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Aldi Shoppers Are Disappointed Over A Hard-To-Find Fan Favorite defotoberg/Shutterstock By Aimee Lamoureux/June 24, 2022 8:56 am EST Aldi is popular for its wide selection of quick and easy-to-prepare frozen meals. Its frozen food aisle is filled with items for every meal of the day, from frozen berries and hashbrowns for breakfast to healthy quinoa bowls, veggie burgers, and even cheesecake for dessert (via She Knows). However, a few fan favorites seem to stand out above the rest....

Alton Brown’s Secret Ingredient To Give Lemonade A Major Upgrade Craig Barritt/Getty Images By Gina LaVecchia Ragone/May 30, 2022 12:23 pm EST Alton Brown is known for approaching the art of cooking with a scientific mind. Combining food science and experimentation with history, pop culture, and humor, the host of “Good Eats” has always captured his viewers’ imaginations and piqued their intellectual curiosity with his different and quirky take on cooking shows....

Anthony ‘Spice’ Adams Picks His Go-To Fast Food Order - Exclusive Dominik Bindl/Getty Images By Helena Nichols/July 19, 2022 8:19 am EST Who doesn’t enjoy grabbing a quick bite to eat at their favorite fast food place? For Anthony “Spice” Adams, it’s not so much about where the food is from so much as what it is. After years in the NFL, Spice has created a whole new fanbase with his comedic posts on Instagram and his role as a host of “The Great American Baking Show....

Chunky Potato Leek Soup Recipe Catherine Brookes/Mashed By Catherine Brookes AND Mashed Staff/March 14, 2022 10:06 am EST Are you familiar with the leek? They look like big fat green onions, but they taste more like very mild white onions. Leeks can be eaten on their own as a veggie side dish, and they’re also good in a stir fry. Where leeks really shine, however, is in soups such as the Scottish dish cock-a-leekie and the classic French vichyssoise that was Julia Child’s favorite....

Creamy Chicken Spaghetti Recipe Ting Dalton/Mashed By Ting Dalton AND Mashed Staff/July 21, 2022 2:55 pm EST If you’re looking for a hearty pasta dish that screams comfort food, we have the perfect recipe for you! This creamy chicken spaghetti comes complete with a big pile of spaghetti, a creamy sauce filled with different cheeses, tomatoes, and of course, chicken as your source of protein. If you’re a vegetarian, you can always omit the chicken from this dish and add more fresh veggies instead....

Foods You Can Forage In The Woods Instagram By David Lanzafame/May 3, 2022 12:42 pm EST Even in the age of supermarkets and Doordash, there’s still an undeniable appeal to foraging wild food. In terms of popularity, foraging appeals to nature lovers, conservationists, health enthusiasts, and the gastronomically adventurous. Today there are even restaurants where the menu is sourced from locally foraged ingredients. Learning how to forage in the wild is not only a fun outdoor experience but also helps develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of the local land....

Ghee Vs. Butter: Which Is Healthier? Shutterstock By Khyati Dand/Updated: June 27, 2022 11:35 am EST Can you even fathom a world without butter? Whether you use it to cook or bake savory foods, desserts, and pastries, or reach for it when sautéing, grilling, or frying, butter makes everything better. So much so that butter is considered to be superior to olive oil, says HuffPost. After all, you wouldn’t put olive oil on toast for breakfast now, would you?...

Here’s Where To Get Le Creuset’s Limited-Time Matte Sugar Pink Cookware Facebook By Karen Hart/May 18, 2022 4:41 pm EST Pink is in, and we aren’t talking about the Canadian TV comedy (via The Hamilton Spectator). Think pink is apparently the mantra this season. Megan Fox chose this pale hue to walk the red carpet for the premiere of “Good Mourning,” per Glamour Magazine, and Kate Beckinsale also reached for a pale pink number when she had to get dressed for YouTuber Gigi Gorgeous’ birthday party at Heat nightclub in West Hollywood, as reported by Daily Mail....

How A Thumbtack Could Help Make Hard-Boiled Eggs Easier To Peel Ratatosk_art/Shutterstock By Jennifer Mathews/May 3, 2022 6:59 pm EST There are few foods as versatile and perfect as the egg. On its own, an egg can be enjoyed as an omelet, scrambled, fried, poached, and boiled. Even within that last cooking method, there are soft-boiled eggs and hard-boiled eggs. So many choices! Although we don’t all agree on which style of egg is the best (ahem, over easy), we can likely all concur that peeling a boiled egg can be very frustrating....

How Sauerkraut Actually Helped Sailors alexzrv/Shutterstock By Abby Tariq/July 10, 2022 3:47 pm EST Scientific research is an intellectually stimulating job that requires painstakingly assiduous lab work. Even a slight miscalculation or misjudgment can ruin all the effort, time, and money to result in an unsuccessful venture. But many of the greatest scientific breakthroughs were discovered by accident. Take the example of penicillin, considered one of the most significant medical discoveries of all time....

How The Food Professionals Of #Cookforukraine Are Helping Displaced Families addkm/Shutterstock By Khyati Dand/Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 7:40 am EST #CookForSYRIA started a movement years ago that showed the world that a little bit of food could go a long way in actually making a difference in the real world. The concept was simple: Host a meal or potluck for friends and family with a menu inspired by Syrian food, and request that your guests donate to the Unicef fundraiser that helps Syrian children....

How To Store Fruit The Right Way CHALERMCHAI99/Shutterstock By Michael La Corte/June 15, 2022 9:43 am EST Purchasing a bounty of fruits and vegetables is always an automatic mood booster. You now have a surplus of fresh produce, and ideas for how you’ll utilize the food might be dancing through your head like sugar plums. But, alas, a day or two later, your once-prime produce is found to be limp and browning, and your hopes for a future of plant-based euphoria have been ruined....

Is Cereal A Soup? The Hot-Button Debate Explained Nadezhda Nesterova/Shutterstock By Chase Shustack/Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 8:12 am EST If you were given a bowl of Cheerios and a bowl of soup and told to explain the difference, would you be able to? You could say tha one is cold and the other is hot. You could also say that one is breakfast food and the other is eaten for lunch....

Is It Ever A Good Idea To Buy Groceries At Walmart? Dennizn/Shutterstock By Chase Shustack/July 18, 2022 11:48 am EST Admittedly, this sounds like a strange question: “Is it a good idea to buy groceries at Walmart?” Of course, this raises further questions. Is there something wrong with Walmart’s products? Are you being ripped off? It’s not so much that there’s any hazard associated with buying groceries from Walmart, but its affordability is questionable....

Marc Murphy Explains How He Prepares Food For Thousands Of Refugees In So Little Time - Exclusive Amanda Edwards/Getty Images By Hanna Claeson/April 12, 2022 12:39 pm EST Under a week ago, Marc Murphy — who, as you may well have noticed, has been absent as a judge on “Chopped” for a month now — was packing pasta salad into containers in Przemysl, Poland. No, not Tupperware. He was filling up large plastic storage bins — the kind you might have in your attic, packed with winter sweaters or toys your kids have grown out of....

Padma Lakshmi Had The Perfect Response To An Indian Food Opinion s_bukley/Shutterstock By Ceara Milligan/April 29, 2022 12:41 pm EST Padma Lakshmi is an Indian-American activist, author, blogger, model, actress, and television host whose career has been celebrated for decades. She’s hosted a variety of food shows, including Hulu’s “Taste the Nation,” Food Network’s “Padma’s Passport,” and Bravo’s “Top Chef,” and the latter has earned her two Emmy nominations. Her vocation revolves around discovering foods from around the world and sharing their vibrant histories and impacts on culture....

Secrets Fine Dining Restaurants Don’t Want You To Know Shutterstock By Lindsay D. Mattison/Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 3:14 pm EST Any fine dining restaurant worth its salt knows how to do one thing really well: Hide the organized chaos that’s going on behind the scenes. When you walk in, you’ll find a neatly decorated dining room, finely polished silver, and well-dressed staff walking confidently from table to table. Unless you’ve worked in a restaurant, you probably have no idea that, behind the scenes, the cooks in the back of the house are rushing around, shouting to each other to coordinate ticket times and ensure everyone knows about the special requests listed on the latest ticket....

Simple Smash Burger Recipe Kate Shungu/Mashed By Kate Shungu AND Mashed Staff/June 3, 2022 10:21 am EST There are regular burgers, and then there are smash burgers. Both are great in their own special ways, but smash burgers give the meal a bit more of a diner feel. You’d normally use a grill to cook burgers, yielding those beautiful char marks. The smash buger has a different method: You cook them on a griddle and literally smash the patties, getting them nice and thin....

The Aldi Item That’s Flooding Reddit With FOMO 1000 Words/Shutterstock By Lauren Farkas/Aug. 20, 2022 7:26 pm EST Any Aldi shopper can confirm that the aisles of the store is lined with hidden gems. The discount supermarket is known for its affordable, high-quality, and unique selection of products that have won several awards from Product of the Year. By keeping an open eye and an open mind, shoppers are likely to stumble upon new items that just might become their new favorites....

The Best 15 Tequilas For Margaritas Brent Hofacker/Shutterstock By Allie Miller/Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 2:29 pm EST Tequila’s popularity is at an all-time high. According to Statista, Americans purchased about 23 million cases (6 bottles per case) in 2020. Worldwide, the tequila market has grown to around 8.2 billion dollars. As interest in this liquor grows, so do the number of tequila (and possibly margarita) drinkers. A margarita comes with a few components: lime juice, a sweetener, ice, sometimes salt, and tequila....