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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

Splash-Free Cherry Pitting

When pitting cherries with a handheld pitter, the juice usually splatters everywhere— especially on your apron and clothes, potentially staining them. Here's a less-mess way to pit cherries.

How to Roast Cherry Tomatoes

Grape tomatoes are expensive, so if they’re a little past their prime (a bit wrinkled), don’t throw them away — roast them. Here's an easy way to do it.

How to Cut a Pineapple

Pineapple is one of the more difficult fruits to cut, because it's large, has a spiky skin and those prickly "eyes" inside the fruit once you've cut it. Here’s a way to peel pineapple with as little waste as possible and get the added bonus of decorative slices.

How to Keep Berries from Sinking in Muffins

Banish those heavy-bottomed, soggy blueberry muffins for good with this simple trick to keep berries from sinking in muffins.

An Easy Way to Test Avocados for Ripeness

Ever cut into an avocado that felt ripe to the touch, only to discover that it wasn’t? Here’s an easy way to test your avocado for ripeness without cutting up the fruit.

How to Freeze Bananas—For Smoothies & Baking

Don't toss those overripe bananas! Throw them in the freezer instead so you always have ripe bananas on hand for baking or smoothies. Use this simple tip for a less-mess, faster way to freeze and thaw bananas.

How to Juice Key Limes

Use this helpful tip for how to juice key limes next time you plan to make a pie! Key limes are smaller in size and firmer than regular limes, making them harder to juice, but not any longer with this helpful kitchen tip.

Hulling Strawberries

How to Prevent Apples From Browning

Prevent cut apples from turning brown with this simple tip.

Healthy Popsicles

With this simple tip, have healthy treats on hand at all times for when your sweet tooth hits!

How to Make Candied Cranberries

Candied cranberries make a festive garnish to holiday dishes this time of year. Best of all, it's simple to do!

How To Seed Squash

Seeding squash can be a messy task. Not anymore with this quick tip that uses a unique kitchen tool.


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

Strawberry-Poppy Seed Cookies

These Strawberry-Poppy Seed Cookies are literally bursting with fresh strawberries. And with the delicate crunch from poppy seeds and sparkling sugar, these cookies are an all-around hit.

Mint Julep Fruit Salad

To cut the richness of a casserole, like in our individual Hot Brown Casseroles, serve an adaptation of another Louisville classic, a mint julep-flavored fruit salad.

Strawberry-Frangipane Tart

Celebrate strawberries when they’re at their best with a tart that’s not only mouthwatering, but a visual stunner as well.

Plump and juicy, ripe fresh strawberries are delicious on their own, but sometimes you want to showcase them. Do so in this tart with two strawberry toppings. All you need to get started is a food processor.

First, process the dough to form the cookie-like crust. If it breaks when pressing it into the pan, just patch it back together. Next, fill the tart sh…

Riesling Fruit Salad

Fruit salad is a brunch staple, and the fruit in this one, marinated in a sweet and spicy syrup made from the famous German wine Riesling, is impressive. Reduce the wine with cinnamon, citrus zests, and sugar to intensify its flavor.

Coconut Banana Pudding

Simple, comforting, and timeless, there is no better finish to any meal than a few bites of this classic Southern dessert.

Sweet, creamy, and full of contrasting textures, banana pudding is an all-occasion dessert. It’s classy enough for a sit-down dinner yet casual enough for cookouts (and that’s exactly where you’ll find large bowls of it in the southern United States).

While the actual pudding in classic banana pudding isn’t banana-flavored at all (vanilla pudding with fresh…

French Apple-Custard Pie

Apple pie doesn't get much more iconic, and hard to imagine it could get any better. But it can, with this French Apple-Custard Pie. Sautéed apples, creamy vanilla custard, and crunchy almond streusel come together to create the ultimate autumnal pie - perfect when you want to celebrate a holiday with a familiar, yet elegant dessert.

Cranberry BBQ Sauce

Serve up a tangy-sweet cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving dinner, but do so in an unexpected way — as a barbecue sauce mopped over the turkey and served on the side.

Skillet Apple Pie

Satisfy your apple pie cravings with this quick and easy Skillet Apple Pie. Using your favorite purchased pie dough and a quick sauté of apples, this pie will be on your table and done in under an hour. And, check out this quick tip on preventing cut apples from browning.

Baked Apples with oatmeal-walnut streusel

Like free-standing apple crisps, these babies are filled with a warm-spiced oatmeal streusel, then baked to perfection. You’ll be glad each is meant to be an individual serving, since you won’t want to share.

Edamame Salad with Fresh Blueberries

Health-conscious party-goers will truly appreciate this salad of edamame and blueberries — two big-time superfoods. And with pecorino cheese and a blueberry vinaigrette in the mix, everyone else will agree it’s a pretty tasty side dish, as well.

What you’ll love most, though, is how convenient the recipe is. Only a fraction of the required time is hands-on. And the tossed ingredients will look and taste just fine even if you have to travel to the gathering.

Pear Crisp with Caramel Sauce

With tender fruit and crunchy streusel, you probably recognize this dessert as a variation on apple crisp. Exceed all expectations by using pears instead!

Cherry Thumbprint Cookies

These cherry cookies are truly one of a kind. Made with homemade maraschino cherries and a dough lightly flavored with almond, these gem-like cookies are true winners.