Ingredients You Need To Make Buttered Noodles Noodles, butter, Parm, and parsley. That’s it, with a little salt and pepper. Serve them with chicken, pork chops, or steak. Make extra! SpaghettiElbow macaroniPenneRigatoniOrecchietteZitiFarfalle Tips for the Easy Buttered Pasta Add a good amount of salt, at least a heaping teaspoon, to the water before boiling the pasta.Make sure to save the pasta water. Adding the starchy water to the butter and noodles will make the simple buttery sauce thicker and silky....

If you didn’t know, it is hotly contested in some parts of Southern United States as to whether or not chili should contain beans. Let me just state for the record that I am not from the state in question (Texas) nor do I have a particular horse in this race. Why Make Chili Without Beans? When it comes to chili, my answer to the great beans vs. no beans debate is “YES....

You can achieve this by cooking the dried beans from scratch, or course. Or you can skip the long simmer and cook them in the pressure cooker, or just pop open a can! Bean soups have the distinct advantage of tasting terrific either way. This Tuscan White Bean soup uses canned beans to make a 30-minute meal that tastes like it took all day. What Is Tuscan Bean Soup? Long-simmered pots of bean soup are traditional all over Italy....

We made it – a recipe meant to be an appetizer for a crowd – and devoured so much of it that neither of us was very hungry for the main course. There was something about the pops of tart cranberry with chewy, buttery cubes of brie and the rich caramelized onions piled on fluffy focaccia that made us keep going back for “just one more slice.” This recipe has now become a holiday staple in our family, often requested and happily made....

One thing you can do with the excess fruit of the season is to make fruit leather, sort of the beef jerky of fruit. I used to love this stuff as a kid! It made for a great snack, gave us instant energy, and was easy to pack. Guidelines for Fruit Leather What follows is a general guideline to making fruit leather, no set recipe. So much of it depends on the specific fruit you are working with....

Between Easter, a Patriots Day parade and museum trips, we finally got a chance to do some baking. Reilly (8) and her sister Alden (6) helped me make scrumptious lemon bars that have candied ginger in the crust from a recipe in a 1987 issue of Gourmet magazine. To make the bars first you make and pre-bake the shortbread crust with specks of candied ginger. Then you make the lemon filling, pour into the pre-baked crust, and bake again, until the filling has set....

A great solution? Chicken breast skewers! If you grill chicken breasts that have been cut into chunks and threaded on skewers, there will be more surface area exposed to the heat of the grill. As long as you grill them quickly on high direct heat, the inside will be done when the outside has lovely grill marks. It also helps to marinate the chicken chunks first. Some salt in the marinade will help the chicken hold on to moisture, and acid from yogurt or lemon juice will tenderize the meat....

I recently reconnected with a Trini friend, Asher, who with her husband Keith, brought me some wonderful homemade curries and roti for dinner. One of Keith’s favorites is curry apple, or a simple curry made with tart green Granny Smith apples, taking the place of tart green mangos, which is one of the most common and well loved curries for roti in Trinidad. What I love about this simple curry is just that, it is so simple, nothing fancy....

The Trick To Good Grilled BBQ Chicken But chicken takes longer to cook than either hot dogs or hamburgers and loves lower cooking temperatures, so it’s easy to mess up by under-cooking, over-charring, or both. The trick to good BBQ Chicken? Patience. How Long To Grill Chicken Done right, it will take at least an hour, and even up to 2 hours. Remember that barbecue is slow and low, grilling is hot and fast....

Their smokey spicy sweetness reminds me of outdoor meals growing up with my family because we would take them with us to the park, on camping trips, road trips. These ribs are made in three easy steps: par-boil, 30 minute marinade, and a finish on the grill to lock in the flavor and make the meat fall of the bone tender. This is the flavor of my childhood and evokes memories of carefree moments playing with my siblings and running through the sprinklers on sunny summer days....

We serve the grilled shrimp in tacos topped with a colorful mango and avocado salsa, which you can easily put together while the grill is heating up. Crazy good! A few tips for perfect grilled shrimp. First, use large shrimp, they’ll hold their moisture better on the grill and won’t dry out in the time it takes to cook them on high heat. If you are using frozen shrimp, defrost them in salty cold water....

Once the outdoor cooking season kicks off, it only makes sense to combine avocados and tomatoes with the smoky sweet flavors of charred sweet corn and bacon. You’ve been forewarned, this guacamole will be on heavy rotation. Mix up a pitcher, or two, of margaritas, shake out a bag of tortilla chips to serve alongside this guacamole, and your party is bound to be a hit. How to Pick the Perfect Avocado It may seem impossible, but you can pick perfect avocados for your guacamole every time you go to the grocery store....

Every time I walk under our grape arbor in this season, just the smell of those ripe grapes conjures up memories of childhood—wolfing down a PB & J, slurping a rapidly melting frozen grape juice bar (mom was way more into those than neon popsicles), or greedily munching on a grape flavored jelly bean, Lifesaver, or any of those turn-your-mouth-purple candies that we loved. We used to make grape juice from Welch’s frozen concentrate; sometimes the lid didn’t come off so easily and splat there went a purple goopy mess all over our shirts....

In many ways, Cambridge provided everything. Our apartment was spacious, set on a tree-lined street, and a short drive away from our families. Friendly neighbors often stopped by, outdoor cats lay on our sunny back porch, and wild turkeys strut on the sidewalk. Yet it took me two years to embrace the new life and community I had sought—led there by the glimmering lights of Diwali. In November 2020, still in the depths of COVID, the Hindustan Times in Delhi wrote of Diwali, “The entire country is bathed in the soft glow of light and warmth emanating from every household, making it a truly wondrous sight to behold....

Of all the cooking skills I’ve learned over the years, this is the one skill that has made the most difference in terms of making cooking enjoyable. I don’t worry about chopping off a fingertip, and rarely do I cry over onions (other things yes, onions no). So what’s the trick? Everyone will tell you that it helps to use a sharp knife. Well, a sharp knife will make cutting anything easier....

No matter how much you grill or the type of grill you use, you should clean the grates before and after each cook, and late spring and early summer is the perfect time for a deep grill clean. Let’s head outdoors, crack a beer, and get to it. Clean the Grates In the hierarchy of grill cleaning needs, the grates rest on top. The grates will never look as clean as the day you bought the grill—they will naturally develop a patina over time....

Sweet potato plants give a lot and require very little. They actually improve the soil, and their lush vines shade out noxious weeds. They’re reliable and produce generous crops, even in poor soil with little rain and high heat. No wonder they became popular everywhere they could grow. The other, and most obvious, reason for the sweet potato’s worldwide fame is that they’re delicious, and versatile. Sure, they’re purportedly full of nutrients and are super good for us, but if none of that were true, they’d still be a favorite....

You can bake one or a dozen straight from frozen or after a quick thaw in the refrigerator overnight! Who doesn’t want warm, fresh-baked cookies within reach at all times? Here’s everything you need to know about how to freeze every kind of cookie, from classic chocolate chip to buttery shortbread and everything in-between. What Types of Cookie Doughs Can I Freeze? The dough for just about every type of cookie can be frozen successfully, with a few exceptions....