Category: Recipes and Cooking Tips

  • Potato recipes from the Murdock family

    Potato recipes from the Murdock family

    Sixth-generation Idaho potato farmer Brian Murdock offers “Sunday Morning” viewers some simple recipes and cooking tips for spuds.  Fry Sauce Ingredients: ½ cup mayonnaise (do not use Miracle Whip)2 Tablespoons ketchup  Instructions: Stir until all is mixed together and there are no lumps.  To add a little spice and variation you can add either 1…

  • Anne Burrell Shares Holiday Cooking Tips for Amateurs, Plus a Cookie Recipe!

    Anne Burrell Shares Holiday Cooking Tips for Amateurs, Plus a Cookie Recipe!

    As a longtime judge on Food Network’s Worst Cooks in America, celebrity chef Anne Burrell has seen it all. “Over the years, there have been so many bad dishes,” says the 55-year-old. The grossest? Okra with egg noodles, sardines and hot dogs! Her advice to newbies this holiday season is don’t try to do too…

  • Your ultimate Thanksgiving guide: What to buy, cook, eat and drink for 2024

    Your ultimate Thanksgiving guide: What to buy, cook, eat and drink for 2024

    The leaves are down. The clocks have turned back. We’re donning sweaters, vests and boots. It finally rained. And we know what comes next: the best holiday of the year! The one that isn’t about candy. Or presents. Or flipping the calendar. This is the one where we all get together — the cousin from…

  • Rachael Ray Taught Me the Best Kitchen Tip I Know

    Rachael Ray Taught Me the Best Kitchen Tip I Know

    Rachael Ray has taught us many lessons in the kitchen. During her two decades of hosting food shows, the self-taught cook has not only shared lots of recipes, but also tips to build cooking confidence. While her relaxed lessons highlighted tasty food, they also had culinary wisdom and practical tips sprinkled throughout. One thing that…

  • Mashed Potatoes Recipe

    Mashed Potatoes Recipe

    Updated Nov. 4, 2024 Christopher Testani for The New York Times. Food Stylist:Simon Andrews. Prop Stylist: Christina Lane. Mashed potatoes are very forgiving, and with a good masher, hot potatoes and enough butter and salt, cooks can accommodate religionists of the fluffy style and partisans of the creamy and dense. Be openhanded with salt and…

  • Cooking Thanksgiving dinner? 3 mistakes to avoid and 4 recipes to try this year

    Cooking Thanksgiving dinner? 3 mistakes to avoid and 4 recipes to try this year

    The grocery shopping is hopefully all done. Recipes have been researched, potatoes are ready to be mashed, and the turkey awaits thawing.  Now, what could go wrong?  Even when prepared to cook a big Thanksgiving Day feast for the first time, hiccups happen. The almost-baked pie could fall upside down in the oven, the turkey…

  • 8 kitchen hacks from ‘Baking Show’ judge Prue Leith: No points docked for using ’em!

    8 kitchen hacks from ‘Baking Show’ judge Prue Leith: No points docked for using ’em!

    Chef and TV host Prue Leith shares tasty and easy-to-make recipes in her new cookbook, Life’s Too Short to Stuff A Mushroom — along with dozens of cooking hacks from her 65-year culinary career. Ant Duncan/Carnival Publishing Ant Duncan/Carnival Publishing Chef and TV host Prue Leith may be an exacting judge with contestants on The…

  • Join our WhatsApp community for the latest recipes and cooking inspiration

    Join our WhatsApp community for the latest recipes and cooking inspiration

    From our own recipes to trying and testing chef ones, get the latest baking and cooking tips straight to your home. The Express has launched its very own WhatsApp community where you can get seasonal recipes, exclusive content and advice straight to your phone and we want you to join! We’ll send you the latest…

  • Thanksgiving cooking tips and recipes from 7 North Jersey chefs

    Thanksgiving cooking tips and recipes from 7 North Jersey chefs

    Like many folks in 2020, the first year of the pandemic, I cooked Thanksgiving dinner for the first time for my family. It went… all right. I spatchcocked a turkey and brined it in buttermilk, an overall tedious, messy and fridge-space-consuming enterprise that resulted in a turkey that tasted “fine,” according to my family. I…

  • 14 time and money saving tips from Britain’s savviest family cook

    14 time and money saving tips from Britain’s savviest family cook

    Not every ‘money saving’ hack is worth your time “Yes, you could cook up the entire chicken carcass to make stock, but it takes hours and once you’ve added all your vegetables and had the hob running for hours, it’s no longer a money saver. Homemade stock is great, but there’s a reason 50p stock…