Well-seasoned with garlic powder, paprika, and thyme, this easy 8-ingredient recipe yields impressive results. No doubt, there’s something festive about serving - and carving - an entire turkey at the table. 🦃 But for intimate Thanksgiving (or Christmas) gatherings, cooking just the breast is the ideal solution. It’s the perfect size for four people. Another advantage of roasting just the breast: When you bake it by itself it’s easier to make sure it comes out juicy....

So I decided to riff off standard cole slaw, only using nothing but shredded root vegetables, dressed with a parsley vinaigrette. The combination works great, and this recipe has definitely earned a place in my lineup. The trick to this salad is to use a coarse grater or a vegetable peeler to make it. I like using the peeler because you can get prettier shavings and you can deal with long, skinny roots like parsnips or carrots better with the peeler....

Obviously, given the title of this recipe, we fall in the “love them” camp. As in seriously love them. Fresh sardines, canned sardines, heck, I’ll even happily eat sardine sushi. Growing up we always had several cans in the pantry. Sardines packed in olive oil, packed in mustard, or packed in tomato paste. Must have something to do with my father’s Minnesota roots. We also had pickled herring and if we were lucky, smoked dried herring in the fridge....

For more information on which apple varieties are best for baking, check out our Guide to Apples. My dear Minnesota-raised father, who cannot resist any recipe with both sauerkraut and bacon, couldn’t wait to try this apple and bacon sauerkraut from the Niman Ranch Cookbook. The trick is to use good quality sauerkraut; the best stuff, according to dad, is refrigerated and in a jar. He drains it, but doesn’t rinse it, lest the flavor rinses away....

I love an omelette for a quick dinner, but unfortunately Chris and the kids won’t eat them, so this is my way of making everyone happy with just an extra few minutes of prep needed to whip up some pancake batter. I wasn’t sure how well chorizo would go with syrup, but OMG yes!! Add in the bacon, a little cheese and that salty chilli butter too? This is a seriously good recipe for pancakes with a twist....

A Tip for Perfectly Cooked Scalloped Potatoes A quick tip for how to make scalloped potatoes: use a shallow casserole dish. The one I used here ended up stacking the potatoes a little too high and I had to add a half hour or so to the cooking time. What you don’t want is for your scalloped potatoes to be be crispy browned on top and not-cooked-enough potatoes inside. If you need a faster cooking time, Joy of Cooking recommends parboiling the potatoes first for a few minutes....

Crispy Sesame-Crusted Tofu Steaks Let’s get the uncomfortable truth about tofu out of the way. For many people, tofu looks weird. And has a strange texture they struggle with. It’s not helped by the fact that the internet is awash with recipes that use tofu as a meat substitute in classic dishes, but doesn’t exactly improve them. Like tofu bolognese and tofu cottage pie – no!😩 Or they try to convince you that tofu cheesecake is totally a thing and stacks up to the real deal....

Banchan in Korean means side dishes. It’s a constant and essential part of how Koreans eat daily. In Korean restaurants, banchan are often served gratis (with free refills no less). They arrive in small plates, clattering onto the table as they’re laid out by the server. At home, one or two banchan can be served with rice and sheets of roasted seaweed as a light meal, or as sides to a more substantial meal....

Summer in a bottle! I found I had an abundance of strawberries that were just at the peak of ripeness. One more day and they would have been squishy. So rather than make the family eat strawberries for every meal I decided turn them into strawberry sauce. Now we’ve been eating strawberry sauce with everything!! The directions are super-simple. Boil up some chopped strawberries, water and sugar for 5 minutes, then push through a sieve....

Anytime I decide to make a beef stew after the month of March you can guarantee that by the time I set it on the table the sun will be blazing outside. The birds will be singing, neighbours will be mowing their lawns, and Chris will be either looking pointedly at the barbecue, or rolling his eyeballs at me. Just like the days you actually remember to take your new sunglasses out and it rains all day....

The look in your friends’ eyes when they’ve bitten into something you’ve made, and they’re deliriously happy about what they’re eating. Their wide-eyed smiley faces would say, “OMG, WOW,” if they weren’t so busy eating and wanting to be polite and not talk with their mouths full. That’s the response I got from my friends when I served them pulled pork tacos made with with this slow-cooked Mexican pulled pork....

This post is sponsored by AHDB Potatoes - a division of the Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board, committed to supporting the British potato industry Are roast potatoes mostly an English thing? I’m not sure. One thing I am sure about though, is that a perfectly cooked roast potato should be darkly golden and crunchy on the outside, and fluffy on the inside. You should almost be able to ‘crack’ them open, and that gorgeous crisp coating should come away from the potato in the middle in order to soak up the gravy from that amazing roast dinner....

I love biting into the soft, chewy cookie and having those vanilla notes hit my tongue. It’s a little bite of nostalgic satisfaction that you can’t get anywhere else. Ordinary Ingredients, Extraordinary Cookie Sugar cookies come in all sorts of textures and sizes, but my favorite are the kind that are soft and chewy. This is the type of cookie that you roll into balls between your hands and then press flat with a glass before baking....

Prep Time: 30 minutesBake Time: 20 minutesYield: Serves 8 Ingredients 2 tablespoons butter1/4 cup flour1 tsp chili powder1 tsp cumin1/2 tsp salt1/4 tsp pepper2 cups chicken broth2 red bell peppers, seeded and diced1 jalapeno, seeded and diced2 cups heavy cream1 egg6 oz cheddar cheese, cut into very small cubes1 loaf sourdough bread, torn into large chunks1 bunch cilantro, chopped1 lb bacon, cooked and diced Instructions Preheat oven to 425 degrees....

Watch the video below where Caytlin will walk you through every step of this recipe. Sometimes it helps to have a visual, and we’ve always got you covered with our cooking show. You can find the complete collection of recipes on YouTube, Facebook Watch, or our Facebook Page, or right here on our website with their corresponding recipes. Kitchen Shears: This recipe requires a good pair of sharp kitchen shears in order to cut out the spine of the chicken....

It’s a breakfast that keeps me full for hours and enables me to sail right through to lunchtime - no midmorning snack needed. I make this recipe for breakfast about every other week, usually on the weekend. It’s one of my family’s favorite breakfasts (another big hit is this breakfast sandwich). So obviously I wanted to find a way to make it a fairly quick breakfast. I achieve this by using relatively thin steaks - ½ inch thick....

The mojito is already practically a perfect drink in every way, so what could possibly make it better? A little seasonal fruit, like strawberries! When they reach their peak at the beginning of summer, strawberries are an excellent accompaniment to a mojito’s sweet, sour, minty flavor. Which Rum to Use for a Mojito I use Bacardi, but any white rum will do. White rum (also called silver or light rum) is clear, like vodka, and has a subtle, sweet flavor....

Apparently, the recipe has been around for ages. We first discovered a version of it in a magazine called Cuisine at Home, but you can find other versions at Epicurious and other places online. Easy Chocolate Cupcakes Without Eggs or Dairy The thing about this cake recipe is not only is it incredibly easy to make, with ingredients that you likely already have in your pantry, but it produces a surprisingly moist and delicious cake (and cupcakes)....

Don’t you love it when you make something that you know is good, and you feed it to someone who has their doubts (because that’s just how they are, they doubt everything), and their eyes light up and they get a big smile on their face right after the first bite? That was my mother and father after biting into this teriyaki steak. Cut Across the Grain for Tender Teriyaki Steak Flank steak is naturally tough, but the combination of marinating it in this homemade teriyaki marinade of mirin, sake, and soy sauce, along with a fast sear on high heat, and then cutting thin slices against the grain, makes for a juicy, tender presentation....

Favorite Thanksgiving Leftover Egg Rolls Combinations: You can feel free to make any of our favorite combinations, or experiment and make up your own! Some of our favorites include: Turkey+stuffing+mashed potatoes dunked in gravyHam+yam dunked in gravy Turkey+cranberries+Stuffing Dessert Options: Grab the leftover pumpkin or apple pie and wrap some of it up! Wrap it, fry it, and drizzle with caramel sauce and whipped cream. Air Fryer Instructions: Generously spritz your wontons with oil and air fry at 350 degrees until golden, about 3-4 minutes....