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What Guy Fieri’s Home Kitchen Looks Like Ethan Miller/Getty Images By Boshika Gupta/Aug. 26, 2021 9:36 am EST A well-known celebrity chef like Guy Fieri sure knows how to ensure that his cooking setup is in place and fits his requirements. Per Closer Weekly, he has a gorgeous home in Santa Rosa, California where he stays with his family. His 6,000-square-foot home is a dream come true: It has four comfortable bedrooms, three bathrooms, a massive 1000-square-foot kitchen, a dining area, and so much more....

What Is Cornmeal And How Do You Use It? Shutterstock By Mirtle Pena-Calderon/April 9, 2021 2:31 pm EST Walking down the baking aisle at your local grocer will render you with a slew of floury baking options. You’ll find things like all-purpose flour, almond flour, oat flour, and cornmeal. While the other flours are somewhat distinguishable, when one gets to cornmeal, there are normally several different varieties available that make it somewhat difficult to know which of all the options one needs to make their grandmother’s cornbread recipe....

What Is Encurtido And What Does It Taste Like? Shutterstock By Shawna Cory/Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 5:10 pm EST Encurtido originates from Latin America and is a melange of hardy, spicy vegetables that can be enjoyed all year long. According to Google Translate, the term means “pickled” in Spanish — but these irresistible recipes taste far from simple. As the name suggests, preparing encurtido involves lots of vinegar and pickling salt....

What Is Freekeh And How Is It Used? Shutterstock By Lucia Capretti/April 30, 2021 12:18 pm EST Like history, food traditions go through cycles, with dishes of yore often finding their way back into modern diets. One category of food with ties to the past is ancient grains. While barley, quinoa, amaranth, farro, and others have increasingly found their way into the bulk food aisles of major supermarkets, freekeh is still in its early days of modernity....

Why ‘Receipt Walls’ Are Popping Up In Oklahoma Restaurants Shutterstock By Erich Barganier/May 3, 2021 3:58 pm EST The pandemic has brought the restaurant industry close together and encouraged businesses to support the community during this time of need. According to Forbes, a coalition of restaurants engaged in a massive fundraising campaign that collected donations that went towards keeping their businesses open and employees paid. These same restaurants also donated food to the needy and to local food banks to make sure anyone in a vulnerable position wouldn’t go without food, while dealing with the brunt of the early lockdowns....

Why Costco Is Better Than Sam’s Club, According To Reddit Sheila Fitzgerald/Shutterstock By Courtney Iseman/Aug. 23, 2021 4:10 pm EST Sam’s Club and Costco are both wide-reaching chains that offer membership-based shopping. Just join a store, and you unlock great deals on items, often in bulk quantities, from food to toiletries, plus clothes, electronics, and more. At first glance, they might not seem much different from each other at all....

Why You Should Think Twice About Ordering Dark Roast Coffee Shutterstock By Angela Gervasi/Updated: June 13, 2021 6:26 pm EST It’s a rough morning, and you need a stronger caffeine fix than usual. As you stand in line at your local, slightly-too-trendy cafe, you ponder the options. Skipping over the decadent latte flavors and suspiciously-pricey yogurt parfaits, you decide on a tall, hot cup of dark roast. After all, that’s the strongest thing on the menu, is it not?...

You Shouldn’t Throw Out Coconut Shells. Here’s Why Shutterstock By Elle Woodside/Updated: June 1, 2021 5:20 pm EST Once you’ve cracked open a coconut and scooped out the delicious insides, you may be wondering what to do with the shell. If you’ve managed to successfully split the fruit’s hard exterior into two halves, upcycling options abound. The Polynesian Cultural Center, which is “nuts over coconuts,” recommends repurposing the shells into jewelry or other crafts....

15 Best Substitutes For Eggs When Baking Shutterstock By Mashed Staff/Updated: Feb. 7, 2023 1:18 pm EST There are a few ingredients you always want to make sure you have stocked in your kitchen, and eggs are definitely one of them. Not only are they an incredibly versatile food, they can also be used to make some amazing cocktails like the whiskey sour and, of course, play a major role in baking....

15-Minute Cherry Upside-Down Cake Recipe Jennine Bryant/Mashed By Jennine Rye AND Mashed Staff/Sept. 1, 2021 4:42 pm EST When it comes to entertaining, it’s a good idea to have a few tricks up your sleeve. Perhaps you have a dish that you can practically make with your eyes closed that always receives high praise, or a quick dessert that is delicious and impressive. This cherry upside-down cake recipe by Jennine Bryant certainly fits into the latter category....

Costco Shoppers Won’t Want To Miss This Godiva Chocolate Deal Shutterstock By Kalea Martin/July 14, 2021 8:47 am EST For s’mores around the campfire or for trick-or-treaters on Halloween, you can’t go wrong with an American classic like Hershey’s. Yet, it doesn’t take a refined palette to determine that Godiva is pretty much as good as it gets when it comes to chocolate. Considering the Belgian chocolatier is ranked among the 10 best in the world (via National Geographic), paying top dollar for a single box of their premium chocolate is completely worth it, especially if you have a sweet tooth....

Creamy Turkey Wild Rice Soup Recipe Jaime Shelbert/Mashed By Jaime Bachtell-Shelbert AND Mashed Staff/June 28, 2021 10:32 am EST If there’s one holiday tradition that almost all families can relate to — no matter exactly which holidays you celebrate nor how exactly you celebrate them, you’ve likely prepared way too much food and ended up with a mountain of leftovers. And you can only eat so many turkey sandwiches or re-heated serving of sweet potato casserole in the days after a big family gathering before you’re over the whole leftover meal thing....

Do Americans Really Drink Soda For Breakfast? Wendy’s By Maria Scinto/May 20, 2021 1:20 pm EST If you’ve ordered any fast-food breakfast combo meals lately, you may have been amused to note that not only can you choose from coffee, juice, or milk as your beverage, but you’re also likely to have the option to select a soda instead. Is soda for breakfast really a thing now? Whether you’re in the “Coke is the only way to start the day” camp or you’re “Team Coffee all the way,” you may be wondering how many people are starting their day with something sweet and fizzy rather than hot and bitter....

Here’s How To Get Cast On Top Chef Facebook By Naomi Kennedy/May 18, 2021 12:41 pm EST Bravo’s “Top Chef” has been entertaining foodies and reality television fans alike since its premiere in March 2006 (via IMDb). Now in its 18th season, the program has seen a total of 244 “cheftestants” (via Top Chef Stats) compete in some major food cities throughout the United States including New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans, as well as some lesser-known hot spots like Kentucky, which Insider noted was specifically chosen as a filming location for its “underdog” status in the culinary world....

Here’s Why Ina Garten Says You Should Never Buy Breadcrumbs Shutterstock By Boshika Gupta/May 3, 2021 12:19 pm EST Celebrity chef Ina Garten is a godsend for her fans because she’s full of cooking tips meant to save time or increase the chances of cooking success. For example, according to Bon Appétit, Garten is a big fan of seasoning dishes with a single, simple ingredient: salt. She believes that adding salt to everything, including something as basic as oatmeal, makes the dish taste a lot better....

Ina Garten Loves This Affordable Beauty Brand Michael Loccisano/Getty Images By Karen Hart/May 10, 2021 3:55 pm EST Ina Garten is the celebrity chef with the culinary and entertaining savoir faire that we all covet and wish we had. How could we not? She’s a bit of an enigma. Garten makes her own vanilla extract, because, why wouldn’t she? The cookbook author also has her staff try out her recipes so she’ll know how to guide the common, wannabe cook and make suggestions about where to buy ingredients to make it easier when we try it....

Is The Always Pan Really As Great As People Say? Our Place By Rachel Pasche/May 20, 2021 10:43 am EST Between TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, it seems like new trends are popping up daily, and it can be tough to sort out things that are popular because they actually work and things that are popular just because they look cool. Taking the world by storm recently is the pastel Always Pan, which look like something you would — and do — see in aesthetic kitchen Instagram posts from influencers to celebrities alike....

Jamie Oliver Tops His Pork Burger With This Fresh Fruit Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images By Adrianna MacPherson/Aug. 24, 2021 12:03 pm EST Though burgers may seem like a very simple food, there are actually a lot of components that you need to get right in order to craft a truly mouthwatering burger. First of all, you want the bun to be the right type for what’s inside. While the classic soft white burger bun is a staple, some prefer options like a buttery brioche bun or pretzel bun, depending on what else is going on in the burger....

Juicy Grilled Pork Chops Recipe Mikayla Marin/Mashed By Mikayla Marin/July 7, 2021 4:33 pm EST A tender, well-seasoned pork chop caramelized over a bed of hot coals or a gas flame is pretty hard to beat during the summer grilling season. The trick that most home cooks struggle with is how to keep them juicy every single time. If we have your attention when talking about scrumptiously delicious grilled pork chops that you can easily make for dinner tonight, you will want to read on to learn how to prepare this juicy grilled pork chop recipe....

Kaley Cuoco Just Revealed Her Favorite Cocktail Shutterstock By Kalea Martin/July 9, 2021 9:06 am EST After her long-running CBS sitcom “The Big Bang Theory” aired its last episode, it wasn’t long before actress Kaley Cuoco took on another acting project. People reports that in the HBO Max thriller series “The Flight Attendant,” Cuoco portrays Cassie Bowden, a young flight attendant who has developed an unhealthy relationship with alcohol that escalates after she finds a passenger dead in her hotel room....