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How To Peel Tomatoes: A Step-By-Step Guide
One of the most anticipated highlights of summertime is perfectly ripe, fantastically juicy, wonderfully sweet fresh tomatoes. You’ll no doubt enjoy thick slabs on BLTs and tomato sandwiches, or as is on a seasonal veggie plate. You’ll also probably enjoy them cut into wedges and tossed into a light, refreshing salad. For all of these…
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55 Cast-Iron Skillet Recipes From Dinner To Dessert
A cast-iron skillet is a prized possession among Southern cooks. Seasoned with years of cooking and loving care, heirloom cast-iron skillets are as valued (and fought over) as Grandma’s china and sterling silver. A new pre-seasoned skillet also makes the perfect gift for a young cook. Browse our collection of delicious recipes that make the…
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5 Easy Ways To Cook Yellow Squash In 15 Minutes Or Less
Zucchini’s sunshiny cousin yellow squash is a welcome sign that summer has arrived. Mild in taste, grilled yellow squash is the perfect accompaniment to almost any seasonal dish, and it’s a delightful ingredient to add to a garden pasta primavera, a veggie quesadilla or lasagna, or a classic ratatouille. Once you pick your yellow squash…
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10 Best Cooking Tips We’ve Learned From Ina Garten
There are certain people we rely on to deliver consistently great recipes, time and time again. Sure, we love to draw culinary insight from the chefs at the helm of five-star restaurants or swanky city bistros. But some of our favorite culinary personalities started right where you are: In the home kitchen. Now you might…
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21 Baking Tools Every Home Cook Needs (Plus 16 Handy Extras)
Beginning bakers and seasoned pros gather around. This baking tool list will help pros organize your baking equipment once and for all. Or, if you’re a new baker, you can start setting up your kitchen with must-have equipment and pastry tools to get you through any sweet recipe. And if you have a cake recipe…
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Sheet-Pan Meals Are the Easiest Way to Cook—Follow These Pro Tips to Ace the Technique
They may not be sleek or cutting-edge, but never mind that: When it comes to usefulness, no other cookware in your kitchen holds a candle to the sheet pan (also known as a rimmed baking sheet). Perfect for time-saving one-pan dinners, they allow you to cook all the elements of an entire meal on a…
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This Is the Best Way to Freeze Green Beans So They Stay Fresh All Year
Can you freeze fresh green beans? You bet you can. Green beans are quite easy to freeze, and they last several months in the freezer so you can enjoy the taste of garden-fresh goodness—even when it’s colder outside than it is in your freezer. Plus, frozen green beans are a convenient and flavorful addition to…
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Burnt Ends Fans: This Oven-Roasted Pulled Pork Is The Only BBQ Recipe You Need
PHOTO: ANDREW BUI; FOOD STYLING: BROOKE CAISON How To Make Pulled Pork Ingredients The Pork Pork Butt: While you can totally use boneless pork shoulder instead, pork butt is my preferred cut for this recipe. Though both cuts come from the pig’s shoulder, pork butt has more fat, more marbling, and more connective tissue, so…
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Cooking with orzo: Tips, techniques and delicious recipes
Orzo has long been a staple in many traditional dishes in its country of origin, Italy. And like many other pasta variations, its ability to blend seamlessly into both warm and cold dishes has made it a favourite not just in Italy but around the globe. In New Zealand, quality brands of orzo include De…
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You Won’t Believe Everything You Can Make In Your Air Fryer
1 Air Fryer Garlic-Parmesan Chicken Skewers PHOTO: JOSEPH DE LEO; FOOD STYLING: PEARL JONES Dripping with a buttery sauce made from fresh summer herbs, nutty Parmesan, and punchy garlic, these flavorful little skewers are made in the air fryer so they’re super crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside. And best of all,…