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30 Make-Ahead Thanksgiving Recipes to Save Time & Stress This Season

This article was updated in August 2023 to include more of our favorite recipes. There are some dishes that have be made on Thanksgiving day. Turkey cannot be roasted—or deep fried—ahead of time, mashed potatoes will not stay fluffy, and Pot-Stuck Brussels Sprouts will not remain crisp. Read More >> …

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The Unexpected Ingredient That Ties Together This Summer Dinner Menu

We’ve teamed up with Marzetti to share a few of our favorite ways to transform warm-weather dishes using their new line of tasty, preservative-free, Simply dressings and marinades. From creamy Avocado Green Goddess Dressing & Sauce to zingy Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing & Marinade, they’ve got the basic building blocks for a quintessential summer meal. Summertime at the farmers’ market is my mecca, as it is for many avid cooks. As I approach the market’s white tents, the fragrant scent of basil and mint washes over me like a warm breeze. Then, the rainbow of colorful produce comes into sight, and my heart swells with excitement, joy, and—I’ll admit it—complete and utter panic. What should I cook?! I immediately start planning menus in my head as I grab tomatoes, squash, lettuces, and all of the herbs. And then I shlep my market haul home, get it into my fridge, and promptly forget all the menu plans…

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Passover Seder for $25? Totally Possible.

Nickel & Dine is a budget column by Rebecca Firkser, assigning editor at Food52. Rebecca usually shares an easy, flavor-packed recipe that feeds four for $10 or less—this is a special edition: a $25 Passover for six to eight. Passover seder is a festive meal. Guests are encouraged to recline at the table, and drink many glasses of wine while enjoying multiple dishes throughout the evening (literally, there’s a prayer book that tells us to do all these things). My childhood memories of the holiday are around a dining room table—specifically, several of my dad’s cousins’ tables, pushed together in the middle of their New Jersey living room. And as I grew up, I found myself wanting to host my own seder. I wanted to bring together a gaggle of loved ones over those pushed-together tables and a very delicious meal. Read More >> …

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24 Molasses Recipes, From Expected Classics to Sweet Surprises

Molasses is an ingredient that keeps on giving. No matter how carefully you think you’ve scraped out the jar, try turning it upright and returning a day later—you’ll see yet another 1/4 cup has accumulated. It’s endless breadsticks, molasses-edition. Here, we’re embracing it in two dozen different recipes. Most of these recipes satisfy one’s sweet tooth in the form of cakey sandwich cookies, Bundt cakes, and bars, but the holidays are all about giving, so we’re also delivering a few savory recipes that may catch you by surprise.
1. Ginger Spiced Dark Molasses Sugar Cookies
“These cookies are spicy, sweet and rich with molasses. Take care not to overbake the cookie and you will have a chewy center that will melt in your mouth. For added spice and bite, add diced candied ginger to the batter,” writes recipe developer TasteFood. Read More >> …

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How to Cook Thanksgiving for a Smaller-than-Usual Crew (or Just You)

I’ll spare you the bit about Thanksgiving looking a bit different this year. You know it, I know it. I’ll be celebrating (is that even the word?) from Europe and Zooming in to my family’s table in Texas. And while it may seem tough to sit around and cosplay normalcy,, that doesn’t mean Thanksgiving need not exist. It, just like so many other things in 2020, can look, well, different. Didn’t I say I wasn’t going to go there? Perhaps we’ll be eating with different people than usual, or a different number of people. Perhaps we’ll sit at a table that’s not our own, or the same table we’ve been sitting at for nine months now. Perhaps we’ll eat a turkey with gravy, stuffing and all the steadfast fixings, or maybe we’ll throw convention out the window and eat a bowl of cereal because it’s 2020 and why the hell not. Read More >> …

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21 Steak Dinner Ideas for Date Night & Beyond

Cooking steak is easily one of the fastest ways to get dinner on the table—15 minutes tops, in many cases. Whether you’re a fan of skirt steaks, filet mignon, or chicken-fried steak, and serving with balsamic vinegar, greens beans, blue cheese, or in a steak sandwich, a perfectly cooked steak can be a thing of wonder. But there’s no need to reserve it for special occasions. Pull out these perfect steak dinner ideas for date nights, weeknights, and more.
Before there were scented foams, supplementary truffle fees, and marathon tasting menus, there was the steakhouse. There were dark upholstered leather booths and waiters in tuxes, tiny lamps perched atop white linen tablecloths and old-school crème brûlée for dessert. There was Don Draper. Read More >> …

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17 Recipes to Use Up Your Leftover Heavy Cream

Picture this: It’s the day after Thanksgiving, and your fridge is just filled to the brim. And, tucked away behind stacks of Thanksgiving leftovers, there are at least three half-empty cartons of heavy cream you threw in haphazardly amidst the dinner storm. Now, imagine that you face the remnants and their looming expiration dates, yet you have no desire to eat another dollop of whipped cream. The best news? You don’t have put that cream to waste—instead, you can make one of the 17 delicious recipes that follow. Heck, you might even start buying cream just so you can make them all, year-round!
1. Caramelized Cream Eggs from Ideas in Food
The easiest, most rewarding thing to do with cream (should we just end this list early?)? Fry eggs—or pork chops, carrots, onions, anything, really—in it. As the liquid cooks down in a skillet, it separates out into a layer of butterfat and buttermilk, steaming the eggs and…

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What Dorie Greenspan Serves for Thanksgiving (& How You Can Copy Her!)

It’s no secret that around these parts, we adore Dorie Greenspan, the award-winning author of 13 cookbooks including her most recent, Everyday Dorie. We’ve been over to her apartment for dinner. We’ve begged her to show us how she ties her signature neck scarf. And now, she’s graciously provided her Thanksgiving menu so that we can replicate it. According to our Automagic Menu Maker, she’ll be serving some traditional Thanksgiving fare (think, corn pudding, gravy, cran sauce) mixed with a handful of updates on the classics: turkey en papillote, mashed sweet potatoes with chipotles. Oh, and there’s chocolate, of course! Read More >> …

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