These kinds of meals don’t typically come without a lot of time and effort. However, with a few shortcuts, you can make a bowl of ramen any night of the week in under half an hour. Video: How to Make Weeknight Chicken Ramen Great Ramen Without the Seasoning Packet In Japanese culture and cuisine, ramen has been elevated to a high art form—watch Tampopo if you haven’t seen the movie already....
This Vegan Hot Chocolate has a smooth creamy texture and a rich decadent chocolate taste! Whether you are lactose intolerant, vegan, or have a dairy allergy, you can enjoy delicious hot chocolate all holiday season! This recipe is for one serving, but you can scale it up for as many people as you need. Ingredients in Vegan Hot Chocolate Almond Milk – I used almond milk as the base for this recipe because it is commonly found and it doesn’t have an overpowering taste....
Here is a salmon salad using freshly poached salmon that is restaurant-worthy. It’s light, cool, and wonderfully flavored with dill, capers, and lemon. Perfect for a brunch or light lunch! How to Make Salmon Salad To make this salmon salad, we first salt the fillets and chill them. This gives time for the salt to penetrate the fillets a bit and give them more flavor. Then we lightly poach the salmon fillets for just a few minutes in salted water with a slice of lemon....
These spicy grilled jalapeño poppers are stuffed with an addictive mix of barbecue sauce, cheddar and cream cheese, and glazed bacon before being grilled until hot and bubbly. Video: How to Make BBQ Bacon Jalapeño Poppers The Best Jalapenos for This Recipe When you buy your jalapeno peppers, pick through the bunch and find medium- to large-sized ones that feel firm and have no signs of wrinkling. Also, here are some good tips on gauging the hotness of your peppers!...
The Secret to Homemade Applesauce The secret to my dad’s applesauce is that he adds a couple strips of lemon peel to the apples, as well as some lemon juice or apple cider vinegar, while they are cooking. The tartness of the lemon or vinegar serves to intensify the taste of the apples, and helps balance out the sweetness of the sauce. The result is a refreshing, utterly delicious applesauce....
Then there’s the question about food rituals. The ink is dry on other traditional holiday menus throughout the year. Chocolate is gifted on Valentine’s Day. And after the egg hunt, deviled eggs are served on Easter. The grills are fired up for hot dogs and barbecue on Independence Day. Turkey is the centerpiece on Thanksgiving and Christmas tables. But when it comes to dishes to serve during the weeklong Kwanzaa festivities, the menu is still being written....
Why Freeze Avocado? Avocados are chock full of flavor and nutrients, but it can sometimes be a guessing game whether the fruit is ripe but not too ripe, soft but not mushy. Now you can pop them in the freezer in various forms and have them on hand for all kinds of recipes. Guacamole, smoothies, dressings, and spreads can come together in no time when you have a stash of frozen avocado....
Whatever glaze you use, you can sprinkle the whole lattice pie top with some sanding or turbinado sugar. It adds sparkle and crunch to the baked pie. How Do You Keep Your Lattice Pie Crust from Burning? You want that beautifully browned pie crust, but the edges of the pie may brown faster than the rest of the pie. You can buy a pie shield, but it’s easy to make your own from aluminum foil....
Suddenly, I’m staring down a bowl of spotted, overripe fruit. Banana Bread to the rescue! I often make two or three loaves at a time. I keep one loaf on the counter to enjoy over the next few days and freeze the remaining loaves for a day when I need breakfast, or company is coming over. Today, I’m sharing a few tips and tricks for storing, freezing, and thawing banana bread so it’s as fresh as the day you made it....
Video: How to Make Mexican Lasagna What is Mexican Lasagna? It’s called a Mexican “lasagna” because it’s layered like its distant Italian cousin (very distant). Only in true southwestern style, we are using corn tortillas in place of lasagna noodles, salsa instead of sauce, beans in place of béchamel, and mild cheddar and jack instead of ricotta and Parmesan. Make-Ahead Casserole for a Crowd As you can imagine, it is a filling dish, perfect for potlucks and large gatherings of hungry people....
Earthy, bitter, and sweet all at once, its simple proportions—one part each of gin, Campari, and sweet vermouth—make it one of the easiest cocktails to mix at home! The History of the Negroni Legend has it that the Negroni originated in 1919 at an Italian café when Count Negroni asked for an Americano (Campari, vermouth, and club soda) with gin in place of the club soda. The mix was serendipitous, and a famous cocktail was born....
Aged tequila adds a caramel and toffee background to complement the fruit. Peach schnapps in place of the traditional triple sec amplifies the stone fruit even more. Lime zest brightens up the salt rim for a burst of citrus with each sip. Whether you’re by the pool, at a backyard BBQ, or running the grill, this summertime sipper will beat the heat no matter where you are. What’s a Margarita?...
Can an overcooked goose become livery? You bet. Are they fatty? Oh yes. But remember that a goose is not a turkey, just as a duck is not a chicken. You don’t cook them the same way. Why You Can Serve Goose Breast Medium-Rare Both ducks and geese are red meat birds—meaning the breasts of both need to be served medium-rare. That’s pink, or 140-150°F for those of you with thermometers....
These Slow Cooker Honey Chipotle Chicken Tacos need to be on your regular rotation right now. Crowd-Pleasing Slow Cooker Tacos They make an effortless midweek meal for the whole family, and they’re also a crowd-pleaser for any Game Day party you might be throwing. Just set the slow cooker to “warm” and let everyone help themselves when they’re hungry. These tacos definitely bring the flavor! Made with shredded chicken, chipotle peppers, and honey, each bite has just enough sweetness and heat to wake up your taste buds....
The best part is that they’re easy to prepare and most of the time spent is hands-off, waiting for the dough to rise. Simply knead the dough in a stand mixer, let the dough rise, shape, rise again, and they’re ready to bake. Sourdough Starter Versus Yeast While commercial yeast is one isolated strain of yeast for bread baking, sourdough is a culture of wild yeasts and good bacteria present in the environment and your flour....
Not only is this mac and cheese delicious, it’s also easy. You could certainly buy a mountain of fresh spinach and cook it down, but frozen chopped spinach makes this dish weeknight dinner fast. Plus, it feels good to know there’s three whole boxes of greens in this mac. Fear not, you’ll also get some carb-on-carb action with a crunchy toasted-panko topping. It’s the perfect dish for those autumn days: The air is crisp enough that you’re fine with a warm casserole, and the days are busy enough that it’s great to be able to feed a crowd quickly....
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