Category: Cooking

There are several ways to remove the round, slippery pit from the creamy avocado pulp. You can squeeze everything – bones and all – into […]

This year I have been working as a gardener for the first time. I think everything is going well, especially considering that I have killed […]

This is (almost) the most beautiful time of the year – tomato season. I’m growing my own this year and I’m incredibly excited. The season […]

Depending on when you were born and how much TV your parents allowed you to watch, your first exposure to pepper may have come from […]

This may be a wildly unpopular opinion, but cooking on a gas grill is a hoax. There is something both primitive and humiliating about cooking […]

If you’ve planted zucchini in your garden this year, you’ve undoubtedly noticed the beautiful orange and yellow flowers that grow alongside (and on) the fruit. […]

Coleslow can be a daunting task. Bad sugary foods are watery and tasteless, but good ones are the perfect sweet and sour and crunchy counterpoint […]

I struggle with my hoarding tendencies all the time, so I tend to avoid the 10 Great Uses of Old Strings hacks – and yet […]

Potatoes are one of the most versatile vegetables. You canboil them, knead and put them in a stew , but you can also stick them […]

I love peaches – I can eat peaches for hours! – but I don’t like taking out the stubborn, literally clinging bone from the center […]

I came from a catfish-eating family, and until I got to the Pacific Northwest I never really ate salmon. The two fish were very different […]

Not everyone agrees on the “best” way to cook mushrooms, but I think everyone understands that a good mushroom is a concentrated, well-browned version of […]

I don’t really like “national” food days because I don’t need tacos, donuts or – in today’s case – fries. The free gifts that sometimes […]

Tartar cream is an incredibly healthy ingredient. With it, you can stabilize whipped cream, make your own baking powder, and make very fluffy scrambled eggs […]

I’ve been a peanut butter pickle sandwich seller for about ten years now. I don’t know where I originally read or heard about the feelings […]

“Garlic bread” can mean a lot of different things (all is well, of course). The first iteration I was presented was white toast with country […]

With the exception of salt, pepper is the most common and ubiquitous condiment in American cooking. The berries themselves vary greatly in both color and […]

There’s something very alluring about the large plastic-domed croissant containers you see at the grocery store and Costco, but I rarely fall for their oily […]

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Prix Fixed, Lifehacker’s menu planning tips column . Today’s email comes to us from the south, for example from […]

Unlike industrially produced foods and beverages, eggs can vary greatly in appearance and composition. They are made from chicken, not in a factory, which means […]

Most potatoes need a little knife work before they cook and eat; Unless you’re baking whole legs to eat with a juicy steak, slicing and […]

When I was about six years old, my mom and sisters and I moved from Aberdeen, Mississippi to Los Angeles, California. My father stayed in […]

It’s not really a secret that I’m not particularly proud of being American, but I’m writing about cooking, living in the United States, which means […]

When I think of grilled pizza, I think of the HBO show Girls. I really hate it for myself, but every time I serve, eat, […]

I have never been and will never be “taller” frozen pizza (once cooked, of course). They are comfortable. They are tasty. They can be customized. […]

I have always resisted cleaning things outside. Dirt lives outside – if you will, it is the “home turf” of mud. But now that I […]

Adjusting the temperature is one of the hardest things to imagine as a children’s charcoal grill. There are no dials to turn, no knobs to […]

I’m not afraid of impulse purchases on social media. I bought booty TikTok leggings (and a young man yelled at me from his car when […]

As far back as I can remember, even when I was very young, I have always loved pickles. Quick pickles, pickles, sour cucumbers, sweet pickles, […]

We are living in a kind of golden age of artificial meat products. Meat-free products have flooded the market, making it easier than ever to […]

If I had to pick my favorite barbecue snack, it would be spiced eggs. They are zesty, the perfect size and have a distinct retro […]

Making croutons in a deep fryer is a snap, although I’m not sure we can rightly call it “cooking.” “Aggressive browning” is probably the most […]

Whether you’re cooking meatballs, meatloaf, or any other food that requires seasoning with the raw ground meat mass, it can be difficult to predict the […]

I don’t trust people who say they don’t like pasta salad. The pasta is good, so is the mayonnaise . Ingredients other than pasta or […]

In what science fiction scientists call “it’s really not that surprising,” I became obsessed with making cucumbers, both pickled and plain. First I cooked the […]

I’ve often thought of turkey burgers as a relic of the 90s, a relic of an era when fat was enemy number one and Snackwells […]

Another day, another TikTok food trend; this time we are pouring mustard on the watermelon, and we are not even high. I’m not sure who […]

From an aesthetic point of view, minced meat is not the most pleasant of animal proteins. It is soft and blotchy when raw, and more […]

Fresh herbs are beautiful, aromatic and cheerful, but they lose their appearance and aroma if left simmer in soup pots or baked with meat stews. […]

Few dishes can be as political and controversial as cornbread. If you think the pineapple versus pizza controversy has heated up, ask someone in the […]