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Jan 15, 2025 | 
simplyrecipes.com | Lauren David |Lauren's career |Verywell Fit
I was eating mashed-up avocado on toast long before it became a trend on brunch and coffee shop menus. My Chilean father grew up eating avocado on toast and naturally made it for me when I was a child. Whenever I went grocery shopping with my dad, we would find either too many overripe avocados in the produce aisle or ones that were rock hard. Neither was a good option. This appears to be a universal problem.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
simplyrecipes.com | Lauren David |Lauren's career |Verywell Fit
More than once, I've wanted to serve up a delicious bowl of guacamole only to reach for an avocado in my fruit bowl and find it rock hard. Typically, a hard avocado takes around a week to ripen, but I don't always have that kind of time or patience, which made me wonder how to speed up the ripening process. Whether you need ripe avocados to spread on toast, chop up for a salad or a grain bowl, or mash up into a heaping bowl of guacamole, there is an easy trick that will shorten the ripening time.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
simplyrecipes.com | Lauren David |Lauren's career |Verywell Fit
Whether you’re a budding baker or have years of experience, you’ve likely seen plenty of recipes call for room-temperature eggs. Maybe you’ve skipped this step because you forgot to take the eggs out of the fridge ahead of time. Or maybe you always adhere to the instructions. Either way, let's get to the bottom of why many baking recipes call for room-temperature eggs. Many baking recipes start with what's called the creaming method.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
simplyrecipes.com | Lauren David |Lauren's career |Verywell Fit
Stocking up on meat that's on sale at the grocery store and then freezing it for later is a great technique for saving money. That is, until you pull out a steak and discover it has freezer burn because it wasn’t properly wrapped, had been in the freezer too long, or both. The good news is that freezer burn doesn’t have to derail your meal plans. Here’s what the experts say about eating meat with freezer burn, plus tips for reducing the chances of freezer burn in the first place.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
simplyrecipes.com | Lauren David |Lauren's career |Verywell Fit
I'm first in line to buy a basket of raspberries when they grace my local farmers market. Sometimes I'll even buy them at the grocery store in the off-season. I'm a huge fan of these sweet-tart berries. And that's why it's the worst when I place them in the fridge to top my yogurt with granola the next morning, only to find some have gone mushy. Why do plump, juicy-looking raspberries go bad so quickly? Are there any tricks for storing them so that they don't get mushy and gross?
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Aug 26, 2023 | 
simplyrecipes.com | Lauren David |Lauren's career |Verywell Fit
I'm first in line to buy a basket of raspberries when they grace my local farmers market. Sometimes I'll even buy them at the grocery store in the off-season. I'm a huge fan of these sweet-tart berries. And that's why it's the worst when I place them in the fridge to top my yogurt with granola the next morning, only to find some have gone mushy. Why do plump, juicy-looking raspberries go bad so quickly? Are there any tricks for storing them so that they don't get mushy and gross?
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Jul 31, 2023 | 
simplyrecipes.com | Lauren David |Lauren's career |Verywell Fit
I love when blueberry season comes around in the heat of summer. I head to my nearest farmers market to buy these small berries and often start snacking on them before I get home. Sometimes I bite into a slightly sour berry. Others in the same container, are wonderfully sweet. Curious why this might be, I spoke to two blueberry experts about how to tell if a blueberry is ripe and tips for selecting the best berries.
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Jun 16, 2023 | 
simplyrecipes.com | Lauren David |Lauren's career |Verywell Fit
I once accidentally nibbled on a raw potato and immediately worried about what might happen. I’ve heard that I shouldn’t eat raw potatoes—perhaps even that it’s not safe. No matter how you prepare these tubers—mashed, baked, boiled, or fried—there is a reason they are always cooked. “The cooking process helps break down the starches into simpler sugars, which enhances the flavor and makes the potato easier to digest,” says Danielle Gaffen, MS, RDN, LD, of Eat Well Crohn’s Colitis.
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Jun 9, 2023 | 
simplyrecipes.com | Lauren David |Lauren's career |Verywell Fit
Stocking up on meats when they're on sale at the grocery store and then freezing them for later is a great technique for saving money. That is, until you pull out a frozen steak and discover it has freezer burn because it wasn’t properly wrapped, has been in the freezer too long, or both. The good news is that freezer burn doesn’t have to derail your meal plans. Here’s what the experts say about eating meat with freezer burn, plus tips for reducing the chances of freezer burn in the first place.
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Jun 7, 2023 | 
simplyrecipes.com | Lauren David |Lauren's career |Verywell Fit
Whether you’re a budding baker or have years of experience, you’ve likely seen plenty of recipes call for room-temperature eggs. Maybe you’ve skipped this step because you forgot to take the eggs out of the fridge ahead of time. Or maybe you always adhere to the instructions. Either way, let's get to the bottom of why many baking recipes call for room-temperature eggs. What’s the Reason For Room-Temperature Eggs?
