This is especially true of tips to nip food waste in the bud. Just when I think draining poached eggs on slices of stale bread is new, I realize the famed newspaper columnist Heloise did it first. Her decades-old tips read as a primer to any modern-day person who’s credo is reduce, reuse, recycle. The Heloise MO was more about thrift and mindfulness than being green, but the outcome was the same: a safer, happier, less wasteful kitchen....
No matter how or what or who you’re celebrating this summer, Simply Recipes has the ideas, tips, and recipes to help you pull it all together. Go ahead and make s’mores with your children like writer Thao Thai, and try your hand at a corn on the cob bar like Stephanie Ganz. Eat too much guacamole while sipping on frozen margaritas. Don’t skip dessert. And linger outside a little bit longer before going to bed....
The first step is understanding the kind of chocolate you’re working with. Because chocolate chips contain soy lecithin, a food additive that helps them retain their shape when they’re baked, they might not melt as smoothly as chocolate bars. But if they’re the only thing you have on hand, or if you’re going for convenience, they’re a good choice because they’re already cut to size. Whether you’re melting chocolate on its own to use for drizzling or dipping, or you’re melting chocolate with butter or cream to make brownies or ganache, it’s important that the chocolate be small and uniform in size so that it melts at an equal rate....
This guide is all about uncovering the best techniques to roast meat to get you started! What Exactly is Roasting? First things first: before we dive into specific roasting techniques, let’s discuss what we mean when we say roasting. Roasting is a dry heat cooking method that uses hot air to cook food. For the purposes of this article, we’ll focus solely on roasting in the oven, though traditional forms of roasting denote cooking over an open flame....
New jars straight from the box are not sterile. And the jars you ran through the dishwasher months ago and kept on a shelf in the basement likely aren’t sterile, either. Luckily, sterilizing jars is simple, and there are a few methods you can choose from. The best way to sterilize jars will depend on how many jars you need. Technically we’re sanitizing the jars, not sterilizing the jars, but rather than get too persnickety on terminology, let’s get down to business....
So when Sarah Thomas-Drawbaugh (known on the internet by her blog name, Healthyish Foods) dropped a grated egg avocado toast video and it started taking TikTok by storm, I knew that I had to see what the fuss was all about. There is no denying that it is a gorgeous dish. Made with a thick piece of sourdough bread, a layer of creamy avocado, and delicate cloud of grated hard boiled egg, what more could you possibly want for breakfast?...
Whisk up an easy dumpling batter, add your vegetables, chicken, and broth to the pot, and you’re most of the way to a rib-sticking dinner. New to Instant Pot cooking? Start here! The Trick to Chicken and Dumplings in the Instant Pot Pressure cooking chicken and dumplings presents a bit of a challenge because thickened liquids either don’t come up to pressure at all, or they do, and you end up with scorching on the bottom of the pot....
So of course I had to make my own batch the very next day. They’re so good! And oddly not as spicy as you would expect. Certainly not as hot as my regular jalapeño pickles. Just a little bit hot. Perky hot. And sweet and crunchy the way a bread and butter pickle should be. Safe Handling of Hot Peppers That said, the road to these pickled beauties was rather bumpy....
Here’s everything you need to know about ground ginger, and oft-overlooked spice that deserves a place in your pantry. What is Ground Ginger and How is it Different from Fresh Ginger? When you think of ginger, you probably think of the knobby, papery-skinned, golden-fleshed rhizome found in the produce section of the supermarket. Today it’s used as a spice in many different cuisines around the world, but the plant itself originally comes from Southeast Asia, specifically the maritime nations of Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Singapore....
It’s that good. The recipe was in a book that Garrett gave my father on Russian, German & Polish Food & Cooking. Dad has a preternatural affection for all things turnip and cabbage. Kohlrabi means cabbage turnip in German, so of course dad couldn’t wait to try the recipe. We all loved it so much we made him make it again a few days later and made sure my brother showed up for dinner....
I’ll never forget the first time I ate Korean food. We were visiting my mom’s friend in Los Angeles and she took us out for Korean barbecue. My first taste of kimchi, banchan, and bulgogi and I was hooked. I live in California where great Korean food is not difficult to come upon, but in 2012 I learned I would have to be gluten free for the rest of my life....
These soft, buttery rolls are must-haves for your holiday table—or any special occasion, for that matter. No one wants to fuss with rolls when so much is going on in the kitchen. That’s where the very important make-ahead plan comes into play. The Secret to the Best Dinner Rolls The secret to meltingly tender dinner rolls? Lots of butter, eggs, and potato flakes. Eggs and butter add richness, and potato flakes—a stand-in for the mashed potatoes used to make old-fashioned potato bread—add a tenderness....
They’re great with steak, still good in a quesadilla, terrific over polenta, or just on their own. Here’s the trick with cooking most mushrooms, dry sauté them first. A mycologist friend of mine taught me this trick years ago, with the chanterelles and porcini we had foraged. Sauté the mushrooms first, just on their own, with no added liquid or fat, in a hot pan. The mushrooms will release their water, which will then boil away, concentrating the mushroom flavor....
My recipe is based on the no-knead bread recipe originally developed by Jim Lahey at the Sullivan Street Bakery in New York City. Here, I’ve added whole wheat flour to up the nutritional value and modified the amounts to make a dough that’s perfectly proportioned for making sheet pan pizza. Since whole wheat flour absorbs more water than white flour, it is best to stick to about 30 percent whole wheat to white flour....
How To Make the Best Oven-Roasted Potatoes Cut the potatoes into manageable sized pieces, toss them with some olive oil, garlic, rosemary, and salt. Then, roast them in the oven at a high temperature until they are brown and crispy at the edges and cooked though in the center. Great with steak or chicken, or as a side for a weeknight meal. “Baby” potatoes are names such not because of their age but their size....
These days, given that most of the revelers are now in their 80s, we keep the festivities to one house. It’s always a lot of fun, with plenty of stories both old and new, told or retold with great relish each year. As often the case with gatherings such as this, you are never quite sure how many people you will have showing up. It’s the holidays, which means that friends and relatives will cancel or appear at the last minute....
She throws together the most simple of ingredients, and they are so good that I have to get up in the middle of a meal to write everything down, for in her words, “if you like it, ask me now what I did because in an hour I won’t remember.” What I love about this white bean salad creation of hers is that it is so dead easy, and it’s good protein too....
Quick pickles are part of my DNA. My grandmother always had a jar of sliced cucumbers in her refrigerator and pulled them out to add to a plate of interesting tidbits or to spread on top of a liverwurst sandwich (!) Like grandmother, daughter, and now granddaughter (me), quick pickles are always on hand to pull out for a snack or hors d’oeuvres. My grandmother and mom just put sugar, vinegar, and a little water in a jar and shook it until the sugar dissolved....
And I think essentially he is, perhaps with the one exception being if there is rhubarb involved. A rhubarb pie in particular. In which case you don’t even have to proactively bribe him. Just mention the idea that you are making a rhubarb pie and don’t be surprised if he washes your car, takes out your trash, or even cleans out your garage attic. (Thanks dad!) Let’s just say that my father has had a busy week, as I have made this rhubarb meringue pie three times to get the recipe just right....
