Category: Recipes and Cooking Tips

  • Ina Garten’s 15 Best Baking Tips

    Ina Garten’s 15 Best Baking Tips

    We can probably all agree that the best part of the muffin is the muffin top. The fact that it tends to be slightly crisp on the outside and fluffy in the middle makes it so much better than the bottom part, with its fluffy interior but slightly limp exterior. While all this sounds well…

  • Work smarter, cook faster with these 10 time-saving culinary hacks

    Work smarter, cook faster with these 10 time-saving culinary hacks

    Stock image | Photo by Prostock-Studio/iStock/Getty Images Plus, St. George News FEATURE — When you are busy, it is easy for menu planning and healthy eating to be put on the back burner. But it doesn’t have to be that way. With a few tips and tricks, you can find ways to balance a chaotic busy…

  • Don’t Let Back Pain Keep You From Cooking

    Don’t Let Back Pain Keep You From Cooking

    ​​Griffin Baum is the author of a cookbook that features recipes, cooking techniques and recommendations on how to organize a kitchen. But Baum is not a chef. He’s a neurosurgeon who specializes in spinal surgery, and for years he’s heard from his patients that cooking is a challenge. “I always ask my patients, what’s something that you…

  • Cooking Tips Your Parents Taught You That Are Actually Wrong

    Cooking Tips Your Parents Taught You That Are Actually Wrong

    Ina, Emeril, Giada. Mashama, Vivian, and Kwame. Today, we’re all blessed with a seemingly-endless library of free online cooking lessons from chefs who are so world-famous, they only need one name. But long before those celeb chefs graced our small screens, most of us learned our very first cooking lessons at home from a couple other…

  • 15 Old-School Southern Cooking Tips That We Still Trust Today

    15 Old-School Southern Cooking Tips That We Still Trust Today

    If you’ve ever watched a seasoned Southern cook in the kitchen, you’ll find that there are certain things they just know. Their biscuits are fluffier, their sweet tea is just perfect. They always seem to know what to serve, and how to make ingredients taste their best. Those lessons might have been passed down from…

  • Claire Saffitz’s Foolproof Recipe for Making Macarons

    Claire Saffitz’s Foolproof Recipe for Making Macarons

    These delightful French cookies can be tricky for even the most seasoned bakers, but these tips and tricks will put them well within reach. In the baking world, French macarons, an almond sandwich cookie consisting of two meringue shells filled with ganache, buttercream or jam, are known as a particularly tricky confection with a high…