Unless you have unlimited storage space, chances are many of your kitchen essentials are stored in a cabinet that, like the universe, leans towards entropy. There are plenty of companies and products dedicated to controlling that chaos, with varying levels of success.

The problem with many organizers, however, is that they don’t live up to the irregular nature of many of our personal collections. Baking sheets graduate in size, and once you start adding cutting boards and serving trays to the mix, many setups end up in a tumbling mess. That’s where YouCopia’s adjustable bakeware rack comes in.

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You can make some pretty awesome pizza sauces from things you likely already have in your pantry. It doesn’t even have to be tomato-based (but I will argue a pizza party without a red-sauce pizza really isn’t a party at all). I love riffing though, whether that means making a creamy Alfredo-inspired sauce or an herby pesto.

Lean on any of these five (three-ingredient) sauces the next time it’s homemade pizza night and you’ll forget all about that jarred stuff.

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Nigella Lawson isn’t going to let jet lag stand in the way of making Easter dinner this year. The cooking empress is currently hanging out in the land of sun and finger limes, but she’s returning home from New Zealand just in time to put a traditional lamb in the oven. Lawson says that since she doesn’t “go in for complicated recipes,” she’s confident in her abilities to pull off a traditional Easter dinner while bleary with jet lag.

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Lemons are one of the most powerful and essential ingredients in the kitchen. They give a bright burst of flavor and acidity to just about everything from salads, to roast chicken.

If lemons are kitchen gold, however, I am Ebenezer Scrooge. Every wasted bit of lemon means I’m more likely to not have lemons in the house when I need them, and that’s my nightmare. So if I’m going to slice open one of my precious lemons, I am going to make darn sure that I get every last drop out of that thing.

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Is there a more beloved party food than a platter of freshly deviled eggs? The humble and classy appetizer gets sassed up when plunged into a jar of beets, vinegar, brown sugar, and pink peppercorns. This unique twist will turn heads and delight tummies!

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I never expected to be someone who has a favorite subreddit, but it’s 2018 and nothing has gone to plan, has it? I love r/ExpectationvsReality, which is an endless buffet of little disappointments, of burgers that don’t look like the pictures on the menu, of tattoos that didn’t turn out as you’d imagined, and of new hairstyles gone wrong. (There’s also a lot of Taco Bell-related posts.)

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On the website for the Dyson Supersonic, the high-tech hairdryer with a $400 price tag, the company says that it’s “inventing new methods of testing to solve real-world hair problems.” But in the hands of one food writer, the Supersonic is also solving a real-world cooking problem: getting super-crispy skin on roast chicken.

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It’s hard to believe Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding is just two months away. The amount of work that goes into preparing for a royal wedding is staggering, and people around the world are working frantically right now to make sure their parts of the big day go off without a hitch.

Just one of the many jobs that someone needed to do was to design and produce the official royal commemorative china. Now that person can breathe a sigh of relief, because the commemorative royal china is finished and available now, and everybody wants to buy it.

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It was sometime last year that I became deeply enamored of sweet potatoes. I don’t do anything particularly special with them or anything — I simply cut them into cubes and toss them with olive oil, pepper, and salt before putting them in the oven until they’re almost charred. They’re absolutely delicious like this, and as a result they’ve have become a necessary ingredient in my kitchen. When I’m not sure what to make for dinner, or I need something more than just salad, the sweet potato is my go-to.

This is all to say that sweet potatoes don’t need much to taste delicious, so it wasn’t surprising to me to learn that the most popular sweet potato recipe on Pinterest is pretty basic. These garlic butter smashed sweet potatoes with Parmesan from Cafe Delites have been saved 335,000 times on the social platform. The recipe requires seven ingredients, most of which you probably already have in your pantry.

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Kugel is, at its essence, a baked casserole. It can be sweet or savory, and perhaps the best-loved savory kugel of all is a potato kugel. In this dish, earthy potatoes mingle with mellow yellow onions and golden, savory chicken schmaltz in a casserole as light and fluffy as a perfectly tender baked spud. Basically, potato kugel is potatoes, onions, and eggs at their very best.

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