One of my favorite ways to treat myself comes in the form of thisAn Easy, Elegant Dinner to Impress. It’s low-effort and the end result is an elegant dinner I would be proud to serve any guest. Making it is all about building flavor as you go. While the pasta cooks, you’ll sauté the aromatics…
You’ll Want to Make Red Velvet Waffles for the Cream Cheese Glaze Alone
Whether you’re craving breakfast for dessert or dessert for breakfast, these impossibly fluffy red velvet waffles are sure to satisfy. The tangy cream cheese glaze perfectly complements the sweet waffles—drizzle it on top, or dunk the waffles in like donuts. Feel free to add other toppings as well, such as chocolate chips, berries, or walnuts….
Broccoli Slaw Is the Key to This Crunchy Noodle Salad
Crunchy broccoli slaw—available in most supermarkets near the other coleslaw mixes—is the secret to making this Thai noodle recipe super-fast. If you have the time and want to make your own broccoli slaw, shred broccoli stems through the large holes of a box grater. Making the pork patties while the water for the noodles comes…
Old Bananas, New Trick: How to Make Banana Bread Pudding
Banana bread pudding is a delectable new way to use up slightly ripened bananas and day-old bread. As an alternative to your go-to quick bread, this custard-based recipe—with all of the same flavors as its namesake—is an excellent brunch or dessert option for using up aging bananas. Although it’s exceptional on its own, a warm rum…
These Cheesy Rolls, Originally From Brazil, Are Easy to Make in Your Own Kitchen
Pão de queijo, cheese bread, are small rolls with crunchy exteriors and uniquely chewy, stretchy centers. Instead of using flour like most baked goods, they use a surprise ingredient: tapioca starch. Tapioca starch (also called tapioca flour) is made from cassava root, a plant native to South America, that has been ground into a powder….
Beets Are the Main Attraction in This Tasty Salad
I picked up a bunch of jewel-toned beets at the farmers market this weekend. I’d usually roast them for a hearty salad or slice them up for a sandwich, but I got this fancy new kitchen toy and decided to spiralize them raw and make a salad with the beets as the main attraction. Spiralizers…
Don’t Make These Stir-fry Mistakes
“It has to be done, so it might as well be done by me,” I told myself as I dumped the thawed package of supermarket potstickers into the vegetable stir-fry. I may be crazy, but it’s a lock that my kids will like it. So how crazy could that be? Trying to make a stir-fry…
Comfort Food, Lightened Up
Meatballs are a comfort food around the globe. Consider the Swedish kottbullar, Mexican albondigas, Indian koftes, Israeli ktzitzot, or French boules. They all use ground meat and are rolled into balls. From there, the meatball varies according to different tastes and available ingredients. These airy, fluffy meatballs are an easy-to-prepare weeknight dish. They’re lightened up…
A Year-Round Tomato Sauce
If you are like me and enjoy homemade tomato sauce year-round, this recipe is for you. It’s a great way to use up any lingering tomatoes at the end of the season. If the season has already finished, you can still manage a decent sauce with your supermarket variety. The key to developing the flavor…
Widen the Gap With Homemade Bread
If you’ve read my book, “7 Money Rules for Life,” you know that rule No. 1 is so simple it would be easy to overlook it as being too elementary. Here it is: Spend less than you earn. Now, let’s think about this. “Spend less than you earn” is not the same as “Don’t spend…
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