EC 10 Tips for Making the Ultimate Charcuterie Board
While I love to make opulent brunch dishes from time to time (a shiny babka, a quiche packed with neatly chopped vegeables, a tray of fat cinnamon rolls) I’ve recently found myself more interested in snack-style meals.
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EC: The Best Kitchen Hack Is Always Having Two Olive Oils
Perhaps you have recently attempted to clean out and reorganize your kitchen, inspired by the new year or watching Marie Kondo's Netflix show. Perhaps you are someone who realizes you might not need more than one kind of mustard or two kinds of salt. Maybe you're wondering if 36 mugs for two people is a fair number or excessive. But before you start discarding things from your pantry, consider the strategy you have for olive oil.
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EC Costco Sells Giant 6.6-Pound Tubs of Nutella
EC Champagne Papi Drake Makes His Own Champagne and It's $300
Don't act too surprised. Aubrey Drake Graham is dipping his toes into the world of Champagne with the recent unveiling of his very own Champagne brand called Mod Sélection Champagne. Yes, the Champagne Papi himself has made it official.
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EC Are Coconut Sugar and Date Sugar 'Healthy' Sugars?
There's a chance you’ve seen ingredients like coconut sugar or date sugar in recipes for sweet treats. “They’re so much better for you,” these recipes tend to claim. I'd like to get one thing straight here: sugar
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EC This Is the Very Best Instant Coffee
EC: All the Tricks to Using a Piping Bag
Piping bags look so simple. I mean, you put your dough or icing into the bag and snip off the tip, and there you have it, right? Even a Ziploc bag will do in a pinch, according to every Pinterest post and baking show I've seen. So why is it that whenever I attempt such a thing I end up with meringue or dough or potatoes or icing all over the place, with gloppy messes on a baking sheet instead of the pristine little swirls they're supposed to be? How, I ask, can you work a piping bag better?
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EC How to Make a Wellness Smoothie That Will Change Your Life
EC The History of Hot Sauce in America
Once upon a time, in 1830s New York City, a woman named Jane McCollick noticed a barefoot 11-year-old selling newspapers at Washington Market. McCollick had an idea for the “plucky young waif”: He should offer to clean up the meat scraps from the butchers and sell them to Indians in Hoboken.
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EC The Most Important Stop on the 2020 Campaign Trail? A Candidate’s Own Kitchen.
Today marks the swearing in of the 116th US Congress and the return of a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives. Though it will be the most racially diverse and female-dominated House of Representatives class ever elected, no member of the freshman class has inspired the hope of progressives and drawn the ire of the establishment like New York's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.