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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
Watermelon Salad with Arugula & Cucumbers
When so many potlucks feature rich, hearty foods, it’s good practice to work a healthful green salad into the lineup. Take a summery approach by pairing arugula, which is aromatic and a bit bitter on its own, with juicy, refreshing watermelon. It brings a light, sweet note to each bite.
Complete the salad with cucumber slices, feta cheese, and some balsamic vinegar. There’s really no need to leave bottles of ran…
Pineapple & Grapefruit Salad
All good meals benefit from a little contrast. For something a little different, try this honey-sweetened pineapple-grapefruit salad. A little sweet, tart, and bitter, this winter fruit salad is the perfect foil for any rich entrée on any holiday brunch menu.
Rhubarb-Raspberry Brown Betty
A layered fruit dessert is hard to beat, especially when it’s as exceptional (and as easy) as this Rhubarb-Raspberry Brown Betty. Similar to a cobbler or a crisp, a brown betty is a baked fruit dessert that’s blanketed with buttered bread crumbs. In this betty, the crumbs are made with King’s Hawaiian rolls. This simple and delicious dessert of fruit, sugar, butter, and sweet bread crumbs is the perfect finale to any festive holiday meal.
Late Winter Fruit Salad
At a time of year known for the over-abundance of rich foods, fruit salad is often a refreshing sight. Many fruits taste best in the winter months, so let them shine in this the Late Winter Fruit Salad.
Pear-Cranberry-Vanilla Pie
There’s no telling how many slices of apple pie are eaten every November and December. Change things up a bit (while still respecting tradition) with a pear-cranberry-vanilla fruit filling.
Apple pie gets all the glory in the realm of fruit pies, but pears really shine here. And cranberries break out of their predictable position as a side dish.
There’s no need to precook the fruit — just toss the ripest Bartlett or Anjou pears you can find with the other ingredients, and you’…
Strawberry Ice Cream
Take ordinary strawberry ice cream up a notch by roasting fresh strawberries, to intensify their flavor, then blend them into a sweet custard ice cream base.
Blueberry Bars
Blissful blueberries make their way into a blue ribbon bar with a shortbread crust and lemony glaze. The best part about these bars (besides indulging in them) is that they’re pretty straightforward. The shortbread-like crust comes together quickly in a food processor and the filling is just a matter of stirring together the ingredients. While these blueberry bars may not exactly be health food, you can at least give yourself a little credit for eating this antioxidant rich berry, right?
Cherry-Chocolate Oatmeal Cookie Sandwiches
When you sandwich creamy vanilla ice cream between two chewy, cinnamon-enhanced oatmeal cookies that are studded with sweet cherries and chocolate chips, the stuff dreams are made of come to life. So put these Cherry-Chocolate Oatmeal Cookie Sandwiches at the top of your to-do list.
Pineapple Upside-Down Carrot Cake
Besides being a dessert that both carrot and pineapple upside-down cake-lovers can rejoice in, this cake is easy to make. And there’s a bonus — you don’t even need to own cake pans! Your versatile cast-iron skillet will do the job.
Apple Clafouti "Pie"
Traditionally, this rustic French dessert is all about cherries, but switch things up and make apples the star, with a few dried cherries as a nod to the classic.
Blueberry-Coconut Cream Slab Pie
Put sweet fresh blueberries to good use in this creamy, supersized slab pie. Layered with silky coconut cream, fresh blueberries, and flaky crust, this slab pie is perfect for summer parties and get-togethers.
Blackberry Cobbler
Fresh blackberries make the best filling, especially since they're in peak season when you'll most want this fruity cobbler. But frozen berries are an option, too.