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Copycat Shoney’s Strawberry Pie Recipe Susan Olayinka/Mashed By Susan Olayinka AND Mashed Staff/July 19, 2021 11:19 am EST When it comes to a variety of comfort foods, Shoney’s restaurant knows how to deliver. The popular southern establishment is known for everything from its famous fried chicken to country fried steak. It also has a reputation for tasty desserts that hit the spot. Shoney’s seasonal strawberry pie is a favorite among fans because of the fresh berries and special glaze they use for the filling....

Del Taco’s New Breakfast Options Are Perfect For Cheese Lovers Shutterstock By Sophia Lo/July 21, 2021 10:20 pm EST Breakfast is commonly known as the most important meal of the day, but often, we’re rushing out the door before we can whip up anything real. While there are plenty of breakfast recipes that are perfect for busy mornings, sometimes, it’s just easier to grab something to eat at a fast-food chain, aka breakfast on the go....

Easy Apple Turnovers Recipe Eric Ngo/Mashed By Eric Ngo AND Mashed Staff/Aug. 12, 2021 8:38 pm EST If you’re looking for a new dessert that involves fresh fruit, then when have the perfect recipe for you. Apple turnovers may sound like a lot of hard work, but they are surprisingly easy to make. In fact, this recipe is simple enough for a beginner to make, so whether it’s your first time baking or you’re a seasoned pro, anyone can whip up these treats....

How Al Roker Uses Oxtail Meat For Tacos Manny Carabel/Getty Images By Kalea Martin/Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 10:37 am EST Whether it’s on the food hour of “TODAY,” on his Food Network show “Roker on the Road,” or in one of his cookbooks, Al Roker is a big fan of tacos. The NBC correspondent even described them as “handheld meals” in a “TODAY” cooking segment, featuring the recipe for his low-carb roasted red snapper tacos....

How Old Is The Produce We Eat Really? Shutterstock By Lauren Schumacker/Updated: May 19, 2021 10:07 pm EST Whenever you go to the grocery store, you shop the perimeter, choosing healthy dairy, lean meats, and “fresh” fruits and veggies. You follow all of the healthy eating rules you’re told to follow by health and wellness experts. How “fresh” is that produce you’re picking up, though, really? Is it newly harvested, fresh from the ground, trees, bogs, or bushes?...

How One Expert Thinks The Avocado Shortage Could Affect Chipotle Sales Brandon Bell/Getty Images By Erich Barganier/June 28, 2021 11:00 am EST When you want to elevate a classic meal, avocados can take any recipe to the next level. This delicious fruit naturally fits in salads, sushi, tacos, and even desserts, making it a versatile and great-tasting addition that makes any meal better. This same popularity has made life harder for anyone looking to grab some fresh avocados....

How Rich Is The Domino’s CEO And What’s The Average Pay Of Its Employees? Noam Galai/Getty Images By Ni’Kesia Pannell/April 2, 2021 6:42 am EST Whether you’ve been ordering out every Friday since you were a kid or frequented the location nearest your dorm room in college, Domino’s Pizza has found a place in the homes and hearts of many. While the pizza chain has seen strong competition in rival companies such as Pizza Hut and Papa John’s, that hasn’t stopped Domino’s from being in high demand amongst pizza lovers....

Miller High Life’s Genius Solution To Drinking With Friends In 2020 Miller High Life By Erich Barganier/Updated: Aug. 24, 2021 1:59 pm EST Finding the time to get together with friends and enjoy a beer can prove tough even in a normal year, but factor in a global pandemic and your regular happy hour seems downright impossible. Despite the changes to our lives, we haven’t given up drinking — whether we have Zoom happy hour with friends or socially distance in our backyards with a couple of beers, American alcohol consumption has spiked by 27% since the coronavirus turned life upside down (via USA Today)....

Never Order This Sauce, According To Anthony Bourdain Shutterstock By Ralph Schwartz/Updated: May 10, 2021 9:47 am EST Anthony Bourdain was never bashful about telling people exactly what he thought. His unvarnished take on life inside a restaurant kitchen is what made his 1999 book, Kitchen Confidential, such a must-read for anyone who works in a restaurant — or eats in one. Never order fish on Monday, Bourdain proclaimed, in an excerpt from Kitchen Confidential published in The Guardian....

Peanut Butter Fans Need To Try Reese’s New Chocolate-Free Peanut Butter Cups Hershey’s By Brittany Gibson/March 1, 2021 3:13 pm EST Remember those times when Hershey’s came out with limited-edition Peanut Butter Lovers Cups in 2019 and 2020 that had double the amount of peanut butter than usual to cater to peanut butter lovers (via Delish)? Ah, those were the days. That said, we have some good news. Reese’s Peanut Butter Lovers Cups are making a comeback and Hershey’s is releasing something new — and it might be even better....

Rainbow Roll: What You Should Know Before Ordering Shutterstock By Keira Wingate/April 20, 2021 3:04 pm EST Whether you like sushi raw, fried, in a roll, or chopped, eating it brings an experience. The firm and perfectly tempered cold fish offers a unique and powerhouse flavor when paired with one of its many ingredients, like seaweed, sauce, rice, and avocado. One sushi dish is almost too pretty to eat and a bit more complicated than the usual, according to International Cuisine....

Secret Menu Items You Can Order At Subway Joe Raedle/Getty Images By Samantha Maxwell/Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 5:53 pm EST Subway was known for doing the “healthy” thing before it was cool — long before kids chose Chipotle over McDonald’s and even before fast food restaurants advertised low-carb and protein-packed options (we’re looking at you, Starbucks). And yet Subway hasn’t been fairing too well these days. Sales began to decline in 2014, according to Business Insider, and then came the Jared Fogle scandal the following year, which, of course, tarnished the restaurant’s image....

Lingonberry jam is a popular condiment in Scandinavia Shutterstock At the risk of sounding like the beginning of a bad joke, let’s ask this: How popular is lingonberry jam? It’s so popular that you can get it in the most popular of all Swedish stores: IKEA. They even call it “Super-Swedish,” and it’s no wonder. Lingonberries can be found growing wild in forests across Norway and Sweden. They’re sometimes called mountain cranberries, and according to Swedish Food, they’re very similar to cranberries in a few ways....

The One Dish Sunny Anderson Says She’ll Never Eat David Livingston/Getty Images By Karen Hart/Feb. 27, 2021 9:43 am EST The Kitchen’s Sunny Anderson is going to be hippity-hoppity on her way to a streaming service near you for the Easter Basket Challenge beginning March 1. Anderson will serve as host of this mini cooking series — there are five one-hour episodes — dedicated to all things Easter. The production can be viewed on either the Food Network or discovery+....

The Real Reason Pellet Ice Is So Popular Reddit By Emily Alexander/July 9, 2021 12:44 pm EST The latest food craze to sweep the nation is not exactly, well, a food. Pellet ice is more closely related to water, but its flaky, soft texture makes it more pleasant to chew than most foods, despite it being relatively flavorless. According to Texas Monthly, actor Matthew McConaughey called it the “best damn ice in the world!...

The Real Reason Your Olive Oil Is Probably Fake Shutterstock By Michael Sommers/Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 1:58 pm EST There are healthy foods that taste awful and unhealthy foods that taste divine. Then there’s authentic extra virgin olive oil, or as intimates refer it: EVOO — which tastes divine and boasts seemingly unlimited health benefits — if, indeed, it’s authentic. Unfortunately, this is rarely the case. Investigative journalist Tom Mueller is author of the whistleblowing classic Extra Virginity, which blew the lid off the olive oil trade by exposing how rampant it is with fraud....

The Reason You Should Avoid Arby’s French Dip Shutterstock By Felix Behr/Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 1:07 pm EST Arby’s French Dip, which consists of roast beef and Swiss cheese sandwiched between two slabs of ciabatta bread with a sauce container to dip the whole menu item in, appears to enjoy a good amount of popularity with the fan base. Wide Open Eats even suggests a secret menu version of the French Dip called the French Dip Max, which really is just the French Dip but with double the roast beef....

The Reason You Shouldn’t Let Cheese Fondue Get Too Hot Shutterstock By Ashley Steinberg/Aug. 7, 2021 12:10 pm EST Fondue for two, a tagline from a joke on “Glee” (via YouTube), still has a nice ring to it. And when it comes to what seems like a romantic date night activity, fondue is an option where anyone without a lactose intolerance can’t go wrong. In fact, the restaurant franchise Melting Pot bets its income on it, serving up continuously new variations on its original “swiss cheese fondue, beef fondue and a chocolate fondue dessert” since 1975 (per the Melting Pot website)....

The Surprising Connection Between Bourbon And Tabasco Shutterstock By Lisa Curran Matte/May 26, 2021 4:19 pm EST What do bourbon and Tabasco have in common? Let’s see. They’re both liquid. They’re both produced in the southern United States. They both boast ardent fan bases. Surprising? Not so much. There’s another, lesser-known connection that may shock whiskey and hot sauce lovers alike. Tabasco is aged exclusively in used bourbon barrels (via Atlanta Magazine)....

The Surprising Ingredient Nadiya Hussain Adds To Her Eggs David M. Benett/Getty Images By Mirtle Pena-Calderon/Updated: March 25, 2021 9:41 am EST For centuries, people have been eating the very lovely egg. According to The Incredible Egg, Egyptian and Chinese records show egg-laying fowl were being used as early as 1400 B.C. In Europe, the first hen to be domesticated for the use of picking eggs dates back to 600 B....