Our second interview is with Jeni Britton Bauer the founder of Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams whose cookbook Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home came out last month and recently made it on to the New York Times Best Seller List. You can find Jeni’s splendid ice creams in her shops in Ohio and Tennessee, as well as online and in […]
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Make Your Own Salad Dressings
Next time you make a salad, take an extra few minutes and whip up a homemade salad dressing as well. Not only will you be using better, fresher ingredients, you can also customize it to your tastes. Here are Real Simple’s favorite homemade salad dressing recipes: Basic Vinaigrette (shown above) Italian Vinaigrette Lemon and Shallot Vinaigrette Balsamic-Dijon Vinaigrette Basil-Lemon Dressing […]
Tricks of the Trade from a Food Stylist
As a professional cook who works with other cooks, food photographers and stylists every day, I have picked up tons of handy tips and tricks, things like shocking the life and crisp back into wan carrots and celery by plunging them in an ice water bath, cooking bacon in the oven on a rimmed baking sheet to avoid oily splashes […]
Cooking With Your CSA Share
The calendar may not yet agree, and my boys are still in school for an additional few days, but in my view summer has officially begun. That’s because Farmer Andy has started driving his pickup and trailer to the back of our church on Fridays to unload our CSA (community supported agriculture) shares. I’ve written about my love for my […]
Introducing Foodie #1
Hi Simply Stated readers! This is my first blog post so I thought I would take a few sentences to make a formal introduction. My name is Charlyne Mattox, and I have been working in the Real Simple Food Department since the Fall of 2010. (The recipe shown above is one of the first things I worked on when I […]
Choose Your First Featured Ingredient
It’s time to pick the ingredient you’ll be focusing on this week for your 3-ingredient recipes. We’ve chosen four items that are in season now, and you’ll have until tomorrow at 8:59 a.m. EST to vote for the one you want to cook with. We’ll announce the results and give you some inspiration tomorrow!
Click through to vote for your favorite.
What’s Your Best 3-Ingredient Recipe?
Last summer, for the first time, we did an entire collection recipes that only require three ingredients. It was so popular, that we brought it back this year. (Be sure to be on the look out for the July issue!) Now that we’ve come up with 53 deliciously simple 3-ingredient recipes, we want to give you a chance to share your favorite 3-ingredient recipes.
So, we’ll be running a little challenge here on Simply Stated, our Real Simple Facebook page, and our @RealSimpleFood stream on Twitter. Keep reading to learn how you can participate.
