Recipe: Skillet Cod with Lemon and Capers — Recipes from The Kitchn

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I often forget how easy it can be to make fish a weeknight option. For some reason it carries an air of fuss, but when you’re in the kitchen with it, the ease of preparing it almost smacks you in the face. This recipe delivers on ease and flavor, serving up golden-brown fillets of cod with a buttery, briney pan sauce.

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Recipe: Slow-Cooker Peach and Blueberry Cobbler — The Summer Slow Cooker

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Beside being one of the iconic desserts of summer, a cobbler has quite a few qualities that keep it on the top of our summer must-cook lists. Cobblers can showcase whatever juicy fruit is currently in season; they have a beautiful, rustic appearance; and they’re much, much easier to make than pie.

Perhaps the only drawback of a cobbler is having to turn on the oven — but not anymore! Your trusty slow cooker can produce a tasty fruit cobbler, leaving you and your kitchen as cool as a cucumber. This peach and blueberry version is flecked throughout with fragrant vanilla bean seeds.

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Recipe: Graham Cracker Cookies — Recipes from The Kitchn

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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.

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Grilled Chicken with South Carolina-Style BBQ Sauce

Grilled BBQ Chicken

Please welcome guest contributor Elizabeth Stark from the food blog Brooklyn Supper! ~Elise

Barbecue sauce is contentious in a way that few condiments are. Local pride is on the line. Sauce-wise, I’m mostly stateless and am just as happy with North Carolina-style vinegar sauce as I am with a Kansas City sauce made with tomatoes and molasses.

But when it comes to grilled chicken, nothing feels as perfect as the tang of a mustard-based South Carolina-style barbecue sauce.

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Grilled Chicken with South Carolina-Style BBQ Sauce

Grilled BBQ Chicken

Please welcome guest contributor Elizabeth Stark from the food blog Brooklyn Supper! ~Elise

Barbecue sauce is contentious in a way that few condiments are. Local pride is on the line. Sauce-wise, I’m mostly stateless and am just as happy with North Carolina-style vinegar sauce as I am with a Kansas City sauce made with tomatoes and molasses.

But when it comes to grilled chicken, nothing feels as perfect as the tang of a mustard-based South Carolina-style barbecue sauce.

Continue reading “Grilled Chicken with South Carolina-Style BBQ Sauce” »

Grilled Chicken with South Carolina-Style BBQ Sauce

Grilled BBQ Chicken

Please welcome guest contributor Elizabeth Stark from the food blog Brooklyn Supper! ~Elise

Barbecue sauce is contentious in a way that few condiments are. Local pride is on the line. Sauce-wise, I’m mostly stateless and am just as happy with North Carolina-style vinegar sauce as I am with a Kansas City sauce made with tomatoes and molasses.

But when it comes to grilled chicken, nothing feels as perfect as the tang of a mustard-based South Carolina-style barbecue sauce.

Continue reading “Grilled Chicken with South Carolina-Style BBQ Sauce” »

Grilled Chicken with South Carolina-Style BBQ Sauce

Grilled BBQ Chicken

Please welcome guest contributor Elizabeth Stark from the food blog Brooklyn Supper! ~Elise

Barbecue sauce is contentious in a way that few condiments are. Local pride is on the line. Sauce-wise, I’m mostly stateless and am just as happy with North Carolina-style vinegar sauce as I am with a Kansas City sauce made with tomatoes and molasses.

But when it comes to grilled chicken, nothing feels as perfect as the tang of a mustard-based South Carolina-style barbecue sauce.

Continue reading “Grilled Chicken with South Carolina-Style BBQ Sauce” »

Perfect Pitcher Drink Recipe: Blueberry Lavender Vodka Spritzer — The 10-Minute Happy Hour

The 10-minute happy hour can be as simple or as sophisticated as you like. For me, the fastest and most delicious way to enjoy happy hour is to use what I have on hand — not to go searching for something I don’t. This week blueberries and lavender were at my fingertips, thus resulting in a gorgeous pitcher perfect for the centerpiece of my weekend party, and a fairly impressive happy hour requiring little effort.

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