Category: Recipes and Cooking Tips

  • 10 Tips for Eco-friendly Cooking

    10 Tips for Eco-friendly Cooking

    Do you know what goes into your food? Bite into a pear from a standard supermarket, and you could be consuming more than 20 potentially dangerous chemicals. Modern agriculture has made great strides in producing enough crops to satisfy demand, but food companies often use pesticides and chemicals that can harm you and the environment.…

  • How to Cook Cabbage So It’s Delicious

    How to Cook Cabbage So It’s Delicious

    Pictured Recipe: Roasted Savoy Cabbage with Orange Vinaigrette Cabbage is among the most versatile vegetables. It can be served raw as a crunchy coleslaw, braised on the stove, roasted in the oven, cooked in the slow cooker or even grilled like a steak. Cabbage doesn’t always get the appreciation it deserves. That’s because it often…

  • 100 Sizzling Summer Dinner Ideas To Keep Your Cool on Hot Days

    100 Sizzling Summer Dinner Ideas To Keep Your Cool on Hot Days

    Summer dinners shouldn’t require a lot of stove or oven time, and that’s not necessarily a limitation. To prove it, we compiled dozens of summer dinner ideas that are full of flavor and use peak summer produce. Add at least a few of them to your weekly menu to make dinnertime this summer simpler and…

  • 38 ‘Top Chef’ Recipes to Add to Your Rotation

    38 ‘Top Chef’ Recipes to Add to Your Rotation

    If you’ve ever wanted to bring the excitement of Top Chef into your own kitchen, these recipes are a great place to start, with dishes from contestants and judges alike. You can try Season 4 winner (and 2011 F&W Best New Chef) Stephanie Izard’s vibrant Seared Tuna Tiradito for a starter, or for dessert, Season…

  • The 101 Most Creative Things To Cook On The Grill

    The 101 Most Creative Things To Cook On The Grill

    1 Grilled Stuffed Peppers PHOTO: JULIA GARTLAND; FOOD STYLING: BARRETT WASHBURNE Why grill your stuffed peppers? Because it’s summer and we want to be outside! Don’t stay indoors and turn on the hot oven. Instead, step outside to the grill and take advantage of the great weather and the nice smoky charred flavor grilling brings…

  • 8 sustainable and eco-friendly cooking tips to try in the kitchen

    8 sustainable and eco-friendly cooking tips to try in the kitchen

    By Lisa MarcAurele | The Associated Press Looking to reduce your carbon footprint while still whipping up delicious meals? Follow these tips to say goodbye to wasteful cooking practices and hello to eco-friendly cooking tips. Turn to these sustainable alternatives that not only benefit the planet but also your health and wallet. From minimizing food…

  • 84 Satisfying Vegetarian Recipes That Are Incredibly Easy to Make

    84 Satisfying Vegetarian Recipes That Are Incredibly Easy to Make

    Cauliflower Tartine With Romesco Sauce Caitlin Bensel This tasty open-faced sandwich may look fancy, but we promise it’s easy to make. You’ll start with the delicious combination of Romesco and cauliflower, then add golden raisins and fresh parsley to the mix for a bright—and subtly sweet—kick. Try substituting cilantro and chopped dates for the parsley…

  • Bao’s Erchen Chang hosts a dinner party

    Bao’s Erchen Chang hosts a dinner party

    Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I like small groups. A round table, a real connection. When I dine at friends’ houses, I enjoy experiencing flavour profiles that I rarely have in my daily life. So when I plan an evening…

  • Choosing Between Parchment Paper, Wax Paper, or Aluminum Foil

    Choosing Between Parchment Paper, Wax Paper, or Aluminum Foil

    No matter the level of your cooking skills, you likely have a kitchen drawer containing at least one (if not all) of the following: parchment paper, wax paper, or aluminum foil. These handy products couldn’t be more versatile if they tried—from covering leftovers in the microwave to baking cookies and grilling ribs. But spoiler alert:…

  • The easy tuna salad wrap is sweet, salty, creamy, tangy and fresh tasting. The combination of flavors and textures is incredible. #30Seconds #tunasalad #tuna #wraps #healthyfood #mediterraneandiet #food #recipe #yum #delicious @donnas92

    The easy tuna salad wrap is sweet, salty, creamy, tangy and fresh tasting. The combination of flavors and textures is incredible.   #30Seconds #tunasalad #tuna #wraps #healthyfood #mediterraneandiet #food #recipe #yum #delicious @donnas92

    My pantry is overloaded with tuna. When the new year hit, I decided to start eating better, and every healthy diet plan I read about, including the Mediterranean diet, included lots of canned or fresh tuna. When scouring the internet and my cookbooks for healthy tuna recipes, I found this incredible tuna salad wrap recipe.…