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How to stock your baking cabinet

Whether you’re a novice baker or a professional pastry chef, having a well-stocked pantry will make your baking a more streamlined...

Cookbooks

Cookbook review: The Sprouted Kitchen: A Tastier Take on Whole Foods

Get your hands on Sara Forte's cookbook, The Sprouted Kitchen: A Tastier Take on Whole Foods, where she shares uncomplicated,...

Cooking Tips & Trends

What is tempering chocolate?

If you've ever tried working with chocolate, you know that it can be a bit tricky. These tips for tempering chocolate correctly will...

Kitchen & Cooking Tips

In a pickle: What to do with overcooked rice

Did you overcook your rice? Unfortunately, it's easy to do since it cooks relatively fast. Luckily, there are ways to salvage it so...

Healthy Recipes & Nutrition

Chef Rocco DiSpirito dishes on food and summer

Rocco DiSpirito recently joined with Triscuit to launch their new Brown Rice Triscuit and is hoping to change people’s perception of...

Baking

The science behind a muffin and a cupcake

Why do we think having a muffin for breakfast is okay but not a cupcake? Is it the sugary icing? Or how we like to pretend that our...

Budget Cooking

Budget-friendly meals for Tax Day

We can't give you tax advice, but we can help you make a few budget-friendly meals. These dishes just taste like a splurge!

Cookbooks

Cookbook review: Betty Crocker Cookbook Newlywed Edition

Offer your wedding congratulations to a special couple by giving them a gift that will help them through many meals. This cookbook...

Kitchen & Cooking Tips

The secrets of the perfect steak

There’s something mystical about steak. When politicians, pundits and poets pontificate about the finest meals in the world, a good...

Kitchen & Cooking Tips

In a pickle: What to do with overcooked veggies

It can be hard to tell when vegetables are fully cooked. If you overcook them — as we all have or will at least once in our lives —...

Kitchen & Cooking Tips

In a pickle: How to save a burnt cake

Burning a cake, unfortunately, is bound to happen to us all at some point. Whether we didn't hear the timer go off or our oven baked...

Cooking Tips & Trends

How to sear scallops like a pro

Searing scallops at home is really easy, once you know the secret.

Cooking Tips & Trends

How to layer flavor

Layering flavor is a gourmet technique any cook can use. It's all about combining, expanding and deepening flavors in a dish with...

Kitchen & Cooking Tips

Essential tips every baker needs to know

When baking, it’s the little things that make all the difference. Everything from the tools you use to the brands you choose will...

Cooking Tips & Trends

Cooking with coconut milk

Cooking with coconut milk not only tastes and smells great, but it is actually quite good for you!

Kitchen & Cooking Tips

In a pickle: How to solve cooking problems with cream

In a pickle? Surprisingly, cream is the answer to most common cooking problems.

Food & Kitchen How-tos

How to be a tidy cook

Cooking and cleaning go hand in hand. Instead of cooking first and cleaning up second, try cleaning as you go and see the difference...

Kitchen & Cooking Tips

How to safely thaw meat

It happens to the best of us — you get home from work only to realize you forgot to take the chicken out to thaw. Now what?

Kitchen & Cooking Tips

Top 5 dinner shortcuts for the busy mom

Between work deadlines, family obligations, church commitments and cleaning the house, who has time to spend hours preparing dinner?...

Cooking Tips & Trends

Secrets of Southern cooking

When you think of Southern food, immediately you think warm, hearty meals and buttery biscuits shared with family around the dinner...

Kitchen & Cooking Tips

What to do with leftover Christmas dinner supplies

Because we only cook a huge Christmas feast once a year, we are often left with a whole bunch of kitchen tools and cooking...