Video: How To Make Strawberry Shortcake To make strawberry shortcake, all you have to do is toss sliced fresh strawberries in sugar, and let them set for a bit to macerate. The sugar will draw moisture out of the strawberries and dissolve to make a syrupy sauce. Serve the strawberries over white cake or biscuits, and top with whipped cream. Cake or Biscuits? Do you like your shortcake with cake or biscuits?...
It’s typically spooned onto crusty bread as an appetizer, but caponata also makes a wonderful pasta sauce. Agrodolce (literally “sour-sweet”) preparations are popular all over the island of Sicily. This technique of mixing vinegar into dishes sweetened with ingredients like tomatoes and raisins is a lesson learned centuries ago from the Arabs who settled in the region. Caponata is part of this long-standing Arab-Sicilian cuisine. Traditionally, making caponata begins by frying cubes of eggplant in oil, but I prefer roasting them instead....
English scones are light, flaky, and just barely sweet. That means slathering them with clotted cream and strawberry or raspberry jam is practically obligatory. What Are English Scones? English scones are more closely aligned with American biscuits than they are to American scones. While American scones are dense, rich, and sweet, English scones are lighter, flakier, and only lightly sweetened. English scones contain less butter and sugar and are usually just enriched with plain milk rather than the heavy cream and sometimes egg that’s often used to enrich American scones....
It’s impossible for me to pick a favorite Mexican dish, but tacos are pretty high up there. When they’re on-point, they never fail to hit that savory, satisfying, so-good note that made me crave them in the first place. Whether it’s Crispy Fish Tacos with Red Cabbage Slaw or Chorizo and Egg Breakfast Tacos, tacos of all kinds are always a win. “Everything can be a taco!” writes Gabriela Cámara, in My Mexico City Kitchen....
That’s the problem when you are alone in the kitchen and you have in front of you something irresistibly good, and imagine that, you can’t resist! Even after putting most of these ginger honey chicken wings in the fridge to give to friends later, the stash slowly disappears over the next several days, leaving nothing but an empty storage container as a guilty reminder of good intentions gone awry. The good news is, there’s more where those came from!...
I often start off the holidays with a loaf of gingerbread cake, but this year I thought I’d add a fun twist by making gingerbread waffles instead! These gingerbread waffles have a nice sweetness. They’re great with just a sprinkling of powdered sugar over top. Of course, if you want a more decadent holiday breakfast, feel free to pile on the whipped cream and maple syrup! Gluten-Free Waffles If you want to make a gluten-free version of these waffles, you can replace the all-purpose flour with oat flour or gluten-free all-purpose flour....
How that woman could eat as many jelly-filled donuts as she did and still live to 97, I’ll never know! A Simple (and Simplified) Grasshopper Pie One of her favorite pies to make for us was grasshopper pie, a chilled minty green pie with an Oreo cookie crust. I haven’t found her recipe, but my father patched one together from many he found online that turns out a pie just like the one she used to make....
The best taco meat seasoning Trust me, the best taco meat seasoning is not found in a packet at the store. If you want to stay healthy and keep unnecessary additives and fillers out of your food, start making your own spices at home. Store-bought seasoning mixes can have hidden soy, sugar, flour, wheat, grain, milk, starch additives and other preservatives. Go ahead and skip pre-packaged stuff and make this easy and healthy homemade taco seasoning in under 5 minutes with spices you probably already have in your cupboard....
Disclaimer: We partnered with Bob’s Red Mill to bring you this post. We only work with companies and brands we truly believe in and use ourselves. Therefore, all opinions and recipes are entirely our own. Thank you for supporting The Real Simple Good Life and our partners. What do you need to make dairy free hot chocolate? We used some basic ingredients and a new protein powder from Bob’s Red Mill to make this hot chocolate dairy free and Vegan friendly....
Simple + Easy To Execute We love these honey ginger salmon bowls because there is really nothing fancy about them. Yep, that’s right, simple and easy to execute pretty much always wins in our house. Don’t you just want to make something that’s good for you and also super easy sometimes (or all the time)? For these honey ginger salmon bowls, we just bake the salmon and season it with sea salt and pepper....
Stop getting bored + build the perfect salad Below you will find a graphic you can save to Pinterest that contains all the elements you need to build the perfect salad. Refer back to this graphic for inspiration when you are looking for a healthy new salad idea or looking to mix up your salad game with some different ingredients and healthy variations. We’ve also included a round-up of some example healthy salad recipes for you below the graphic for when you need some additional inspiration!...
When I see a box on the shelf at a friend’s I wonder, “How could they? Homemade are so much better!” And when the same friend sees me make my homemade version, they ask, “How could you? The box is so much easier!” If you do make your own croutons, then I’m preaching to the choir. If not, I implore you to try, just once. It’s really so so easy, and they are soooooo good....
What Equipment Do I Need? Thickening a sauce does not require any expensive equipment. All you need is a bowl, a whisk, and a saucepot. For most of the following techniques, a whisk is critical in removing any lumps from the liquid and ensuring a smooth, velvety sauce. How to Thicken Sauce Through Reduction The easiest way to thicken a sauce is to reduce the liquid in a pot on the stovetop, widely used in slow-simmered ragus or pan sauces....
Root vegetables rule the season, sweet carrots and parsnips, turnips, and the happily named rutabaga. (Rutabaga. Rutabaga. Sounds like it could be the name of a Latin dance, doesn’t it?) This stew is loaded with flavor. Don’t forget the gremolata (parsley, lemon zest, garlic garnish which I forgot to photograph in the stew); it gives the stew a great zip. For those of you lamb-non-eaters, if you try it with beef (use chuck), let us know how it goes....
It’s loaded with goodies When doing a Whole30, it is important to start your day off with a filling breakfast within one hour of waking up. This breakfast should include portions of protein, vegetables and healthy fats. We kept these tenants in mind when we created this delicious loaded Whole30 breakfast casserole. It’s rich and filling with bacon and sausage plus it gets an extra boost of veggies with onion, carrots and zucchini....
Making this Healthy Taco Bowl This is going to be easy. Like really easy. Here’s what you do: Prep the homemade taco seasoning.Chop up the veggies to have them ready.Cook your ground beef and mix in the taco seasoning.Warm up the cauliflower rice.Build your taco bowl and layer on your favorite toppings! Check out our Healthy 20-Minute Korean Beef Bowl for another quick + easy bowl recipe! Making this a keto taco bowl The recipe as written is already low-carb friendly, but here are some notes and options to keep things in your Keto zone....
Manhattan Clam Chowder vs. New England Chowder Over the years “chowdah” evolved into a dairy-based stew in New England, and during the late 1800s, the first tomato-based chowders showed up on the menu at Delmonico’s in New York, perhaps influenced by Portuguese immigrants who often put clams together with pork and tomato sauce. If you are used to thick (or thin) cream-based, cracker-riddled, white clam chowder, this Manhattan clam chowder is a completely different beast....
Why Make Breakfast Ahead Of Time? We are huge proponents of make ahead breakfasts because they make eating a healthy breakfast a no-brainer. If a healthy option is convenient, people are more likely to make a good decision. As part of our meal plan subscription service, Real Simple Good Paleo Meal Plans, every weekly meal plan includes a make ahead breakfast. A large breakfast like this Mediterranean breakfast frittata is a great way to make a large batch breakfast that you can simply re-heat in the morning....
You didn’t really think I’d share a rather dull (but life essential) post for how to cook brown rice without following it up with an extremely delicious way to use it, did you?? Brown Rice Salad This is a Brown Rice Salad that aspires to be everything you expect a rice salad to be (healthy, filling, fresh) and everything you don’t expect it to be (can’t-stop-eating-it-good). It’s also a rice salad that will surprise those of you who grew up not realising such a thing existed....
