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Lemon Butter Pasta With Chiles Recipe Kristen Carli/Mashed By Kristen Carli AND Mashed Staff/Aug. 4, 2021 10:15 am EST With all the types of pasta in the world to choose from, it can be difficult narrowing down which recipe you’d like to whip up for a meal. Some pasta dishes, like lasagna, are a little more involved and time-consuming. Others, like buttered noodles or macaroni and cheese, are quite simple to prepare when you don’t have much time to spend in the kitchen....

Lumache Is The Pasta Shape You’ve Been Missing Shutterstock By Nancy Mock/March 3, 2021 4:45 am EST It’s worth looking beyond the usual boxes of elbow macaroni and twisted rotini to find the intriguing pasta known as lumache. It has a unique shape that bears a striking resemblance to everyone’s favorite gastropod — the snail. Lumache is a plump and curved pasta that’s open on one end and pinched closed on the other, and it looks just like a snail shell....

Researchers Seek To Provide Ancient Solution For Modern Food Waste Problem Shutterstock By Amy Hamblen/Aug. 1, 2021 10:27 pm EST Food waste has negative impacts on food security, the environment, and climate change, according to the USDA, and the agency puts the United States’ overall food waste at a discouragingly high estimate: between 30% and 40% of the total food supply. This is a large number when you keep in mind that, when food is wasted, the resources — land, water, labor, and energy — that went into producing, processing, and transporting that food is also wasted (via USDA)....

The Big Mistake You’re Making With Candied Fruit Shutterstock By Audrey Michels/Jan. 29, 2021 3:38 pm EST TikTok can make just about anything trendy, from Dalgona coffee to cloud bread. However the latest food trend is slightly sweeter: candied fruit. Now, this isn’t the chewy cubes of brightly-colored preserved fruit that your grandmother put in her “famous” fruitcake. Instead, it’s just a way of upgrading everyday fresh fruit to have a crisp candy coating, just for fun (via She Knows)....

The Gift Your Foodie Friends Hate Receiving Over And Over Shutterstock By Rachel Pasche/May 7, 2021 10:04 am EST If you have a friend who’s a major foodie, they probably seem like a pretty easy person to buy gifts for. After all, who doesn’t love a new cutting board, some cute baking mixes in a jar, or some decadent flavored oils? The problem is, if you’re thinking that these make great gifts for the foodie in your life, chances are everyone else in their life is probably thinking along the same lines....

The Seasoning Duff Goldman Wishes Cinnamon Toast Crunch Would Use On Its Cereal Paul Archuleta/Getty Images By Maria Scinto/March 25, 2021 7:23 am EST Have you ever noticed how cinnamon seems to be in absolutely everything these days? Everything sweet, at least, although cinnamon increasingly makes its way into more and more savory dishes, as well. Now that cinnamon’s being touted as a super-healthy spice, hardly any dessert recipe these days doesn’t seem to call for a spoonful, whether or not it really enhances the dish....

This Might Be Why Vermont Doesn’t Have Any Chick-Fil-As Shutterstock By Nancy Mock/April 17, 2021 8:09 am EST Fans of Chick-fil-A might be accustomed to getting their chicken fix wherever they please. After all, according to a report from Restaurant Business, Chick-fil-A ranks as the third-largest restaurant chain in the U.S., topped only by McDonald’s and Starbucks. Chick-fil-A fans, be warned: There are still a few states who haven’t jumped on that chicken bandwagon, namely Alaska, Hawaii, and Vermont....

This Notoriously Difficult Recipe Is Worth It, According To Gesine Bullock-Prado Shutterstock By Hope Ngo/June 2, 2021 10:30 am EST There are cookies and brownies, then there are baked goods that strike fear in the heart of every home baker — and we wouldn’t be surprised if laminated dough sits on top of that list. If you think that the name itself makes the dough sound fiddly, that’s because it can be....

This Was The ‘Longest Meal Of Ladd’s Life,’ According To Ree Drummond Monica Schipper/Getty Images By Molly Harris/July 23, 2021 11:33 am EST When two people start dating and reach the inevitable point when one person finally cooks for the other, it can be a particularly tricky thing to pull off. No one wants to offend or disappoint their S.O. and their efforts, so they tend to act polite and go along with whatever the meal may hold — even if they don’t like it....

TikTok Is Divided On This Frozen Pizza Cutting Hack Shutterstock By Kate Hagan Gallup/July 23, 2021 7:56 pm EST Artisan pizza chefs, look away for this one. TikTok user Conan Harkin has a frozen pizza hack that has the internet divided. In a video about dividing pizza, they use the caption, “Break the pizza before cutting so you don’t have to cut it after” (via TikTok). The clip shows the TikToker grabbing a small frozen pizza still in the plastic, placing it along the side of the kitchen counter, and pushing until the crust cracks....

Trader Joe’s Shoppers Are Psyched For Its New Spicy Vegan Porkless Rinds Instagram By Sara Cagle/Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 2:59 pm EST If you’ve ever had a friend go on the keto diet, you’re probably familiar with the sound (and smell) of a just-opened bag of pork rinds or chicharrones. The snack — made by boiling pork skin, separating it from the fat, drying it, and finally deep-frying it in bite-size pieces until puffed and crispy — has long been a delicacy in the southern United States and many parts of Latin America, according to All Recipes....

What The Critics Are Saying About MrBeast Burger Facebook By Lucia Capretti/March 10, 2021 10:06 am EST You know it’s 2021 when a YouTube star creates a “virtual restaurant brand.” The brand in question, MrBeast Burger, offers delivery burgers, sandwiches, and fries via their own app or other food delivery services (via Inven Global). The concept entails preparing the orders in 300 pre-existing restaurants across the USA, according to Restaurant Business....

Why Helen McCrory Refused To Eat At McDonald’s Eamonn M. Mccormack/Getty Images By Hanna Claeson/April 16, 2021 2:33 pm EST When he announced her death via Twitter, Helen McCrory’s husband, Damian Lewis, described the late actress as “beautiful and mighty.” McCrory died “peacefully,” in her home, according to Lewis, “after a heroic battle with cancer … she died as she lived. Fearlessly.” You might know McCrory best as Narcissa Malfoy in Harry Potter....

5-Ingredient Chocolate Orange Tart Recipe Jennine Bryant/Mashed By Jennine Rye AND Mashed Staff/Aug. 13, 2021 10:54 am EST You know the old joke about how the United States and the United Kingdom are two nations separated by a common language? That quite often proves truest in the culinary world, and when it comes to this recipe, watch out, because if you use the American version of a biscuit, you’re going to make one terrible tart!...

Baja Blast Fans Need To Know About This Bizarre New Mountain Dew Product Shutterstock By Maria Scinto/Updated: Aug. 6, 2021 11:25 am EST If you’re a Baja Blast fan, you probably look forward to the product’s limited-time retail release. For a few months each year, you can actually stock your fridge with your favorite bevvie rather than having to swing through the Taco Bell drive-thru or resort to a DIY version every time the craving hits!...

Costco Shoppers Are Unhappy With These Cauliflower Egg Wraps. Here’s Why Daniel Pockett/Getty Images By Aimee Lamoureux/Updated: June 13, 2021 4:29 pm EST For people that are trying to eat healthier and cut out carbs in the new year, Costco has them covered with its new sale on healthy egg wraps made with cauliflower, per Crepini. These wraps are low in calories and contain no carbs, dairy, or gluten, and they are on sale at Costco until Jan....

Crusty French Bread Recipe Kristen Carli/Mashed By Kristen Carli AND Mashed Staff/Aug. 3, 2021 10:04 am EST Take a few seconds and think about this one: Is there any better food than bread? We’re not talking about pizza or a sandwich or a cheeseburger or some dish with multiple components here (though note that bread is the base for all of those anyway), but rather about one single, basic type of food....

Damaris Phillips: What The Winner Of Food Network Star Season 9 Is Doing Now Neilson Barnard/Getty Images By Joel Stice/Updated: Feb. 8, 2021 4:02 pm EST Winning Food Network Star is a huge deal, and can catapult a chef into the realm of celebrity. The most prominent example of this is Food Network megastar Guy Fieri, who won the competition back in 2006. Not every winner of Food Network Star actually becomes a Food Network star, though....

Do This Before Throwing Away Your Corn Cobs Shutterstock By Lauren Cahn/July 6, 2021 3:29 pm EST When it comes to the fine art of cooking corn on the cob, there are a lot of mistakes to be made. They can run the gamut from not paying attention to the color of the tassels (look for golden tassels when corn shopping) to premature husking (don’t remove the husks until you’re about to start cooking, and certainly not while you’re still in the supermarket) to over-cooking and over-topping (no disrespect to Mexican street corn, which is great)....

Easy Breakfast Nachos Recipe Kristen Carli/Mashed By Kristen Carli AND Mashed Staff/July 7, 2021 4:30 pm EST If you’ve ever struggled to find a creative, delicious, and filling breakfast that pleases the whole family, you aren’t alone. As we all know, breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but we often skip it for a number of reasons. Maybe you’re in a pinch for time, or you’re tired of making the same old thing over and over again....