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7 Ways to Use Leftover Bacon Fat

The next time you cook bacon, don't throw out the drippings! From salad to brownies, here are seven excellent recipes that take advantage of bacon …

The 5 Best Burger Toppings You’ve Never Tasted

18 Healthy Thanksgiving Recipes Guests Will Want to Gobble Up

Thanksgiving is only a few weeks away, which means it’s time to start planning the menu for the perfect family or Friendsgiving meal. The holiday season kicks off a marathon of treats and feasts, to reward us for eating clean and working out during the rest of the year. Good thing there are also …

20 Easy Thanksgiving Appetizer Recipes to Get the Party Started

When you’re planning the menu for your Thanksgiving or holiday party, appetizers can often fall by the wayside. Somewhere between the main course and dessert, you forgot about the little bites that get the party started. Have no fear — here are 20 easy Thanksgiving appetizer recipes that are sure …

The Wonky Donkeys’ award-winning chilli – recipe

Don’t be put off by the vast list of ingredients here. The four types of meat are there for flavour and texture; the chillies are available online.<p><b>Olive oil</b><p><b>400g minced beef</b><p><b>300g beef shin, diced 1cm</b><p><b>400g stewing beef</b><p><b>4 pork shoulder steaks</b><p><b>2 medium onions, finely chopped</b><p><b>2 celery sticks, finely diced</b><p><b>3</b> …

The 6 Ingredients That Will Transform Your Bourbon

Celebrate #30DaysofBourbon by drinking the brown stuff like you mean it.<p>Simplicity is key when making cocktails at home.<p>Though it's hard not to love a basic whiskey and ginger ale, sometimes it's exactly that: basic. Then again, more than three or four ingredients in one glass can spell disaster …

52 Delicious Swedish Meals You Need To Try Before You Die

Swedish cooking has more to it than meatballs.

Chocolate chip cookies with vanilla and sea salt

These cookies with sea salt chocolate and vanilla make the perfect mid-afternoon snack<p>MAKES<p>9<p>INGREDIENTS<p>425g sea salt chocolate, chopped<br>• 225g unsalted butter (at room temperature)<br>• 170g sugar<br>• 170g dark brown sugar<br>• 1 vanilla pod, scraped<br>• 2 eggs (at room temperature)<br>• 280g plain flour<br>• 5g baking soda<br>• 5g sea …

An End-of-Summer Italian Al Fresco Dinner

Late August is my favorite time of year: just cool enough to eat outside without dripping sweat into your food, but still the season for excellent produce. It's like all those tender stalks of asparagus, juicy tomatoes, and bunches of fresh herbs are just begging you to make a totally killer …

12 Fall Drinks to Make with All That Apple, Pumpkin, and Cinnamon Goodness

While you think you've sipped every cider known to man, you haven't tried this decadence-in-a-glass! Each glass is topped with a rich dollop of whipped cream and a sprinkling of honeyed walnuts.

You must try this bacon-wrapped pork belly recipe

When you love bacon, you can never have too much. This love is deep, and it goes way beyond the breakfast table.<p>And while we bacon lovers might be content to dress up our sandwiches, salads, veggies and more with this most glorious of creations -- bacon is a team player, after all, and makes …

Classic Comfort Food

We've rounded up all our favorite comforting classics that embody the creamy, the chewy, the warm, and the gooey.<p>Your search for the ultimate mac and cheese recipe has come to an end. Sharp white cheddar, grated Gruyere, and Percorino Romano cheeses give the sauce its heavenly richness and …

Raw recipes

As I’ve discovered this week, making raw dishes isn’t just as simple as stepping away from the frying pan. Not only is it a bit of a minefield trying to work out what’s raw and what’s not (apologies in advance, if I’ve let some heat treatment slip through the net for the stricter among you), but …

27 Genius Recipes for Labor Day

Whether you're at the beach, or at the lake, or just bumping around home soaking up your last long weekend for a good while (don't think about it), these recipes will make the weekend happier, more festive, more memorable, and therefore make it last, maybe, forever.<p>Don't just grill a burger; stuff …

Cheap and easy recipes for students on a budget

Big bowls of pasta, stuffed peppers, jacket potatoes and mug cakes: these are the perfect recipes to get you through your first term at university<p>Going off to university can be daunting: meeting new people, living away from home and cooking for yourself for the first time.<p>As a student you will …

September suppers to welcome in autumn

With September almost upon us, Rose Prince looks ahead to easy yet impressive early-autumn meals, and slower dishes worth waiting for<p>As those who have travelled in summer will know, delays are not often rewarding. But with cooking it is different, and one or two of these early-autumn recipes …

19 Kitchen Skills You Should Master By Your Mid-20s

It is time. Seamless is stealing your money and and your health, and one day a grownup is going to come over and you'll want to serve them something more gourmet than a half-eaten bag of Funyuns. It is time to learn how to cook for yourself, like the adult that you are.<p>You'll need to go to the …

26 Insanely Good Snacks You Can Make Ahead And Eat All Week

Prep once, snack like a champ for a week. No more sad handfuls of sad almonds.

The very best jam recipes

From classic strawberry, to raspberry and plum, to exotic melon, fig and passion fruit, these easy jams will perk up any breakfast or cake in an instant<p>Nothing is more delicious than a piece of good quality bread, toasted, buttered and slathered with jam. This comforting breakfast will never grow …

Raise the steaks with this recipe for a barbecued feast

I was having an argument last week with a chef friend, one of this country’s finest meat cooks – I’ll call him Neil – about cooking steak on the barbecue. Not how to do it, but whether you should do it at all.<p>He argued that, when cooking at home, it seemed like a lot of faff and a bit wasteful to …

All 30 Recipes from the Hot 10 Best New Restaurants 2015

Want to cook like a chef in the Hot 10? Try one of these straight-off-the-menu recipes.<p><b>Want to cook like a chef</b> at one of the Hot 10 best new restaurants in America? Try one of these straight-off-the-menu recipes from the pages of the September issue of <i>Bon Appétit</i> (and catch our 2016 list here!).

28 Recipes to Make Before Summer Is Over

We're not really sure how it happened (wasn't it just Memorial day?), but summer is almost over. Buy the best fruits and vegetables that you can and start making the most of it—STAT.<p><b>We're not really sure how it happened (wasn't it just Memorial day?)</b>, but summer is almost over. The bright side? Now …

10 Wonderful Salads That Are Essentially Just an Excuse to Eat Cheese

We love salads at Food & Wine. Great, crisp produce tossed with a simple vinaigrette is all we want sometimes. But other times we want to eat a salad …

15 of the World's Most Expensive Cheeses

There's so much more to the wonderful world of cheese than your typical grocery store brick would suggest. Thousands of artisan cheeses around the …

This Week in Recipes

Appetizers<p>Poutine Poppers (Cheese-Stuffed Potato Bites With Brown Gravy)<br>• Mushrooms and Tofu With Chinese Mustard Greens<br>• Sichuan Shirataki Sesame Noodle Salad With Cucumber, Sichuan Peppercorn, Chili Oil, and Peanuts (Vegan)<br>• Chinese Turnip Cake With Sausage, Bacon and Mushrooms (Law Bok Gow)<br>• Quick and …

10 Easy French Recipes to Try at Home

Reading Time: 6 minutes.<p>Often when people hear about French food, they think long, complicated processes, difficult to pronounce ingredients, and …

How to Cook in College When You Actually Have a Kitchen

<i>Back to school? Don't settle for subpar cafeteria food. Here's how to be a master dorm chef, at least when you actually have kitchen access. Oh wait, that's not your set-up? Then check out our guides for how to cook when you have no microwave or fridge, or when you do have 'em.</i><p>You’ve got it all: …

A Chili Paste Primer

<i>Inspired by conversations on the Food52 Hotline, we're sharing tips and tricks that make navigating all of our kitchens easier and more fun.</i><p><i>Today: Sriracha is the only gateway to the wonderful world of chili pastes. Here’s a primer on the others you should be paying attention to.</i><p>Now that you know …