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All About Peaches
Sweet, juicy, eat-’em-over-the-sink peaches — they’re nature’s reward for enduring the summer’s heat. And they’re worth the wait! Here are the peachy facts on the ultimate summer fruit, including how to choose and store peaches, and some delicious recipes to use them up.
How to Eat Garden to Table
Eat fresh from your own backyard! The words “garden fresh” appear on food labels and menus for a reason: There’s nothing more appealing than the idea that the produce you eat (and feed your family) was just picked from your garden. Here's how to put your (or someone else's) garden to good use in the kitchen.
The 10 Best Apples for Baking
Don't leave your apple selection to chance for your next baking adventure. Here are the 10 best apples for baking, sure to hold up to the heat of your oven.
Tips
How to Roast Poblanos
If you're looking to get that smoky flavor of roasted peppers, check out this quick-and-easy tip on how to roast poblanos.
The Easiest Way to Seed Hot Chiles
Stop the burn and save your fingers with this simple kitchen tip for seeding and cleaning out hot chile peppers.
How to Clean Seeds from a Pumpkin
Clean out a small cooking pumpkin or winter squash efficiently and safely with this common kitchen item.
How to Core & Seed Bell Peppers
It can be tricky to clean out bell peppers without feeling wasteful. Here's how to do it easily, and avoid losing much pepper flesh.
How to Pit and Cut an Avocado
With our new Mexican book in hand; perfect seeding, peeling, cutting, and ripening avocados with these quick tips.
How to Store Fresh Peaches
Make the most of peaches while they are at their peak in the season with these tips on how to ripen and store them.
How to Remove Silk From Corn
With sweet corn season in full bloom, save time shucking with these simple-to-do tips that uses things already in your house or kitchen.
The Easiest Way to Cut a Melon
If fresh melon is a mainstay for your warm-weather eating, here's a great way to simplify cutting them.
How to Properly Store Blackberries
Improper storage of berries can cause waste, these simple tips will keep your blackberries fresher longer.
Steamed Corn On the Grill
Utilize the grill while it's hot and cook up a tender ear of corn without charring the sweet yellow kernels.
Remove Pin Bones from Fish With Your Huller
That strawberry huller that's been sitting in the drawer far too long now has another use. Check out how else to use it!
How to Store Fresh Pineapple
Can't seem to eat pineapple fast enough? Waste no more and keep your pineapple fresh with this simple tip for storing fresh pineapple.
How-To's
Learn All About Indirect Grilling
What is indirect grilling? It's bascially a technique that turns your grill into an outdoor oven so you can cook big items, like whole chickens, pork loins, pizzas, etc. So the next time you fire up the grill, follow these four simple steps, and take the indirect route to perfectly cooked meats, vegetables, and more.
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Recipes
Seven-Layer Cranberry Ambrosia
Our Seven-Layer Cranberry Ambrosia recipe is 7 layers of fun texture and exploding flavor. Don't for get the coconut and nuts over top the ambrosia for added crunch.
Banana Split Brownies
Craving a banana split, but want to avoid the melty mess they can turn into on a hot day? These brownies are sure to be your flavor fix — on the neat.
Corn & Berry Upside-Down Cake
Sink your teeth into this cake that features some of summer's sweetest produce. This upside-down cake, with puréed corn, is baked with three types of berries for a match made in dessert heaven.
Bananas Foster Shortcake Topping
To serve the shortcakes with this alternate topping, make them as detailed in the Bananas Foster Shortcakes recipe, but omit the chocolate chunks. Instead of the strawberries, whipped cream, and chocolate sauce, whip up this liqueur-spiked option, full of bananas and sweet-tart pineapple.
Cherry-Almond Turnover Cookies
‘Tis the season to bake, eat, and share your favorite cookies. If you love rich, buttery bites, these delicate delights will melt in your mouth — let the baking begin!
Sour Cream Apple Pie
Sour Cream-Apple Pie will break even the strongest willpower. And once you taste this creamy, sweet-spiced indulgence it’s sure to become part of your tradition.
Stove-Top Apple Crisp
This tart but sweet Stove-Top Apple Crisp makes for the perfect weeknight dessert. This apple crisp fits the bill — everything is done on the stove top, in just one pan, and with less than 20 minutes' worth of work.
Mini Blueberry Pies
Your guests will never suspect how easy these adorable mini blueberry pies are to make! The pie shells and blueberry filling can be made ahead. Spoon filling into shells just before serving to keep the shells nice and crisp.
Bananas Foster Shortcake
Be sure to check out this week's Test Kitchen tip for shortcake secrets.
Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Shortcake
When you can't decide between strawberry shortcake, or a chocolate dessert, look to this Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Shortcake. Shortcakes loaded with chocolate chunks, then topped with syrupy strawberries, rich chocolate sauce, and fluffy whipped cream are sure to fulfill both your cravings.
Rhubarb-Apple Crisp
If your cure for spring fever is that first bedazzling bite of rhubarb, here’s a gem you’ll love: a throw-together crisp that’s as elegant and spectacular as it is casual and tasty. The beehive of phyllo only looks like a lot of work. In reality, it might be the easiest phyllo dessert you’ll make.
Chocolate Cherry Brownies
Fudgy, chocolate brownies just got better with the addition of port-soaked cherries. And the best part — they’re bite-sized, which means not only are they cute, but you can enjoy a sweet little treat without going overboard (unless you want to!).