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Easy Feta-Stuffed Tomatoes Recipe Kristen Carli/Mashed By Kristen Carli AND Mashed Staff/Aug. 16, 2021 5:15 pm EST Stuffing foods inside other foods is an ancient art. According to Medium, the original “four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie” once graced the tables of 16th-century France. Very elaborate stuffed foods fell out of favor over the centuries, as, in fact, did most such elaborate dishes. While we still have that edible matryoshka known as turducken, this isn’t a dish that finds its way onto most Thanksgiving tables....

Easy Sheet Pan Pancake Recipe Kristen Carli/Mashed By Kristen Carli AND Mashed Staff/Aug. 6, 2021 2:49 pm EST Americans love their breakfast. In fact, they love their breakfast so much that in 2019, one survey reported by the New York Post showed that 34% of us are head over heels in love with breakfast foods — lunch came in at a distant 24%, and dinner at 19% (we’re guessing the other respondents didn’t have a preference)....

Everything We Know About Guy Fieri’s Restaurant Reboot Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images By Lauren Cahn/May 26, 2021 6:00 pm EST Guy Fieri, who broke industry records with his recently-inked $80 million deal with the Food Network — making him the highest-paid chef on cable television, hasn’t been wasting any time leveraging his fame and fortune to help reinvigorate the flagging restaurant industry, which was gutted as a result of COVID-19-related restrictions....

Low-Carb Pepperoni Pizza Casserole Recipe Kristen Carli/Mashed By Kristen Carli AND Mashed Staff/Sept. 7, 2021 4:42 pm EST Pepperoni pizza is one of those classic comfort foods that you could probably eat two or three times each and every week based on taste, but probably should not eat more than two or three times a month based on calories. So what’s to be done? Give in to the pizza cravings? Resist with regrets?...

Marcella Hazan’s Tomato Sauce With A Twist Kristen Carli/Mashed By Kristen Carli AND Mashed Staff/Updated: June 14, 2021 4:44 pm EST What can you make with four ingredients, a pot on the simmer burner, and an hour’s worth of time? It turns out, you can make a truly delectable classic pasta sauce when you follow Marcella Hazan’s recipe. All it takes is a bit of stirring and a big appetite....

Meghan Markle Now Has Her Own Frozen Yogurt Flavor. Here’s What It Tastes Like Chris Jackson/Getty Images By Lauren Cahn/March 10, 2021 4:14 pm EST Thanks to their rare, in-depth interview with the Queen of All Media (Oprah Winfrey, n’est-ce pas?) on March 7, 2021, we now know a lot of cool and quirky things about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, aka, Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, aka Santa Barbara’s second most famous members of royalty (the most famous would, again, be the Sussex’s neighbor, Oprah)....

Panera Is Reuniting These Boy Meets World Stars Over Pizza For Valentine’s Day Panera By Maria Scinto/Updated: Feb. 9, 2021 9:29 am EST If there’s one thing that’s cheesier than a pizza, that thing would be a romcom… or perhaps a 90s sitcom. Better yet, a Valentine’s Day romcom starring a 90s sitcom couple that revolves around pizza! Sounds like a bigger cheesefest than tailgating at a Packers game. According to a press release Mashed received from Panera, that fast-casual chain’s new commercial stars Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel –- yep, Cory and Topanga from Boy Meets World!...

Popular Denny’s Menu Items, Ranked Worst To Best Shutterstock By Samantha Maxwell/Updated: June 11, 2021 9:07 am EST There are a surprising number of breakfast chains that have popped up all over the United States. However, perhaps none has more of a varied menu than Denny’s. It’s known as “America’s diner,” and you’ll often find it in suburban shopping centers or on the side of the highway. Whether you’re stopping by after you go out for the night or you just need a hot meal on your next road trip, it’s hard to deny that Denny’s is iconic....

Pork Recipes That Make The Most Delicious Dinners Melissa Olivieri/Mashed By Samantha Maxwell/April 14, 2021 12:56 pm EST When you want something hearty and filling for dinner, something with plenty of protein that will keep you full for a long time, your first reaction might be to reach for a beef recipe. You probably won’t be disappointed, but sometimes, you just need to switch things up for a change of pace....

Taco Bell Is Giving Away Free Tacos For This Surprisingly Celestial Reason Shutterstock By Maria Scinto/April 28, 2021 3:26 pm EST On May 4 — just one day before the margs-and-taco feast day known as Cinco De Mayo — Taco Bell gives us another reason to celebrate. That night, the moon will be shaped like a taco according to a team of astronomers (or, more likely just PR people) hired by the national restaurant chain....

The Hilarious Reason Trader Joe’s Sells Single Bananas Shutterstock By Amanda Tarlton/July 12, 2021 11:32 am EST There are a lot of things that make Trader Joe’s such a unique place to shop. The grocery store, which started in Pasadena, California in 1967, has become famous for its quirky offerings and store brand foods that you can’t find anywhere. There’s the cult-favorite $12 bottles of wine — known as Two Buck Chuck — and the vast frozen food section, which includes must-haves like cauliflower gnocchi and Gone Bananas (which are chocolate-covered bananas)....

The Incredible Truth Of Competitive Moon Pie Eater Mort Hurst Youtube By Neala Broderick/March 20, 2021 7:40 pm EST When it comes to competitive eaters, Mort Hurst is a glutton for risk-taking. His claim to fame may be housing 16 1/2 Moon Pies in just 10 minutes (via News & Record), but he has taken down plenty of meals that have put him on the map. While people have been using eating skills to boast their power since the Middle Ages according to Time, eating found its place in the U....

The Real Reason Bobby Flay Feels He Was Born In The Wrong Generation Shutterstock By Boshika Gupta/Updated: Jan. 30, 2023 9:14 am EST Celebrity chef Bobby Flay is a culinary legend. He always makes a point to be mindful of the way he conducts himself in a restaurant setting as well as on television. Per Food & Wine, Flay has a good explanation for this. Flay said, “What I do in the restaurants and what I do on television are very different....

The Real Reason Marcela Valladolid Left The Kitchen Presley Ann/Getty Images By Naomi Kennedy/Updated: April 19, 2021 4:41 am EST Food Network is home to several long-running programs, including The Kitchen, which has been a staple on the channel since 2014 (via IMDb). Described as a “fun food-filled hour” by BSTV, the cooking show-talk show hybrid is now in its 28th season, according to Food Network. It gives a televised space to the familiar faces of Sunny Anderson, Katie Lee, Jeff Mauro, and Geoffrey Zakarian, as well as newcomer Alex Guarnaschelli (via Variety), to share delicious and easy recipes and cooking tips with viewers while gabbing about anything and everything in between....

The Reason Paul Hollywood Says You Should Never Put Bread Dough In A Proving Drawer Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images By Courtney Iseman/May 14, 2021 2:39 pm EST On “The Great British Baking Show,” we regularly see contestants stick giant bowls of dough into their proving drawers. Proving is a function of an oven’s warming drawer, meant to keep dishes warm or prove dough (aka allowing it to rise before baking, according to KitchenAid)....

The Secret Ingredient In Wolfgang Puck’s Scallion Pancakes Chris Allan/Shutterstock By Lauren Rothman/Aug. 18, 2021 2:01 pm EST Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck is truly an O.G. The Austrian-born chef and cookbook author has been called “one of the first true celebrity chefs” (via Variety) and “the world’s most recognizable chef” (via Forbes). A classic example of a rags-to-riches story, Puck was born into a poor family in Europe, emigrated to America at the age of 24, and by age 33 had opened Spago, the West Hollywood, California restaurant that would catapult him to stardom (via Wolfgang Puck)....

The Store Bought Canned Peppers Bobby Flay Swears By Shutterstock By Karen Hart/April 19, 2021 10:52 am EST Bobby Flay is one of the most respected and accomplished celebrity chefs on the Food Network. He’s won the title of Iron Chef more than any other competitor, written countless cookbooks, entertained the world with his ThrowDown! with Bobby Flay, and garnered many an award and accolade in the process. Per People, Flay has been a mentor to the likes of Alex Guarnaschelli and even produced her cooking show....

The Stunning Transformation Of Amanda Freitag Daniel Zuchnik/Getty Images By Molly Harris/Updated: Aug. 20, 2021 4:11 pm EST Fans of “Chopped” undoubtedly know Amanda Freitag. But the chef has had a long and impressive career leading up to her mainstay position as a judge of the epic Food Network show. From cooking with her grandparents and exploring her love of the culinary arts in a high school home economics class to attending the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, Freitag has led quite an accomplished career since graduating (via Food Network)....

The Surprising Way Oysters Affected This Olympic Venue Shutterstock By Erica Buehler/July 28, 2021 7:22 am EST Eyes around the world are currently glued to screens as the Tokyo Olympics take place, and it’s been nothing if not interesting. Surprises have come in all forms — from music artist Pink denouncing “the very sexist rules” that force women’s beach handball players to wear bikinis (via CBS News) to America’s sweetheart Simone Biles being out of the running in the gymnastics events (via The New York Times)....

The Truth About LeeAnn Tolentino From Spring Baking Championship, Season 7 Food Network By Ralph Schwartz/Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 8:59 am EST Los Angeles pastry chef LeeAnn Tolentino had already accomplished so much in her profession, but TV wasn’t one of them. So when the Food Network asked her if she wanted to compete in season seven of Spring Baking Championship, she decided to take the challenge on. “Why not add it to my resume of things I’ve done?...