This is my father’s favorite recipe for pork carnitas which we put into fresh tortillas for tacos, with fresh tomato salsa. I think I could eat this carnitas recipe everyday for a week and not get tired of it. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer, covered for 3 to 4 hours (or longer) until meat pulls apart easily. Add salt to taste if needed....
The Best Egg Salad Sandwich This classic egg salad sandwich recipe is the perfect lunch option. We love to serve egg salad sandwiches during the days following Easter because my kids insist on dyeing what seems like dozens of eggs, and I’m constantly looking for ways to use them up. This is the best egg salad recipe because it is creamy and flavorful and tastes delicious on croissants, toast, crackers, just about anything!...
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Banana Split Dessert This Frozen Banana Split Dessert is the perfect recipe if you are feeding a crowd. It is easy to make, and very inexpensive when you consider one recipe makes up to 24 servings. I love frozen dessert recipes like this that can be easily cut and served. My daughter turned 21 a few days ago, and we were having a big family dinner to celebrate. I thought after 20 years of cake, she might like something a little different....
Grasshopper Cheesecake Bites These Grasshopper Cheesecake Bites are super easy to make and so cute! I first whipped up these little cheesecakes one evening for a small class I did for some teenage girls, and they turned out darling! This is a really fun recipe to make with your kids. We have strong feelings about teaching the children in your life to enjoy cooking and to feel comfortable in the kitchen....
I witnessed my first grilled lobster on Cape Cod one summer when my college roommate’s father grilled whole lobsters with Ritz cracker stuffing. Wow! The char from the grill and the sweet lobster meat, cooked briefly over a hot fire brought out the best succulent, concentrated lobster flavors. I think I’ll take grilled over boiled lobster any day. Luckily, you don’t have to live in lobstah land or cook any live lobsters to make these grilled tails, slathered with garlic and herb butter....
The main advantage of ground beef is clearly budget, and if worked properly you can also have wonderful flavor. First, get ground chuck. Chuck is the shoulder cut of beef, the shoulder muscles being well worked from the grazing action of the steer. More muscle action equals more flavor, and a tougher cut of meat. Chuck is notoriously tough as a steak (ask my father who used to try to cook chuck steaks in his poor bachelor days), but one of the most flavorful parts of the animal....
Contemplating a waffle maker of your own? Maybe you have one, but only haul it out a few times a year. Either way, stick around! I’m sharing tips on how to get the most out of your waffle maker: which ones we like, how to make cleanup a snap, and waffle hacks worth knowing. Types of Waffle Makers Why are waffles great? Surface area. The more crevices a waffle has, the more crispy-crunchy pockets to hold maximum syrup – or whipped cream, or sauce, or whatever you dream of drenching it with!...
How to Make the Best Buttermilk Pancakes: 3 Tips and Tricks For this recipe, I wanted to make fluffy, light, and airy buttermilk pancakes with crisp edges, and a slightly sweet, buttery flavor. Forty pancakes later, I was happy with my results: I finally figured out how to avoid the common pitfalls of dense, chewy, eggy, or rubbery pancakes. Video: How to Make Buttermilk Pancakes The Role of Buttermilk Some buttermilk pancake recipes call for a combination of milk and buttermilk, but it’s not necessary to use both....
Espiral Vinho Verde / Gaia, Portugal / Non-Vintage / 9% ABV Not sure what all that means? Allow me to break it down for you. First off, if you’ve yet to taste a Vinho Verde, prepare yourself for a real treat! This wine seemingly dances on your tongue. It is unapologetically bright and intensely refreshing, with the slightest fizz—the bubbles are akin to sparkling water and not as aggressive as those of champagne....
This stew is so adaptable and easy to love. It’s gluten-free and vegetarian as written, and easily made vegan/dairy-free by subbing in vegan feta cheese for the dairy kind. I sometimes make my own (there’s a recipe for almond feta in my vegan Instant Pot book), but now that I am kept busy by two young children, I am grateful for store-bought options, too. My favorite vegan feta is the one from Trader Joe’s―it has all the brininess and tang you expect from the real thing....
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Getting dinner on the table with kids underfoot and work deadlines piling up can seem like an insurmountable challenge at times. I try to keep the weekday dinner insanity to a minimum by committing a little time on the weekend to prep. I typically do my grocery shopping on Saturday. Then on Sunday, I wash, peel, slice and dice the vegetables I need for the week. Sometimes, I even go the extra mile to make grains or roast vegetables for quick lunches....
Orange Pancakes Recipe I would have these Orange Creamsicle Pancakes every day for breakfast if I could. It tastes just like one of those frozen orange creamsicle pops that my kids love so much. Vibrantly flavored with tangy orange juice, these pancakes have a light fluffy texture and sandwiched with a rich sweet, creamy filling. But the best part of all is our Aunt Lana’s famous tangy orange syrup! It’s always such a special treat when we make these orange pancakes, whether we’re celebrating a birthday or just in the mood for something sweet and tangy....
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Sous vide cooking has a reputation for long, slow cooking – hours and hours of cooking foods at low temperatures before its ready to serve. Many recipes certainly do take this long (and with delicious results!), but you can use your immersion circulator for quick-cooking recipes, too! That’s right – sous vide can definitely be used to make fast, easy weeknight meals! These fish tacos are the perfect example....
This Tater Tot casserole combines all of these items into one delicious breakfast dish. It makes a great dish for a weekend brunch, or add it to your meal plan and eat it for breakfast throughout the week! Some of you might know this casserole as “a hotdish,” a term that originates in the upper Midwest. A hotdish typically contains a starch (like potatoes), a meat, and vegetables. This breakfast Tater Tot casserole follows the same basic formula....
You will either love me or hate me for this. It’s that easy. Homemade chocolate pudding usually requires a lot of stirring on top of the stove and often results in messy, sometimes scorched, pots. You can achieve the same thing without the fuss in the microwave by cooking a mixture of milk, eggs, sugar, cornstarch and cocoa in two to three increments at high heat, stirring in between to distribute the heat....
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Avgo-wha? Ah-vo-LEMEN-o, or at least that’s how I remember the Greeks at the local diner in New Jersey saying it. The “g” isn’t always pronounced. An Easy Avgolemono Recipe Like gumbo, goulash, or chili, there are untold versions of this soup. Some, like this one, have bits of chicken in them. Some start with a whole chicken and take hours. A few have nothing more than chicken broth and the egg-lemon sauce....
