May 2012
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Kitchen Tip of the Day: Tofu Tips
Just because it’s good for you and beloved by vegetarians, there’s no need for meat-eaters to steer clear of tofu. Versatile and easy to cook with, tofu takes on many roles and adapts well to the flavors of sauces and marinades.
Firm? Extra-Firm? or Silken? Select the right tofu for the right dish: Firm tofu is the most common form. Often found packaged in the dairy section, it...
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Cinco for Cinco: Home Taco Truck
Enjoy authentic street food right in your own kitchen!
Oaxacan Tacos
Mexican Corn on the Cob
Tacos De Matamoros
Taqueria-Style Tacos—Carne Asada
Slow Cooker Carnitas
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7 Easy Pasta Salad Recipes →
These simple recipes are ideal for a picnic, potluck, or cookout.
April 2012
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What's Hot in the Kitchen This Week?
Give me some tried-and-true family favorites! That’s what this week’s most popular recipes are all about. We’ve got chicken, we’ve got tacos, we’ve got meatballs and sauce. Apple pie and a spinach dip too! Let’s hear a big “YUM” for this recipe selection! Allrecipes cooks know what’s awesome!
Good Frickin’ Paprika Chicken was the top new recipe last week, another straight-forward,...
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Cinco for Cinco: Taco Bar Must-Haves
Feed fiesta-goers the easy way with an assemble-it-yourself taco bar.
Slow Cooker Cilantro Lime Chicken
Garden Tomato Salsa
Easy Guacamole
Amy’s Cilantro Cream Sauce
Mexican Rice
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Cinco for Cinco: Guacamole
A few simple ingredients come together to create just about one of the best things ever.
Best Guacamole
Guacamole
Tomatillo Guacamole
Wasabi Guacamole
Easy Guacamole
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Cinco for Cinco: Margaritas
It wouldn’t be a fiesta without a margarita in hand—do you prefer to go classic or get creative?
Margaritas
Parker’s Famous Margaritas
Ultimate Frozen Strawberry Margarita
Grapefruit Margaritas
Mangorita
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7 New Takes on Macaroni and Cheese →
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Cookin’ to the Beat
We cooks are a pretty diverse lot. If the differences in what we cook aren’t enough to make that clear, then think about what we listen to when we cook. I’m betting more barbeque gets basted to the blues than, say, big band standards. Biscuits and country music? Of course. Martinis and big band swing? The classics always go together.
Some dishes just need the right music in the background. Kinda...
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Cinco for Cinco: Small Bites
Just a handful of classic Mexican finger foods, and you’ve got yourself a fiesta!
Easy Chicken Taquitos
Best Ever Jalapeno Poppers
Best Ever Layered Mexican Dip
Chicken Quesadillas
Chili Relleno Squares
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More Chicken, Please!
If chicken is a family favorite around your dinner table, Hellmann’s® has a recipe or two you should try! Check out the delicious Parmesan-Crusted Chicken recipe—four ingredients and quick and easy. It’s a great weeknight meal to please the whole family, trust us; we tried it with some of the ’peeps here at the office and it was gone in about 10 minutes. Take a peek at the Chicken recipe...
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What's Hot in the Kitchen This Week?
Here’s what home cooks have been whipping up in their kitchens this week. Pasta and chicken win, but then you already know how much Allrecipes’ cooks love these two ingredients. Lemon Yogurt Dip was the most popular new recipe last week—and talk about totally easy to make! I’m wondering what it would taste like with brown sugar? Check out the video to learn a super easy, super fast way to squeeze...
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Cinco for Cinco: Pitcher Drinks
Making drinks for a crowd is easy with these recipes—just mix once, and keep pouring.
Joe’s Famous Michelada
Beer Margaritas
White Sangria
Sangria! Sangria!
Mexican Strawberry Water (Agua de Fresa)
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7 Top-Rated Grilled Shrimp Recipes
So easy and tasty, these shrimp will offer jumbo flavor at any BBQ.
Spicy Lime Grilled Shrimp
Basil Shrimp
Margarita Grilled Shrimp
Grilled Marinated Shrimp
Grilled Shrimp Scampi
Marinated Grilled Shrimp
Thai-Spiced Barbecue Shrimp
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Get (Recipes for) Revenge
Murder, arson, swapped identities…these are just a few of the mysterious happenings on ABC’s Revenge. And I say, keep ‘em coming! Because there are three things I love: mysteries, solving mysteries, and solved mysteries. (I love licorice, too—so, four things.)
As more Hamptons secrets are revealed, more light is getting shed on the truth about David Clarke and the Graysons, but the one mystery I...
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Kitchen Tip of the Day: Cleaning with Lemons
De-grease and eliminate odors by throwing leftover lemon wedges down your garbage disposal.
Refresh cutting boards with lemons: rub a cut lemon over the surface to neutralize onion and garlic odors.
Place half a lemon with 1 cup water in a microwave-safe container. Microwave for 5-10 minutes to eliminate odors. Wipe dry.
Clean thermoses and remove stubborn odors with a mix of ice cubes, table...
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Learn how to make a wow-worthy edible centerpiece. →
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#EarthDayFun Twitter Chat
We’re spending Earth Day with our sister brands and tweeting eco-friendly tips for families, upcycled craft ideas, green recipes, and more! Join the conversation 2-4 p.m. EDT Friday and share your favorite eco-friendly tips and tricks. We can’t wait to “tweet” you!
What: #EarthDayFun Tweet Chat presented by Meredith Corporation brands
When: 2-4 p.m. EDT, Friday, April 20
Where: Follow along...
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Kitchen Tip of the Day: Beef Basics
What’s the best beef for the grill, slow cooker, roasting pan, or wok? Cuts of Beef Certain cuts of beef are suitable for different cooking methods. Shoulder, chuck, and blade cuts require long, slow cooking to become tender, as do beef round and rump roasts. Flank steak, ribs, loin, and sirloin are the best choices for grilling or fast, high-heat cooking methods.
Brisket: From the chest...
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What's Hot in the Kitchen This Week?
Easter recipes hit the top of the chart last week! Who doesn’t love a holiday where food is part of the celebration?! Celebrating spring’s arrival and religious festivities with a special home-cooked feast is a time-honored tradition around the world. And the week’s most popular recipes? How do deviled eggs, asparagus, and ham sound? Of course, chicken—as in chicken and dumplings, a...
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#Allrecipes Tweet Chat: Wrap Up
Wednesday was our first monthly #AllrecipesChat; it was all about slow cookers! Thanks to everyone who participated and shared their favorite slow cooker recipes and tips. Below is a recap of the Tweet Chat. Can’t wait to tweet you in May for our next #AllrecipesChat, stay tuned for more details. Q1: What are your favorite #slowcooker recipes? Do you go for the stew, roast, or chili?...
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A Salute to the Titanic Menu
A menu from the first-class dining saloon of the R.M.S. Titanic on April 14, 1912, recently sold at auction for approximately $120,000. In honor of the 100th anniversary, we’ve put together a menu with top-rated recipes inspired by the original.
You’re going to want to block out some serious cooking time, though—and pace yourself during the meal—because, at 10 elaborate courses, they weren’t...
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Kitchen Tip of the Day: Grilling Pizza
Want pizza with a crispy, chewy crust and wonderful smoky flavor? Then put your pie on the grill! Grilled Pizza: The Basics Grilled pizzas are a specific style of pie: typically thin-crusted, they’re lightly sauced (too much liquid means a soggy crust) with minimal toppings. They also cook very fast. Make the Dough Use your favorite crust recipe. Divide the dough into two or more...
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11 “Glee”-Inspired Food Mash-Ups
I keep waiting for SNL to do spoof of Glee that includes an over-the-top mash-up. Like, maybe a four-song monstrosity that incorporates Rebecca Black’s Friday, Chicago’s Saturday in the Park, U2’s Sunday Bloody Sunday, and Manic Monday by the Bangles. (They could call it Long Weekend.)
Because Glee just wouldn’t be Glee without the mash-ups. Two great songs melted together for an even better...
Push-Button Pizza
It might be the single greatest thing to happen since…well, since pizza (since pizza is, in fact, better than sliced bread). It’s a fridge magnet with a blue-tooth connection to your phone, and when you press it, you’ve just ordered a pizza. It’s like a bat signal for hungry people.
Now, it’s probably not something you have to plan for just yet; this news comes from...
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#Allrecipes Tweet Chat: #SlowCooker Wednesday
Spring may be here but there are a lot of us who haven’t put away their slow cooker yet. Join the Allrecipes team for our first monthly Tweet Chat (#AllrecipesChat) and learn some tips, tricks, and new recipes for your favorite kitchen appliance, the slow cooker.
Haven’t participated in a Tweet Chat before? It’s simple and fun to join in! Follow the chat on Twitter or this TweetGrid, answer...
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Kitchen Tip of the Day: Basic Soup Stocks
Basic Soup Stocks: Vegetarian, Beef, and Chicken
A homemade stock adds depth and body to soup, stews, and braises.
Best Bets
Homemade stock provides a background to soup, so the ingredients you choose should be supportive, not overwhelming. Yesterday’s, or even last week’s, vegetables are fine, as long as they’re still healthy. The beauty of stock ingredients is the ideal...
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Dinner Spinner App Gets Major Upgrade with Grocery... →
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What's Hot in the Kitchen This Week?
Holiday cooks were busy in the kitchen this week! I can tell from the seasonal recipes for Easter and Passover showing up on the list. Check out the hottest new recipe here, along with some tried-and-true faves starring everyone’s favorite ingredient: Chicken!
Pineapple Upside Down Cupcakes was the most popular new recipe
Haroset for Passover had the biggest increase in page views last week
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Top 10 Hyper-Foodie Quotes From Schmidt on New...
If I had to pick a moment, it would be early in the second episode—Schmidt had me at the skull thumb ring. But it wasn’t until later that episode when I realized there was even more funny in this character to love.
Jess and her new roommates go to her ex-boyfriend Spencer’s house to get her stuff back, and when Spencer refuses to return her hard-earned “Jam-boree” T-shirt (“jam,” as in what you...
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Adding Meatless Meals to the Menu
These top-rated vegetarian recipes are perfect for a Meatless Monday, a Flexitarian Friday — or any day when replacing meat is on the menu.
You don’t have to be a vegetarian to go meatless from time to time. Rotate these popular meatless main dishes into your weekly dinner schedule.
Meatless Casseroles
Ratatouille Bake
Vegetarian Burrito Casserole
Eggplant Parmesan
Vegetarian...
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What's Hot in the Kitchen This Week?
We’re somewhere between St. Patrick’s Day and Easter so what will be on the menu this week? How about some money and time saving dishes! Allrecipes sends out emails to millions of people every week, so it’s interesting to see which, of all the recipes we feature in the emails, are the most loved. This week, we have some clear winners from our What’s Cooking email yesterday...
