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A Tip for Perfectly Cooked Scalloped Potatoes A quick tip for how to make scalloped potatoes: use a shallow casserole dish. The one I used here ended up stacking the potatoes a little too high and I had to add a half hour or so to the cooking time. What you don’t want is for your scalloped potatoes to be be crispy browned on top and not-cooked-enough potatoes inside. If you need a faster cooking time, Joy of Cooking recommends parboiling the potatoes first for a few minutes....

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Cafe Rio Sweet Pork Burrito Copycat Recipe This Cafe Rio Sweet Pork Burrito recipe tastes just like the favorite restaurant style burrito and is really easy to make at home! I often make Cafe Rio salads at home using the sweet pork but hadn’t attempted a copycat burrito yet. When my husband asked for the green, medium, enchilada sauce I tried my hand at it, and after a couple of tries, it turned out perfectly!...

The flavor base is the salty, fatty pork (in this case prosciutto), noodle-y pasta makes it filling, and a creamy sauce is created with eggs, lemon zest, and Parmesan (the eggs getting sufficiently cooked by the heat of the hot pasta). In the case of this dish, I was looking to use up some of the gloriously yellow patty-pan summer squash from our garden (yes I know the title says “zucchini”, you can use any summer squash for this recipe), as well as some of the garden basil which is still thriving....

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Sound familiar?! If you love to bake and are constantly in the kitchen with the oven on, then I think you deserve a few tools that make all those batches of cookies, bars, and candies a little easier. Here are nine tools that will make your life a little better, at least as far as baking goes. What other things have you found helpful in your kitchen? 1. Cookie scoops These little guys are worth the splurge....

It’s an easy, healthy, and fun way to help you break from your typical avo toast-a-day habit and celebrate the versatility of the amazing avocado. Avocados are a powerhouse fruit filled with healthy fats, minerals, vitamins, and antioxidants and hold the crown when it comes to “superfoods,” according to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. While this makes avocados a popular choice to start your day, baked eggs in avocado are more than just breakfast, these boats can float on the menu from morning to night....

We’re talking about batter from a boxed cake mix, of course. Is there any other kind? The concept of cake being made from flour, butter, and sugar was not even conceivable to me until I was in my tweens. Cake mix was a staple at our house, and I loved preparing it even more than I craved eating the cake it produced. I cut my baking teeth on cake mixes of the 1980s....

Guests were encouraged to bring a favorite dish, and we all got to vote on what we thought would be a hit on the site. The evening was a blast, the votes were tallied, and the winning dish? This caramelized onion tart! Or pizza as it was called, brought by Ann’s friends Jeff and Marilyn. I’ve made this tart several times since I first had it, and it’s one of those dishes you want to limit to special occasions, because it’s really hard to stop eating, it’s that good....

What Are Empanadas? And Why Cheeseburger Empanadas? Empanadas are Latin American fried or baked turnovers that consist of a filling (savory, and sometimes even sweet) wrapped in a pastry dough. The name comes from the Spanish verb empanar which translates to “enbreaded”— having something wrapped or coated in bread. With the addition of cheese, we take a classic sofrito-laced ground beef empanada recipe, and it magically becomes a luscious and glorious cheeseburger empanada (please cue the salsa music)....

Mom has only the vaguest recollection of a tuna casserole (“I think it had broccoli in it.”) In fact, today, she said she had no memory of it at all. Did she really make it? Or are dad and I remembering something instead from a school cafeteria? In any case, I attempted to reproduce it for today’s lunch, in honor of the weekend and long-forgotten family traditions. Tuna Casserole With Cream of Mushroom Soup Entering our pantry for the first time in 20 years was a can of Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup (really must use this one, no other will do....

Usually, I’m in the latter camp, having grossly underestimated the time it takes to get organized. For these times it’s helpful to have a dish like this shrimp dip in one’s back pocket. Some little pink shrimp (they’re sustainable and sweet), some cream cheese, a touch of mayo, a little lemon, some chopped herbs, a dash of hot sauce and presto! A lovely dip—thick, shrimpy, and brightly flavored with the lemon, herbs, and hot sauce....

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The ingredients are mixed together, frozen, broken up into slushy chunks, and topped with more beer. Then all you need is a straw that will allow you to mix the slushy periodically while drinking. Hazy Origins of the Paloma When researching the history of the paloma cocktail, I noticed there is quite a bit of misinformation. In 2009, some bartenders falsified the cocktail’s Wikipedia page. The origins are hazy, but it doesn’t seem to have existed prior to 2000....

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If you find yourself in this position, and you love tomato juice, V8, Bloody or Virgin Marys, I highly recommend making your own tomato juice. My father announced the other day that he was going to make some tomato juice with some of the garden tomatoes that were overflowing our kitchen counter and I thought nothing of it. But after one taste, wow! This is how V8 should taste....

That’s a great question, and one we’ve all found ourselves asking at one point or another. With much of the country still embraced by cold weather and a whole lotta social distancing going on now is the perfect time to get acquainted with dried herbs. Dried herbs can be more potent than fresh herbs (unless they’ve been sitting in your spice drawer for 5 years). This means you need fewer dried herbs than fresh when substituting one for the other....

Shellfish are made for live-fire cooking. The shells provide protection from the heat of the grill and act as a container to concentrate their rich flavor. When you grill shellfish, the reward is leaps and bounds over the effort! Grilling Prep Before you throw a lobster tail or some shrimp on the grill, here’s what to do to get ready: Buy the freshest shellfish possible. Do everything you can to find the freshest shellfish possible....