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Bacon Zucchini Noodles with Basil

Use up the rest of the season’s zucchini in this spiralized dish served with garlic, sun-dried tomatoes, bacon and basil.

Current Favorite Rice Dishes

Check out these easy rice dishes that are filled with veggies and are great for feeding a crowd.

5 Easy Ice Cream Sandwiches

There’s hardly a frozen treat more satisfying than an ice cream sandwich. Go the homemade route with these sweet treats you’ll want to try before summer ends.

Thoughtfully arranged ingredients leave these crowd-pleasing cakes with an incredibly moist, pudding-like texture. Try experimenting with your favorite toppings of varying textures—fresh berries, chopped nuts, ice cream, fresh whipped cream—or all of the above!

Summer Pudding

Grab a loaf of brioche and all of summer’s fresh berries and get to work on this simply beautiful summer pudding.

The Best Savory Summer Fruit Salads

Brighten up your week with these sweet-savory summer fruit salad recipes, all packed with summer’s finest—fresh berries, juicy melon and ripe peaches. A host of vibrant, refreshing combinations to see you through the entire season.

4 Easy Recipes Using Summer Tomatoes

Check out these recipes to enjoy summer tomatoes now and how to preserve them for winter.

Strawberry, Fried Goat Cheese and Avocado Salad

Tossed in a shallot-honey vinaigrette, this fried goat cheese salad is made up of some of our favorite foods, including strawberries and avocado.

Simple Summer Marinades

Marinades are essential for infusing flavor into grill fare of all kinds—meat, seafood, even fruit and veggies—and a lengthy marinade time can go a long way towards transforming tough cuts of meat into tender ones. Try these simple summer marinades in your grilling rotation!

Easy Weeknight Tuna Recipes

Scrambling to get dinner on the table? Reach for that can of tuna in the back of the pantry. This inexpensive pantry staple is packed with protein, and is wildly versatile. Go way beyond your standard tuna salad sandwich.

Easy Sheet Cakes for Summer

The no-fuss nature of the sheet cake makes it an ideal choice for potlucks, picnics and cookouts. Easy to prep, store, transport AND serve—these cakes will see you through an entire season of buffet-style festivities.

How to Get Rid of Weird Kitchen Smells

Follow these steps to get rid of weird odors in your kitchen.

Kentucky Hot Brown: Three Ways

Invented in the Brown Hotel in Kentucky, the Kentucky Hot Brown sandwich is open-faced and made with turkey, bacon mornay sauce and sometimes tomatoes. From pizza to mac and cheese, check out these other ways to feature the favorite sandwich.

How to Make a Grilled Bloody Mary

With the delicious addition of flame-grilled tomatoes, these spicy bloody marys will make you want to host simply to toast!

Ultimate Sweet-Tart Lemon Desserts

The tangy, refreshing quality of fresh lemon makes it an ideal match for the warmer months, and these sweet recipes are here to see you through.

Easy Breakfast Casseroles for a Delicious Morning

Whether you’re hosting a special occasion brunch or enjoying a lazy weekend in, the casserole dish is a blessing come sunrise. Each of these recipes calls for only a few simple ingredients. Just assemble, send your dish on a quick trip to the oven, and you’re in business.

How to Stack and Crumb Coat a Multi-Layered Cake

What’s the key to avoiding lumpy, crumby frosting? Icing your cake with an expert crumb coat before you go all Ace-of-Cakes on your creation. Staying true to its namesake, the crumb coat is a thin base layer of frosting that’s designed to catch cake crumbs and even out your frosting surface. Think of it as the sanding and priming steps before a paint job.

5 Principles for Baking with Craft Beer

Get your paper and pen out bakers and beer-heads (the folks who live for micro-brews and shudder at the thought shot-gunning a Miller Light), we’ve got some invaluable advice coming your way courtesy of Jackie Dodd (aka The Beeroness).

Savory and Sweet Mac and Cheese

Exactly what you were thinking – a mac and cheese that is both sweet and savory? Well, it’s pretty darn good.

5 New Ways to Make Carrot Cake

Carrot cake is a favorite, and for good reason. Which is why we want carrot cake every which way, starting with these five new takes on the classic.

Three Fun Easter Sweets for Kids

From chicks to bunnies and lambs, check out how to make these sweet spring animals into fun Easter treats.

A Guide to Italian Easter Bread

Classic Italian Easter bread is a favorite braided breads, thanks to its creative use of colorful eggs between woven layers of dough.

Festive Spring Soups

As we transition from winter to spring, don’t leave soup behind! These recipes feature fresh spring produce, and many can be served warm or chilled to suit your fancy—and the weather.

Deep, Dark, Decadent Chocolate Recipes

Serious chocoholics know all about that specific craving that can only be satisfied by intensely dark chocolate. These recipes boast layers of chocolate flavor you won’t be able to get enough of.

Prosciutto and Spinach Frittata

For breakfast, brunch, or dinner, this frittata pack protein, salty prosciutto flavor and lots of spinach for a balanced bite.

One-Pot Pasta Dinners

These no-muss, no-fuss, one pot pasta recipes are perfect for a little low maintenance indulgence on a weeknight schedule.

Delicious New Ways to Make Spinach Dip

Spinach dip. It’s a guaranteed crowd-pleaser, and frankly, it’s a must for any finger food-friendly…

Favorite Chicken Soup Recipes to Wrap Up Winter

We know it; you know it—chicken soup really is good for the soul. Whether you’re under the weather and craving a little comfort, or simply looking for creative ways to stretch leftover ingredients, this roundup of favorite recipes has you covered.

10 Delicious Ways to Upgrade Your Hot Dog

The hot dog is a classic American standby, but even old favorites can stand a makeover every now and then. Whether you’re staying in or grilling out back, these upgrades will take your hot dog to the next level.

Favorite Food Puns You Knead to Hear

We can’t get enough of fun food puns.

Soft Pretzels

Better than anything you will buy at a pretzel stand in the mall or at a sports game, these salted soft pretzels are easy to make at home.

Easy and Affordable Ways to Upgrade Your Kitchen

Check out these easy ideas to upgrade your kitchen from being a dysfunctional, cluttered room to an efficient cooking space.

Put an Egg on It! 10 Ways to Top Meals with an Egg

What’s more beautiful than a runny egg yolk? Poached or fried, a perfectly cooked egg is a fun way to lend extra richness (and protein!) to pasta dishes, rice bowls—even pizzas! These 10 recipes are sure to eliminate any notion that eggs are just for breakfast.

Five Ultimate Crock Pot Dips

In the interest of full disclosure, we’ll make a confession—”cheese” and “Crock-Pot” are two of our most frequented notions on a week-to-week basis. Here are the top crock pot dips on the internet.

Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies

We’ll eat anything made by a Hepburn.

Gone Bananas! 10 Must-Try Takes on Banana Bread

Go bananas today with these different versions of banana bread.

Spicy Cauliflower and Broccoli Gratin

This vegetarian meal in one deep dish straight out of the oven. An easy weeknight dinner!

Heartwarming Middle Eastern Style Red Lentil Soup

A satisfying meal does not necessarily come in multiple courses. This middle eastern red lentil soup is a meal all on its own and will be sure to satisfy.

Parmesan Roasted Yams

Need ideas for a simple and easy appetizer? Try these roasted yam slices topped with melted parmesan cheese!

15 Delicious Ways to Detox

So maybe you went a litle overboard with the Christmas cookies, or perhaps you over-imbibed on New Year’s Eve. No worries – we’re not here to judge. In fact, to help you kickstart your holiday recovery plan, we’ve gathered 15 clean eating recipes that are as delicious as they are healthful.

Afghan Red Lentil Soup

This is a bowl of comfort. Steaming with red lentils, cumin, mint, and lemon.

Baked Mushroom Sausage and Fontina Pasta

Make it Italian night with this quick and easy dinner idea for the whole family on a cold evening.

Three Cheese Linguine Baked Pie

This linguine baked pie comes right out of the oven crispy on top, oozing with cheese on the inside, and worthy of swirling around your fork.

Expert Tips on Simplifying Your Hosting Style

Sometimes less is more.

Classic Chicken Minestrone

Enjoy warming your hands with a hot bowl of comforting chicken broth that marries all the classic ingredients of a minestrone.

Vanilla Coffee Creamer Spiked with Bourbon

There are those days when a little extra is needed to get the morning started. Add a little bit of booze to your cuppa joe with this bourbon vanilla coffee creamer.

Ways to Spike Hot Chocolate

It’s time to grab your favorite winter warmers and cozy up for a cocktail hour spent fireside. Chocolate lovers, this one’s for you.

Festive Sweets for Hanukkah

Hanukkah is a traditional Jewish holiday celebrating the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Also known as the Festival of Lights, the celebration is a time of gift giving, games, and eating oil-based foods. Enjoy the eight days of Hanukkah with these 15 traditional and holiday-themed desserts from across the web.

Decadent Toffee Pecan and Sweet Potato Slab Pie

Having a crowd over for Christmas dinner? Satisfy all the sweet tooth cravings with this decadent toffee, pecan, and sweet potato slab pie.

3 Ingredient Mix-Ins for Mashed Potatoes

Thank goodness for mashed potatoes. Unlike cranberry sauce and stuffing, you’ll be hard-pressed to find folks who dismiss the homemade whipped side as “just not for them” at a holiday table. Perhaps this is partly due to their incredible versatility—from savory to sweet, mashed potatoes can be dressed up in countless ways with minimal effort to suit any taste.

Baked Herbed Chicken Tray

Still struggling with Thanksgiving leftovers? Hopefully not. But if so, try this herbed chicken tray bake and swap it out with turkey.

Restaurant Copycat Recipes to Make for the Cold Season

Fall is in full effect—and with it, we welcome the arrival of sweet signature pastries, the (in)famous pumpkin spice latte, and more. In homage, we’ve gathered 10 convincing copycats, so you can learn to make all of your restaurant favorites for the season right in your very own kitchen!

Roasted Pork Loin with Apples Three Ways

Ham is a typical holiday main course. However, if you are not a cured meat fan, here are three ways to slow roast a pork loin with all the trimmings for your next holiday party.

Pumpkin 8 Ways for Breakfast

Looking for ways to add a little seasonal flair to your breakfast? Just so happens—it’s pumpkin season, folks. Check out these eight ways to make the most important meal of the day even more fun.

Holiday Appetizers with Brussels Sprouts

Their “pop-able” nature makes brussels sprouts a prime ingredient for appetizer trays, but there’s so much more to sprouts than that. They’re bite-sized and adorable, sure, but they’re just as delicious deconstructed and loaded into cheesy dips or piled atop flatbreads and crostini. Check out these 10 fun ways to work them into your holiday lineup.

Habanero Salsa 3 Ways for Tailgating Season

Tailgating season continues! Here, self-taught chef, photographer, and food blogger Claire Thomas of The Kitchy Kitchen shares some of her favorite tailgate-ready recipes. Think you can handle the heat? Check out Claire’s three spicy homemade salsas, packed with habanero peppers—perfect for mixing up your tailgate spread.

3 Ways to Use Leftover Pizza

Don’t toss the remains from last night’s pie party—put leftover slices to work in these fun recipes!

Gifts for the Culinary Globe Trotter

If you have a friend who travels thousands of miles just to dine at a renowned restaurant or spends weekends battling deep bouts of wanderlust by cooking cuisine from some far off land—this is the list for them. Tap into the exotic sensibilities of your favorite travelers with this comprehensive list of tested and approved travel-ready gifts for food lovers.