olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and fresh basil — the staples of Italy’s caprese [kah-PREH-seh] salad.
Although a caprese salad isn’t traditionally baked, the idea of turning it into a gratin really isn’t that far-fetched — just cross the border from …