Why You Should be Eating Dips for Lunch. As a defiant response to sad desk lunches, the Food52 team works to keep our midday meals both interesting and pretty.
Each week, we'll be sharing our happiest desk lunches -- and we want to see yours, too. This post is brought to you by Triscuit. Today: Shake up your lunchtime routine with dip-able textures and flavors, then grab some crackers and dunk away. Lunch is the highlight of our day. Make Your Own Black Bean and Crispy Shallot Chili Oil. It's always more fun to DIY.
Every week, we'll spare you a trip to the grocery store and show you how to make small batches of great foods at home. Today: Taylor Holliday of The Mala Project brings the heat with a homemade black bean and shallot chili oil. Around this time last year, my family and I were eating our way through Sichuan's capital, Chengdu. Determined to take the amazing flavors back home with us, we bought some chili oils from a street vendor.
Let's talk: french fries + dipping sauces. Feb 03 Are you a french fry lover?
I sure am! Good quality french fries of all shapes and sizes are one of my favorite ways to indulge on a Sunday. In my experience, some of the best fries can be found at your local burger joint — you know that hole-in-the-wall spot everyone loves? In Minnesota there’s a small dive bar called The Nook and my goodness… it is completely amazing! And now that we’re onto the subject of restaurant fries, we should chat about Manhattan Beach Post in Manhattan Beach, California. Now of course, I can’t go around eating hand cut french fries at restaurants allll the time. No matter where you decide to enjoy your fries, having that perfect dipping sauce is a little crucial to taste success. 1. 2. 3. 4. Homemade Taco Seasoning {recipe} – Polysyllable Free. Maltodextrin.
Monosodium glutamate. Autolyzed yeast extract? Are we baking bread with our taco seasoning?! In a car, no less?! In the midst of developing a recipe for Southwest Burgers, we had to take a moment for “taco seasoning,” basically any personally preferred mix of chili powder, hot pepper, cumin and whatever other special herbs and spices to transform plain ground beef (or chicken!
10 Sauces to Dress Up Chicken Breasts : Recipes and Cooking. Tired of the same old roasted, grilled or baked chicken breasts?
Transform your dinner from ho-hum to high-flavor with these 10 easy toppers for any occasion, like this chunky Apple, Onion and Cider Sauce from FN Magazine. 1. Barbecue Sauce Claire's five-ingredient barbecue sauce is simple to make: just dump, stir and simmer until it's thick and tangy. Brush it on chicken before baking or grilling. Get the recipe 2. Add Italian flair to your chicken dinner with this classic pesto sauce: basil, Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, pine nuts, garlic and olive oil. Horseradish Cream Sauce Recipe.
Carla's Confections: Garlic Hummus without Tahini. Quick and easy homemade Garlic Hummus without Tahini!
Today I am bringing one of my more popular posts forward, with new photos and a new story, because who wants to listen to me tell the same stories over and over? I was hoping that I could get better photos than these too for the new post, but turns out that me and photographing hummus don't go well together. I digress. This is still one of my favorite recipes to make, although I tweaked it ever-so-slightly this time. Paprika and I are basically best buds, so I couldn't leave it out in the cold this time. Hummus is a staple we keep around the house, and I just can't find any as good as my homemade version out at the stores. Not to mention the fact that you have to take out a home mortgage to buy hummus. Or is that just Vancouver? Hummus is really great to keep on hand for a healthier alternative to sandwich (and wraps) spreads, or if you want to be like me you can just dip your finger shovel it into your mouth. Whatever tickles your fancy. How to make perfect hummus.
Whatever happened to the dip?
Once the apogee of sophisticated entertaining in their dinky quartered tubs, these gloopy mixtures – thousand island, cheese and chive, the graveyard of a million splintered Pringles – were quietly dethroned, sometime in the late 1990s, by an invasion from the eastern Mediterranean: salmon pink taramasalata, garlicky tzatziki and, most successful of all, hummus, the colour and texture of wet mortar. Suddenly, the world went beige. Hummus 101: How to Make the Best, Easiest & Cheapest Hummus Ever. My dad is Israeli, so I was raised on hummus.
I can’t remember a time growing up when we didn’t have a bowl of it in our refrigerator and back then, hummus wasn’t as ubiquitous as it is now. They didn’t sell it ready-made in the grocery stores and most people had no idea what it was unless they had Middle Eastern relatives, like me. How to Make Hummus: Recipes for Hummus Variations. The Best Hummus. I am seriously obsessed with hummus.
It’s a pretty new obsession but a very intense one - I have literally been eating it every day with everything for the last month! I simply can’t get enough. Embracin' the Camera and It Tastes Like Cake Batter. And in addition to yummy in my tummy owl cupcakes, we also had this: It's dip made from Funfetti cake mix. And, in fact, when made it tastes exactly like cake batter. So, if you're a cake batter fan, this dip is for you. The best part? It only has three ingredients. Doesn't get any easier than that. Here's what the recipe calls for: 3tbsp cake mix. Finger Lickin’ BBQ Sauce. Tuesday, July 17, 2012 Finger Lickin’ BBQ Sauce Meet my favorite BBQ Sauce.
Outback Garlic Ranch. Monday, March 1, 2010 Outback Garlic Ranch Found a recipe on Recipezaar that didn’t seem quite right… so I tweaked it and BAM! Came up with an EXCELLENT version. Food - Recipes : Tabbouleh with pomegranate chicken kebabs. Holiday Appetizers 101: Buffalo Chicken Dip. I figured there was not a better party favorite to kick off my appetizer segment than some good ole’ buffalo chicken dip. There are a million variations out there, and I’ve been making this one for about 6 years. It never fails. This is one of the most-requested snacks at our house. We have even been known to eat this for dinner. Which my waistline just loves.