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Andrea Lobas

Gibsonia

News and Trending Editor at Allrecipes

Articles

  • 6 days ago | allrecipes.com | Andrea Lobas

    Jake Sternquist / Food Styling: Charlie Worthington / Prop Styling: Gabriel Greco Meet the perfect potato salad to bring along wherever you're going this summer. Toss together roasted, smashed potatoes with all the "loaded" fixings—from sour cream to bacon—for a creamy, satisfying dish. It packs well in the cooler, too. Jason Donnelly / Food Stylist: Holly Pressman / Prop Stylist: Natalie Ghazali Need an easy meal to take to the pool or beach? Here's another recipe to pack in the cooler.

  • 1 week ago | allrecipes.com | Meghan Glass |Andrea Lobas

    Nuts make for the perfect snack. Not only are they quick, easy, and portable, but they also pack a nutritional punch that keeps us energized. Whether you’re adding them to trail mix or granola, or processing them into butter, you want your peanuts, almonds, and cashews to stay fresh for as long as possible. Besides, nuts are expensive these days. We can't afford the waste. So, where should you store them to maximize their shelf life? Do different nuts go bad faster than others? Do they even go bad?

  • 2 weeks ago | allrecipes.com | Andrea Lobas

    If there is anything more decadent and satisfying to dig into than a steaming bowl of lobster pasta, I haven’t found it yet. It’s one of my favorite summer meals to treat myself to when the mood strikes, though this is a rarity because of how time-consuming and expensive all things seafood can be. So when our Allrecipes team caught wind of a quick, easy, and affordable hack to make restaurant-level lobster pasta a weeknight reality, we knew we struck recipe gold.

  • 3 weeks ago | allrecipes.com | Andrea Lobas

    So, after a successful global run, McDonald’s is finally bringing its Squishmallows partnership back to the Golden Arches for the first time since 2023. McDonald’s Squishmallows Happy Meal officially hit menus on May 13 with 12 characters, including a never-before-seen Intergalactic Axolotl named Halley. In case you don’t have any people in your life begging for Squishmallows, let us explain. Squishmallows are just about the biggest toy in the world right now.

  • 3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Andrea Lobas

    While news of upgraded McCrispy Strips (a hopeful harbinger of the returning snack wrap?) and customized Cotton Candy Sprite has been keeping us on our McFlurry-loving toes, nothing quite compares to McDonald's Happy Meal releases. After all, a new McFlurry is great, but Happy Meal toys became an instant sensation—maybe because they don't require the ice cream machine to be functioning.