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This carrot salad comes from the Middle East, and depends on the addition of orange blossom water, which like rose water, is often used in Middle Eastern cooking. Orange flower water is distilled from bitter orange blossoms and is used to flavor drinks, salads, and desserts. You can get orange blossom or orange flower water at a Mediterranean market. Whole Foods also carries it. Local chef Evie Lieb made this salad in our cooking class this week and I don’t think I’ve ever tasted carrot salad so exotically delicious....

The bright sunset orange of wild salmon is striking against the roasted green beans and red peppers. The whole dish is topped with a bright cherry tomato salad. It’s like an explosion of color, flavor, and aroma. Oh, and I did I mention, the whole thing is cooked on one baking sheet? Beautiful, tasty, and easy to clean up? My kind of dinner. What is Harissa? I use a dry harissa spice blend for this salmon....

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Look no further. This is the tart. As my father says, “don’t change a thing.” It’s actually much easier to make than it looks! First the crust. It needs to be firm enough to hold the tart, but not so firm that it is tough and chewy. (Who wants a chewy crust? Yikes!) The perfect tart crust is similar to a butter pie crust, but with the addition of powdered sugar, and little vanilla, and an egg....

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That’s why Sunday meal prepping can be a beautiful thing, and these easy BBQ Chicken Burrito Bowls are a perfect example. What I do for meal prep is not complicated most weeks. I usually cook some protein like chicken, make a big batch of grains or homemade beans, roast a few pounds of potatoes, and mix several jars of sauces and dressings. During the week, I mix and match these different ingredients with freshly cooked vegetables for quick, easy meals – like these BBQ chicken burrito bowls....

This is our take on the iconic French dish, Boeuf Bourguignon, popularized in America by Julia Child. Less of a stew and more of an event, classic beef bourguignon is beef stewed with aromatic vegetables, herbs, and spices which are then strained off, reduced, and finished with a butter-flour mixture to create a densely flavored, dark and silky sauce. Yes the sauce is a bit fussy, but truly it is worth it....

The berries are ripe and juicy now, and the deepest shade of purply black. With a berry mix from Trader Joe’s, our boysenberries, and some fresh strawberries from the market, my father whipped up this crunchy berry cobbler. Pretty, isn’t it? Summer weather has arrived; let the good times roll! Related Video

Caramel Apple Cinnamon Rolls Looking for a mouthwatering recipe to make for a splurgy breakfast? This is the one! These caramel apple cinnamon rolls combine two of my all-time favorites, gooey cinnamon rolls and sweet caramel apples. Fall Breakfast Ideas You can make these caramel apple cinnamon rolls any time of year, but I end up making them a lot during the fall thanks to an abundance of apples! This is a good recipe to make for a Saturday brunch at home....

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But fresh garlic can be a nuisance to deal with. You’ve got to break apart the bulb, peel the cloves, then dice, slice, smash, or pulverize them, then spend more time getting the smell off your fingers than you did prepping the scant teaspoon the recipe called for. That’s where garlic powder comes in to save the day: an effortless, low-odor, cost-efficient, and shelf-stable way to add pizzazz to any dish at any stage....

No marinade required. The trick to grilled salmon, so that your fillets stay whole and don’t fall through the grill grates, is to use skin-on pieces. Grill the salmon flesh side down first. Once you have some grill marks, turn over the salmon so that now the skin side is on the grill. As the salmon cooks, the flesh tends to flake, but if the salmon does most of its cooking skin-side down, the skin will help keep the salmon together so it doesn’t flake apart into the grill....

How to Make Homemade Whipped Cream Trying to recreate popular store-bought items at home can be difficult. Often, you end up spending more time and energy than it is worth. That is NOT the case with this homemade whipped cream recipe. You’ll get a smooth texture, light and fluffy consistency, and rich flavor every time. You won’t believe how much better it tastes on everything from pumpkin pie to strawberry shortcakes....

Whether you binged over the holidays, drank too much alcohol on the weekend, want to boost your immune system or lose some weight, or just want to eat a bit healthier, smoothies are the easiest way to pack a ton of nutrition into your meal. You can make a smoothie in less than 10 minutes. And the best part is, you don’t even need to turn on the oven!...

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Now, imagine those chickens roasting over a baking dish filled with pasta: All those juices from the bird would drip into the pasta and give it an unbelievably delicious roasty flavor. Roasting Chicken On Top of Other Ingredients: An Ancient Technique This idea of roasting meat on top of other ingredients is actually an ancient technique from when individual families didn’t have their own ovens, and cooks brought pans of meat or poultry and whatever went with it to the local baker to roast in the baker’s big oven....

I had a variation of this baked zucchini the other night at a friend’s house and was amazed to hear her children exclaim, “Please give me some zucchini. I love zucchini!” Hello? When was the last time you heard that? Video: How To Make Roasted Zucchini With Garlic Roast, don’t bake: A high oven temp of 450°F means the zucchini roasts instead of bakes. That means the zucchini develops a bit of char and is less likely to become soggy....