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Why You Should Use Two Skewers When Grilling Dusan Petkovic/Shutterstock By Hannah Beach/Updated: June 29, 2022 2:43 pm EST With grilling season nearly upon us, everyone is stocking up on grilling essentials. You know the ones: hot dogs, hamburgers, and vegetables for cooking; tongs, spatulas, forks, skewers, and thermometers to help you along the way; and marinades, seasonings, and condiments to make your food tasty. Oh, and the grill itself, along with propane and charcoal....

Bobby Flay Says This One Step Is Key To The Perfect Kale Salad Shutterstock By Sophia Lo/Updated: May 20, 2022 3:56 pm EST Did you know that Bobby Flay and his daughter Sophie have a podcast? When you can’t sit down to watch Flay cook, listening to him talk about recipes and all things food is a great way to indulge your love for cooking. In an episode of “Always Hungry,” Bobby Flay and Sophie Flay discuss cookbooks (per iHeart Radio), and they start off with “The Barbuto Cookbook,” written by Johnathan Waxman, a mentor to Bobby Flay....

Doritos Is Bringing Back A Fan-Favorite Flavor For A Worthy Cause VITTO-STUDIO/Shutterstock By Melissa Campana/June 25, 2022 9:38 am EST Giving money to a worthy cause makes people feel good. And if, in exchange for that money, they get a bag of tortilla chips covered with a dusting of nacho cheese, so be it. Those people didn’t ask to be heroes. Actually, according to the Doritos website, it’s unfair to call Doritos “just a chip....

Drew Barrymore Swears By This Chicken Made From Fungi a katz/Shutterstock By Katy Canada/May 18, 2022 10:36 am EST As texturally divisive as mushrooms are in the culinary world, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that they make excellent meat substitutes. Each item on our list of the 10 best substitutes for mushrooms has a similarly sinewy texture or umami flavor. Now, both vegans and omnivores are recognizing the ability of mushrooms to imitate the taste and feel of chicken (per The Spruce Eats)....

Here’s How To Get Free Food For A Year From The Fresh Market The Fresh Market By Elaina Friedman/May 6, 2022 12:47 pm EST There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who treat trips to the grocery store like a relay race, and those who abandon the concept of linear time in order to meander the aisles of their local supermarket at the unbothered pace of a museum-goer....

Here’s How You Can Grab 1-800-Flowers’ New Pride Month Goodies Claudia G Cooper/Shutterstock By Elaina Friedman/Updated: May 26, 2022 1:25 pm EST Even if gifts are your love language, thinking up the perfect ribbon-wrapped offering to bestow upon your loved ones can take a shocking amount of forethought. To save us from this happy conundrum, purveyors of gift baskets do the work of assembling various sundries so we don’t have to, which is why there are so many of them to choose from — even ones lauded by The New York Times....

Instagram Has The Feels For Ree Drummond’s Proud-Mama Moment Monica Schipper/Getty Images By Justina Huddleston/Updated: April 13, 2022 1:35 pm EST Ree Drummond seems to be everywhere we look these days. She hosts her own show, “The Pioneer Woman,” and she’s also a judge and guest on several other Food Network shows, including “The Christmas Cookie Challenge.” But that’s not all Drummond has time for. She also frequently shares her adventures to social media, many of which involve her five kids....

Instagram Is Cracking Up Over Gordon Ramsay’s Challenge For Aarón Sánchez Roy Rochlin/Getty Images By Lauren Cahn/Updated: April 19, 2022 8:10 am EST Fans of Fox’s “MasterChef: Legends” are hooked on the Emmy Award-winning search for America’s most talented home cooks and thrilled, no doubt, that a new season has been greenlit for this year, per Variety. As much as American foodie-TV fans can’t get enough of any high-stakes cooking competition, a good bit of this particular show’s magic derives from the zippy chemistry between Aarón Sánchez and Gordon Ramsay, two of the show’s perennial hosts....

Slow Cooker Au Gratin Potatoes Recipe Angela Latimer/Mashed By Angela Latimer AND Mashed Staff/Updated: June 29, 2022 11:39 am EST Au gratin potatoes are the ultimate rich, umami-heavy accompaniment to a nice, juicy steak. Come to think of it, there are few, if any, proteins we can imagine wouldn’t taste divine with a side of au gratin potatoes. Think about it: scallops, roast chicken, Impossible sausage with au gratin potatoes? If only you had the time to sit around for 90 minutes while your stove works its magic, you could swimming in au gratin potatoes on a daily basis....

Subway’s Italian B.M.T. Copycat Recipe Susan Olayinka/Mashed By Susan Olayinka AND Mashed Staff/Updated: May 6, 2022 2:29 pm EST Subway’s Italian B.M.T. sandwich (B.M.T. stands for “Big. Meaty. Tasty.” just in case you didn’t know) is one of the brand’s classic favorites, filled with spicy pepperoni, Genoa salami, and Black Forest Ham. But, you don’t have to roll through the line at Subway in order to enjoy the same flavors. In fact, you can make the sandwich right at home, following the recipe developed by Susan Olayinka at The Flexible Fridge, to make a sandwich that just may be even better than the original....

Surviving The Sriracha Shortage Might Be Easier Than You Think Justin Sullivan/Getty By Nicole Rivas/July 30, 2022 9:42 pm EST Since the pandemic, people in the U.S. and elsewhere have seen various food shortages and supply chain interruptions. Some experts chalk these grocery aisle shortages up to hoarding behavior in consumers, while others have pointed the finger at labor shortages and their impact on the production and processing of food items....

The Aldi Frozen Pizza That Redditors Never Want To Eat Again yackers1/Shutterstock By Amberly Mckee/July 8, 2022 3:44 pm EST Even with the basic ingredients everyone has come to expect, pizza tastes significantly different depending on where you order it from. American pizza lovers tend to wildly favor Domino’s, which racked up $8.29 billion in sales in 2020, per Statista. Pizza Hut is a distant second at $5.44 billion followed by Little Caesars at $3....

The California Law That Could Change Quick-Service Restaurants Forever Seika Chujo/Shutterstock By Elaina Friedman/July 1, 2022 8:38 pm EST While there are many forces behind the growing labor movement seen at companies like Trader Joe’s, Starbucks (via CNBC), and Chipotle (via Nation’s Restaurant News), higher wages and consistent work schedules are among the most common demands by workers. In April, Trader Joe’s lost a $44,000 employee lawsuit for violating a Seattle law that requires retailers to post schedules for hourly workers at least 14 days ahead of time....

The Eggs Benedict Hack That Will Save You So Much Time In The Kitchen Stepanek Photography/Shutterstock By Julia Mullaney/May 12, 2022 10:35 am EST It’s easy to stroll in the kitchen on any given morning and whip up some buttered toast. Or, if you’re feeling like a chef, you might even cook some eggs and bacon to go with it. Plenty of once-difficult breakfast dishes have become more attainable through the years....

The Funny Thing You Never Noticed About KFC’s Twitter Account FellowNeko/Shutterstock By Hope Ngo/May 30, 2022 1:01 pm EST Social media is a great place for fast food giants to have a bit of fun. McDonald’s, for instance — which has 4.5 million followers and is following 13.6k accounts — might use social media as a launchpad for corporate and product releases, but it can particularly entertaining as well, since the fast food giant has been known to play games with its followers such as changing the McDonald’s Twitter handle as a joke....

The Untold Truth Of Bibimbap taa22/Shutterstock By Felicia Lee/April 6, 2022 2:53 pm EST For lovers of Korean cuisine, the classic rice dish bibimbap is comfort in a bowl. Simply defined, it’s nothing more than a bowl of hot rice with an assortment of toppings. This may not sound super impressive, but lovers of bibimbap know the whole is more than the sum of its parts. You can’t just slop random foodstuffs over a bowl of rice and call it bibimbap — whatever toppings you choose, they have to be attractively arranged....

The Untold Truth Of Cowboy Coffee Barbara Ash/Shutterstock By Felicia Lee/Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 7:37 am EST Depending on who you ask, cowboy coffee — a simple, rustic preparation of ground coffee and water boiled or steeped together in a pot or kettle — can be either the best or worst cup of coffee you’ll ever experience. Made with care, cowboy cook Kent Rollins argues, cowboy coffee “is probably the smoothest coffee in the world....

The Unusual Reason A Costco Shopper Warned Reddit About Fruit Jellies Jillian Cain Photography/Shutterstock By Ree Winter/July 5, 2022 2:28 pm EST We’ve all been told many times: Sugar is bad for you. Most people love candy, but we also know that too much of it can be bad for one’s health, mainly because of its high sugar content. Sugar is a simple carbohydrate that is quickly broken down by the body and turned into glucose, which is then used for energy....

Trader Joe’s Fans Are Unimpressed With Its Returning Chicken Thighs kariphoto/Shutterstock By Dave Malyon/July 8, 2022 3:37 pm EST Trader Joe’s Jerked Chicken Thighs are back, and the news has the retailer’s fan base talking, with some ecstatic and others unimpressed. Blogger Emily Dingmann from My Everyday Table advocated for a six-ingredient recipe in which the Trader Joe meat product is the star of her show in 2017. In 2019, another cooking blog post, Become Betty, regaled the seasonal food item as “flavorful [and] tender with a bit of heat....

We Tried Buffalo Wild Wings New Boneless Bar Pizza. Here’s How It Went Steven John/Mashed By Steven John/Aug. 18, 2022 3:02 pm EST What first comes to mind when you hear the words “bar food?” Probably a little bowl of peanuts or pretzels that seem a pleasant snack but are actually there to keep your thirst up, what with all the salt. Or maybe you think of common quick-prep appetizers like mozzarella sticks, nachos, or chicken wings....