Category: Recipes and Cooking Tips

  • Food safety tips for a Safe and Joyful Holiday Season

    Food safety tips for a Safe and Joyful Holiday Season

    INDIANA – Practicing food safety is essential to ensure a joyful holiday for everyone. The holidays often mean larger gatherings and complex recipes, making it crucial to be mindful of food safety, especially for those who may be more vulnerable to foodborne illnesses. Keep in mind these four food safety tips to help you and…

  • What To Consider Before Making Your Own Slow Cooker Recipe

    What To Consider Before Making Your Own Slow Cooker Recipe

    When considering what meat to use for a slow cooker meal, the options are wonderfully diverse. Tough cuts like chuck roast, pork shoulder, or beef brisket are ideal candidates for the slow cooker, as the low, slow cooking process tenderizes them, turning them into succulent, melt-in-your-mouth creations. Chicken drumsticks or thighs work well for poultry dishes,…

  • Szechuan Beef

    Szechuan Beef

    This website may contain affiliate links and advertising so that we can provide recipes to you. Read my disclosure policy. Delicious Szechuan Beef is filled with mouthwatering bold flavor! Tender strips of beef, bell peppers, snap peas and broccoli are stir-fried together with a perfectly sweet, spicy, tangy sauce. It’s way better than takeout and cooks…

  • ‘Cooking With Joy’: Italian Chef Jacopo Tendi Visits Falk College for Christy Lecture Series

    ‘Cooking With Joy’: Italian Chef Jacopo Tendi Visits Falk College for Christy Lecture Series

    Italian chef Jacopo Tendi (right) provides cooking tips for his guests at the Joan Christy Lecture Series on Food and Culture at the Falk College. This past spring, Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics nutrition students in the Mediterranean Food and Culture class had the unique opportunity to cook in the Tuscany home of…

  • Using beef as leftovers

    Ashley Wulf from the Minnesota Beef Council shares recipes using beef as leftovers. Beef Council For a generic pot roast recipe that can be universally used to create these other recipes, I recommend making a roast that uses common spices such as salt, pepper, and garlic. If the original roast recipe that created the leftovers…

  • ‘Whipping cream is a flog without it’: Nat’s What I Reckon’s 13 essential tools for your kitchen

    ‘Whipping cream is a flog without it’: Nat’s What I Reckon’s 13 essential tools for your kitchen

    I have a few bits of kit in the kitchen that make cooking actually enjoyable. A handful of awesome tools can make a huge difference to whether you love or hate making a meal. Commercial cheffing shops often have cheaper things sturdy enough to take a beating, so they’re worth visiting if you have access…

  • With ‘Half Baked Harvest,’ Yet Another White Food Influencer Seems Incapable of Hearing Criticism

    With ‘Half Baked Harvest,’ Yet Another White Food Influencer Seems Incapable of Hearing Criticism

    Half Baked Harvest, a recipe website created by food influencer Tieghan Gerard, is best known for decadent recipes meant to be accessible for home cooks. Although wildly popular, the brand has also been marred by multiple controversies over the past few years. Whitewashing and appropriating recipes On multiple occasions, Gerard has been accused of appropriating…

  • Ina Garten’s Mostly Make-Ahead Fall Dinner Party Menu Is Loaded With Classics

    Ina Garten’s Mostly Make-Ahead Fall Dinner Party Menu Is Loaded With Classics

    If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. Whether we’re stressed about work, the holidays, or world events, there’s one thing that always makes us feel better: getting together with friends and loved ones to share a good meal. Ina Garten recently…

  • Joanna Gaines Just Shared Her Thanksgiving Menu & We Have All the Recipes

    Joanna Gaines Just Shared Her Thanksgiving Menu & We Have All the Recipes

    From her holiday collection at Target to her dinner menus for special occasions, we’re big fans of Joanna Gaines at EatingWell. So when we saw that she shared her Thanksgiving menu in the most recent special edition of the Magnolia Journal, we knew we had to share it. “While I’m not typically the type to…

  • The Best Advice From Jacques Pépin’s New Cookbook

    The Best Advice From Jacques Pépin’s New Cookbook

    To say Jacques Pépin is an icon is an understatement. The celebrity chef, TV personality, and author has racked up 24 James Beard Awards, and his cooking shows, filled with their easy charm and kindness, have inspired multiple generations of cooks both professionally and at home. He’s been described as a master educator, a chef’s…