Pickles and Dr Pepper? Apparently, if you stop by your local Sonic Drive-In, you can order your soda with sliced dill pickles. But how did this trend start?
To amp up your cooking experience when camping, skip the heavy cast iron wok and bring a steel wok instead. It's light and great for open-fire cooking.
Summer, beer, and bratwurst go hand in hand, but just how long should you boil the sausage before you toss it onto the grill to ensure it's juicy and cooked?
Once you try pairing bacon jam with deviled eggs, you'll never want to have them another way again. This is the ingredient combo you never knew you needed.
Most of us have various cooking oils at our culinary disposal. But when it comes to actually cooking with oil, it's all too easy to make a few mistakes.
Anthony Bourdain emphasized one technique for mincing steak tartare to ensure the best texture, and we have our own tips for cutting the raw steak neatly, too.
Boxed mac and cheese powder is too good to be used on boxed macaroni alone. It was practically made to dust over popcorn instead of or in addition to butter.
Chef Jet Tila has a straightforward method for preparing a scrambled egg breakfast sandwich at home - and the best part is, you can customize it to your liking.
Martha Stewart knows a thing or two about storage, and she embraces the idea of keeping your lemon zest fresher for longer by keeping it in her freezer.
Reaching for this popular baking tool to roll out pizza dough can actually ruin the texture in an instant, so here's the traditional method to use instead.
When you're out of rice noodles and seriously craving chow fun or pad thai, reach for a similar ingredient that can be transformed into a tasty alternative.
Just about everyone cooks with tomatoes, and just about everyone makes at least some of these common errors. Here's what you need to know for next time.
If you haven't heard of Alabama camp stew, you need to get yourself to a barbecue. Using leftover barbecued hog or pork, it's a delicious, easy side to whip up.
Getting a stick of butter and immediately throwing out the wrapper it comes in when you stick it in your butter container is a waste. Here's how you can use it.
Ina Garten, the famed Barefoot Contessa, knows something about simplifying elegant dishes, and her creamed spinach is no exception -- just stop by the freezer.
If you dislike when salmon tastes too fishy or strong, learn why a soak in milk can prove to be an effective and easy way to create a cleaner-tasting dish.
Beans bring so much to the table. If you're looking for a quick, cheap, and easy way to dress up any meal, these are the beans you need in your pantry.
Getting your meal prep done before leaving the house in the morning and coming home to a fully cooked meal is a great time saver. Here's how to get it right.
Ree Drummond, aka the Pioneer Woman, uses her friend's cooking hack to ensure that her salmon stays perfectly cooked and deliciously moist: a cold oven.