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Entries from the ‘Cooking Tips’ Category

How to Tell if Your Baking Powder is Still Good

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Less-than-fresh baking powder can be the difference between the Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies and hockey pucks. Baking powder is a leavener—it produces carbon dioxide bubbles that help dough …

Quick Tips for Slow Cooking

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Isn't technology wonderful? We love knowing that we can throw ingredients into our slow cooker, then disappear for four hours only to find dinner completely made when we …

Kitchen Cam: A Quick Tip for Shredding Mozzarella

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Let's talk cheese-grating: Have you ever ended up with a falling-apart piece of fresh mozzarella instead of a perfect pile of shredded cheese? It was a common complaint …

cuppow: a sippy-cup for grown-ups

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You already know that we're deeply in love with making our own cold brew here at Everyday Food. Some crazy people, like yours truly, even make theirs with decaf …

Pressure Cooker Giveaway (Update)

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Want to get dinner on the table in a third of the time and with minimal cleanup? Take a look at the pressure cooker story in our September …

Fast-Forward, The Art of Prepping Ahead: Spinach Manicotti in Creamy Tomato Sauce

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Learn to break a long recipe into smaller pieces and do advance prep—dinner will be on the table in a snap!…

WTF? What's That Food? It's Okra! (and how to cook it so it's slime-free)

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What is this food? It's okra!…

3 secrets to making your own ice cream sandwiches

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In my personal hierarchy of frozen treats, fudge pops beat fruit pops, and fruit pops beat Italian ices. But nothing, and I mean nothing, beats ice cream sandwiches! …