While fast-casual food can get old when you go through the drive-thru too often, the beauty of these take-home dinners is that you can assemble them yourself with Chick-fil-A chicken and just a few extra ingredients. The nuggets sheet pan dinner introduced a new level of simplicity that we love.
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Alton Brown's recipe for brownies (which he calls Cocoa Brownies 2.0) calls for the usual ingredients: large eggs, two types of sugar, natural cocoa powder, salt, and vanilla. Combine wet and dry ingredients, pour the batter into a pan. Then we get to the hack.
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Both tofu and tempeh are soy products, but there are some major differences between the two. The taste, texture, and nutrition differ, which means that some recipes work better with one or the other. While tofu is strictly made from soy, tempeh contains other ingredients like flaxseed.
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Luckily, there is a new coffee trending for the summer: Japanese iced coffee. This method has been a part of Japanese culture for some time, but didn't find its way to the U.S. until the director of coffee for counter culture visited Japan in 1994 and brought the technique back with him.
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Disney World has some pretty iconic sweet treats like the Dole Whip and Mickey Mouse bars. However, there might not be another dessert quite the size of Disney's Kitchen Sink Sundae which feeds (at least) four people. Luckily, the theme park has released the recipe so you can make it at home.
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Spinach is also a vegetable which isn't stripped of its nutrients when cooked (via The Vegetarian Times). The only thing that's a bit difficult when it comes to spinach is preventing it from getting soggy when you cook it. Luckily, there are a couple of easy fixes.
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Turns out, there are ways to prepare and cook fish without leaving your home smelling unpleasant, and it starts with getting a really fresh piece of seafood. "The best way to have fish not smell is to work with your fishmonger and get really fresh fish. Fish should smell like the sea — not fishy.
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What if we told you that you could enjoy a dreamy dish of custardy, frosty goodness — except, it would have the same nutritional value of something wholesome, like a banana? Actually, it is a banana we're talking about. We'd like to introduce you to "nice cream.". Yup, this changes everything.
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But Ree Drummond, down home cooking guru from the popular cooking show, The Pioneer Woman, defies this one team or the other theory, and her secret to making perfect scrambled eggs, may just be one of the best we've seen. They are savory, creamy, and fluffy. What's her secret?
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Aldi fans are raving about this newly-discovered step the discount grocery chain suggests you take when microwaving popcorn.
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Cooking the perfect baked potato in the oven can take some time, so that's why you might want to start turning to your microwave for a great one in a flash instead. While the perfect potato could take up to 1 hour and 15 minutes in the oven, you only need 7 minutes in the microwave.
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One way to ensure that your shrimp cocktail is perfect is by making your own. Making the appetizer at home is a fully customizable undertaking. If you're up for a challenge, try preparing both the shrimp and cocktail sauce. The best part of crafting cocktail sauce at home is you make it your own.
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Viral dance trends might have helped TikTok become a social media giant, but since the pandemic, it has also become a way for us to share recipe ideas. Now, TikTok has shown us how to make green grapes taste just like Sour Patch Kids.
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If you have leftover polenta, though, you might want to fry it up for a different take as a side dish.
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Carina Finn, of Insider, made Ritz's recipe for the pie, and added ginger and vanilla extract to the syrup. She topped the pastry with a crumb topping made with cracker crumbs, brown sugar, and melted butter. The result: a pie that looked and behaved like a real apple pie. But how?
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If you're new to the craft of bread making, you may not want to invest in a collection of loaf pans or a fancy bread maker. But, if you're like most home cooks, you probably already own a slow cooker, and you can use that slow cooker to make delicious loaves with just a few simple tips.
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If you're anything like us, you're a stickler for a good whiskey cocktail. You, of course, can already make a mean whiskey sour, Manhattan, old-fashioned, John Collins, and mint julep. Next on your list? If it's pasta night, how about a "Carbonara Footprint"? Save your pasta water!
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When it comes to time management, just ask a mom. Karly Stoddard is the time-saving mom we all need when it comes to baking hacks. This particular hack may change the way you make boxed cakes forever.
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As it turns out, this is where canned soup really starts to shine — as a mystery ingredient that can be used to, well, soup up a wide variety of different recipes. While you may be familiar with the whole concept of using canned cream of mushroom (or cream of anything else) soup in casseroles...
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If you find yourself botching multiple sourdough starters and running out of interesting banana bread recipes, it might be time to switch from baking to bartending. Vodka is a wonderfully versatile spirit to work with, and it's super easy to infuse with lemons.
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Often when people buy herbs at the grocery store, it's simply for the use of one or two sprigs and then the remainder languishes in the crisper drawer of the refrigerator for a few days until they're deemed to be past their prime and then get thrown out. There is a better way to store them, though.
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People tend to think of poached eggs as one of the most difficult ways to cook eggs. There is so much fuss over poaching eggs to the point that it makes it seem kind of like an unattainable breakfast.
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Meanwhile, frozen items can take a while to defrost at room temperature. There's always the option of thawing frozen foods in the microwave, but when you're working with seafood, it can result in some unsavory smells in the kitchen that tend to linger. Enter the salad spinner!
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Who is not down for a yummy, flaky, buttery croissant for breakfast or brunch (or for a snack)? These crescent shaped masterpieces of the French culinary world are absolute perfection with your morning coffee on any day of the week. The only thing that could make these soft, pillowy pastries better?
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While you may not need yet another reason to love your instant pot, we're going to give you one that may make you love yours so much you want to marry it — yes, it's true, you really can make wine in your instant pot! We're not talking mulled wine, either, but actually turning fruit juice to wine.
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Real Simple simply raves about the new potato preparation technique that involves cooking them in butter (actually a relatively moderate and totally non-Paula Deen-ish amount of the stuff) and chicken stock, calling these potatoes "creamy, caramelized coins that melt in your mouth."
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Hot cocoa mix is one of those items we tend to pick up and always have on hand in the back of the pantry. While it's an easy mix for quick hot chocolate during cooler months, the sweetened, chocolatey, pre-packaged item serves as a good base for other dishes, too.
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