Making the Shrimp Filling It’s important to chop the raw shrimp up until it creates a chunky paste. This will ensure that the filling holds together as it cooks. For a quicker alternative, pulse it in a food processor if you have one on hand. The shrimp is seasoned with soy sauce, sesame oil, salt, sugar, and white pepper. If you haven’t tried white pepper, it has a very earthy, spicy note, often used in Chinese cooking....

Crumpet recipe Warburtons is the UK’s biggest and most popular commercial crumpet producer. They make over 700 million of them a year! To cheer up the UK public during lockdown, they shared their secret crumpet recipe for people to make at home. Though I doubt it’s the precise commercial batter recipe (they probably adapted it for the home cook), the end result is EXACTY like store bought crumpets. After many, many, MANY failed crumpet attempts over the years (even from notable chefs!...

It’s warming, filling, and a big batch will last all week for several meals of leftovers. It’s also very easy on the budget, which is probably why we had it so much growing up. You make it with turkey thighs (or legs), which, in addition to being the tastier dark meat, you can usually get for $1.50 per pound or less. Slow cooking the turkey thighs bone-in, you get all of the healthy goodness and flavor from the bone marrow....

Who needs Chinese take-out when you can make chicken chow mein this delicious right at home! Even though chow mein is a popular side dish, we’re here to tell you that this is hearty enough to be the main course! With the added protein in the chicken, and so many veggies, your stomach will thank you for forgetting the orange chicken on the side. This recipe moves FAST. Chop those veggies, make that sauce, and make sure you are fully prepped and ready to go before you start cooking....

Quick, Easy + Real Food I’ve always had a bit of a sweet tooth, and I think there is always room for a little treat. That said, the actual form of treats I enjoy now are quite different than what I would have enjoyed several years ago. Now, I love to make my treats at home so I can use real food ingredients, and I love goodies like these baked pears because they are super easy to put together and only bake for 25-30 minutes....

Boneless Chuck Roast for Thrift and Flavor You might find that most beef stews call for short ribs, chuck roast, or “stew meat” (which is almost always chuck). The top choice for me is always boneless chuck roast, and look for marbling if you can find it. Short ribs have tons of flavor and are super delicious, but these days, they also cost tons of money. This hardworking part of the cow’s shoulder is delightfully inexpensive, but it’s tough, not unlike human shoulders....

You’ll have fun making swirls or stripes or whatever whimsical patterns your spoon or spatula leads you to! I used this frosting to make this Sour Cream Chocolate Cake, but you could use it to frost a layer cake, a batch of cupcakes, or any baked good that would do well with some chocolate frosting. Bake a Cake for This Chocolate Frosting Recipe! Chocolate Snack Cake Vanilla Buttermilk Layer Cake Double Chocolate Cupcakes Gluten-Free Vanilla Birthday Cake Chocolate Mint Cupcakes...

How long do you cook Crab Stuffed Mushrooms? Depending on what you stuff the mushrooms with and what temperature you cook them at the time will vary. Because these mushrooms are stuffed with delicious crab meat they will need 15 minutes of cook time in a 375 degree Fahrenheit oven. Imitation Crab Meat vs. Fresh Crab: There are generally two kinds of fresh crab sold: lump crab meat, and lump claw meat....

Here’s one of the best ways I can think of to use some of that leftover turkey—creamy cheesy turkey enchiladas—flour tortillas filled with chopped cooked turkey, mashed sweet potatoes, and cream cheese, and then smothered in a creamy salsa verde sauce, sprinkled with shredded Jack and baked until bubbly. Crazy good! As in I don’t want to share any of it good. As in if I have to share it I better make a double batch good....

Making gluten free lemon blueberry muffins To make these lemon blueberry muffins gluten free, I used blanched almond flour and tapioca flour. This keeps them grain free and paleo friendly as well. Just make sure to use blanched almond flour, versus almond meal. Here’s why. It’s finer and lighter and results in a fluffier texture.It will give your muffins the yellow, lemony looking color. If you used almond meal the muffins would be more of a brown color....

What kind of tomatoes should I use? You can use either cherry tomatoes or plum tomatoes. If using plum tomatoes, they should be sliced in half lengthwise. What are plum tomatoes? Plum tomatoes are any Italian variety of tomato that is shaped like a plum. In groceries stores in the United States, roma tomatoes are the most common variety of plum tomatoes. Δ Δ

If you want to take the roasted asparagus up a notch, when they’re done, drizzle them with a little lemon juice or balsamic vinegar or sprinkle them with some freshly grated Parmesan cheese. Tip for Roasted Asparagus Have you ever had roasted asparagus turn out tough and stringy? The best way to avoid that is to use the fat spears, not the skinny ones, for roasting. The skinny ones will dry out too quickly in the high heat of the oven....

To help make your Whole30 a lot easier, we created a printable 2-person Whole30 meal plan with all of the recipes and grocery shopping lists you need for the entire Whole30. To see what’s in our meal plan, check out the weekly summaries. Our Whole 30 meal plan includes: A super organized, printable meal plan download for each week of your Whole30Easy to follow recipes with time-saving prep instructionsPrintable grocery shopping lists for each weekWhole30 Starter kit resources, such as pantry swaps and helpful kitchen productsPantry and freezer stocking recommendationsTips, advice and clarifications on Whole30 rulesOngoing email support from Erica and I (ask us any questions)A 100% hassle-free Whole30!...

A wonderful fish recipe for Easter – or anytime! Just imagine that moment when you dunk in a hunk of warm crusty bread….. Fish Chowder Soup This is really just a Fish Soup but I like to call it a “chowder” because the immature child within believes it sounds a heck of a lot more interesting to say “we’re having Fish Chowder for dinner tonight” rather than just “fish soup”....

My favorite was a perfectly seasonal summer pizza sprinkled with toppings of zucchini, corn, and pickled peppers. While Ken’s was topped with ricotta salata, I went with a creamy, salty, and cheese pull-tastic blend of fresh ricotta, parmesan, and mozzarella. My flatbread recipe is loosely inspired by Ken’s pizza and uses similar primary ingredients, but you don’t need a wood fired oven or expert pizzaiolo skills to put them together for an easy weeknight dinner....

The filling is a moist mixture of pork, marinated with cornstarch, soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil, and Shaoxing wine. It is lightly sautéed with sweet napa cabbage and carrots, earthy and meaty dried mushrooms, fresh ginger and scallions for brightness, and savory and slightly sweet oyster sauce to tie it all together. A Chinese Lunar New Year Delight Celebrations like the Lunar New Year are often filled with special treats with symbolic significance like spring rolls....

This is my copycat of a dish I had at a posh Sydney restaurant. Do you ever go to restaurants, order expensive dishes, pay a fortune and think “heck, I could make this myself!”? That’s exactly what I did in this case. It’s such a simple, beautiful flavour combination which was super easy to replicate at home. Ahem. OK. To be entirely truthful, I may have rather extensively grilled the poor waiter to get as much detail as I could…and he actually had to go into the kitchen to get all the answers!...

What Is Gazpacho? Gazpacho is a classic cold Spanish soup, perfect for sweltering summer days. It’s traditionally made with fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, red onion, and garlic. For this version, we are including even more fresh garden vegetables and spicing up the soup with some Tabasco and Worcestershire sauce. Make sure you use only the best, freshest ingredients for this soup. For a California spin, top the soup with some chopped avocado, and serve it with crusty bread....

What’s the History of the Gimlet? Like every other classic cocktail, the gimlet comes with a handful of competing origin stories. The most credible is its creation, in the 1880s, at the hands of Royal Navy surgeon Sir Thomas Gimlette, who encouraged his mates to take their gin rations with a healthy dash of scurvy-preventing lime juice. Lauchlin Rose’s lime juice cordial, invented just a decade earlier, helped make that possible, at the same time sweetening the drink and preserving the citrus....

These sandwiches have a nice tang to them thanks to a homemade BBQ sauce (but you can use store-bought as well) and a pickle slaw, which is just my favorite. Will my kids eat these sandwiches though?! Read the report card below to find out! How to Grill Juicy Chicken Breasts It’s easy to grill chicken breasts so they stay juicy. The problem is, most people grill them into submission....