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Would you like to make dinner tonight fast and stress-free? We thought so! Our secret these days is PERDUE® SHORT CUTS®. A few packages of fully-cooked, seasoned, and sliced chicken breasts in your refrigerator guarantee dinner’s on the table in mere minutes. And Burrito Bowls are often the answer when 5 pm approaches and time is tight. The nice thing is they’re totally customizable: you can lay out all of the ingredients in separate containers and everyone can build their own bowl....

All the toppings We used all of our personal favorite pizza toppings in these zucchini boats, so use it as your starting point. If you want to add or ditch anything, go for it. These pizza boats are also great because if you’ve got kids, they can customize theirs to their own liking. Let the kiddos pick their toppings and make it their own. Everyone will be happy and enjoy a healthy dinner!...

This is a cookbook exclusive recipe! This recipe is exclusive to my debut cookbook Dinner which includes a how-to video for every recipe. Just scan the QR code! Just to explain…. I know, it’s confusing! You’re so used to getting recipes on my website – there’s over 1,200 of them, after all. And here you are looking at a tasty recipe video and I haven’t provided the recipe. 🙀 I’m not just doing this to torture you, I promise....

Clockwise from top left: Pea Cabbage Mint and Parmesan Salad, Asian Vermicelli Noodle Salad, Green Goddess Dressing (recipe below), Coleslaw dressing (recipe below), Mrs Brodie’s Potato Salad, French Vinaigrette (recipe below) This is a handy quick reference for 20 Essential Salad Dressings – all simple ones. Unless otherwise indicated, simply combine the ingredients in a jar and shake well, or mix in a small bowl. Hope you find it handy!...

Easy-to-make chipotle aioli I’ll admit, until I tested this recipe, I was a little intimidated by making a homemade aioli or homemade mayonnaise. I was never quite sure how to get the oil to emulsify and thicken up and was worried that I’d just waste a bunch of perfectly good avocado oil. I’m happy to say that all of my worries were for nothing. Using an immersion blender, creating this creamy sauce takes pretty much zero effort....

As the nights get cold and Daylight Savings Time prepares to rear its hateful head, the inevitable shift indoors meets with less resistance. I mean, it’s going to happen anyway, so why not lean in? When it starts to get frosty, I want dinners that are simmered and soul-satisfying. Besides, I need extra energy to fuel all the strategic layering it takes to comfortably walk the dog. These dinners make me feel warm from the inside giving me, and hopefully you too, the strength to embrace the seasonal shifts of the weeks to come....

Mediterranean Hummus Snack Pack with Pita Chips This is our go-to for healthy protein, which also happens to be vegetarian. It’s comes in a 2-pack and we either toss a pack right into a lunchbox, or we scoop out the hummus and crispy pita chips into a Yumbox, our favorite bento box. Either way, these always get eaten. Mini Beef Tacos These beef tacos are a great source of protein in a fun-to-eat mini size....

Easy homemade Whole30 Sauces It’s very easy to make your own Whole30 sauces at home. With some basic pantry ingredients (coconut aminos, fish sauce, vinegar), a handful of fresh items (herbs, lemon, lime, garlic) and some simple seasonings, you are well on your way to mixing up some delicious sauces! Why no mayo? We know that you can make your own mayo at home and a lot of Whole30 sauces are mayo based....

In my house, salads are summertime staples, often replacing heartier meals and determined in large part by what ingredients are on hand. At the farmers market, I buy first and strategize later (one could have worse afflictions than impulse buying a drawer’s worth of local vegetables). When hunger strikes, I think of my favorite combinations—many are below—and feel free to improvise on those themes. Many of these recipes lend themselves to making ahead, or can be assembled quickly at the last minute, needing only grilled steak, chicken or fish to round them out....

But you know what? It’s pretty darn close! I would say it’s even 90 percent, if not 95 percent there. The crust is crackly and tasty, and as long as you don’t forget about it in your air fryer, it’s still going to be juicy. As with many things in the kitchen, it’s all about tradeoffs, but I think you would be silly to not try this if you have access to an air fryer....

“An Arabian Feast – 7 dishes, 1 hour of preparation, cost efficient, easy and make ahead. My favourite menu for feeding a crowd!” This menu will be very familiar to my friends because it is my “go to” spread when I’m entertaining 12+ people. I recently single handedly prepared this for 50 people (though this did take more than 1 hour as I had to make 4x the quantity of each dish!...

Also, don’t miss the popular noodle version of this recipe – Asian Beef Ramen Noodles! Super quick beef mince recipe! This one is for all those nights when you peer into your fridge, find a packet of beef mince and are completely uninspired to make Spag Bol – yet again. This is also one for all those nights when you’ve been baking, filming and photographing recipes all day, and you swear you don’t have the energy to make anything for dinner but your mother brain washed you so well, you feel guilty for even thinking about picking up the phone to order home delivery....

Sloppy Joes can be amazing, didn’t you know? It doesn’t have to be a quick, thrown together meal from a can that kids can tolerate. It can be flavorful and packed full of delicious vegetables. It can have texture! PRO TIP: Toast your buns before placing your meat on. This will take your sloppy Joes to the next level! Simply place open-face on a baking sheet and put under the broiler setting on your oven....

These smoothies are designed by chefs and nutritionists to include loads of healthy, flavorful ingredients, and they’re often more cost-effective than buying smoothies individually. Since there are more smoothie delivery options than ever, we rounded up a list of the best services on the market. Here, we present our findings. Best Smoothie Delivery Services of 2022 Best Overall: Revive Superfoods Best Budget-Friendly: Smartfruit Best Variety: Daily Harvest Best Organic: Blendtopia Best Premade: Splendid Spoon Best Frozen: The Frozen Garden Best Powdered: Realm Best for Superfoods: Ka’Chava...

As such, it was pretty good for its time, but it needed some serious updating. These days, I want something better than “pretty good.” Making the Best Black Bean Burger I get tired of beef burgers and sometimes want to incorporate more plant-based meals into my diet. For these reasons, I love the idea of a vegetarian alternative to the standard beef burgers of summer. I turned to black beans as the base....

What’s a grain bowl? These are bowls filled full with fresh and delicious vegetables, some protein, and a cooked whole grain. The components can often be made ahead of time, so grain bowls make a great assemble-and-go meal. How To Make a Grain Bowl I recently visited the kitchen of Whole Heart Provisions in Boston, a popular local grain bowl restaurant, and learned a few tricks from their chef, Rebecca Arnold....

Actually the most flavorful part of the turkey comes from the dark meat of the turkey thighs and legs, which are much less expensive than the breast meat. Here’s one of our favorite budget-friendly winter stews—turkey legs that have been slowly braised on a bed of celery and onions until fork tender, then shredded and served with a sauce of their braising liquid. We often include potatoes and root vegetables as well....

But did you know brown butter has a place in savory dishes, too? Its sweet, nutty flavor adds richness and complexity to everything it touches, from roasted root vegetables to scrambled eggs. Here are a few tips to help you start using brown butter in savory cooking—it elevates even the most basic weeknight dinners. 3 Tips for Cooking With Brown Butter 3 Ways To Use Brown Butter Beyond Baking Ready to start using brown butter in savory recipes?...

It tastes like a brownie, in cookie form – PLUS peanut butter frosting! I don’t bake much because I am more of a savoury person than a sweet person. So most sweet things I make are “fast and easy” type treats. But this….this is worth every second of effort. It is crazy indulgent and ridiculously scrumptious. The brownie cookie is just like a brownie in both texture and taste. The surface of the cookie has the familiar thin crinkly layer....