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Learning how to cook cabbage opens a new world of culinary delights to any home cook! In this Ultimate Guide to Cabbage we will explore this vegetable, which is a kitchen staple at my house! In addition to our favorite cabbage recipes, you will learn how to select the best variety of cabbage for your recipe as well as how to freeze & cook cabbage! CLICK HERE TO VIEW OUR FAVORITE CABBAGE RECIPES Cabbage is economical, packed with flavors and both nutritious and delicious!...

We clean up the deck, break out the deck chairs and table, complete with umbrella and bright and summery tablecloth. Also, our meals are simpler–we grill eggplant, zucchini (usually a humongo beast from our garden), bell peppers, and disks of sweet red onion, and some of the best chicken wings ever conceived. Now a few words about these grilled chicken wings–first, we’ve been making them for a solid 20 years....

For even more ideas, open up our full list of tofu recipes to browse after you check out this list of go-to easy tofu dishes. Our Favorite Easy Tofu Recipes If you look at our recipe index, we have a good number of tofu recipes, but not all of them are “easy” per se. So we’ve cherry picked the ones that are the fastest and most doable on busy nights....

Juicy tomatoes, fresh avocados, and sliced onion are tossed with the simplest dressing. This recipe is the perfect “less is more” with little prep, few ingredients, and lots of fresh! We love that the simplicity of this recipe allows the flavor of the ingredients to shine! A Flavorful Avocado Salad This salad is perfect to take to picnics, parties, and BBQs because it’s both fresh and delicious.Don’t let the simple ingredients fool you, it packs big flavor!...

Growing up, being picky about food was not an option. You either ate it all or you didn’t eat at all. Things that inexplicably I used to be picky about included the tiny green bits in the instant ramen packets (ridiculous), the green vegetables in my mom’s dumplings (at one point, I actually had the gall to leave all the filling and eat just the crispy skins), and fish (which my mother cleverly convinced me to eat more of because it would make me smarter)....

While some of these recipes call for a particular type of ground meat––ground beef, pork, or chicken, feel free to use whatever ground meat you like. You could also sub in ground turkey or ground lamb. We’ve divided this list into a few sub-categories, including Rice & Noodles, Southeast Asian recipes, and Traditional Chinese recipes, all using ground meat! When In Doubt, Defrost Some Ground Meat! We reach for ground meat when we don’t want to think too hard about cooking times, are serving a crowd, need to put meals on the table fast, or need a little handful of protein to add that extra umami flavor to a stir-fry or noodle dish....

I’ve compiled a list of very Eid-able recipes for you to take inspiration from and cook. Traditionally, Eid is a rather meaty affair in Pakistani culture, therefore this compilation is a reflection of that. The list also ends with a few classic Pakistani desserts - no Eid is complete without at least one of them! How to make your Eid hosting a little easier Hosting for Eid when you’ll be having a large crowd is no joke!...

It’s not that we should be spending the entire month in the kitchen preparing for Iftars and Suhoors. Not at all - in fact, Ramadan is a month of worship and devotion and it should be spent with that at the forefront. Having said that, I remember what my Mum used to say when I used to tell her to stop preparing 4-5 items daily for the Iftar spread - she’d say ’ I don’t have to, I WANT to do this - everyone enjoys having food after a long day and they enjoy breaking their fast....

In this from-scratch version, tender green beans in a homemade bacon mushroom cream sauce are topped with buttery parmesan bread crumbs. It’s all baked until bubbly and golden. This version is extra rich, creamy, savory, and oh, so delicious. A Homemade Version of Green Bean Casserole Campbell’s green bean casserole recipe has graced holiday tables for over 60 years for good reason. It’s as easy as it is delicious and the perfect Thanksgiving side dish....

Posted Sep 04, 2017, Updated Oct 09, 2022 September is my favorite produce month of the year! Summer and fall collide to bring us the very best that nature has to offer! This Balsamic Tortellini Bake combines the produce of summer with the comfort of fall in a delicious, cheesy dish that your family is sure to love! This tortellini bake is ready from start to finish in 40 minutes, max!...

A banana split sundae is the perfect at-home dessert. If you’re looking for something for a party, try Banana Split Stuffed Strawberries or Banana Split Icebox Cake! Even though this old fashioned dessert begins with classic flavors, there’s no reason you can’t mix it up with different ice cream flavors and topping! Take the traditional route and use classic vanilla ice cream or get creative and try it with key lime pie ice cream and other fun flavors!...

Serve this beef tip recipe over mashed potatoes or even rice or pasta for the perfect meal! Ingredients for Tender Beef Tips Beef Tips: Beef tips are usually the tender parts of the tenderloin top. They can also be sirloin tips that come from larger roasts often sold as ‘stew meat’ or, in this case, ‘beef tips.’ Cubed chuck roast is great in this recipe too. Seasonings: The seasonings are simple, with onion, bay leaf, and Worcestershire sauce....

Posted Jun 16, 2023, Updated Jul 26, 2024 Our family loves hamburgers so much that we make this homemade hamburger recipe once a week during grilling season. It only takes 4 ingredients and 10 minutes to prepare this hamburger recipe. And it results in the best burgers you’ve ever had! They are a testament to the fact that delicious food doesn’t have to be complicated! Follow along to learn how to make homemade hamburger patties even more delicious than your favorite burger restaurant, and don’t forget to make these homemade hamburger buns too!...

Posted Apr 28, 2021, Updated Mar 01, 2024 Everyone who tries this key lime pie recipe exclaims that it’s the best they’ve ever had. And for good reason – a smooth key lime filling is baked into a homemade graham cracker crust and topped with homemade whipped cream – total dessert perfection! Plus, this recipe is easy to make, so you can create a bakery-quality dessert with very little effort!...

These petals have all of the flavor of our favorite blooming onion but the individual pieces are easier to cook (and eat) at home. Make a batch just in time for the big game or movie night— we even included the recipe for the sauce! What is a Blooming Onion? A blooming onion is an onion that is cut into wedges (most of the way through) and battered and deep-fried....

Posted Feb 20, 2024, Updated Oct 05, 2024 Butter popcorn is one of my favorite savory snacks, and this recipe is truly the best. It’s a must-have on our family movie nights (along with this homemade kettle corn and caramel popcorn). My husband perfected this buttered popcorn recipe – and let me tell you it’s addictingly delicious. Using real, high quality ingredients makes it so good you can’t just take one handful....

Posted Oct 17, 2016, Updated Oct 20, 2024 Do you need a way to use all that extra Halloween candy? Do you want a dessert and don’t want to decide between cookies or a Reese’s (or Snickers or Twix)? Then today is your lucky day. You’re going to love these leftover halloween candy cookie bars. In this recipe, two layers of gooey chocolate chip cookie dough is stuffed with the candy of your choice....

They can be savory or sweet, and everyone has their favorite flavors. Bill pretty much only likes the zongzi recipe we’re posting here today—with salty duck egg yolks and the tender, fall-apart pork belly, which is what his mother used to make. My personal favorite is my aunt’s lye water zongzi (碱水粽). Despite the weird name, it’s a very basic zongzi with a distinctive yellow color and subtle flavor. Until we developed the recipe for it, I hadn’t had it for over thirty years, since I left Shanghai as a teenager....

A Healthier Alternative to Mashed Potatoes We eat a lot of veggies in our house and I pretty much love all of them. Our favorites are spaghetti squash and of course broccoli & cauliflower! Broccoli & cauliflower are amazing as a side dish casserole, in soups or roasted, in fact I can’t think of a single way I don’t love cauliflower. This recipe is definitely one of my favorites! While they’re clearly not potatoes, there’s a reason people often refer to them as fauxtatoes!...

This is one of our favorite taco recipes! Baking these shells with meat & cheese helps to keep everything together – which means more yummy food in the mouth and less on the lap! Add your favorite toppings and serve! How to Make Oven Baked Tacos The difference between these baked tacos and typical tacos is that the meat and a bit of cheese is added to the shells and baked for a few minutes....