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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Sara Klimek
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When people think "mise en place," their minds often go to cooking -- whether that's getting all of the ingredients and tools ready for using an outdoor pizza oven or measuring out your flour, sugar, and the like for a cake before you bake. Alas, mise en place also applies to everyone's least favorite part of cooking: the cleanup process.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Sara Klimek
Crafting a meal at home isn't easy. Not only do you have to shop for your main proteins, but you also have to build out side dishes to complement the flavors and -- both metaphorically and literally -- fill in the gaps on your plate. Finding side dishes that pair well with fish can be especially tricky, seeing as how much the flavor and textures of fish can vary. In other words, the side dish that you use for canned sardines may not be the one you'd use for a tuna steak and vice versa.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Sara Klimek
There is a seemingly endless selection of store-bought pickles waiting for you at your local supermarket. Not only will you find the fresh pickles (including my personal favorite brand, Grillo's), but also an array of shelf-stable varieties and flavors, including classic dills, half-sours, kosher dills, sweets, and perhaps the most unique and complex of them all: bread and butter pickles.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Sara Klimek
There is a seemingly endless selection of store-bought pickles waiting for you at your local supermarket. Not only will you find the fresh pickles (including my personal favorite brand, Grillo's), but also an array of shelf-stable varieties and flavors, including classic dills, half-sours, kosher dills, sweets, and perhaps the most unique and complex of them all: bread and butter pickles.
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1 week ago | 
tastingtable.com | Sara Klimek
Why McDonald's Big Macs And Margaritas Are A Match Made In Heaven
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Fast food, as a whole, is generally not thought to be sophisticated, special, or worthy of a boozy pairing. It's the stuff of road trips, late night cravings, and meals where you're just so hungry that anything tastes good.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Sara Klimek
Fast food, as a whole, is generally not thought to be sophisticated, special, or worthy of a boozy pairing. It's the stuff of road trips, late night cravings, and meals where you're just so hungry that anything tastes good. But with careful flavor alchemy and culinary intuition, you can elevate the flavor of your fast food favorites by pairing them with boozy classics and give them the sophisticated upgrade they deserve. One of the most genius McDonald's food and cocktail pairings?
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1 week ago | 
tastingtable.com | Sara Klimek
The Best Time To Go Shopping At Aldi, According To Reddit
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One of the worst parts about going grocery shopping is waiting in long lines at self-checkout, seemingly having to climb over other shoppers to get your hands on the best products, and navigating a busy parking lot. These crowding issues are amplified at smaller grocery stores, including fan-favorite Aldi.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Sara Klimek
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. You may have been lucky enough to grow up in a household with a built-in ice machine in your fridge. Never would you have to worry about room-temperature tap water, or lemonade that was a little too warm to be enjoyable. The age-old "you never know what you have until it's gone" didn't set in for us until we moved into a home without an ice machine and realized that we had to come up with a work-around -- fast.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Sara Klimek
Everyone has their perfect version of pizza. Up until my early adulthood, mine was a standard, New Haven-style pie with mozzarella. Cheese, sauce, crust -- nothing more, nothing less. It wasn't until I started working in a pizzeria, and eventually crafting my own pizzas at home, that I realized that there was a whole world of creative, ingenious, and out-there pies worth exploring. I found that the easiest way to gradually introduce myself to these pies was to experiment more with the sauce.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Sara Klimek
Grocery stores that offer fresh baked goods always have delicious items to add to your cart -- and other ones that you're better off skipping. While bakery items like crunchy bread and chocolate chip cookies are typically must-haves, store-bought donuts may leave you with a bit of buyer's remorse. They always sound good in the moment, but their quality is not always on par with your favorite local or chain donut shop -- unless, of course, your grocery store sells Krispy Kreme donuts.
