Several years ago, University of Houston research professor and New York Times bestselling author Brené Brown wrote out what she called an “ingredients for Joy and Meaning list,” which allowed her to catalog the things that she was doing — or had done — at times when everything felt good in her life.
One of those ingredients was cooking. Brown said it felt like cooking together was one of the indicators that her family was doing well.
Chicken and rice, chicken and rice, there isn’t a dinner that’s quite as nice!
These 10 chicken and rice dinners check off all the boxes: They’re not too complicated to make, they’re comforting, they’re pretty wholesome, and of course the most important of all … they’re delicious. Because if you had a choice to eat a raw five-ingredient kale salad for dinner and this, you know you’d choose this. I mean, it’s chicken and rice!
“I think it’s really important to shop [while] hungry,” the host of Sandwich King and The Kitchen says. “That way you are more likely to buy things you wouldn’t normally buy. Maybe you’ll be more adventurous, willing to explore different flavors and different foods. But also you’re gonna look at that pork chop or that whole chicken like, ‘Oh, that sounds so good, I’m starving!’ And then you’re going to make it if you have it in your fridge, right? You’re not going to not waste that $9 chicken.”
Mauro is the chef of Chicago’s Pork and Mindy’s and the winner of the seventh season of The Next Food Network Star, and his grocery shopping advice might be unconventional, but it sure sounds fun, right? Going to the store when full is the boring, responsible grown-up thing to do.
Eggs are tiny miracle workers in the kitchen. They can be stored in the fridge for a long time and they are cheap, hard to mess up, and one of the most versatile ingredients you can use. Really, what’s not to love?
So let eggs be your go-to breakfast champion. From soft scrambled eggs to make-ahead breakfast sandwiches and egg casseroles, there’s nothing eggs can’t do to help you kickstart your morning routine.
If you have a carton of leftover cream in your fridge and are wondering what to do with it, you are in luck. There is always whipped cream, of course, but there are so many other wonderful ways to use up cream, whether you have a spoonful or more than a cup. From tender cream biscuits and lush scrambled eggs, to rich chocolate ganache and creamy tomato soup, here are 25 delicious ways to use up leftover cream.
Chicken nuggets in almost any form beyond homemade are a much-demonized convenience food. It’s difficult to call which presentation of convenience is more polarizing: the drive-thru chicken nuggets or the box of store-bought, frozen chicken nuggets. Truthfully, I once held the same distain for both and swore up and down that my future kids would never eat mass-produced nuggets. Ah, how little we know about parenting before we are parents.
Life with two kids and two working parents has given me a heavy dose of reality. Now, I realize that frozen nuggets can equate to an easy meal that all of my family will enjoy. We aren’t eating them every night (or even every week), but I wanted to be sure that when we did, the frozen nuggets were ones I could comfortably feed my family when I need to pull off a miracle meal.
This is my absolute favorite kind of slow cooker recipe — one that takes less than five minutes to pull together and then rewards you with a delicious, healthy dinner at the end of the day. These burrito bowls are full of chili-spiced brown rice, black beans, corn, and yes, tender bites of shredded chicken. Everything gets cooked right in the pot, so all you need to do is dish yourself a bowl and sprinkle with cheese.
The most memorable scene in Pulp Fiction is still the exchange between Vincent and Jules, when they’re talking about the little differences between the United States and Europe. Vincent is floored that he can get a beer at an Amsterdam movie theater, order a Royale with Cheese at a McDonald’s in Paris, and watch the Dutch dip their fries in mayonnaise. “I seen ’em do it, man,” he said. “They [freakin’] drown ’em in [it].”
I have been fairly obsessed with cauliflower “rice” ever since discovering it earlier this year. This finely chopped cauliflower is one of those cheater ingredients that actually tastes legit. No joke.
It has also brought Chinese fried rice, once relegated to the “comfort food” category, squarely into my weeknight meal rotation.
When we want a hit of less-intense onion flavor, scallions and green onions are our alliums of choice. (And Asian and Mexican food wouldn’t be the same without them.) But what are spring onions — and are they the same thing as scallions?
Speaking of which, are scallions and green onions also the same thing? Let’s dive into the world of these colorful fresh onions!