Everyone loves a swirled sugar cookie, especially when it’s infused with a touch of peppermint. This season we’re inviting you to take this cookie to the next level for a holiday treat that will bring your cookie plate up a notch: Brush one side of the finished cookies with melted chocolate and sprinkle them with crushed peppermint candies for something extra festive, extra minty, and extra delicious.
Welcome to Snapshot Cooking, the home of Kitchn’s easiest recipes. These mini recipes are so simple you can practically cook from the before-and-after snapshot itself.
If you’re not already familiar, dump dinners are just what they sound like — meals that require almost zero prep work (save for chopping a veggie or two), where the ingredients are dumped into the slow cooker and left to do their thing. These dinners are ridiculously easy to pull off and basically make themselves. Ready to get cooking?
These graham cracker cookies possess the qualities of any desirable cookie: crispy around the edges, with a super-soft, chewy center. While you can certainly eat them on their own, they do their best work in pairs, with a sweet filling sandwiched in between, be it marshmallows and chocolate for a new take on the s’more, ice cream, or fluffy buttercream frosting.
You can have the turkey. Leave the ham. Prime rib — what’s that? In my house, leg of lamb is the celebratory roast; I love its tenderness and flavor.
Have you ever roasted a leg of lamb? It may sound intimidating, but the sweet little secret is that leg of lamb is actually one of the easiest, most foolproof cuts of meat to cook. Here’s our remarkably simple, fuss-free approach to cooking a leg of lamb. It will turn out perfectly every time.
There’s a lot to love about pasta night. Slot it into your meal plan and you can be sure you’ve got a dinner lined up that’s seriously comforting, easy to pull off, and cheap. Those three qualities were also a constant theme in our most popular pasta recipes this year, which featured creamy orzo, a Tuscan tortellini skillet, one-pot primavera, and more.
Basic and budget recipes don’t have to mean boring — especially when it comes to dinner. I’ve been working on my own grocery budget as much to add cash to my vacation savings account as to reduce waste and keep a cleaner pantry — both pleasant side effects of buying only what you need!
Relying on staples that stock our pantry and freezer, we can save our budgets with those basics for delicious and filling dinners every cook should know.
If you’re a Costco regular, then there’s no doubt you’re well acquainted with just how often this massive store can come to the rescue when you’re getting ready to feed a crowd. While there are a ton of great buys, Costco really wins in the appetizer department. Meaning: The warehouse store can really be a life-safer this time of year when holiday parties are nonstop.
Whether you’re hosting or just tasked with bringing something, here are the best Costco appetizers to add to your cart, and the ones that are worth skipping.
Trader Joe’s has a bunch of incredible seasonal products they’ve released for the holidays, and one of them in particular caught my eye: Yule log ice cream. You guys, how ridiculously weird and delightful does that sound?!
“Bûche de Noël cake is a tradition that hearkens back to the ancient practice of burning a decorated Yule log (or, as the French say, Bûche de Noël) in celebration of the winter solstice,” Trader Joe’s begins in their Fearless Flyer, “The custom eventually morphed into baking ornate cakes decorated to resemble a Yule log, which is a pretty favorable progression of events, if you ask us.” (Agreed.)
If you love the DIY nut butter section that Whole Foods offers, you’re going to flip at this news. Cooking Light reports that Whole Foods is testing out a station in-store where shoppers can blend and fill bottles with fresh almond milk using some pretty spiffy-looking machines. Yes, you can now make your own almond milk!
As they’ve done in the past, throughout the month of December Target is featuring weekend-only sales in a variety of departments. So of course we’re especially excited that this weekend (that’s right — today and tomorrow only) they’re offering an additional 25 percent off kitchen appliances and cookware.
We sorted through hundreds of items to bring you our top four picks so you can take advantage of these generous savings. As a bonus, some are already on sale, making the prices that much more tempting.