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Pickled Eggs Recipe Laura Sampson/Mashed By Laura Sampson AND Mashed Staff/Updated: Sept. 20, 2021 8:44 am EST Want your next salad or sandwich to truly wow your guests? This make-ahead recipe from food blogger Laura Sampson of Little House Big Alaska is the perfect way to lend a pop of color and flavor to any meal. We’re talking beet-pickled eggs, and before you click away thinking this recipe is going to be highly technical or require expensive equipment you don’t have, just give us one second of your time....

Pumpkin Cheesecake Recipe Tara Rylie/Mashed By Tara Rylie/Updated: Sept. 15, 2021 9:30 am EST Good ol’ fashioned pumpkin pie earned a place at our Thanksgiving tables back in the 1800s and to this day, most Americans won’t eat their holiday dinners without it. And ever since then, it’s been relegated to the fall as a seasonal dessert, showing up only for a short time each year — despite its massive popularity while around....

Shota Nakajima Dishes On Iron Chef Gauntlet - Exclusive Austin Quach By Molly Allen/Updated: Sept. 14, 2021 6:21 pm EST Chef Shota Nakajima has become well-known for his time on “Top Chef” Season 18. During that season, the Seattle-based chef impressed both judges and viewers and made it to the finals. But even though he didn’t win the title, he did walk away being recognized as the season’s Fan Favorite (via Bravo) and won the $10,000 prize money that came along with it....

Simple Chicken Francese Recipe Mikayla Marin/Mashed By Mikayla Marin/Updated: Sept. 16, 2021 9:03 am EST We’ve all been at that nice bistro or cozy corner café serving up classic dishes with beautiful names and wondered … what exactly is that? Today we’re demystifying a classic chicken recipe that we think you’ll definitely want to make. Chicken francese is an Italian-American dish that is thought to have originated with the first Italian immigrants into New York....

Slow Cooker Mongolian Beef Recipe Susan Olayinka/Mashed By Susan Olayinka AND Mashed Staff/Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 9:52 am EST There’s nothing like slow cooked beef when you’re craving a hearty, meat-based meal, and Mongolian beef takes things to another level with the addition of some mixed veggies and soy sauce for an undeniably East Asian flavor. But while the origins of Mongolian beef might seem obvious, this unique recipe actually didn’t come from the nation of Mongolia....

The Classic Dessert Andrew Zimmern Recommends For A Cozy Thanksgiving Sterling Munksgard/Shutterstock By Adrianna MacPherson/Nov. 12, 2021 1:57 pm EST For anyone with a sweet tooth, dessert is often the best part of a Thanksgiving feast — you may even limit your turkey consumption a little bit to ensure you have enough room to sample all of the sweet treats available. Perhaps you prefer the classics that are constantly served up for Thanksgiving, such as pumpkin pie and pecan pie....

The Reason You Shouldn’t Cook Frozen Ground Beef DronG/Shutterstock By Lauren David/Sept. 1, 2021 10:44 am EST It never hurts to have plenty of frozen ground beef in your freezer. This meat is versatile, making it convenient and easy to come up with numerous meals that range from hamburgers to spaghetti sauce. With so many possibilities, this ingredient makes meal planning and last-minute dinners easy. Having a go-to item in the freezer that you know and love can be a game-changer....

The Starbucks Pokemon GO Frappuccino You Forgot Existed Wachiwit/Shutterstock By Felix Behr/Sept. 17, 2021 10:21 am EST Everyone remembers Pokémon Go, right? For years in the last decade, you could not go anywhere without having to weave between hordes of people clustered around possible Pokémon sites. But do you remember Starbucks’ Pokémon Go Frappuccino? In 2016, during the height of the craze, Starbucks did what every fast-food company does when a fad has society transfixed....

The Unexpected Reason For Why Novak Djokovic Eats Grass Fotosr52/Shutterstock By Hannah Beach/Oct. 1, 2021 10:30 am EST A big part of childhood is eating weird things: dirt, grass, dandelions, earthworms. Fortunately, none of these are particularly dangerous, especially as a one-time occurrence, but why is grass on this list at all? Why is it weird? What makes it so different from eating a bowl of lettuce? Well, humans don’t have the same anatomy as animals who do eat grass, like cows....

This Is The First Meal Anne Burrell Cooked For Her New Husband Robin Marchant/Getty Images By Molly Clark/Oct. 21, 2021 12:28 pm EST Chef and Food Network celeb Anne Burrell is officially off the market. Per People, Burrell wed now-husband Stuart Claxton in a ceremony in her hometown of Cazenovia, New York, over the past weekend. Naturally, the reception menu was fantastic with starters that included cauliflower steak topped with caviar, a pasta course with goat cheese, and butternut squash ravioli, and the entrée options included braised short ribs and potato-crusted halibut....

This Is Why McDonald’s Breakfast Sandwiches Are So Delicious Justin Sullivan/Getty Images By Steven John/Updated: Sept. 13, 2021 8:21 am EST It’s hard to beat a McDonald’s breakfast. The fast food giant’s breakfasts are so beloved that, after years of the public begging, many items from the breakfast menu were offered at all hours of the day, though sadly for now that has been curtailed due to changes brought on by the COVID-19....

Twitter Is Roasting This Criticism Of Gordon Ramsay Rob Kim/Getty Images By Boshika Gupta/Jan. 14, 2022 8:51 am EST Gordon Ramsay is not a stranger to criticism and has received his share of backlash in the past. Ramsay even took on a food critic through social media after she wrote in a 2019 Eater piece that visiting his restaurant, Lucky Cat, made her feel like she was witnessing “a real-life Ramsay kitchen nightmare....

Why Candy Corn Might Be Harder To Find This Halloween Nodar Chernishev/Shutterstock By Kalea Martin/Oct. 19, 2021 2:50 pm EST If you look forward to eating candy corn every Halloween, you may be in for a bit of disappointment this year. The Takeout reports that Ferrara, the confectionery company behind Brach’s candy corn, was recently hit with a ransomware attack that has significantly disrupted production at the “worst possible time.” The infiltration of Ferrara’s systems has forced the company’s factories nationwide to operate at limited capacities, and that unfortunately means candy corn is being manufactured at a slower rate....

Why Olympians Will Be Served By Ceiling Robots In Beijing 2022 kholywood/Shutterstock By Boshika Gupta/Jan. 28, 2022 12:55 pm EST The idea of robots serving food to diners at eateries is slowly starting to gain traction: In 2021, a restaurant in Guangdong, China moved to a “fully automated dining and cooking experience” for its customers. The restaurant managed to establish a straightforward system and ensured that its robots would prepare fast food recipes, mainly stir fry dishes, fries, and noodles before serving them to customers through using a conveyor belt that runs through the ceiling of the eatery (via The South China Morning Post)....

Why Truffles Don’t Taste Like Truffle Oil New Africa/Shutterstock By Elise DeVoe/Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 7:55 am EST If you’ve ever wondered how your neighborhood bar can afford to have truffle fries on their menu, the short answer is they can’t. Well, they can’t afford real truffles, but they can afford to sprinkle truffle oil on there. Truffles are difficult to source and come at a high price point, so in the 1970s, food scientists attempted to artificially replicate the flavor in the form of a chemical called 2,4-dithiapentane (via Reader’s Digest)....

11 Starbucks Ground Coffee Flavors Ranked Worst To Best Manu Padilla/Shutterstock By Emily Monaco/Oct. 6, 2021 10:01 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Whether you love it or you hate it, it’s hard to argue with Starbucks’ omnipresence on the coffee scene. In the time since the very first Starbucks opened in Seattle in 1971, this coffee chain has become so ubiquitous as to be a running joke....

Burger King Fish Sandwich: What To Know Before Ordering Instagram By Meshawn Lloyd/Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 7:03 pm EST Burger King is a brand that’s known for flame-broiled burgers and its joke-laden, provocative advertising. Alongside all the colorful marketing, Burger King’s product lineup has stayed pretty consistent throughout the years. One such product in the chain’s arsenal is the Big Fish Sandwich. There’s pure beauty in a good, simple fried fish sandwich — crunchy, seasoned breading, tangy tartar sauce, crisp lettuce, and a not-too-soft, springy bun is really all you need....

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcake Recipe Molly Allen/Mashed By Molly Allen/Updated: Sept. 17, 2021 8:32 am EST The world of food comes with so many incredibly delicious flavor combinations. Chocolate and mint? Amazing. Raspberry and lemon? Totally refreshing. Throw peanut butter and chocolate into the mix, and you have one of the most crave-able combinations. Peanut butter and chocolate paired together is totally classic, and these two flavors show up in everything from cookies and pies to ice cream....

Costco Shoppers Are Drooling Over These Coffeecake Muffins beats1/Shutterstock By Molly Clark/Oct. 12, 2021 10:43 am EST There’s nothing like a bite of sweet, delectable coffeecake to accompany your morning joe, tea, or hot chocolate. There’s something about the pastry’s texture and the way it crumbles in your mouth and hands that adds to the gratifying experience. Luckily, for coffeecake lovers, Costco has something even better, as it’s re-releasing their famous coffeecake muffins....

Easy Maple Roasted Carrots Recipe Catherine Brookes/Mashed By Catherine Brookes AND Mashed Staff/Sept. 23, 2021 11:49 am EST Generally speaking, side dishes play a secondary role to the entrée, with asparagus spears, broccoli florets, or a basic house salad leaving little impression on a diner when compared to the ribeye or salmon fillet that anchored the meal. But that all goes out the window when you have a side dish like this one, created by chef and recipe developer Catherine Brookes of Blue Sky Eating....