Here’s one of the best ways I can think of to use some of that leftover turkey—creamy cheesy turkey enchiladas—flour tortillas filled with chopped cooked turkey, mashed sweet potatoes, and cream cheese, and then smothered in a creamy salsa verde sauce, sprinkled with shredded Jack and baked until bubbly. Crazy good! As in I don’t want to share any of it good. As in if I have to share it I better make a double batch good....
If you want to take the roasted asparagus up a notch, when they’re done, drizzle them with a little lemon juice or balsamic vinegar or sprinkle them with some freshly grated Parmesan cheese. Tip for Roasted Asparagus Have you ever had roasted asparagus turn out tough and stringy? The best way to avoid that is to use the fat spears, not the skinny ones, for roasting. The skinny ones will dry out too quickly in the high heat of the oven....
My favorite was a perfectly seasonal summer pizza sprinkled with toppings of zucchini, corn, and pickled peppers. While Ken’s was topped with ricotta salata, I went with a creamy, salty, and cheese pull-tastic blend of fresh ricotta, parmesan, and mozzarella. My flatbread recipe is loosely inspired by Ken’s pizza and uses similar primary ingredients, but you don’t need a wood fired oven or expert pizzaiolo skills to put them together for an easy weeknight dinner....
The filling is a moist mixture of pork, marinated with cornstarch, soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil, and Shaoxing wine. It is lightly sautéed with sweet napa cabbage and carrots, earthy and meaty dried mushrooms, fresh ginger and scallions for brightness, and savory and slightly sweet oyster sauce to tie it all together. A Chinese Lunar New Year Delight Celebrations like the Lunar New Year are often filled with special treats with symbolic significance like spring rolls....
What Is Gazpacho? Gazpacho is a classic cold Spanish soup, perfect for sweltering summer days. It’s traditionally made with fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, red onion, and garlic. For this version, we are including even more fresh garden vegetables and spicing up the soup with some Tabasco and Worcestershire sauce. Make sure you use only the best, freshest ingredients for this soup. For a California spin, top the soup with some chopped avocado, and serve it with crusty bread....
What’s the History of the Gimlet? Like every other classic cocktail, the gimlet comes with a handful of competing origin stories. The most credible is its creation, in the 1880s, at the hands of Royal Navy surgeon Sir Thomas Gimlette, who encouraged his mates to take their gin rations with a healthy dash of scurvy-preventing lime juice. Lauchlin Rose’s lime juice cordial, invented just a decade earlier, helped make that possible, at the same time sweetening the drink and preserving the citrus....
These sandwiches have a nice tang to them thanks to a homemade BBQ sauce (but you can use store-bought as well) and a pickle slaw, which is just my favorite. Will my kids eat these sandwiches though?! Read the report card below to find out! How to Grill Juicy Chicken Breasts It’s easy to grill chicken breasts so they stay juicy. The problem is, most people grill them into submission....
It comes together in under 25 minutes (so quick!) and it looks (and tastes!) stunning—bright colors, different textures, and a super creamy dressing. It all adds up to more than the sum of its parts. Broccolini is Great for Grilling Broccolini is a fantastic veg for the grill. Grill it quickly over high direct heat, set right over the lit coals or burners. I use a kettle charcoal grill and find that I don’t need to light a lot of coal for this and I set the lit coals on just one side of the grill....
And the skin? Oh, the skin. So crispy and perfect. What Is Chicken Under a Brick? I have a lot of bricks in my kitchen, but they are all very secured in my walls. Good news, though—you don’t actually need a brick to make Chicken Under a Brick! You just need something super heavy and heat-resistant, like a cast iron pan or a pizza stone. Once you have that in place, this dish is exactly what it sounds like: You butterfly or spatchcock your chicken; then you cook it with something heavy on top!...
Obviously, this pizza would be super fun to make for Valentine’s Day, but it’s fun for any pizza night. How to Shape a Heart-shaped Pizza The good news about this pizza is you can use almost any pizza dough to make it. I prefer a no-knead pizza dough, which I usually make the night before I’m planning to have pizza. There are two basic ways to shape your pizza dough into a heart....
Turns out all I had to do was wait. With the explosion of plant butters on the market, we can finally have our vegan pie and love it, too. This pie dough recipe works in nearly any sweet or savory recipe calling for an all-butter pie crust. Plant Butter to the Rescue! Faux butter has been on the market for years, but it hasn’t always been vegan. I grew up in the 1980s, and what my generation and those before knew as margarine can contain dairy-based ingredients, and therefore was off the table for vegan baking....
That’s a great question, and one we’ve all found ourselves asking at one point or another. With much of the country still embraced by cold weather and a whole lotta social distancing going on now is the perfect time to get acquainted with dried herbs. Dried herbs can be more potent than fresh herbs (unless they’ve been sitting in your spice drawer for 5 years). This means you need fewer dried herbs than fresh when substituting one for the other....
Onions are naturally sweet; and as caramel comes from the simple cooking of sugar when you slowly cook onions over an extended period of time, the natural sugars in the onions caramelize, making the result intensely and wonderfully flavorful. How to Use Caramelized Onions You can use onions prepared this way on top of steak, or for onion soup, tarts, pizza, or onion dip. Or you can do what I did with this batch, eat it straight up....
Tips for Gingerbread House Decorations This gingerbread house making project requires a trip to the candy section of your local grocery store. You can decorate your house with whatever types of candy please you. Be careful taking kids along to the store, however, as you will invariably buy more candy than you actually need (though they do have the best ideas of what candies would be good for various decorative effects)....
If you own a food processor or blender, you should make mayonnaise at least once. It’s a quick, cheap thrill, and it’s good for your ego to boot, because it’s so easy. It takes longer to wash the food processor than to do the actual mayo-making. And yes, your homemade mayonnaise will beat what you can get from the store. I used to think mayonnaise was gross, but now I dip my fries in it, drag artichoke leaves though it, and slather it on sandwiches....
I trust only me to carve the turkey—that’s because it gives me alone time with the carcass. I covet the bits of salty, golden-brown turkey meat close to the bones once the big hunks of meat are carved away. By the time I make it to the holiday table, I’m quite full and deliriously content. Roasted Turkey Bones Make the Best Stock But that’s only half the story! The rest?...
Whereas the Sazerac is all restrained simplicity, the Hurricane is a party in a tall glass. It’s made with not one, but two kinds of rum, passion fruit purée or syrup, orange and lime juice, grenadine, and simple syrup. The result is a tropical boozefest that is anything but subtle. The Original Hurricane Recipe The Hurricane can be traced back to Pat O’Brien’s in New Orleans, where it was created in the 1940’s as an excellent way to drink all the rum coming into New Orleans from the Caribbean islands....
This tomato relish is typical of the island’s cuisine and is often served with a variety of other small side dishes called laoka, and rice to accompany a main course. How to Use Lasary Legioma (Tomato Relish) It’s similar in texture to pico de gallo or bruschetta and can be used in that way as well. I like to put a bowl of it out on the table for guests with some root vegetable chips for a pre-dinner snack....
My problem, though, was that I often disliked eating the same dish multiple times. But there was one dish I never got sick of which was Matar Paneer. It didn’t matter whether my mom made it or it came from our local restaurant—I always looked forward to eating the tangy, spiced tomato gravy paired with creamy paneer. During the pandemic, I ordered Matar Paneer from our favorite Indian restaurant one too many times before I decided I should try my hand at recreating the dish....
It should be savory, salty, spicy, and hot but not so hot that you absolutely can’t taste the other spices and the juicy deep-fried meat. And yes, it should be served with pickle chips on a white bun or bread. If you want to make your chicken less spicy (we all have our personal limits on what we consider hot and spicy) that’s totally fine, but try not to get too fancy pants with this chicken sandwich....
