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It comes together in under 25 minutes (so quick!) and it looks (and tastes!) stunning—bright colors, different textures, and a super creamy dressing. It all adds up to more than the sum of its parts. Broccolini is Great for Grilling Broccolini is a fantastic veg for the grill. Grill it quickly over high direct heat, set right over the lit coals or burners. I use a kettle charcoal grill and find that I don’t need to light a lot of coal for this and I set the lit coals on just one side of the grill....

And the skin? Oh, the skin. So crispy and perfect. What Is Chicken Under a Brick? I have a lot of bricks in my kitchen, but they are all very secured in my walls. Good news, though—you don’t actually need a brick to make Chicken Under a Brick! You just need something super heavy and heat-resistant, like a cast iron pan or a pizza stone. Once you have that in place, this dish is exactly what it sounds like: You butterfly or spatchcock your chicken; then you cook it with something heavy on top!...

Obviously, this pizza would be super fun to make for Valentine’s Day, but it’s fun for any pizza night. How to Shape a Heart-shaped Pizza The good news about this pizza is you can use almost any pizza dough to make it. I prefer a no-knead pizza dough, which I usually make the night before I’m planning to have pizza. There are two basic ways to shape your pizza dough into a heart....

Homemade iced tea While I prefer to make iced tea with cold-brewed tea, today I will be sharing with you the quick and classic way of making it. That is, brewing hot tea which is faster than waiting around for cold brew to infuse. This recipe serves two but if you would be serving this to a crowd, please keep reading to know how to. If you would be serving this to a crowd then you would need a pitcher that would be big enough for the number of guests you are serving....

Freezer Instructions: In this recipe you create a lemonade concentrate by combining a simple syrup with lemon juice. The lemonade concentrate can be frozen for later use. Pour the cooled lemonade concentrate into a gallon-sized ziploc bag and lay flat in the freezer. When ready to serve, thaw, and add water to taste. Simple Syrup: Simple syrup is used as a sweetener in drinks and baked goods. It is significantly easier to blend a simple syrup with cold drinks than it is to blend in straight sugar....

Turns out all I had to do was wait. With the explosion of plant butters on the market, we can finally have our vegan pie and love it, too. This pie dough recipe works in nearly any sweet or savory recipe calling for an all-butter pie crust. Plant Butter to the Rescue! Faux butter has been on the market for years, but it hasn’t always been vegan. I grew up in the 1980s, and what my generation and those before knew as margarine can contain dairy-based ingredients, and therefore was off the table for vegan baking....

That’s a great question, and one we’ve all found ourselves asking at one point or another. With much of the country still embraced by cold weather and a whole lotta social distancing going on now is the perfect time to get acquainted with dried herbs. Dried herbs can be more potent than fresh herbs (unless they’ve been sitting in your spice drawer for 5 years). This means you need fewer dried herbs than fresh when substituting one for the other....

Onions are naturally sweet; and as caramel comes from the simple cooking of sugar when you slowly cook onions over an extended period of time, the natural sugars in the onions caramelize, making the result intensely and wonderfully flavorful. How to Use Caramelized Onions You can use onions prepared this way on top of steak, or for onion soup, tarts, pizza, or onion dip. Or you can do what I did with this batch, eat it straight up....

Tips for Gingerbread House Decorations This gingerbread house making project requires a trip to the candy section of your local grocery store. You can decorate your house with whatever types of candy please you. Be careful taking kids along to the store, however, as you will invariably buy more candy than you actually need (though they do have the best ideas of what candies would be good for various decorative effects)....

If you own a food processor or blender, you should make mayonnaise at least once. It’s a quick, cheap thrill, and it’s good for your ego to boot, because it’s so easy. It takes longer to wash the food processor than to do the actual mayo-making. And yes, your homemade mayonnaise will beat what you can get from the store. I used to think mayonnaise was gross, but now I dip my fries in it, drag artichoke leaves though it, and slather it on sandwiches....

I trust only me to carve the turkey—that’s because it gives me alone time with the carcass. I covet the bits of salty, golden-brown turkey meat close to the bones once the big hunks of meat are carved away. By the time I make it to the holiday table, I’m quite full and deliriously content. Roasted Turkey Bones Make the Best Stock But that’s only half the story! The rest?...

Whereas the Sazerac is all restrained simplicity, the Hurricane is a party in a tall glass. It’s made with not one, but two kinds of rum, passion fruit purée or syrup, orange and lime juice, grenadine, and simple syrup. The result is a tropical boozefest that is anything but subtle. The Original Hurricane Recipe The Hurricane can be traced back to Pat O’Brien’s in New Orleans, where it was created in the 1940’s as an excellent way to drink all the rum coming into New Orleans from the Caribbean islands....

This 2 in 1 recipe is about the chicken and the delicious instant pot gravy made from the dripping. Oh, I love my gravy and every time I make chicken in my pressure cooker, I made sure I save my dripping for later or use in another recipe like this pressure cooker rice and chicken. Why This Instant Pot Whole Chicken Recipe Is So Good This is an easy instant pot recipe and it only requires a handful of kitchen staple ingredients, apart from the chicken, everything else you would need for this recipe I am sure you already have....

I use this Double Duty trick in a handful of recipes, like this Lemon Chicken Salad and Mexican Chicken Salad – and readers love it! Italian Dressing Chicken Marinade Did you know that most salad dressings also make great marinades? Not creamy ones. But pretty much all non creamy ones do, including French Dressing, Honey Mustard Dressing, this Asian Sesame Dressing and Balsamic Dressing. Today I’m sharing an Italian Dressing Chicken Marinade....

Jambalaya Around the world there are many chicken and rice dishes, all delicious in their own right. But then there’s Jambalaya. It’s chicken and rice, yes. PLUS smoked sausages. PLUS prawns (shrimp). PLUS bacon. All mixed up with rice perfectly-cooked in a Creole spiced tomato broth along with tender vegetables. It’s damned hard to argue Jambalaya isn’t one of THE most epic rice dishes in the world*. I scoffed down many a delicious bowl of the stuff during my travels some years ago in New Orleans, spiritual home of Jambalaya in the South....

We think there’s a little bit of magic that happens when taking such an ordinary, cheap cut of meat and turning it into this culinary masterpiece. Especially considering how little effort is required to get this going! Once your meat is chopped, all you have to do is throw everything in the crockpot, mix ingredients by hand really quick, and then go about your day. It is the perfect meal for a busy weeknight!...

This tomato relish is typical of the island’s cuisine and is often served with a variety of other small side dishes called laoka, and rice to accompany a main course. How to Use Lasary Legioma (Tomato Relish) It’s similar in texture to pico de gallo or bruschetta and can be used in that way as well. I like to put a bowl of it out on the table for guests with some root vegetable chips for a pre-dinner snack....

You’ll be topping all the things with this coconut cream whipped cream – and you should definitely try it with our dairy free, gluten free pumpkin pie and homemade vegan hot chocolate! But really, you could use it to dress up any of our delicious dairy free and gluten free dessert recipes! Use this coconut whipped cream to top and dress up any of our delicious dessert recipes! What is whipped coconut cream?...

My problem, though, was that I often disliked eating the same dish multiple times. But there was one dish I never got sick of which was Matar Paneer. It didn’t matter whether my mom made it or it came from our local restaurant—I always looked forward to eating the tangy, spiced tomato gravy paired with creamy paneer. During the pandemic, I ordered Matar Paneer from our favorite Indian restaurant one too many times before I decided I should try my hand at recreating the dish....

Sometimes I don’t want to spend my evening in the kitchen after a long day at work, and sometimes I don’t want to spend half of my Sunday preparing for the upcoming week. That said, my future self always thanks me. So for those days, we plan accordingly. We plan for quick 30 minute meals, crockpot meals, or leftovers on days we know in advance will be busy. Then on the weekends, and other non-busy days, we play in the kitchen and spend time making things like the impossible casserole possible....