You know what’s fun? Bringing new dishes to potlucks! There’s just something so satisfying about having people come up to you after they’ve enjoyed every last bite of your side dish and ask you for the recipe. In choosing the recipes for this round-up, we wanted sides that go beyond the traditional and get everyone’s taste buds buzzing. Each one of these sides really is meant for summer potlucks because they’re quick and easy to make....
Be they savory or sweet, excess holiday foods can be converted into new, delicious recipes that will keep your interests piqued. This year, your leftovers won’t go to waste, nor will you get bored repurposing them. You won’t have to worry about using up excess pumpkin purée or cranberry sauce. This roundup of recipes will help inspire you to create new favorites from tried-and-true ingredients. Robin Shreeves joins Marta Rivera in compiling this list....
It doesn’t mean things have to get complicated. Sometimes it’s just thinking about dinner in a different way. Sandwiches aren’t only a lunchtime staple, make a dinner sandwich with baked fish or try a restaurant favorite like deep dish pizza at home and get the whole family involved. When you’re not in the mood to cook snacks are best. Assemble your favorite, nuts, fruits, vegetables, and spreads for dinner made of easy to fix and easy to clean up finger foods....
Small with shiny crimson skin, cranberries have a bouncy quality to them (they were called “bounceberries” for a while), and they can float, thanks to the four air pockets inside. As objects, cranberries are fun; as fruits, they’re punchy! Bite into a raw cranberry and you’ll feel a little snap; their flesh is firm and dry and crisp. The flavor is tart, tart, tart, but even that can be fun....
Tomatoes, peppers, and zucchini start showing up on farm stands and supermarkets, not to mention beautiful summer berries. You won’t be short on vitamin C, that’s for sure! This week’s meal plan takes full advantage of the bounty for healthy dinners all week long! This menu is full of interesting flavors punctuated with colorful produce. For example, you’ll find peppers, carrots, and greens tossed into a Thai-style salad and freshly grated zucchini worked into spicy turkey burgers....
My mum was never much of a baker, but she used to tell us about a bread she loved back at home on the North Shore of Massachusetts called, oddly, anadama bread. How Anadama Bread Got Its Name Apparently the old tale is that Anna was a fisherman’s wife who fed her beau little more than cornmeal porridge sweetened with molasses. One day, so the story goes, the fisherman came home, added some flour and yeast to the mush and tossed it in the oven to make bread—all the while muttering, “Anna, damn her!...
A Modern Side Dish for Passover Dinner! Tsimmes is a mix of sweet potatoes and dried fruits sweetened with orange juice, and kugel is a casserole of noodles or potatoes. They might seem almost dessert-like in their sweetness, but they are most commonly served as side dishes alongside a savory main course. Think of them as the Jewish holiday equivalents of Thanksgiving sweet potato casserole—sweet dishes meant to accompany a table of savory foods....
When my siblings and I were kids (in the 60s) we had dessert once a month (not counting the coffee cake dad made on Sundays). These days nary a pie recipe gets published that my father doesn’t want to try, especially when I’m around to make the crust. He made this delicious crumble pie (with a few minor changes from one in Sunset Magazine) a few days ago and it was half gone by noon....
Apple pie bars feed a crowd! No need to worry about using a pie server and knife to cut out messy slices. The bars can be brought to a gathering or individually wrapped as gifts to lift someone’s spirits and to serve up and share with ease. On top of all that, the bars are easy to make. The dough you make for the crust doubles as the crumb topping....
Ordering seafood online ensures a higher quality and a greater selection of seafood than what you might find at the grocery store. Seafood delivery is both easier and more convenient, with the seafood shipped directly to you. In addition, getting frozen seafood delivered directly from the source means you get a better selection with more transparent information on sourcing and sustainability, as well as the knowledge that you are actually getting the product you ordered....
The best spice of the month clubs carry both common and unusual spices and blends so that customers can have the comfort of ingredients they know and love as well as the ability to try new dishes. Their websites are easy to navigate, subscription plans are both simple to sign up for and to cancel, and the spice subscriptions sound appealing to the average consumer. Best Spice of the Month Clubs Best Overall: Piquant Post Best Value: The Spicery Best on a Budget: SpiceBreeze Best for International Spices: Spice Madam Best for Hot Spices: Raw Spice Bar Best for BBQ: BBQ Rub of the Month Club...
We’re talking about batter from a boxed cake mix, of course. Is there any other kind? The concept of cake being made from flour, butter, and sugar was not even conceivable to me until I was in my tweens. Cake mix was a staple at our house, and I loved preparing it even more than I craved eating the cake it produced. I cut my baking teeth on cake mixes of the 1980s....
Mom and dad were reminiscing the other day about one of their favorite recipes of my grandmother’s, her pulled beef, braised in BBQ sauce. Mom remembers Nana once feeding 80 people this dish at her small adobe house in Tucson. It’s terribly easy to make, you can easily double, triple, quadruple the recipe, making it perfect for serving large groups of people in an informal gathering, and it’s absolutely delicious....
It didn’t take long for me to start experimenting with the sauce in vegetarian ways. One of my favorite combinations became buffalo cauliflower. These buffalo cauliflower tacos are the perfect vegan meal. Pan-frying the cauliflower helps soften the cauliflower just enough to lose the extreme crunch from raw cauliflower. However, the cauliflower still has enough texture that you’re not eating a mushy taco! What’s in the Buffalo Sauce? One of the main challenges with buffalo sauce and vegan eating is that buffalo sauce is traditionally made with butter and hot sauce....
Big, showstopper cheesecakes baked without a water bath are more likely to overbake, which will give them a curdled texture, cracks in the surface, and lopsided tops. Unless you prefer your cheesecake that way, why let a water bath be the one thing between you and perfection? On the other hand, smaller or shallow cheesecakes are not quite as finicky as large and deep ones, because they’re not baked as long....
Especially with ruffled potato chips. Most of the flavor in the onion dip with which many of us are familiar comes from a package of dried onion soup, which works if you have only 2 minutes to put together a dip. But if you are looking for something a little more special, you can make your own onion dip from scratch! The key is to caramelize the onions first....
Freshly grated carrots, chopped raisins, pecans, and a handful of bold spices get folded into the thick batter. The pancakes rise into tall and fluffy stacks that are perfectly golden brown on the surface. Maple syrup is always a winner to drizzle on top, but a lightly sweetened and spiced cream cheese topping is even better. These pancakes deliver all of the characteristic taste of carrot cake, but for breakfast....
