If you’re making a list of things that are LITERALLY THE WORST, the top three have to be some combination of accidentally getting your sleeve wet when you wash your hands, being forced to leave a voicemail for someone (or the horror of realizing that someone has left a voicemail for you), and sad, thin chili.
When chili falls into your meal plan, you can expect a dinner that’s hearty and filling. It is certainly meal-worthy all on its own, but I always think having one simple side is the ticket to rounding out this cold-weather superstar. Whether you want something ultra-comforting and made for dipping, a side that’s bursting with freshness, or something tangy to keep your tastebuds balanced, these 20 sides offer something for everyone.
If I could be anybody at 70 years old, I would want to be Ina Garten. Actually, scratch that, I’d want to be her at any age. I want her Hamptons house and her $15,000 French stove, and I want to smile all the time and look 25 years younger than I am — just like she does. The last part I’m still optimistic for, but the Hamptons house and the shiny oven are things I might just have to be content with by watching Ina on TV. Ina Garten has beautiful things, but a person doesn’t need Ina Garten-level cookware to make food like she does. A few quality pieces will do it for most of us.
I love chocolate chip cookies so much that I have the classic Nestle Tollhouse recipe memorized. At any given point, my roommate and I have all the supplies required to make a batch (and can do the mental math to halve or even quarter the batch if we’re running low on butter). I even have developed my own personal tricks for boosting the cookie quality (add a finishing salt and a little extra vanilla extract for starters.) I own and regularly use a cookie dough freezer tray.
I’ve talked before about how soup is my go-to dinner party food in the fall and winter, but I recently read a piece on mean chili: spicy, exciting, innovative chili with unexpected flavors. It got me thinking that it may just be time to switch up my usual routine and get on the chili bandwagon. Here are 10 flavor boosters to get you really excited about chili.
Leave it to IKEA to make bug burgers and vegan hotdogs look delicious.
Everyone knows that IKEA is a wonderland of surprisingly stylish flat-packed furniture and trendy and useful housewares. I can’t go into an IKEA store without wanting to leave with new mugs and bowls, even though the ones I have at home are fine. And now IKEA is turning its trend-forecasting powers to food to create the “fast food of the future.”
This past January Kitchn did a deep dive into the ketogenic diet. The high-fat diet puts people in a state of ketosis where their bodies burn fat instead of carbs. You essentially eat a lot more fat — like cheese, bacon, and butter — and limit your carb intake (here’s a list of what you can and can’t eat exactly). While the lifestyle definitely isn’t for everyone, it is gaining in popularity — especially on Pinterest.
According to Pinteret’s Holi-YAY 2017 report, searches for holiday keto-friendly recipes were up 4460% year over year. That is a huge increase in just a year, and it’s only going to be bigger this year. So when people are searching for keto recipes, what exactly are they looking for? It turns out the most popular keto recipe on Pinterest is this one for low-carb Italian sub rolls from Our Paleo Life. It’s been saved 300,000 times.
Breakfast for dinner is one of our favorite easy weeknight meals, but what about dinner for breakfast? Believe it or not, this upside-down idea has revolutionized school-day breakfasts at my house.
“Dinner for breakfast” was actually inspired by my daughter’s request for quesadillas one morning before school. It was fast and easy to toast up a tortilla filled with cheese, and I was happy she was getting protein from the cheese and a side of leftover black beans. When she gobbled it down without complaints, which isn’t always the case with her routine egg scramble, I knew we were onto something.
Whipping up a hot breakfast from scratch in the morning — be it on leisurely weekends or busy weekdays — always sounds like a good idea, but sometimes it’s difficult to make happen.
Well, these 25 recipes are here to jump-start things for you. If you prep, assemble, or even bake your breakfast the night before, you’ll be left with minimal work when you wake up.
Spaghetti alla puttanesca is one of the humblest pastas out there. There’s no meat or long simmering time to contend with. Instead, the tomato-based sauce gets big punches of flavor from a trio of salty, briny powerhouses: olives, anchovies, and capers. The resulting tangle of saucy noodles is deeply satisfying. As if this dish needed anything else to make it more appealing, almost all of the ingredients can be found in the pantry or condiment section of your refrigerator.
To make this as weeknight-friendly as possible, we’re sharing a shortcut to make your life just a little bit easier: cooking everything together in one pot.