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Apple Fries Apple fries with caramel cream dip is like eating your own little apple pie with every bite. My husband and I dreamed these up while driving home from a family hike and couldn’t wait to get home to try them out. We both love apples but have a weird allergy where we can’t eat them raw, it makes or throats itchy and tight I know, it’s super weird and started when we were living in California—we can’t figure out what happened....

This once-forgotten classic has made quite a comeback in the past decade or so, mostly at fancy cocktail bars. But it’s easy to make at home, provided you’re willing to track down the right ingredients! The History of the Aviation Cocktail The early 2000s marked the beginning of the so-called cocktail renaissance when American cocktail connoisseurs sought to rediscover pre-Prohibition cocktail recipes that had been lost to time. One of them was the Aviation....

Braised red cabbage with chestnuts is a traditional accompaniment to roast goose, but if goose isn’t on your menu it also works great alongside a pork roast or even prime rib. You can easily make ahead and reheat to serve. Serve hot. Related Video

Today, we’re combining two of our favorite foods, buffalo chicken wings and cheesy lasagna, to make the ultimate crowd-pleasing casserole. This buffalo chicken lasagna has just the right amount of spice to balance the creaminess of the blue cheese sauce. In flavor, it perfectly mimics eating hot wings with a side of blue cheese dressing, but with the added toothsomeness of pasta. As impressive as this dish sounds and tastes, it’s actually quite simple to prepare....

Caprese Chicken Sliders When it comes to food, I have so many favorites. But in general, if someone could just take me to Italy, that would be a dream come true. I think I would be perfectly content surviving on Italian food alone. Especially if they’re as good as these Caprese Chicken Sliders we whipped up the other day. They are so incredibly tasty! We made these for a fresh tasting appetizer the other day and they didn’t last long at all....

We would always fight over these dumplings. (Ever wonder why people from big families eat fast? The first kid who finishes gets seconds on the dumplings.) Tips for the Best Chicken and Dumplings Making dumplings that are tasty, light, yet hold together isn’t a given. The Bisquick dumpling version, although light and fluffy, tends to fall apart. At the other end of the spectrum, my dad remembers his mother’s dumplings which were, in his words “as hard as hockey pucks....

The first trick is to brown the chicken in a mix of butter and oil. This gives you the best combination of flavor and browning for your chicken. If the breasts are slightly thick (which they probably will be), they won’t cook all the way through at this point. That is a good thing! Place them on a baking sheet and let them gently finish cooking in the oven while you make the sauce....

This coconut cake pulls out all the stops. It is the best dessert for any special occasion. If I learned anything from my days as a pastry chef, it is that in baking, you can often play around with timing and make most recipes work on your schedule. This is because pastry making is all about components. At the restaurant, we made many of our building blocks throughout the week: puff pastry, pastry cream, pie dough, even buttercream, could all be made ahead at separate times and then combined in different ways depending on the particular dessert we needed to make....

The Best Way To Use Garden Cucumbers This is all well and good, as long as I remember to pick them daily. As careful as I can be, hunting for cucumbers in the tangle of leaves and vines, I do miss them occasionally, only to discover a monster cuke hiding perfectly camouflaged under a leaf! Like zucchini, left to their own devices, cucumbers will grow to ginormous proportions, resulting in a thick-skinned, seedy bat....

Creamy Tomato Basil Soup Sometimes you just want to relive the flavors of your childhood, but with a bit of a grown up twist. Last week I posted about these amazing Grown Up Margherita Grilled Cheese Sandwiches. Today, this creamy tomato basil soup is my version of grown up tomato soup, and it is WAY better than anything you can buy in a can! You can make this with or without the sausage, both ways are good!...

Growing Up With Chicken Curry I grew up eating this at least once a week in my home. My mom always made the best chicken curry in the family. It was lip-smacking, forehead-sweating good. Served over rice with a side of extra pepper sauce was truly a plate of comfort food for me. Now I cook it for my family once a week as well. Chicken curry is perfect for lunch, dinner or honestly even brunch!...

What’s in Italian Seasoning? The ingredient list can vary, but almost all Italian seasoning blends contain dried oregano, basil, rosemary, and thyme. Many also include marjoram and/or sage, as our’s does. Store-bought seasoning will sometimes include garlic powder, red pepper flakes, and/or salt. This blend sticks to dried herbs, but you can customize it and add other spices to make it your own. How to Choose and Store Spices To make the best-tasting blend, it’s important to use quality, fresh dried spices....

Kool Aid Pickles (aka Koolickles aka Tropickles aka Pickoolas) Then, what The Heck Are Kool-Aid Pickles?Simply put, Kool Aid Pickles combine the traditional pickle brine with Kool Aid and sugar. Folks in the south, specifically the Mississippi Delta region takes credit for this sweet yet savory condiment. Whether they’re called Koolickles, Tropickles, or Pickoolas, they’re now gaining popularity all over the country. Turns out, we all LOVED them, even our kids!...

Mexican Baked Strawberry Empanadas At the end of any great meal, sometimes you just want to finish with something sweet. These Mexican Baked Strawberry Empanadas are the perfect dessert to any Mexican dish! They are super easy to make and so yummy! You will love the combination of warm, crunchy tortilla, sweet strawberry filling, and cinnamon sugar on top. What is an Empanada? An empanada is a Spanish or Latin American pastry turnover that can feature a variety of sweet or savory fillings, prepared either baked or fried....

We use them to dry dishes, line a bread basket or cover a bowl of dough, strain stock or yogurt, or bring a bunch of dinner rolls or biscuits to the table. And they wash beautifully too – just throw them in washing machine, wash on cold, then tumble or line dry. While the towels are excellent, we really love the company. The founders, Kei Tsuzuki and Molly Luethi, started Kei & Molly Textiles to create good jobs for local refugees and immigrants in their neighborhood, the International District of Albuquerque, New Mexico....

We experiment frequently with different ways of preparing pork chops, but the way we have pork chops most regularly is with a simple dry rub and pan frying. My mother has been making chops this way for years! How to Season Pork Chops We use a favorite dry rub recipe of my father’s, which includes cumin, black pepper, coriander, sugar, and salt. It requires some advance preparation — heating the whole spices to release their aromas, and grinding them in a blender or spice grinder....

If you have ever had a fig tree, you know what I mean. Fig trees rain figs. (Oddly they rain leaves too. When it comes time, one day you have leaves on the tree, the next day, none. They all drop at once.) My parents have a green fig tree, Hank has a Mission fig tree, so we are doubly blessed. Personally I prefer the mission figs; the flavor is more intense....

Thomas Keller is most known for his landmark 3 Michelin star restaurant, The French Laundry in Yountville, California. French Laundry food is famously exquisite, requiring an insane amount of preparation for each dish. For those patrons who want the Keller touch without the fuss, he has another restaurant in the area, ad hoc, which is known for its home cooking, done incredibly well. Out of the restaurant came the cookbook, Ad Hoc at Home which made its way to our home a while back and into my father’s hands....

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