Category: Recipes and Cooking Tips

  • I Come Across Countless Cooking Hacks, But These Are Truly Some Of The Most Creative Tips I’ve Seen Recently

    I Come Across Countless Cooking Hacks, But These Are Truly Some Of The Most Creative Tips I’ve Seen Recently

    Creative Recipe Hacks Home Cooks Swear By You’ve probably heard tons and tons of cooking tricks, but every once in a while, you come across one that makes you stop and think, wow, that’s actually pretty genius. Well, Redditor u/erin_with_an_i asked, “What is your cooking hack that is second nature to you but actually pretty…

  • 8 Essential Ina Garten Cooking Tips That I Come Back to Again and Again

    8 Essential Ina Garten Cooking Tips That I Come Back to Again and Again

    I was lucky enough to be in attendance when Garten held a talk for the launch of Cooking for Jeffrey in Brooklyn in 2016. A crowd member asked her, “What do you do when you f**k up a recipe?” She jokingly responded, “I never f**k up.” Of course she was joking—her actual advice was to either…

  • 45 Best Camping Recipes That Go Beyond Burgers & S’mores

    45 Best Camping Recipes That Go Beyond Burgers & S’mores

    1 Campfire Hot Dog Skewers PHOTO: JOSEPH DE LEO; FOOD STYLING: BROOKE CAISON 2 Best-Ever S’mores PHOTO: BRYAN GARDNER; FOOD STYLING: BARRETT WASHBURNE Ah, s’mores: three simple ingredients working together to make something much more delicious than the sum of its parts. Whether you keep it to the classic three ingredients or experiment with fun…

  • Follow This Meat Cooking Temperatures Safety Guide to Avoid Food Poisoning

    Follow This Meat Cooking Temperatures Safety Guide to Avoid Food Poisoning

    Meat cooking temperatures vary, and it can be difficult to know exactly how to cook meat to make sure that it’s safe to eat. Taking the temperature of your meat is the only way to make sure it has been cooked enough to eliminate potentially harmful bacteria that could cause food poisoning. In fact, using…

  • Community members submit tips, recipes for success for UChicago Medicine’s new ‘teaching kitchen’

    Community members submit tips, recipes for success for UChicago Medicine’s new ‘teaching kitchen’

    UChicago Medicine works with community members to design a ‘teaching’ kitchen in the health system’s proposed new cancer center. Healthy soul food recipes, accessible seating and livestreamed classes were among the ideas shared at a community forum for the University of Chicago Medicine’s new “teaching kitchen.” The teaching kitchen will be part of a wellness-focused…

  • Step Aside, Baked Salmon—It’s Baked Tilapia’s Time To Shine

    Step Aside, Baked Salmon—It’s Baked Tilapia’s Time To Shine

    Parker Feierbach How To Make Baked Tilapia Ingredients Tilapia filets: Like with buying nearly any variety of seafood, there are a few things you’ll want to keep in mind when buying tilapia filets. I like to look to the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch for details, but as a few rules of thumb: farmed tilapia…

  • Say Hello to the Hardest Chicken Cut to Overcook

    Say Hello to the Hardest Chicken Cut to Overcook

    Come to the dark side. If you want to bring deeply flavorful, succulent chicken to the table, then look to chicken thighs — probably one of the most forgiving meat cuts around. Beginner and expert cooks alike will have success, partly because chicken thighs give you a lot of leeway. If you cook them past…

  • Aska Cooking and Food Guide

    Aska Cooking and Food Guide

    Our Aska Cooking and Food Guide will tell you how to cook food and provide your villagers with better nutrition; we also list several cooking recipes. Keeping your villagers fed in Aska isn’t easy, especially if the only resources you have at hand are a few raw ingredients. Fortunately, you can use a Campfire and a Cooking…

  • The Secret To Quick & Super Crispy Roasted Potatoes? It’s All In Your Air Fryer

    The Secret To Quick & Super Crispy Roasted Potatoes? It’s All In Your Air Fryer

    Parker feierbach How To Make Air Fryer Potatoes Ingredients Baby potatoes: Otherwise known as “new” potatoes, these are a variety of potato that has been harvested before they are fully grown. This gives them thinner skin, which is great for crisping. Varieties of new potatoes include fingerlings, Yukon golds, baby russets, and baby red potatoes,…

  • 10 Classic Ina Garten Recipes to Make All the Time

    10 Classic Ina Garten Recipes to Make All the Time

    Whenever I grow tired of the same three or four dishes I make every week, I turn to Ina Garten. The Barefoot Contessa’s simple, meticulously tested recipes have helped drag me out of every cooking rut I’ve ever found myself in. Happily for all of us, Garten has shared a number of her recipes (and…