Creamy Strawberry Broccoli Salad | The Recipe Critic

Creamy Strawberry Broccoli Salad | The Recipe Critic

This website may contain affiliate links and advertising so that we can provide recipes to you. Read my privacy policy. Creamy Broccoli Salad is a delicious broccoli salad with fresh strawberries, almonds, and feta cheese. Strawberries and broccoli combination create a sweet and savory salad with the creamy dressing on top makes it the best! We love everything about strawberries in our home! Try…

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7 Best Heavy Cream Substitutes

7 Best Heavy Cream Substitutes

There are thousands of recipes on our site that call for heavy cream, like penne alla vodka and creamed greens and frozen honey mousse. But do you actually need the cream? Can you replace it with milk? Or coconut milk? Or something else entirely? Today, we’re going to answer those questions and more. But first, an ask-me-anything heavy cream lightning round! Let’s go: What is heavy cream? Cream…

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Best Shortening Substitutes for Baking From Coconut Oil to Butter

Best Shortening Substitutes for Baking From Coconut Oil to Butter

You just finished the most recent episode of The Great British Bake-Off and you want to bake something, stat. Maybe sugar-crusted shortbread, or vanilla bean scones, or double chocolate cake. Whatever the recipe, odds are, you’re going to need shortening. Which might not mean what you think. Technically speaking, “shortening” can be defined any fat that’s used in baked goods. Which is to say,…

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How to Make Donuts - Easy Fried Homemade Doughnuts Recipe

How to Make Donuts – Easy Fried Homemade Doughnuts Recipe

Doughnuts, for me, represent absolute perfection. Don’t get me wrong: Pie is my number one; cake is near the top of my list; and I’ve never met a cookie I didn’t like. But doughnuts…there isn’t much in this world that’s better than a good—no, a GREAT—doughnut. Sure, they can be doused in sugary glaze and topped generously with sprinkles, but the dough itself isn’t too sweet‚it’s just yeasty and…

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How to Cream Butter & Sugar By Hand for Light and Fluffy Batter

How to Cream Butter & Sugar By Hand for Light and Fluffy Batter

Inspired by conversations on the Food52 Hotline, we’re sharing tips and tricks that make navigating all of our kitchens easier and more fun. Today: How to cream butter and sugar the old fashioned way. Forget, for a moment, the 20-minute meals. Push the no-bake desserts out of your mind. Ask the 5-minute lunches to take a walk, just for a minute.  Sometimes we want to be romantic about cooking,…

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Best 4th of July Side Dishes From Cheese Biscuits to Grilled Corn

Best 4th of July Side Dishes From Cheese Biscuits to Grilled Corn

Sides are the perfect opportunity to add color, punch, texture and variety to the main event, whether that’s a humungo piece of grilled meat or veggie burgers. Personally my favorite kind of feast is when there are lots of sides and you just dig into them like tapas, main dish conspicuously missing. But hey, however you serve it, these sides—which you can grill on the day of or make ahead; serve…

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12 Best Fruit Dessert Recipes

12 Best Fruit Dessert Recipes

When it comes to fruit desserts, there really are no rules. Toss peaches into pie, blend blueberries into ice cream. Arrange cherries in cobbler, layer plums in a crumble. (Should I stop? You get it.) Jason Schreiber definitely gets it. His cookbook, Fruit Cake, is a celebration of (you guessed it!) cakes that feature fruit. From tea and snack cakes that are just as welcome at 11 a.m. as they are…

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Brown Rice Flour Recipes - How to Bake With Brown Rice Flour

Brown Rice Flour Recipes – How to Bake With Brown Rice Flour

In Mother Grains, Roxana Jullapat—baker and co-owner of Friends & Family in Los Angeles—shares “recipes for the grain revolution,” celebrating the flavors and textures and wonders of buckwheat, corn, oats, and then some. But the rice chapter caught my eye the most, with its gooey peach cobbler and sticky banoffee pie (both excerpted below, oh yes). Today, pour yourself a cup of tea and hang out…

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20 Best Gifts Under $25

20 Best Gifts Under $25

Believe it or not, a big budget is not the only path to a great gift. Sometimes, the very best presents are inexpensive—about the thought and not the price tag. Even if it costs under $25. Your self-care enthusiast of a sister will appreciate a set of eye masks that recreate spa vibes in the home, while your wine-loving bestie will graciously accept a cute bottle tote for all her on-the-go…

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twisty cinnamon buns – smitten kitchen

twisty cinnamon buns – smitten kitchen

A few notes: 1. This is a very soft and sticky dough. There is a 100% chance that when you mix it, you’ll say “no way, Deb, this is a mistake.” It is not a mistake. In the fridge, the butter will firm and the dough will stiffen, making it easier to roll out when cold on a very well-floured counter. 2. Get as many twists as you can in the ropes for the most dramatic shapes, but know that even if…

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Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie Bowl Recipe

Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie Bowl Recipe

This website may contain affiliate links and advertising so that we can provide recipes to you. Read my privacy policy. Peanut Butter Smoothie Bowl is one of the best ways to get your protein in for the day! It tastes like you are eating luscious ice cream, only it’s so much better for you! Any smoothie can serve as a base for a smoothie bowl. Try these smoothies as a customizable base, Pina…

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The Great Layer Cake Mystery of 2020

The Great Layer Cake Mystery of 2020

Tenth Helpings is a humor column from our culture critic, Ella Quittner, illustrated by Olivia de Recat. “Hit me with a Two,” I said, jogging into the kitchen, mask dangling off my face. Obligingly, my boyfriend Nate lunged for a foil-tented plate with the focus and agility of a heart surgeon on a Shonda show. “No, no, no, wait!” I said, “That’s not right.” I wracked my brain, time being of the…

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How to Adapt Cake Pan Sizes for Different Baking Recipes

How to Adapt Cake Pan Sizes for Different Baking Recipes

Award-winning cookbook author Alice Medrich is here to help you bake smarter, not harder, with game-changing recipes and aha-moment techniques. Today, we’re breaking down a question we’ve asked ourselves, oh, a million times: How do we adapt cake pan sizes in baking recipes? (Say, something calls for a 8×8-inch, but you only have an 9×9.) Alice will show you with just a little math.  The brownie…

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22 Best Recipes Using Heavy Cream

22 Best Recipes Using Heavy Cream

Picture this: It’s the day after a big holiday, and there are at least three half-empty cartons of heavy cream you threw in haphazardly amidst the dinner storm. Now, imagine that you face the remnants and their looming expiration dates, yet you have no desire to eat another dollop of whipped cream. The best news? You don’t have put that cream to waste—instead, you can make one of the 17 delicious…

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How to Use Sourdough Discard in Any Recipe

How to Use Sourdough Discard in Any Recipe

Sourdough starter needs to be fed constantly to keep the cultures active. But if you add more flour and water today, then more flour and water tomorrow—and on and on—you’ll end up with a starter big enough to occupy your kitchen. That’s where discard comes in: the portion of starter you, well, discard before feeding. But don’t interpret discard as throwaway. For starters (pun intended), it’s a…

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Best Uses for Tempeh in Indian Cuisine

Best Uses for Tempeh in Indian Cuisine

Vegetarians spend a large part of the day trying to figure out ways to add more protein to their diet. Even for an Indian vegetarian, whose average meal is more or less balanced—carbohydrates from roti or rice, vitamins and minerals from sabzi, and protein from dal—it can be exciting to move beyond lentils and sprouts in search of more protein. Beyond the everyday staples above, the most obvious…

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Announcing Food52's New Food & Culture Podcast: Either Side Eaters

Announcing Food52’s New Food & Culture Podcast: Either Side Eaters

“Chickens have earlobes?!” Yes, yes they do. That’s just one of the ways your breadth of food knowledge and food cultures will expand by listening to Either Side Eaters, our new show launching on Food52’s Podcast Network, where we explore food cultures around the world (and literally, from either side of the Atlantic Ocean: Jen is in the U.S., Katie is in Europe). We’re friends who share a deep…

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