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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
Sweet Onion Jam
Vidalia, Walla Walla, and Maui onions, to name a few, have a short availability season, but it’s a sweet one. And with the season in full swing right now, take advantage of them while you can. In the case of onion jam, the onions become even sweeter as they cook down. This recipe is flexible because you can make either a white or a red wine version — both are equally delicious. Serve jam with cheese, as a spread on sandwiches or as a topping for meats.
Roasted Beet, Eggplant & Tofu Salad
Meatless doesn't mean that your meal won't be satisfying. This one-pan Roasted Beet, Eggplant & Tofu Salad is one soul-satisfying vegan side dish. Both hearty and comforting, this recipe is perfect for when the weather just starts to turn chilly. Simply add loads of veggies, like mellow golden beets, eggplant, green beans, red onion and baby kale, in a Dijon-white wine vinaigrette. And crispy tofu adds some heft and protein.
Four-Bean Salad
There’s no better time to bust out all your side dish recipes than summer, when there’s an outdoor party or potluck practically every weekend. But if you’re looking for some fresh ideas, stop sifting through your old recipe cards. You’ve hit pay dirt with this Four-Bean Salad. No one is a stranger to the multi-bean salads. And this one, with four types of beans, a slightly sweet sherry vinaigrette, and fresh celery, parsley, and shallot makes a super-simple salad.
Grilled Corn with Cilantro-Mint Butter
Grilled sweet corn is always good, but topped with the brightly-flavored herb compound butter, it’s simply superb.
Chilled Tomato Soup
In the heat of summer, there's nothing quite as refreshing as chilled soup. With tomatoes, cucumber, aromatics, and the surprise addition of orange to brighten the flavor. Greek yogurt is blended in at the end to make this soup luxuriously creamy. The bonus part of this recipe: you can make it year-round with canned tomatoes because sometimes you need a whisper of summer in the dead of winter.
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Basil and tomatoes go hand-in-hand during summer—but mix up the normal Caprese salad by making creamy basil pesto, stuff into hollowed-out tomatoes, bake and serve as a flavorful summer side dish.
Pesto-Stuffed Tomatoes
Cali-Green Bean Salad
With fresh green beans, grapes, and avocado, this salad is a taste of California with it's abundant fresh produce. Tossed with a red wine vinaigrette with stone-ground mustard and honey, it's the perfect salad accompaniment to just about any meal.
Ratatouille Niçoise
With its smooth, glossy skin and meaty texture, eggplant is used in cooking preparations worldwide. A classic example is ratatouille, a vegetable-focused side dish where eggplant is the star. Here, a medley of Provençal vegetables are roasted, separately, to reduce their moisture content and retain their individual flavors and colors. A final simmer at the end brings all the flavors together.
Grilled Vegetable Salad with Mozzarella Pearls
Get your daily dose of veggies by serving up this grilled salad chock-full of fresh produce. Zucchini and tomatoes are some of the most abundant of the season, and they play a major role in this grilled salad. Alongside bell peppers, bites of fresh mozzarella, and briny capers, this salad recipe will be on repeat all summer long.
Smoked Slaw
If you're looking for a unique coleslaw recipe, don't stop at just smoking meat when there’s space on the grate to try other things. Add a head of cabbage to the smoker and transform your coleslaw into a smoky, spicy side dish. The smoke permeates this tasty side dish recipe and rounds out any grilling menu.
Greek Stuffed Tomatoes
With farmers’ markets, roadside stands, and gardens overflowing with ripe tomatoes, this side dish recipe helps take the guesswork out of what to do with this season’s crop. Stuffed tomatoes might seem mundane, but these beauties are anything but that. Big, seasonal tomatoes brimming with fresh ingredients and bright, zippy Greek flavors.
Pimento-Cheese Butter
This compound butter recipe incorporates the flavors of the Southern staple, pimento cheese, into a make-ahead butter for grilled corn. In the summer, there's nothing like corn on the cob from the grill, slathered with this butter. But don't limit yourself-try this pimento-cheese butter on baked potatoes or roasted vegetables.