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Dinners With a Little Bit of Spring on Top
It's time to grab spring by the buds. Here's a week of dinners featuring the beautiful spring produce starting to show up at the markets.
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13 Lunches You Should Never Take to Work
These meals are loud, messy, smelly, and guaranteed to annoy your coworkers bite by bite. So, um, maybe eat them at home?
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The Potato Tool You Didn't Know You Owned
A sprouted potato is still safe to eat—use the top loop on a vegetable peeler to scoop out sprouts.
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11 Reasons Your Salad Needs Kale in It
No, we're not over kale. The green is trendy for a reason—it's great with Parmesan, plump fruits, and, especially, bacon. (Okay, maybe that's more than one reason.)
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Escarole Can Do Anything Lettuce Can—If You Can Find It
Quickly wilted or left raw, escarole is a great pick for adding something green to your plate at the last minute. And you're probably looking right past it.
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The Epicurious Guide to Cooking (and Surviving) on a Desert Island
You’ve heard of a desert island soundtrack? Here are your desert island kitchen toolkit.
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5 Incredible Chicken Breast Dinners
You've lost that loving feeling. But these boneless chicken dinners will win you back.
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The Easiest Way to Clean a Blender
Cleaning the crevices of a blender often feels like it requires the skills of a surgeon. But not if you know this trick.
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Why Your Cooling Rack Is the Hottest Kitchen Tool
After you’ve finished cooking, the cooling rack keeps the crunch in a doughnut, the sogginess out of bread, and the crisp in latkes. But a cooling rack can also be used to heat things up.
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11 Vegetarian Tex-Mex Dishes That Totally Nail It
Step aside, carnitas and steak fajitas. These meat-free Tex-Mex dishes are just as good as the classics.
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What’s for Dinner: "This Is Winter, Signing Off" Edition
Season-wise, we're at a crossroads. Soon we'll be putting pea shoots on everything, wearing pastels, and generally feeling a spring in our step (pun totally intended), but for now, there's still a slight chill in the air. Let's celebrate the last week of winter with lighter versions of some of our favorite hearty dishes.
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How to Eat Chocolate For Breakfast
Forget coffee, chocolate is the best way to start the day.
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Not a Radish Fan? This Trick Will Change Your Mind
I don't usually get that excited about radishes. I'll slice them up and throw them on a salad sometimes, and I don't snub them on the crudité platter. But, frankly, radishes have never really been...my thing. That is until a commenter on Epi's Facebook feed suggested a way to prepare the crunchy root vegetables that blew my mind.
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What To Cook Next Week: Shop Less Edition
It’s Tuesday night and going to the neighborhood grocery store seems about as close as Mordor. This week, you're keeping your grocery bag light with dinners that don't require a lot of ingredients.
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What to Do When You're Out of Vinegar
I went looking through our recipe archive for hard-to-source specialty vinegars and found some ways to craft your own replacements. If you have even the simplest array of vinegars, you can cherry pick the right one for the job and save some space in the process.
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20 Things We Hate Seeing in Recipes
We try new recipes all the time, but there are definitely some that seem to flip us the bird. Below, Epi editors and readers alike air their recipe grievances.
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5 Dinners That Make Great Leftovers
These dinners can easily work their way into tomorrow’s lunch, saving you plenty of dough.
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How to Throw a Hot Pot Party With a Slow Cooker
It's the all-you-can-eat fondue party that, thankfully, isn't a fondue party at all.
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11 Things You Need to Have in Your Freezer
This is your desert island list. If your desert island was really cold.
