When cooking potatoes, a pot of boiling water is one of the tried-and-true methods of cooking your spuds. In Ireland, many common potato dishes require boiling potatoes as a principal step before mashing and mixing the taters into casseroles, soups, and pies. When it comes to boiling potatoes, a slow cooker is the right tool…

To break away from the usual pasta shapes, Sunny Anderson selects pearled couscous as the star of her pasta salad. While demonstrating her simple recipe on an episode of “The Kitchen,” via YouTube, she suggests considering the SASHA acronym (Sweet, Acidic, Salt, Heat, and Allium) as a guide to create a well-rounded dressing for pasta…

This website may contain affiliate links and advertising so that we can provide recipes to you. Read my disclosure policy. Tender and juicy chicken thighs simmered in a brown sugar bourbon sauce all day long. Your family will love this melt-in-your-mouth crockpot bourbon chicken. A classic New Orleans recipe made easy in the crockpot! I…

Whether you’re cooking for one or for a large family, the sentiment of planning your meals before grocery shopping is extremely important. As much as you might think you’ll remember every ingredient in your new recipe or the pantry staples you’ve run out of — and that you won’t add unnecessary items to your cart…

Bread that’s gone stale (but not moldy) is a handy ingredient for soup in a number of ways. The most obvious is making croutons with it to sprinkle over your soup for an extra bit of crunch. But using stale bread to make delicious soups, especially in the Mediterranean, is an age-old trick. In Spain,…

MARIELLE SEGARRA, HOST: You’re listening to LIFE KIT… (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) SEGARRA: …From NPR. Hey, everybody. It’s Marielle. Do you all remember the story “Stone Soup”? It’s a European folktale that starts with some hungry people and an empty pot. They put a stone at the bottom and decide to make a soup out of…

Whether you’re making cabbage au gratin, spaghetti squash lasagna, or a yellow squash casserole, there’s a good chance your casserole will contain at least one vegetable. And while vegetables are great for adding some color and nutrition to an otherwise cheese-heavy dish, they often spell trouble. What we mean is that vegetables are one of…

Kayla Hoang Kayla Hoang is a freelance recipe developer, writer, and baker. She is a graduate of Johnson and Wales University’s 4-year Baking and Pastry program and has training from Alain Ducasse’s Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Pâtisserie in Yssingeaux, France. Her love of food comes from her parents and their Bangladeshi and Vietnamese roots. In…

#inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } Meal preparation takes time, and it can be overwhelming, especially on busy days. Here are some time-saving tips that can help reduce your kitchen stress and allow you to have more time to do other things. Prepare staple items…

Hosting Thanksgiving — or even contributing a dish or two to the dinner table — can be fun, but it can also be stressful. Gaby Dalkin, a New York Times best-selling cookbook author and the creator behind the popular blog and Instagram account What’s Gaby Cooking, offered PEOPLE exclusive tips and tricks for a seamless…