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Mirtle Pena-Calderon

This Is The Best Wood To Use For Smoking A Turkey

Smoking your turkey is a wonderful way to achieve a delicious aroma, texture, and color to your poultry. The type of wood you use to smoke your turkey is important. This is what chefs say is the best type of wood for smoking a turkey.

Mirtle Pena-Calderon

Here's How Long You Should Rest Your Turkey After Smoking

Imagine that the day for your special turkey dinner has arrived and your turkey is moist, delicious, and ready to be pulled out of the smoker, but you haven't a clue about how long it should sit out for. Should you give it any time at all to rest before serving? Here are the best tips.

Molly Harris

Taco Bell's Crunchy Taco Filled Shepherd's Pie Is Turning Heads

In recent years, Rene Pisciotti, Taco Bell's Executive Chef has introduced new recipes for Thanksgiving each year, including Crunch Taco Sheperd's Pie.

Andrea Beck

This Is Why You Should Tenderize Your Chicken Before Cooking It

Everyone loves finding shortcuts in the kitchen, but there are some steps you definitely shouldn't skip, even in the interest of saving time. Tenderizing chicken, especially chicken breasts, is one of them, and if you haven't been tenderizing your chicken before now, you should definitely start.

Maria Scinto

The Biggest Mistakes Everyone Makes When Grilling Turkey

If you're a fan of outdoor cooking, you could smoke your turkey, but if you want a more traditional taste, then grilling your turkey might be the best method.

Amanda Tarlton

How To Order Starbucks' Secret Menu Hot Cocoa Cold Brew

The holiday menu at Starbucks is full of everything from peppermint mochas to caramel brûlée lattes, but it's the secret holiday menu that really steals the show this season. And there's one drink in particular for 2020 that mixes coffee with the flavor of hot chocolate: the Hot Cocoa Cold Brew.

Ralph Schwartz

This Is The Best Way To Thaw Your Thanksgiving Turkey

Most people who pick up a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner purchase a frozen whole bird. That means millions of Americans each year share a common goal: getting their turkey from frozen up to 165 degrees Fahrenheit as safely as possible. This is the best way to thaw your Thanksgiving turkey.

Aimee Lamoureux

Here's How You Can Get A Free Thanksgiving Dinner From Walmart

Many Americans will be tightening their purse strings. So the tech company teamed up with Walmart to launch the Free Thanksgiving Dinner program.

Maria Scinto

This Dessert Version Of Turducken Is The Ultimate Thanksgiving Meal-Ender

Are you planning to go really over-the-top with Thanksgiving dinner? Watching too many Food Network holiday specials can have that affect, and nothing says opulence like food stuffed inside of other food. If you love turducken, you'll be thrilled to know it\ has a dessert counterpart: the piecaken.

Megan Scott

What Is Toum And What Does It Taste Like?

Call it a sauce, a dip, a spread - toum is basically the jack-of-all-trades of the condiment world. Toum is like mayonnaise without the eggs (yes - it's vegan!) and it's rather ubiquitous in Lebanese cuisine.

Molly Harris

How To Make A Quiche Without Heavy Cream

Typically, quiche calls for a lot of eggs - up to a dozen sometimes - which are whisked with milk and heavy cream. Calories and fat add up really quickly as you add other ingredients. The simplest way to reduce the amount of fat and calories in your quiche is actually to eliminate the heavy cream.

Karen Hart

What The US Gets Wrong About Guacamole

Initially, guacamole's ingredients included avocados, tomatoes, and chilis, but the Spaniards put their fingerprint on the recipe, adding onions, cilantro, and lime juice. All the extra stuff we tend to add to our guacamole is really a nod to our Spanish friends.

Sophie Putka

Signs That Your Asparagus Has Gone Bad

Asparagus is great served fresh in a pasta, grilled with a hearty protein, or just by itself.. Asparagus looks weird enough as it is, so no one would blame you for overlooking signs of an asparagus stalk past its prime. We're here to help.

Erich Barganier

The Biggest Mistake You're Making With Pork Belly

If you come across the perfect cut of pork belly at the grocery store, you might get tempted to throw it straight in the oven and cook it like a brisket. Resist this urge, as many inexperienced home chefs try to cook pork belly too quickly.

Hope Ngo

Here's Why Duck Is Usually So Greasy

While those of us who cook wouldn't think twice about preparing a chicken or turkey meal at home, we'd probably be a bit more hesitant if we were asked to consider preparing duck. We're guessing the hesitation could have something to do with the fact that ducks are just so greasy.

Andrea Beck

You've Been Storing Muffins Wrong This Whole Time

If you normally just toss your fresh-baked muffins in a plastic bag, or leave them in a container on your counter, they might dry out or go stale quicker than you can finish them. But no matter what kind of muffins you make, if you store them the right way, they'll last a little longer.

Erich Barganier

The Vintage Brandy Cocktail That Needs To Make A Comeback

Hundreds of these concoctions exist, but only a handful deserve to get revived and added back to their former place of honor. Enter one of the most delicious vintage cocktails that deserves its comeback — the Brandy Alexander.

Erich Barganier

Chicken Wings Are More Nutritious Than You Thought

Chicken wings can make pretty much any occasion feel right. Fortunately, it turns out that chicken wings are more nutritious than you thought!!!

Maria Scinto

The Surprising Recipes In Cheetos New Cookbook

Are you a fan of both junk food and fancy chef-created cuisine? Well in that case, Cheetos has got something you're definitely going to love. Just in time for the holidays, too. Yes, it's here at last! The soon-to-be-bestselling Bon Appe-Cheetos: A Holiday Cookbook by Chester and Friends.

Pauli Poisuo

How To Get Red Wine Stains Out Of Clothing

As many people have found to their misfortune, it can be incredibly easy to spill red wine all over your favorite clothes. Fear not, though: Here's how to get red wine stains out of clothing.

Sophie Putka

Don't Make These Common Blender Mistakes

While using a blender might seem like a common-sense task, there are actually a few blender mistakes you might be making that can keep you off track. Common blender mistakes include overfilling the blender, adding ingredients in the wrong order, and washing it improperly.

slice of chocolate cake on a plate with the rest of the chocolate cake in the background

Robin Miller

The Real Reason You Should Never Double A Baking Recipe

If you want to make a large quantity of a cake, cookie, or other baked good, you might be tempted to simply double the recipe. However, because baking is chemistry, there is a real reason you should never simply double a baking recipe for a larger portion.

Andrea Beck

This Is The Safest Way To Cut Squash

There are some things you can do to make the process of cutting a squash safer. Here's an easy tip for cutting squash.

Maria Scinto

The Underrated Holiday Mocktails You Should Be Drinking

If you're sober or looking to cut back on drinking this holiday season, you don't have to skip out on the holiday cheer. Here are three underrated holiday mocktails that you should be drinking at your holiday parties.

Pauli Poisuo

The Pioneer Woman's Genius Frozen Thanksgiving Dinner Roll Hack

Celebrity chef Ree Drummond, a.k.a. The Pioneer Woman has a neat Thanksgiving dinner roll hack that will make everyone at the table give thanks to the chef. The Pioneer Woman uses frozen Thanksgiving rolls and spruces them up for an easy fix.

Clara Olshansky

This Is The Best Type Of Meat To Use In Shabu-Shabu

Quick refresher — shabu-shabu is a Japanese take on hot pot with a kombu (dried kelp) and dashi (Japanese soup stock) base. While there are a variety of meats that you can use (pork, chicken, or lamb) there's just one that you'll find at high-end Japanese restaurants: beef.

Molly Harris

The Real Difference Between Challah And Brioche

You may have seen challah and brioche breads mentioned together in recipes. Those who have tried both might have noticed that they taste remarkably similar.