Smoking your turkey is a wonderful way to achieve a delicious aroma, texture, and color to your poultry. The type of wood you use to smoke your turkey is important. This is what chefs say is the best type of wood for smoking a turkey.
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Imagine that the day for your special turkey dinner has arrived and your turkey is moist, delicious, and ready to be pulled out of the smoker, but you haven't a clue about how long it should sit out for. Should you give it any time at all to rest before serving? Here are the best tips.
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Everyone loves finding shortcuts in the kitchen, but there are some steps you definitely shouldn't skip, even in the interest of saving time. Tenderizing chicken, especially chicken breasts, is one of them, and if you haven't been tenderizing your chicken before now, you should definitely start.
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The holiday menu at Starbucks is full of everything from peppermint mochas to caramel brûlée lattes, but it's the secret holiday menu that really steals the show this season. And there's one drink in particular for 2020 that mixes coffee with the flavor of hot chocolate: the Hot Cocoa Cold Brew.
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Most people who pick up a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner purchase a frozen whole bird. That means millions of Americans each year share a common goal: getting their turkey from frozen up to 165 degrees Fahrenheit as safely as possible. This is the best way to thaw your Thanksgiving turkey.
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Are you planning to go really over-the-top with Thanksgiving dinner? Watching too many Food Network holiday specials can have that affect, and nothing says opulence like food stuffed inside of other food. If you love turducken, you'll be thrilled to know it\ has a dessert counterpart: the piecaken.
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Call it a sauce, a dip, a spread - toum is basically the jack-of-all-trades of the condiment world. Toum is like mayonnaise without the eggs (yes - it's vegan!) and it's rather ubiquitous in Lebanese cuisine.
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Typically, quiche calls for a lot of eggs - up to a dozen sometimes - which are whisked with milk and heavy cream. Calories and fat add up really quickly as you add other ingredients. The simplest way to reduce the amount of fat and calories in your quiche is actually to eliminate the heavy cream.
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Initially, guacamole's ingredients included avocados, tomatoes, and chilis, but the Spaniards put their fingerprint on the recipe, adding onions, cilantro, and lime juice. All the extra stuff we tend to add to our guacamole is really a nod to our Spanish friends.
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Asparagus is great served fresh in a pasta, grilled with a hearty protein, or just by itself.. Asparagus looks weird enough as it is, so no one would blame you for overlooking signs of an asparagus stalk past its prime. We're here to help.
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If you come across the perfect cut of pork belly at the grocery store, you might get tempted to throw it straight in the oven and cook it like a brisket. Resist this urge, as many inexperienced home chefs try to cook pork belly too quickly.
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While those of us who cook wouldn't think twice about preparing a chicken or turkey meal at home, we'd probably be a bit more hesitant if we were asked to consider preparing duck. We're guessing the hesitation could have something to do with the fact that ducks are just so greasy.
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If you normally just toss your fresh-baked muffins in a plastic bag, or leave them in a container on your counter, they might dry out or go stale quicker than you can finish them. But no matter what kind of muffins you make, if you store them the right way, they'll last a little longer.
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Hundreds of these concoctions exist, but only a handful deserve to get revived and added back to their former place of honor. Enter one of the most delicious vintage cocktails that deserves its comeback — the Brandy Alexander.
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Are you a fan of both junk food and fancy chef-created cuisine? Well in that case, Cheetos has got something you're definitely going to love. Just in time for the holidays, too. Yes, it's here at last! The soon-to-be-bestselling Bon Appe-Cheetos: A Holiday Cookbook by Chester and Friends.
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As many people have found to their misfortune, it can be incredibly easy to spill red wine all over your favorite clothes. Fear not, though: Here's how to get red wine stains out of clothing.
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While using a blender might seem like a common-sense task, there are actually a few blender mistakes you might be making that can keep you off track. Common blender mistakes include overfilling the blender, adding ingredients in the wrong order, and washing it improperly.
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If you want to make a large quantity of a cake, cookie, or other baked good, you might be tempted to simply double the recipe. However, because baking is chemistry, there is a real reason you should never simply double a baking recipe for a larger portion.
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With the holidays just around the corner, the pressure to entertain guests and serve up the best desserts feels overwhelming. No treat can impress your loved ones and strike up the feeling of autumn like a solid pumpkin pie, but this task seems easier said than done.
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If you're sober or looking to cut back on drinking this holiday season, you don't have to skip out on the holiday cheer. Here are three underrated holiday mocktails that you should be drinking at your holiday parties.
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Celebrity chef Ree Drummond, a.k.a. The Pioneer Woman has a neat Thanksgiving dinner roll hack that will make everyone at the table give thanks to the chef. The Pioneer Woman uses frozen Thanksgiving rolls and spruces them up for an easy fix.
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Quick refresher — shabu-shabu is a Japanese take on hot pot with a kombu (dried kelp) and dashi (Japanese soup stock) base. While there are a variety of meats that you can use (pork, chicken, or lamb) there's just one that you'll find at high-end Japanese restaurants: beef.
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Any experienced home cook has struggled with the in's and out's of trying to cook a chicken breast like a thigh and vice-versa. Navigating the best ways to prepare these favorites appears daunting before you even consider the health benefits of each cut.
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Water boils at a lower temperature than oil, however, so it'll quickly reach its boiling point and turn to steam if you add it to a pot of frying oil. The gas at the bottom pushes the oil above out of the pot, making it splash everywhere, and it can easily catch fire.
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If you've ever thought of making bacon in the oven, we have two words for you: Do it. Though the less common way to prepare everyone's breakfast meat, it really is the best way. Oven cooking requires no flipping or monitoring — just set the timer and go about your business.
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'Tis the season for all things pumpkin. Pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, pumpkin spice lattes — it doesn't matter what form it's in. If it's orange, spicy, and packed with all of our favorite fall flavors, we'll take it. Not only will we take it, we'll bake it, too.
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Just like every other fruit and veggie in the produce section, every stalk of asparagus looks a little different. Luckily, there are a few quick tests you can use at the grocery store to find the freshest veggies.
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