In an exclusive interview with Mashed, Michelin Chef Daniel Kleinhandler explained the biggest mistakes a novice baker should avoid to pull a perfect chocolate soufflé out of the oven." It turns out it's really not as hard as it looks.
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While drink mixes can have ingredients you might not want in your lemonade, stirring up a pitcher yourself means you can control exactly what goes into it.
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While we'd never get caught dead without garlic, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing, and the last thing we'd want to do is to buy garlic only to waste it because we haven't used it before it went bad. how can you tell when this has happened?
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Thinking about grilling pork chops? You may want to think again. It turns out if you're grilling, you might be drying out your chop and depriving yourself of that perfect golden crust you get on a well-cooked pork chop.
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Artichokes can be a daunting vegetable, with their prickly spikes and their rules about which parts you can eat and which parts you can't. No need to be intimidated though. As long as you know what you're doing, they're pretty easy to prepare.
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We've all been there: You buy some unripe avocados thinking you won't be using them for a couple of days, only to find they are still hard when you are ready to make your meal that required them. Plenty of hacks in the social media-verse help you find a trick to get these babies to ripen quickly.
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When you think about pizza ingredients, particularly unexpected ones, you're probably picturing some kind of topping. This secret ingredient hack, however, is something you can add to your homemade pizza crust to boost nutrition.
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In the endless amount of time that it takes you to individually peel all the hardboiled eggs you need for your egg salad sandwich, you could watch the entire Lord of the Rings series. But there's a hack that allows you to prepare your egg salad eggs in just five minutes.
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Pumpkin spice officially hit the menu earlier than ever on August 25th, and the latest creation is taking advantage of your favorite seasonal flavor. The new drink you have to try is a chocolate pumpkin creme Frappuccino.
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Everyone knows Kevin Bacon — six degrees and all. But, no matter how well you think you know the actor, chances are you didn't know a mango is part of his morning routine. Recently, Bacon posted a video to his Instagram account, and there's a lot for fans to love about it.
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Thankfully for honey nut fans, the geniuses over at Totally the Bomb! are giving you a whole new way to enjoy a mashup of the two breakfast staples. Yep — the latest Starbucks secret menu item is a Honey Nut Cheerios Frappuccino.
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But cutting into a jalapeño is another story entirely. Slicing open your favorite, hot pepper is an art, and it's on you to master it. Anyone who has cut into a jalapeño only for its seeds to explode all over your kitchen counter knows what we mean.
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There's a trick that Jamie Oliver tweeted about while preparing prawn and tuna linguine with the celebrity Italian cook, Nonna (i.e. "grandma") Rosanna.
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Humphrey Bogart famously quipped, "A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz." How do you get a perfectly grilled hot dog that makes you want to hum the refrain of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" as you eat it?
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Chicken is one of those foods that can take on tons of different flavors, making it super versatile for home cooks. A roast chicken is hard to beat, but there is one well-qualified contender that might just come out on top: beer can chicken.
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Rice is something of a universally satisfying dish because it's so versatile. You can add tons of different ingredients to make it more flavorful like herbs, vegetables, or even different sauces, and you'll create an incredibly comforting and delicious meal or side.
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To save you from humiliation, we've compiled a list of fatal mistakes to avoid the next time you find yourself making mac and cheese.
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Roasting marshmallows is a summertime rite of passage. But if your marshmallow roasting skills aren't up to par, you may be in for a scorched, sloppy mess rather than a sublime, oozy treat. Sticking your marshmallow directly into or over the flame is the wrong way to do things.
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Are you shelling peanuts the right way? Or are you spending valuable time and finger muscle effort twisting, shattering, and otherwise butchering the peanut shelling process? Following this advice, you can shell your peanuts with minimal effort.
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Rum is one type of spirit that was seemingly made for cocktails. It mixes with just about everything in the bar. One pairing you won't find often, however, is the mixture of rum and sherry. But Lynnette Marrero, bartender and mixologist with Zacapa Rum, wants to change that.
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Many people make cold brew by just leaving a pot of coffee out overnight to cool, but we're here to tell you there's a better, tastier method that doesn't involve a coffee maker at all! All it takes are a few items you likely already own and a bit of planning.
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Your wooden cutting board bears the crisscrossed scars of all the food you've cut. These cuts and scrapes you can heal. And then, one day, It's stained. But it's not irreversible. All you need is this clever hack to cut through the stain.
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Rancid wine tastes like the disappointment that you feel. But don't despair. When life gives you rancid, fermented grapes, make vinegar.
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What sane person can really say no to potatoes fried in butter? Boxty is a heavenly Irish dish that mixes mashed and grated potatoes bound with eggs and dairy.
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Soft serve is perfect for those days when you want to pamper your taste buds with something gentler than a hard, cold scoop of ice cream. In an interview with Mashed, chef Palak Patel explained a super easy to make your own soft serve in just five minutes.
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Before you burn another expensive steak or render your grilled chicken breasts inedible, you may want to get to know your grill a little better. Just like the oven in your kitchen, grills have hot spots that tend to cook food faster. Here's how to find them.
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Burnt pots and pans are part of the cooking experience - not a pleasant part, but an unavoidable one. Luckily, there are plenty of options for cleaning your pots and pans. Some of those methods rely on tems you probably already have in your home.
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