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Try this baked honey balsamic chicken recipe with tender, juicy chicken coated in a sweet and tangy flavor-packed sauce. Serve with sides like rice or mashed potatoes to soak up all that sauce and veggies like broccoli, asparagus, or green beans for a filling dinner. Today we’re making some baked honey balsamic chicken which is a quick and easy answer to simple, fool-proof weeknight dinners. The chicken is fall-off-the-bone juicy with deliciously crisp chicken skins thanks to the use of bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs or drumsticks in this recipe. However, if you’re not a fan of thighs or anything with bones in them, you can also make this recipe with the humble chicken breast. The chicken is marinated in a simple sauce of balsamic vinegar, honey, olive oil, garlic powder and ...

Celery is most frequently seen as prerequisite garnish, a semblance of health food to pair with a Bloody Mary or Buffalo chicken wings, or juiced to a verdant green. Yet when cooked down and caramelized, celery joins aromatics like garlic and onions as a fundamental base for sauces and soups like French mirepoix, the Italian/Spanish/Portuguese variations on sofrito, or even the Creole holy trinity of onions, bell peppers, and celery. Its snappy, vibrant green fades to a dull pastel, and its bitter, salty bite mellows, becoming sweeter and earthier. This is the softer side of celery that is often overlooked. Celery is a fibrous, long stalk grown in marshlands, predominantly in the Mediterranean. It has been harvested since the days of Greek and R...

For over half a century, pizza has had a welcome home in the grocery store frozen foods aisle. Totino’s and Tombstone began selling frozen pizzas in the 1960s, soon after easy-to-heat TV dinners debuted in living rooms across America. Red Baron got into the game with their own frozen pies in the 1970s, which quickly dominated school lunch menus nationwide. But perhaps the biggest development in at-home pizza came in 1995, when Kraft launched DiGiorno. The aggressively advertised “better than delivery” pies feature a signature “rising crust” that puffs up as it bakes, for a doughy result more reminiscent of freshly made pizza. Within a few years, DiGiorno rose to become the number-one-selling frozen pizza brand in the United States, and it has rema...

Initially, Kevin Bludso wasn’t interested in writing a cookbook. “I didn’t think my life was worthy enough of a story,” he recalls. Still, with his debut book, Bludso’s BBQ Cookbook: A Family Affair in Smoke and Soul, Bludso took the opportunity to dive deep into East Texas–style barbecue and his family history. Los Angeles–based Bludso is a fourth-generation pitmaster and a judge on The American Barbecue Showdown (which airs on Netflix). He opened his first barbecue restaurant, Bludso’s BBQ, in his hometown of Compton in 2007, bringing recipes he learned from his grandmother during summers spent in Corsicana, Texas.  The cookbook is just as much about barbecue as it is about Bludso’s life and upbringing. This is not necessarily uncommon in a ...

This homemade garlic bread recipe with freshly toasted crusty bread slathered in herbed garlic butter will compliment any pasta meal. Today we’re making some warm homemade garlic bread with freshly toasted slices smothered generously in a drippy, buttery herbed garlic butter. This 5-ingredient recipe uses any Italian or French bread, lots of minced garlic, grated Parmigiano Reggiano or Parmesan cheese and freshly chopped Italian parsley. For best garlic bread results, the key is to keep the recipe simple and the ratio of butter to garlic just right. We’re using 4-6 cloves of garlic per loaf to load up on that garlicky goodness to pair with your favorite pasta meal. It’s perfect for sopping up any spaghetti or pasta sauce or just for dipping in some marinara. Like these Parmesa...

How To Prep Garlic For Cooking While in Italy, I was taught how to properly prep garlic for cooking. Let me start from the beginning. I recently was in Italy, Tuscany to be more precise, with my family and some friends to celebrate my daughter's 2020 graduation from college. Yes, the Covid thing got in our way in 2020, 2021 and almost in 2022 but we were able to go and had an incredible time. The Italians know how to enjoy their food and wine. I didn't want to come home. At the villa we were staying at, about 1 ½ hours car ride from Rome, our housekeeper/cook prepared three dinners for us, one of them being a cooking class. It was amazing to watch her make her native meals including homemade spinach ricotta raviolis from scratch. I'll be posting about this night in the futur...

On August 6, 2021, Zachariah Porter filmed himself frying an onion. To be more precise, he made a two-minute TikTok video in which he finds a Great American Steakhouse Onion Machine at the Savers in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and proceeds to use a plastic contraption that looks a lot like an apple slicer to make his very own, very deep-fried, whole blossoming onion—inspired by the iconic Bloomin’ Onion appetizer at Outback Steakhouse (and countless other fast food chains and county fairs). In the video, Porter cores a peeled onion, places it into the slicer, and prays for the best as he pushes down on the handles. After a successful cut, he coats the onion in batter—dry, wet, dry—then the camera cuts to the onion, bubbling away in a pot of hot ...

These 5-ingredient slow cooker Italian beef sandwiches have mouthwatering chuck roast on a toasted hoagie roll with melted provolone cheese. Today we’re making some slow cooker Italian beef sandwiches. These hot sandwiches deliver big on flavor with fork-tender chuck roast slow cooked with pepperoncini peppers and Italian seasoning. Serve them dry, wet, or dipped in au jus on crusty rolls with lots of melty cheese and some giardiniera, if that’s your thing. I like to joke that these crockpot Italian beef sandwiches are like Mississippi pot roast and French Dip sandwich had a baby with its tangy broth and lots of sloppy sandwich action from all the au jus dipping. Make them for parties, game day, or just as fun, family meal. It’s an easy 5-minute prep recipe with only 5 ingre...