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!
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.)
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.
My dad passed away last week. You might have known him here as SantaDad. He took great delight in that nickname, which came from an early story about how confusing as a kid I found the pictures of my dad on a fire truck dressed as Santa Claus as a) we are Jewish; and b) everyone knows Santa Claus comes down a chimney, duh. I realize this doesn’t make it any less head-scratching and I’ve decided to not even try to clear it up.
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.
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.
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.
I am someone who firmly believes brunch isn’t brunch without a mimosa, so when it comes to organizing a festive brunch for Easter, there will definitely be a cocktail on my table. Pitcher drinks are the best route to go when you’re serving a crowd, and for Easter I believe they should be extra fresh and seasonal, as the holiday is also a bit of a celebration of the early days of spring. Here are seven pitcher cocktails that fit the bill.
Here’s the thing: In addition to being a meal everyone loves, pizza is also the ultimate problem-solver for home cooks. Delivery or takeout pizza helps us fix our dinner dilemmas, but homemade pizza? Well, this workhorse can be tailored to solve a whole range of situational dinnertime struggles.
Here are 10 of the most common dinner conundrums and the pizzas that step in to get dinner (and breakfast!) on the table.
Cleaning a dishwasher is an odd prospect, for sure. Shouldn’t dishwashers be inherently clean? You’d think so, but over time, dishwashers can collect food debris, soap residue, and inexplicable gunk that needs to be wiped away to ensure your dishes are getting a proper shine.
About once a month, it’s a good idea to give one of your most-appreciated appliances a little TLC (live without one for a few years if you don’t fully appreciate it).