4.27 / 5 Stars | 14 Reviews
by MUZIC247
“A big bowl of sliced cucumbers with sweet onion and tomato is marinated overnight in a sweet and tangy balsamic dressing, then served cold.”
There’s nothing worth eating in Texas that Lisa Fain can’t teach you to make better in your own kitchen, from perfect, simple carnitas, kolaches, and chicken-fried steak to breakfast tacos, frito pie and peach buttermilk ice cream, plus two cookbooks worth of wonders (drool break for the buttermilk and bacon fat flour tortillas from her latest) but my favorite recipe of hers uses only three ingredients and is addictive enough to put on everything.
Google offers windows into at least 3.8 million iterations of “perfect homemade salsa” — I mean, the red, spicy stuff we went through two jars a week of when I was a freshman in college — but I find most of them terrifyingly complicated. Many have nearly a dozen ingredients ranging from sugar to cumin, or call for very specific brands of tomatoes, like Ro-Tel, which isn’t particularly easy to find outside of Texas or well-stocked bodegas in NYC. Fain’s recipe shrugs at all this fussing, and tells you to go to the market when tomatoes are overflowing, halve a bunch on a tray along with a couple garlic cloves and jalapenos, broil them until they’re charred and blend them until you get your desired consistency and just forget about eating salsa another way ever again.
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A low sugar, all-natural jam that takes only minutes to prepare? Yes, there is such a thing! All you need is fresh fruit, lemon juice, chia seeds, and honey and you can have a batch of homemade jam that is not only quick but quite low in sugar too.
A refrigerator’s sole purpose is to keep things cold. Simple, right? But if you’ve ever dug through your crisper drawers to find your carrots have turned into frozen sticks, then you know the pains of having a refrigerator that’s set to the wrong temperature. And one that’s too warm can have adverse effects if your food spoils quickly.
Do you know the temperature your fridge should be set at? Here’s everything you need to know about keeping your fridge cool (but not too cool).
I love hard boiled eggs. They’re great for deviled eggs, egg salad, or just eating plain with a sprinkle of salt. For years I ate one every morning until my doctor told me that you shouldn’t eat the same food every single day. So now I eat them only a couple of times a week.
Used to be that people were scared of eating eggs because of the cholesterol in the egg yolks.
4.55 / 5 Stars | 49 Reviews
by Claudine
“A nice light appetizer. Delicate rice wrappers are filled with noodles, shrimp, carrots, lettuce and basil. Cooked chicken or beef may be substituted for shrimp.”
