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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
A Mess-Free Way to Chop Canned Tomatoes
No need for knives and cutting boards. Check out this no muss, no fuss way to cut canned tomatoes in no time.
Clump-Free Frozen Vegetables
Here's a simple, fuss-free way to keep your frozen peas and other vegetables from becoming big icy clumps.
Simple Tip for Removing Zest from Citrus
Use this simple tip to remove the zest from lemons so you'll have fresh citrus zest of any size in no time.
How to Safely Use a Mandoline
Looking for an easy way to slice vegetables and get professional looking results? See how to cut slices of uniform thickness.
How to Supreme Citrus
Do you find supreming citrus to be a tricky endeavor? Follow this simple tip to have beautiful segments every time.
How to Cut Hard Winter Squash
Hard winter squashes can be a challenge to cut. Here's a quick way to slice through them like butter.
How to Preserve Citrus Zest by Freezing
Have a recipe that calls for citrus juice, but not the zest? Save it by using this tip, and you'll always have a supply on hand.
All About Coconut
Coconut appears in many forms in this slab pie. Here's the code to cracking what each product has to offer.
Spin Zucchini Dry With Your Salad Spinner
Zucchini makes a fresh addition to any late-summer dish. While it holds a lot of water, it couldn't be simpler to remove it.
Tip to Keep Guacamole Green
As soon as they're cut open, avocados start to brown. Here's how to delay the inevitable, at least for a little while.
A Quick & Easy Way to Slice Strawberries
Need to slice a large volume of strawberries in a short amount of time? This tip will have you done in a snap!
How to Make Tomato-Flavored Ice Cubes for Bloody Marys
Ditch the plain ole' ice cubes and cool down a classic brunch-time cocktail by freezing and tossing in something with more flavor.
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.