When I first started getting a CSA box, I was overwhelmed by all the vegetables I was getting every week. There seemed to only be so many ways to make a side dish or add greens to a recipe. One day it finally clicked: I can cook a recipe built around the vegetables.

Vegetarian dinners can be just as satisfying and filling, if not more so, than dishes that contain meat. Whether you want quick-and-easy tacos, corn-filled mac and cheese, or breakfast for dinner, you’re sure to find a few new vegetarian recipes to add to your weekly rotation here.

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Welcome to Snapshot Cooking, the home of Kitchn’s easiest recipes. These mini recipes are so simple you can practically cook from the before-and-after snapshot itself.

When you think of shortcut cookies, do you find yourself staring at shelves of chilled cookie dough? While a log of dough is certainly tempting, there’s a better option just a few aisles away. Whether you need freshly-baked cookies for bake sales, cookie swaps, birthday parties, or after-school snacks, head to the baking aisle and grab a box of cake mix.

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After running out to purchase these cauliflower pancakes (aka latkes), heating them up in our kitchen convection oven, and wafting the scent of crispy Parmesan throughout the office, my coworkers were dying to know: Where did I get these?

“Cauliflower Joe’s,” I told them. “I mean Trader Joe’s!” My bad … but honestly, the more that I think about it, maybe Trader Joe’s should consider rebranding to Cauliflower Joe’s, as they’re swapping the crucifer in for just about everything these days. We’ve seen it all — pizza crust, gnocchi, rice, mashed potatoes, the works — so I guess it makes perfect sense that the latke would be next?

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The contrast between vibrant crimson cake and stark-white icing makes red velvet cake one of the most eye-catching desserts. And with the help of one of our favorite supermarket shortcuts, you can get the same effect with a lot less effort.

December is prime cookie season, so while you’re decking the halls in red and green (or, come February, baking treats for a Valentine’s celebration), don’t forget to include the festive hue with a bite-sized take on red velvet cake. Yes, you can make cookies with the signature velvety texture and mild cocoa flavor you’d expect from red velvet cake with a box of cake mix and three pantry staples!

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Everyone has a grocery store they love the most, the place they’d always prefer to pick up their food — the store down the street from your apartment with the best produce, the one by your parents’ house that has been there since you were a kid. Can there be a consensus on the best grocery store in the country? Turns out, there is. Market Force recently surveyed about 12,800 Americans to find out which grocery store they love the most. The answer? Wegmans.

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Dishes stress me out. Usually because as I’m flinging oatmeal bowls at my children and panic-cooking pork shoulder for tomorrow’s work potluck while defrosting fish for dinner, all I see is the mess I’m making and the chores someone will have to do later. And by someone, I mostly mean my husband. But it turns out, if I’m creating all that stress, maybe I should be doing the dishes, too, in order to actually relieve the stress.

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As the proud owner of the URL PurseFood.org for many years before deciding the $12 each year I paid for the vanity site that I had done nothing with was throwing money away, I have strong feelings about condiments in tiny, portable packages. As in, I love them. Sure, I know Beyoncé wasn’t singing to me when she belted out about where she keeps her hot sauce, but you better believe I reached in and stroked that bottle in my handbag when I heard it.

For fellow purse-food addicts, especially for the ones that are a little more sweet than spicy, Nutella’s got a treat for you this holiday season: Target is selling wee little one-ounce jars of Nutella’s classic chocolate hazelnut spread.

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Sure, we all know the slow cooker is often the secret that makes feeding our families a little easier on busy nights (and, let’s be real, nights we don’t feel like cooking), but that just scratches the surface. This year, dear readers, you broke out your slow cookers to bring your favorite comfort foods your tables, help stock your freezers, make takeout favorites at home, and so much more. We shared a lot of slow cooker recipes with you this year, and these were your 10 favorites.

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Although I do like the look, feel, and durability of the porcelain tile in our kitchen, bathrooms, and sunroom (I never had it before living in Florida), if I had my druthers, I would say goodbye to grout in my life. Especially the grout on the floor, which we’re constantly bathing in some manner of liquid dirt — from tomato sauce splatters to murky mop water.

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Let’s talk about falling back in love with a classic dish. When is the last time you made a classic beef brisket? You know the one — tender beef in a rich gravy with melting potatoes and carrots. The beef brisket that makes the whole house smell like a cozy day perfect for snuggling on the couch. It had actually been years since I’d made beef brisket, but since I recently discovered I could make this traditional dish in the slow cooker I’ve fallen back in love with brisket all over again.

If you’re looking for a stunning but easy Sunday supper to get you through the long winter or to serve during the upcoming holidays, this is it — classic beef brisket made in the slow cooker.

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