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This Cardamom and Honey-Glazed Chicken recipe is from that book with some minor adjustments. I don’t usually think of cardamom as a spice for chicken, but the result is fragrant and delicious! The issue of cooking with honey, whether for savory or sweet dishes, is that honey burns at high temperatures. It will help the chicken brown quickly, but you have to watch it carefully or it will burn. Place marinade and chicken in a large bowl, coat chicken with marinade....

This is the perfect recipe to meal plan. Make it on a slow weekend to serve during your busy week ahead. It’s also a great recipe for a crowd—it easily feeds 6 to 8—with a simple green salad on the side dressed with this bright dressing. The Best Bread for Stuffing I like the tang of sourdough, but a baguette, a ciabatta, or any Italian-style loaf would work. I’d avoid rye or pumpernickel as their flavors are too assertive for this dish....

Swiss meringue buttercream, on the other hand, is light, luxurious, easy to make, and perfectly pipe-able. It’s far less sweet than American buttercream and has an irresistible silky texture. I used it to frost this Chocolate Layer Cake—a crowd favorite in my family. If you’re looking for a frosting to smooth over a cake or pipe into rosettes, a Swiss meringue buttercream is the answer to your cake decorating prayers....

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Steak Fajita Bowls These Steak Fajita Bowls are perfect for busy weeknights when you’re craving something warm and filling, yet are short on time.They’re ridiculously easy to make and are so delicious! Just pair some marinated steak with all your favorite fajita toppings and serve over a bed of Spanish rice and you have a nourishing, hearty meal that comes together in minutes! Plus it’s so versatile that everyone can add whatever toppings they like, so even kids love these....

It’s not that you don’t want to delight in these preserved goods. You do! It’s just that… they’re so precious, right? You want to save them for a special occasion, right? Or maybe, just maybe, there’s only so much toast with heirloom fruit jam that you can eat, right? Well, my friend Marisa McClellan, a.k.a. the Canning Queen, just came out with a brand new cookbook to help us all with our canned goods dilemma....

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Luckily Simply Recipes also has an easy to follow Microwave Strawberry Jam recipe, too. I find dry-rub ribs the easiest for feeding a crowd, like this Memphis-Style Pork Rib recipe. This year, I want to make the most of the ice cream machine I always dutifully pull out of storage, including plopping the canister into an already packed freezer, and then never make full use of. My game plan? Let each kid pick out their own flavor and have our own sort of ice cream eating contest to see who makes the best batch....

Remember how Rebekah and I came home for lunch every day from middle school through high school? It was one of the perks of living in town instead of on a farm, like most of my peers. I always enjoyed the brisk five-minute walk to our quiet house, away from the drama and chaos of school. My twin sister and I walked home in the stifling heat of August, through the bone-chilling winters, and every day until the end of the school year....

I’m sharing one of my favorite comfort meals! This is Chicken Fried Chicken with Country Gravy, also known as ‘country fried chicken’. Its breaded chicken smothered in a spicy, creamy gravy. Absolutely a must-try for everyone who loves to eat out of the box. Chicken Fried Chicken Recipe You will love the warm and spicy seasonings in this recipe – paprika, black pepper, garlic, and just a little cayenne. This recipe is one of my favorites because it uses buttermilk mixture for marinating....

If you think a sandwich built with chickpeas is a no-go for pint-sized eaters, I don’t blame you. But chickpea hummus is so popular among kids—this sandwich isn’t much of a stretch. It was such a favorite among all three of my kids that I included it in my first cookbook, Best Lunch Box Ever. How to Build a Chickpea Panini The filling for this sandwich is a combination of chickpeas, shredded carrots, lots of lemon juice, and soft goat cheese....

How to Make Perfect Buttercream Frosting The difference between a buttercream that’s just OK, maybe a little dense or grainy, and one that is smooth and super fluffy is the method. Here’s what to do: Add the powdered sugar to the butter in two stages.Beat the sugar and butter together for a full minute after each addition.Scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl so everything is well mixed.Use heavy cream instead of milk or half-and-half....

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How to Make a Great Stir Fry When you are making a stir fry like this, you want to make sure all of your ingredients are cut and ready to go before you begin the cooking process – once you start cooking, it goes very quickly and there’s no time to pause or chop veggies. The idea is to add the ingredients in stages, so that everything finishes cooking at the same time....

Flank is prized for its beefy, hefty flavor, and here, I’m cooking it quickly on the stovetop and topping it with a quick citrus salsa. This recipe – and flank steak in general – makes an excellent choice when you have a crowd to feed. Steak With Mexican Flavors When I first started thinking about this recipe, I thought of the family barbecues we had in Indiana when my son was young....

But I invite you to rethink the fuzzy navel with one simple word: brunch! Because, in essence, the fruity cocktail is just a cousin to the mimosa. In the mid-1980s, flavored, sugary drinks became the norm for bar-goers. Bartender Ray Foley (yes, the same gent who brought us the best-selling book “Bartending for Dummies”) helped DeKuyper launch Peachtree Schnapps into history with the crowd-pleasing fuzzy navel. “Fuzzy” refers to the fuzz found on a peach, and “navel” is a reference to the type of orange that Foley cut up to garnish his creation....

Turns out all I had to do was wait. With the explosion of plant butters on the market, we can finally have our vegan pie and love it, too. This pie dough recipe works in nearly any sweet or savory recipe calling for an all-butter pie crust. Plant Butter to the Rescue! Faux butter has been on the market for years, but it hasn’t always been vegan. I grew up in the 1980s, and what my generation and those before knew as margarine can contain dairy-based ingredients, and therefore was off the table for vegan baking....

All-in-One Skillet Pot Pie This pot pie is prepped on the stove, baked in the oven, and served directly in the skillet—which saves time doing dishes! For those looking to save time upfront, a pre-made pie crust works as well as a freshly prepared one. If it cools before everyone comes to the table, you can pop it directly back into the oven to keep it warm until everyone is ready....

There’s something wonderfully comforting about enjoying a big bowl of ripe, juicy, sweet mandarins in the middle of dismal, dreary winter. Walking around the neighborhood, oranges stand out like light bulbs against their bushy green trees among most of the other trees, now skeletal from the cold. If you love the flavor of tangerines as much as I do, mandarins are available by the box load at most markets, and Odwalla makes an excellent fresh tangerine juice that you can only buy now, during winter....

My parents established sitting down for dinner every night with my brother and me when we were infants, and it has been so significant to our family’s dynamic. Especially once my brother and I started school, dinner was the one time of day where my dad could come home from work and have quality time with us, and where my mom could have us all together in one place—even if just for a few minutes....