Perfect for any day, this fiber-rich dip is a surefire crowd-pleaser to serve with crudités or tortilla chips. It requires little prep time and is ready to serve immediately. Zesty Avocado Black Bean Dip Serves 12 Active Time: 10 minutes Total Time: 10 minutes Ingredients 4 medium ripe avocados, divided 1 to 2 tablespoons lime…
Brown Butter Makes This Banana-Walnut Bread Extra Special
While some people insist on chocolate in their banana bread, I much prefer nuts—walnuts, to be exact. They’re a buttery, crunchy counterpart to the sweet and tender crumbs of the classic quick bread. This particular version is packed with them. Combined with a boost of flavor from brown butter and some extra moisture, thanks to…
A Mutual Salad Treaty
It takes a bitter green to tackle a cold day. Bitter winter chicories are a salad’s response to the season. Chicories are leafy “greens” that include the likes of radicchio and Treviso, endive and escarole, frisée and puntarelle—all of which are notably not-so-green, but rather streaked in purples and reds or cast in icy whites…
Miso-Garlic Slashed Chicken with Quinoa-Orange Salad
By Gretchen McKay From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Chicken legs are a popular choice for midweek meals because they’re one of your less-expensive meats and serve as a blank canvas for so many different cuisines and dishes — they can be deep-fried, barbecued, roasted and oven-fried to juicy perfection. Here, bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs are soaked in…
Shepherd’s Pie
View the print-ready version of this recipe on Once Upon a Chef. Shepherd’s pie is a comforting dish consisting of creamy mashed potatoes on top of a rich and bubbly stew. It originated in the UK and Ireland and is traditionally made with lamb, but in the U.S. it is more commonly made with beef…
How to Properly Store Dry, Fresh and Cooked Pasta
I’m one lucky gal. My husband’s favorite menu item is pasta—any shape or recipe. He would opt for a pasta dish every meal of the day if that were an option. And that’s great because he is as tall and slim as the day we married. While he has no desire to actually prepare pasta,…
Improve Your Scampi Game With This Lively Mash-Up of Two Classic Dishes
Imagine a one-pot shrimp pasta dish: a cross between a garlicky scampi and a zippy, lemony piccata, with a little bit of creamy sauce tossed in for good measure. That’s what we envisioned when we started work on this recipe. We wanted tender, succulent shrimp and lots of rich, silky sauce balanced with just enough…
Braised Baby Turnips & Greens
View the print ready version of this recipe on Buttered Veg. The Buttered Veg website is a celebration of vegetables. Today, we are celebrating baby turnips and greens. These, my friends, are some bitter beauties. Turnips are one of those vegetables that have a bad reputation for some people. There’s a funny story in my…
Cheddar Herb Hasselback Potatoes
Getting creative for dinner is always a fun way to test out your cooking skills, but sometimes nothing beats a good old-fashioned plate of meat and potatoes. But you can get creative with that classic combination? Instead of baked potatoes, mashed potatoes or any other potato recipe, consider hasselback potatoes for dinner tonight. For the unfamiliar, hasselback potatoes…
Braised Lamb Shanks
It’s almost February, which means you might be hiting a wall when it comes to fulfilling those New Year’s cooking goals. After a couple weeks of experimenting in the kitchen, you’re back to making chicken every night of the week. If you’ve been feeling uninspired in the kitchen, this recipe for lamb shanks is sure to reinvigorate…
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