If you’re looking to treat a seafood lover in your life, this easy shrimp and scallop pasta is the recipe for you. As a 30-minute pasta recipe, this dish is perfect when you want to cook your guests something special without missing all the fun being stuck in the kitchen for...

Blind baking a pie crust can sound rather intimidating to the uninitiated — particularly if you’re already feeling intimidated by the idea of baking a whole pie to begin with. If this sounds like you, help is here! Blind baking is really nothing more than letting the pie crust bake for a...

Learn how to freeze green beans so you can preserve that bumper crop from your garden (or the farmers market). Plus, we’ll go over the best way to thaw them so they stay crisp. On our little homestead in Northern Vermont, we try to grow all of the vegetables that...

Gremolata is one of those things where the whole is definitely greater than the sum of its parts. Sprinkled over any number of dishes, it will make every mouthful pop with its bright, fresh flavors. Gremolata is so simple that you barely need a recipe, but here’s one all the...

Different types of olives yield different levels of salty, sweet, bitter, mild, tangy and buttery notes that lend themselves to flavoring all sorts of meals, snack boards and cocktails. Here’s how to choose the tastiest kinds. Spooning them out of the jar for a salty snack, grinding them into a...

Filled with squiggly noodles, flavorful dressing, a medley of vegetables, and sometimes meat and cheese, pasta salad is a mainstay of summer picnics and backyard get-togethers. However, a bad pasta salad is not only a bummer, it can be surprisingly common. Here, we break down some of the most common mistakes...

In today’s fast-paced world, finding time to cook nutritious and delicious meals can be a challenge. Thankfully, meal delivery services have emerged as a convenient solution, offering pre-portioned ingredients and easy-to-follow recipes right to your doorstep. Blue Apron and Daily Harvest are two prominent players in this space, catering to...

Texas-based Snap Kitchen is a subscription meal delivery service for fully cooked, healthy heat-and-eat meals with fresh, high-quality ingredients. The company also offers in-store pick-up services in Dallas, Austin, and Houston. They’re also available at a select few locations of Whole Foods Market. So then, why are we checking out...

Banish all thoughts of stringy, tough, sad chicken from your mind. For our chicken salad sandwiches and quick chicken weeknight meals, we want nothing but the best. And for that, poached chicken is definitely the way to go. This poached chicken method is easy, fast, and foolproof. Totally tender chicken breasts that are...

A meal delivery service like Magic Kitchen might not satisfy the needs of all people considering that it is a meal kit service ideal for those who require single-serve meals and have dietary restrictions. Magic Kitchen also offers frozen meals that are chef-prepared, which is ideal for any type of...

Frittatas have saved me on more hungry weeknights than I care to count. The Italian egg dish is similar to a crustless quiche but less custardy and rich — more similar is texture to an omelet. It’s made on the stove and finished in the oven. As long as I have a few...

Like many a well-loved dish, pad Thai is served up with its very own apocryphal origin story: As the oft-repeated tale goes, Field Marshal Phibun, prime minister and nationalist dictator from 1938 to 1944, created the dish as part of his campaign to shape Thailand’s nascent national consciousness. The real story,...