If you use ice in your smoothies, you might like the frosty texture but not the way it tends to water down flavors. Here's a tasty alternative: ice cubes made from coconut water. More

Avocado. Fried eggs. Pizza dough. I probably don't have to tell you that combining three of the world's greatest foods gives you one fine breakfast: a warm round of chewy crust topped with a bright, cilantro-speckled avocado mash and the perfect oozy egg.

Citrus and poppy seeds go hand in hand, as do muffins and spring. So what better way to welcome in March than with these scrumptious orange-infused poppy seed muffins? The bright and sunny flavors are guaranteed to lift your winter spirits, even if the weather is not ready to comply.
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Although muffin pans are typically used for their namesake, there are many other breakfast items that can also be whipped up in a jiffy and cooked in one. Small premade breakfasts are great for making ahead and eating throughout the week. Here are a few new ways to put that old pan to use. More

I think there are levels of salad dressing mastery. It begins when you stop buying store-bought bottles of vinaigrette in favor of making your own. (This took me some years to really get right!) Then comes dabbling with citrus juice, a shallot or two, maybe even a few attempts at homemade blue cheese dressing. But beyond these levels and sitting atop of the salad dressing food chain (if there is such a thing) is a nutty brown butter dressing. Butter on a salad? Oh yes — hear me out! More

I've been adding curry paste to an assortment of old standby dishes to give them a bit of kick. If you have half a can of curry paste lying about here are a few unexpected ways to put it to good use! More

Pizza? Check! Popcorn? Check! Netflix movie? Check! There were far too many of those Oscar movies that we didn't see, and this Friday seems like the perfect time to remedy that situation. Send out the email alert: it's time for a Pizza Night.

"I am a home cook," writes Diana Henry, and this is the approach she takes in Salt Sugar Smoke. "I have done everything in this book in a gentle way and didn't spend much on new equipment." Yet the results are glorious: sumptuous fruit jams and curds, savory smoked meats and salted fish, and a very international lineup of condiments, syrups, alcohols, and pickles. More

Q: Help! I'm looking for ways to dress up a gluten-free vanilla cake. My girlfriend's birthday is this weekend and I picked up a package of Bob's Red Mill gluten-free vanilla cake mix (per great reviews), but need some help to dress it up a bit and make it beautiful and birthday-worthy. 

My husband made this soup for me last night, and it was amazingly delicious — incredibly flavorful and filling, with just the right amount of spiciness. I could hardly wait for a second bowl. More