It’s St. Patrick’s Day this week, which is a terrific excuse to not only drink green beer and don some plaid, but also to drink Irish coffee. If you ask our assistant food editor Sheela, the best Irish coffee is made by her Uncle Eddie — and we have tested this method and found it to be a winner.
Get the recipe: How To Make Irish Coffee
But if you ask me, the very best Irish coffee comes from New Orleans.
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It’s not technically spring until March 20, but already I’m dreaming of warmer weather. There’s quite a bit of snow outside where I am after yesterday’s blizzard, but I’m keeping things sunny with this pineapple cocktail.
Until a few months ago, I was firmly in the tote bag camp. Until a few months ago, I couldn’t actually remember the last time I even owned a backpack! Maybe it was in college? Or was it high school when an L.L. Bean bag with your initials monogrammed on it was the “in” thing?
Regardless, I would say that, as a non-school-going, non-book-toting individual, I had been fairly happy with my tote bags for nearly every occasion, from my daily commute and trips to the gym to weekend getaways. But now that I’ve made the switch to backpacks, it’s safe to say I may never go back.
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While we’re off living life, slow cookers keep dinner going and leave little cleaning behind. But even kitchen superheroes need a night off, and after a season of busy and chilly nights or a couple of messy Pinterest fails, your slow cooker probably needs a good cleaning — inside and out. Here’s how to get it good and clean, so you can put it back to work (or tuck it away for next winter).
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Today is National Potato Chip Day and Pi Day, which can only mean one thing: You need this chocolate peanut butter swirl tart recipe in your life. With a salty potato chip crust and a sweet, rich filling, this treat is both a flavor and holiday mash-up of epic proportions.
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Breakfast is probably the meal I struggle most with. I want it to be healthy, but also satisfying enough that I don’t feel hungry again by 11 a.m. I want it to be quick and easy, but also, ideally, homemade. I have my go-tos — Irish oatmeal with flax, maple syrup, and a pinch of sea salt and homemade cashew nut milk with dates, cinnamon, and vanilla — but they can start to feel really boring, really fast. And that’s when I reach for the batch of pantry cocoa brownies that I made last night.
I’m always on the lookout for great breakfast inspiration to throw into the mix and keep me from a chocolatey beginning to my day (although, admittedly there are worse things). So I was thrilled to find not one, but five smart and delicious ideas at one Miami restaurant during a visit this month.
Last weekend, we had 13 friends over for moules-frites. This — plus a big green salad, some crusty baguettes and more white wine than seems conscionable — is my favorite dinner party menu. It makes the easiest, surprisingly budget-conscious meal and might, if you play your cards right, make you feel ever-so-slightly like you’re on vacation somewhere European and full of sailor-types. Okay, maybe that’s pushing things but let’s run with it. I forgot to add, however that it’s best for 6 people, 8 at most. As soon as the mussels exceed the volume of your largest pot or the fries surpass the one large tray that fits in your oven (plus you have a salad you really only want to toss at the last minute), basically everything needing to be cooked à la minute, you’re going to have to hustle. I am constitutionally incapable of hustling; we ate dinner at 10.
I usually make my oven fries, but I decided that for a crowd it would be easier to let a fryer do the work and borrowed one from a friend (who is married to another friend who’s obsessed with fried chicken, I mean, I’m sure it’s just coincidence). Loosely following J. Kenji López-Alt’s directions, I prepped 7 pounds of potatoes the day before but as I stuck them in the freezer overnight, I realized that this was going to allot each person approximately 16 fries. Look, I know we all like to believe that we eat only 16 fries when we go out and that’s totally fine, but I think we can all agree that we are going to be happiest if person who makes your fries knows better and cooks accordingly.
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Today is National Chicken Noodle Soup Day! This seems fitting, as chicken noodle soup is one of the most — if not the most — comforting dishes to eat in the winter. While this soup is not fancy or complicated by any means, there’s a way to make it even easier to get on your dinner table. (Hint: It involves your slow cooker, of course.) After a little prep, you simply toss everything in the slow cooker and let it do the hard work for you.
