35 Clever Food Hacks That Will Change Your Life
1. Remove avocado stems to gauge its ripeness. 4. Cup bacon and eggs together for convenient breakfast bites. If you love bacon and eggs for breakfast, try out this little hack for bite-size portions. 5.
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From the molten yolk and bacon crunch of a hand-held breakfast, to the gooey charm of grilled cheese for lunch, nothing matches the simple pleasures of well-made sandwiches. They're quick to assemble, infinitely adaptable, easy to eat, and immediately satisfying—the very definition of good food. The 25 sandwiches you're about to meet can be thrown together during the average basketball halftime or, with practice, during the seventh-inning stretch. (Who needs hot dogs, anyway?) Use each recipe as a basic road map, but bring your talent for finding creative routes.
50 Things to Grill in Foil
How to make a foil packet: 1. Lay a large sheet of heavy-duty foil or a double layer of regular foil on a flat surface. (Use nonstick foil where noted.)
Healthy Frosting
Frosting is often laden with butter and refined sugar, but these elements are not necessary for a rich, decorative cake topping. Nutritious ingredients such as nut butter, yogurt and tofu add creaminess without the help of butter, while natural sweeteners like honey can replace refined sugar. Putting together a few of these common ingredients, you can make a healthy – even vegan – frosting to enhance any cake. It only takes three ingredients and a few minutes to whip up a delectable frosting with nut butter. Use smooth, natural peanut, almond or cashew butter for this recipe.
Cold-Brewed Iced Coffee
Update 4/2014: Be sure to check out my new, improved cold-brewed iced coffee tutorial with step-by-step instructions and lessons learned since first posting about cold-brewed iced coffee. I started making my iced coffee this way a couple of years ago, thanks to this New York Times recipe that convinced me to do so. You add coffee grounds to cold water and let it sit at room temperature for several hours. Then you strain it through a coffee filter, and the result is a deep, rich, dark, and caffeine-packed glass of iced coffee. It’s a concentrate, so you’ll want to dilute it with water unless you’re in need of a serious buzz. And trust me – this stuff can pack a serious wallop.
11 Brilliant Egg Hacks That Will Change Your Mornings Forever
When eggs are a part of every morning, the whole crack-and-scramble routine starts to feel, um, eggceptionally boring. Meanwhile, the perfect poach starts to seem too elusive, too confusing and altogether too much work. It's time to get your egg hack on. These brilliant tricks make perfect poached eggs, delicious one-minute egg bakes, and omelets with waffle-iron cracks so deep, they could absorb just about any amount of Sriracha. Prepare yourself for an eggcellent morning. 1.
How to use herbs and spices in cooking!
Most herbs can be found dried or fresh and can be used either way with ease. Herbs are considered ro be the leaves and greener parts of the plant - the seeds, bark, roots, etc. are normally considered a spice. Some plants are both. :) Fresh herbs are great for garnishes and they provide bold flavor. They have great aromatic qualities and work very well for roasting and sauteing, or for chopping and mixing into foods such as mashed potatoes. Yum!
Web’s Tastiest: Pancakes Recipes
Everyone knows that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. So of course you want to get off to a good, healthy start. However, anyone with kids knows that some mornings are just too special to worry about a properly balanced meal. Spending time in the kitchen as a family, whipping up something absolutely decadent and definitely too sweet, is the stuff that memories are made of.
Healthy Indulgences: Healthy Chocolate Cake with a Secret
Cakes and Cupcakes, Chocolate, Dairy-Free, Fast n' Easy, Frosting, Grain-Free, Low Carbohydrate, Nut-Free, Sugar-Free Cake. Chocolate cake! Chocolate cake made without flour, sugar, or dairy.
Cauliflower Crust Pizza & Stick a Fork in It
I came across this cauliflower crust pizza on Pinterest, and was instantly intrigued. A low-carb pizza? Sign me up! I was skeptical, of course, but curious enough to try it and see how it tasted. I was pleasantly surprised by the results. Now obviously, it is not quite the same as a traditional piece of pizza with soft, chewy crust, but it’s a great substitute when you’re watching your carb intake.
New way to cook rice slashes calories, say scientists
Imagine eating that same bowl of warm, fluffy rice you had for lunch, but only absorbing half of its calories. It may sound like a Hong Kong dieter's dream, but scientists are close to making it reality, simply by changing the way rice is cooked. First, add a teaspoon of coconut oil to boiling water. Then, add half a cup of rice. Simmer for 40 minutes, then refrigerate the cooked rice for 12 hours. Reheat and dig in.
The Men's Health Barbecue Guide
The right slather should taste rich, savory, and complex, not like smoky candy. This recipe, from Callaghan and Stage, is so good you'll never hit the bottle again. What You'll Need: 2 Tbsp vegetable oil 1/2 cup minced onion 1/4 cup minced green pepper 1/2 jalapeno pepper, seeded and minced 1 Tbsp minced garlic Pinch kosher salt 1 can (15 oz) tomato sauce 1 cup ketchup 1/2 cup honey 1/2 cup water 6 Tbsp dark brown sugar 6 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce 1/4 cup apple-cider vinegar 2 Tbsp lemon juice 2 Tbsp molasses 2 Tbsp sambal chili sauce 2 Tbsp cayenne-pepper sauce, such as Frank's Red Hot 2 Tbsp spicy brown mustard 1/2 Tbsp chili powder 1 tsp coarsely ground black pepper 1/4 tsp ground allspice 1/2 Tbsp liquid smoke (optional) How to Make It: Heat the oil in a large saucepan, and add the onion, green pepper, jalapeno, and garlic, cooking them until soft, about 10 minutes.
The Wanna be Country Girl
This hash-brown casserole is the perfect side dish. I served it last night with my chicken pot pie to a crowd. It’s cheesy comfort food at its best. The parmesan gives it a tangy flavor, and best of all it’s really easy to fix.
Deep Dish Fruit Pizza
My sister-in-law Missy first introduced me to the concept of fruit pizza years and years ago, and here’s how: she brought one to my house and I proceeded to eat the whole thing. But it was small. And I was nursing. My mammary glands made me do it. I whipped up a whopper of a fruit pizza a couple of weeks ago using my good ol’ standby sugar cookie recipe…and it was so darn good in such a naughty, naughty way.
