I think everyone can agree that ice cream birthday cake, if anything, is a bunch of delicious words and ideas stuck together. But what seems to be a point of contention is what actually constitutes an ice cream cake. Is it ice cream and cake? Or is it just ice cream you can slice? I want to know.
Without citrus fruits, the winter months would be bleak indeed. Luckily there are plenty of lemons, limes, oranges, grapefruits, pomelos, and more to go around. Now all you need are some recipes that put them to use. Well, look no further — these recipes make the best of the bright fruit family.
I don’t know about you, but when it gets cold all I want to eat is comfort food: the heartiest meals that make me feel all warmed up and cozy inside. But I also don’t want to spend a ton of time in the kitchen, you know, not wrapped up in my blankets. Luckily Ree Drummond recently shared her favorite Instant Pot recipes, which will satisfy your desire for comfort food that doesn’t take much effort to make.
Let me guess? When you get home from the grocery store, you grab that jar of natural peanut butter that you picked up in a bid to eat healthier breakfasts, and you toss it on the upper shelf of your pantry and then forget about it for about three weeks until you get a sudden craving for toast. That’s all well and good. Almost. Because if you’re storing the container in your pantry right side up, then you might want to reconsider.
For almost 20 years, Rachael Ray has appeared on screens across the world with her simple, convenience-minded approach to cooking. In fact, she’s gone beyond the screen with her magazine, her website, and books. But now, firmly planted as a culinary A-lister, Ray’s making her way back to the root idea that got her EVOO in the door, so to speak.
This week Rachael Ray herself made the announcement on Instagram while on the set of her eponymous weekday talk show: “Have you heard the good news? 30 Minute Meals is coming back to @foodnetwork. More info to come!!” The show ran from 2001 to 2012 with much success, and now it’s BACK.
Every time I flip on an episode of Fixer Upper, I imagine what life would be like as a member of the Gaines family. On weekends we’d go antique shopping, with Joanna leading the charge (in search of the perfect vintage barn door that we would then magically convert into a master bedroom headboard), and then after that’s done we’d make biscuits. (Barn doors and biscuits sound about right, right?)
Honestly, I’m not far off. In her cookbook, Magnolia Table, Joanna says that she spent a year’s worth of Saturdays perfecting this biscuit recipe, Goldilocks-style. They couldn’t be too heavy, flat, light, salty, dry — too anything, really. They had to be just right. A noble pursuit!
While people love to complain about the produce at Trader Joe’s, the salad kits are actually pretty darn amazing. We should know: We spent the last two months eating and talking about nearly every salad kit sold in America.
See, the salad kits at Trader Joe’s are just super interesting. They go above and beyond the standard set that we see in most supermarkets (read: TJ’s has options beyond Southwest- and Asian-inspired!). The Trader Joe’s team comes up with surprising ingredients and combinations that miraculously work well together. Riced cauliflower in a salad? Yes! Dried blueberries in another? Yum! Shredded broccoli in a third? TJ’s knows what it’s doing!
There was just one salad kit we didn’t love (the Yellow Curry Chopped Salad), and here are the five we loved the most.
Here’s a piece of widely accepted knowledge that no one ever questioned, at least when I was a kid: Ginger ale will soothe nausea or an upset stomach. But as one viral tweet recently pointed out, this fizzy drink is not the miracle cure for all of your digestive ailments. My world has officially been turned upside down.
It seems like just yesterday that everyone was wild about Halo Top, the high-protein ice cream favored by workout fanatics. Hailed as a so-called “healthy” alternative to traditional ice creams, Halo Top has fewer than 300 calories, and 20 grams of protein. There’s just one downside: A pint of Halo Top usually costs around $4. As usual, Trader Joe’s is here to rescue shoppers on the hunt for deals. The beloved grocery store chain will now stock a much cheaper version of a protein-packed ice cream, called Swell.
Designed for cleaning hard-to-scrub surfaces, Magic Erasers (or melamine foam pads) are the gifts that keeps on giving. Not only can you deep clean everything from your kitchen oven to the grout in your bathtub with one, but when purchased by the eight-pack, these sponge-shaped wonders also break down to less than a dollar a pad.