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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 Safely Slice Chiles
Avoid getting potent spice from chiles on your fingers while chopping with this simple kitchen hack.
An Easy Hack for Thawing Meat
Find yourself in a pinch with frozen meat and dinner closing in? Use this tip to speed up thawing time!
How to Freeze Zucchini
Zucchini seem endless in the summer, but come winter they're pretty sparse. Follow this tip for zucchini all year long.
How to Store Fresh Berries to Preserve Freshness
Keep summer sweet and extend the life of your fresh berries all summer long with these easy-to-do storage tips.
No Citrus Zester? Use Your Knife Instead!
Need zest for a recipe, but don't have a zester? No problem, use another kitchen tool to get the job done!
A Simple Hack to Remove and Drain Capers
Brined capers are a pain to remove and measure—the jar opening is just too narrow for a spoon to fit inside. Get capers out of the jar without dumping out all of their brining liquid with this simple trick!
How to Remove Seeds From a Melon
Save time, mess and waste in the kitchen with a gadget that's much more versatile than its name implies.
How to Freeze Fresh Lemon Juice & Slices to Reduce Waste
Save time and hassle by using this quick tip for storing freshly squeezed lemon juice and fresh-cut lemon slices.
How to Make Perfect Grapefruit Segments (Suprêmes)
Learn how to segment, or suprême, your citrus fruit like a pro for stunning and impressive presentation.
How to Cut a Pineapple with Minimal Waste
Stop throwing away precious fresh pineapple with this helpful tip that that cuts down on waste.
An Easy Way to Get Tomato Paste Out of Can
Getting all of the tomato paste out of the can proves to be tricky, well not anymore with this slick trick!
How to Quickly Peel a Mango
This quick, simple-to-do, tip demystifies and makes easy work of preparing fresh mango for any kind of recipe.
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
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.
Watermelon Agua Fresca
A few sips of agua fresca [AH-gwah FREHS-kuh] — a mix of fresh fruit juice, water, and citrus — and you’ll be refreshed. In-season watermelon is great for this beverage without being cloying — adjust the amount of sugar based on the fruit’s sweetness.
Homemade Maraschino Cherries
Making homemade Maraschino cherries is easy, but for best results, be sure to seek out Luxardo cherry liqueur. There are imitators, but stick with the experts. Briefly marinating overnight is technically all these cherries need to be ready for use, but their flavor really benefits from sitting 3–5 days.
Peach Pocket Pies
Before you start your siesta or repack your picnic basket, enjoy these make-ahead Peach Pocket Pies. Not only do they travel well, they’re also easy to make. It works best to use a slotted spoon to arrange the fruit on the dough, so the juices don’t weep around the edges before sealing them. Any way you slice it, they’re certain to be a delightful dessert to your feast.
Tres Leches Cake with Summer Fruit
This cake isn’t like any other you’ve had. Drenched with three kinds of milk, it’s so moist it’s almost juicy!
Between the refreshingly moist cake and its fruit topping, this tres leches [trehs LEH-ches] cake, or Latin American “three milks” cake, is ideal for a special event on a hot day.
The cake part is known as génoise [zhayn-WAHZ], which by itself is spongy, eggy, and bland. But after soaking in a syrup of three milks (and a little rum if you feel so inclined), it morphs …
Black & Blueberry Pie
There are pies to suit each season, and this one — filled with “black and blue” berries — is all summer.
If there’s a special place in your heart for made-from-scratch, fruit-filled pies, you’ve found your next endeavor. Assertive, tangy blackberries liven up subtly sweet blueberries pitch-perfectly. The key is to very lightly mash some of the berries with sugar to create a liquidy base before adding the thickening agent. Then give the silky syrup more body and texture by folding in w…