• Comfort Classic: Make French Onion Soup 3 Ways

    If now's not the time for French onion soup, we don't know when is! Besides having a fridge drawer full of the onions so necessary for holiday cooking, there's a chill in our bones that just won't quit. The solution? Slice them thinly, caramelize the heck out of them in lots of butter, add broth…

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  • Braised Lamb Shoulder With Caramelized Onions Recipe

    Israeli-born chef-owner Meny Vaknin of MishMish Café in Montclair, New Jersey, is making some seriously crave-worthy Mediterranean and Middle Eastern food, such as this braised lamb shoulder with caramelized onions dish. Vaknnin, who took home the top prize on Chopped Champions, marries the French techniques and expertise he learned in culinary school with the flavors, ingredients and memories…

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  • Savory Strands: How To Make Caramelized Onion Fettuccine

    Steer clear of Americanized, fat-laden carbohydrate bombs disguised as Italian food, and get back to basics. Food writer, blogger and registered dietician Alexandra Caspero has a new collection of recipes out that strips your pasta of all things excessive, while leaving the flavor, toothsome texture and healthy ingredients you love.Get ready for your kitchen to…

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  • Check Out This Video Of A Creamy Polenta Casserole, Then Try The Recipe

    Polenta: It's not just that soft, creamy stuff you eat all winter to stay alive. Rather than making yet another pasta dish, I often bake up a sheet of flavor-infused polenta — with fresh herbs, Parmesan rind, bacon or garlic — and use it as a substitute for noodles. This play on lasagna combines pungent…

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  • Pickled And Smothered Pork Chops Recipe

    If you thought a book about pickled and fermented stuff would be all Greek yogurt and kombucha, you might be right. But if you pick up Cultured Foods For Your Kitchen by culinary specialist and cookbook author Leda Schientaub, you'll be presently surprised by meaty soups, hearty pastas and delicious fried stuff...all enhanced by the…

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  • French Onion Soup With Paneer Croutons Recipe

    Who's everyone's favorite Next Food Network Star? Aarti, of course! And best of all: she's actually awesome. Make her delicious everyday recipes from her new cookbook, Aarti Paarti, streaked with Indian and Middle Eastern influence, and enjoy her stories while you're at it. This is a great soup to have in your back pocket; not…

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  • That's One French Tart. Make This Pissaladière Recipe

    Looking for a vegan recipe everyone will love? We're sure your strategy of "just make it without the bacon" will work and everything, but just in case it doesn't, there's Robin Robertson, author of more than 20 healthy living cookbooks. Her latest, Vegan Without Borders, is a trove of nutritious vegan recipes that don't lack…

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  • 7 Sweet And Savory Recipes For The Caramel Fiend In Your Life

    Hey, what're you doing this weekend? Need a project? Try caramelizing. Yes, caramelizing, that amazing phenomenon that turns sugars into nutty, flavor-packed goodness. And we're not just talking onions or, um, caramel. Caramelization can be used in the making of delicious desserts, but it also naturally increases the richness of savory dishes. Give it a…

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  • Pat LaFrieda's Filet Mignon Steak Sandwich Recipe

    We're very excited about renowned New York butcher Pat LaFrieda's new cookbook, the aptly named MEAT: Everything You Need To Know. In addition to a hearty lineup of LaFrieda's signature recipes, you'll learn the butchery skills you need to know through stunning photos and detailed diagrams. That steak sandwich everyone waits in line for at…

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  • Hot Dog! New York-Style Sautéed Onions Recipe

    Give your tubesteak a little flair...or a ton, with food writer Russell van Kraayenburg's ultimate hot dog book, Haute Dogs. Wherever you hail from, there's a hot dog that speaks to you. Not literally, that would be terrible. But believe us, these franks have some serious soul. We never met a New York dog we…

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  • Giddy Up! Try This Cowboy Hot Dogs Recipe

    If there's one magazine that publishes great cookbooks, it's California-based Sunset. Their simple, fresh and flavorful recipes come from all over the western United States, but will find their way into your repertoire no matter where you are. Need a go-to hot dog recipe? This one balances lean bison franks with bacon, caramelized onions and barbecue sauce.…

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  • Grilled Fig Sandwiches With Roasted Pistachio Pesto Recipe

    Earthbound Farm co-founder Myra Goodman, along with her daughter Marea, recently released Straight From The Earth, a cookbook of wholesome vegan recipes. If you're jumping on the veggie-loading bandwagon, this is a cookbook you'll need in your kitchen arsenal. Take this sweet and savory grilled fig sandwich for a spin come lunchtime.  Wow! Just wow. This…

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  • Switch Up Your French Onion Soup Game. No Glass, Thanks.

    The new French onion soup is neither French, nor onion, nor a soup. Go! Good thing I just take pitches and not dish them out, right? I wrote about French onion soup a while back, recounting a story that involved my friend and me smashing a bottle of wine against the side of her parents'…

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  • Steak Sandwiches With Caramelized Onions Recipe

    One of the great things about drinking at a real pub — gastro or otherwise — is that the food will be perfect for whatever's in your pint glass. That's why we're loving cookbook author Rachael Lane's Great Pub Food, a tome packed with all things beefy, cheesy, fried, salty and otherwise perfect for the…

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  • Caramelized Onion Butter Recipe

    Just when you thought butter couldn't get any better, a cookbook teaches us the very important lesson that yes, it can. Lucy Vaserfirer's Flavored Butters is a collection of ways to trick out your butter so that it serves every possible culinary need. Because why use anything else when butter's around? First up, everyone's favorite…

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  • The Ultimate Onion Tart Recipe

    If there ever was a perfect dish for me, it would be onion tart. It's comforting, easy and inexpensive to prepare, filling and always better the next day. Onion tart is also my go-to dish for winter dinner parties, and this recipe that I learned in Normandy always ends up being a huge hit. The…

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  • When Sausage Met Potato: 5 Ways With Bangers And Mash

    There's one dish I can't force myself to eat in hot weather, but the second it starts hammering giant wet snowflakes blown sideways by a "refreshingly" frigid damp wind, it's time to break out my variations on bangers and mash. I love our classic recipe with crispy pork sausages and caramelized onion gravy, but as…

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  • People Are Waiting 3 Innings For The Pat LaFrieda Steak Sandwich At Citi Field

    New York City celebrity butcher Pat LaFrieda has taken his talents to Citi Field. Last night the meat master debuted a filet mignon steak sandwich stand at a game between the New York Mets and Miami Marlins. The sandwich features hand-cut 100% black angus seared filet mignon, Monterey jack cheese, sweet caramelized onions, and is…

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  • How To Caramelize Onions

    You never know how much time goes into the sweet, sticky shreds atop your perfect patty melt or tarte flambée until you caramelize an onion for the first time. You also never know how little effort goes in until you learn this simple but very important technique. Long story short (and depending on the conditions —…

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  • Bacon Blue Cheese Burger Recipe

    Now that we've planted the All-American Cheeseburger seed, it's time to explore the rest of the burger family tree. This bacon blue cheese burger combines salty cheese and bacon and sweet caramelized onions for a fully balanced flavor experience that could even survive a heavy dose of ketchup. But if you want to add one…

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  • Onion And Chili-Crusted Short Ribs Recipe

    Jean-Georges Vongerichten's NYC celeb-sighting spot Spice Market is known for its bold fusion cuisine. Here, fiery chilies spice up a traditional hearty braise over Asian-seasoned egg noodles to produce a warming fall dish that's truly a citizen of the world. Make sure you caramelize the onions thoroughly, that's what makes the crust taste so good.…

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  • Kuma's Corner: The Lair Of The Minotaur Burger

    If you haven't been formally introduced to Chicago cornerstone Kuma's Corner, let us do the honors. This tiny spot boasts death metal décor, deafening music and the lack of need to eat for 24 hours following one of their epic (and we truly mean epic) burgers. A substantial indie-beer list, innovative touches like crisp yet…

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  • Romana Benicci

    San Francisco doesn't necessarily conjure up visions of pizza. I mean, this isn't "super tasty bread of the week" or "large volume of excellent Chinese food of the week." We assume that's just one of the reasons San Fran pizza kings Bruno DiFabio and Tony Gemignani of famed Tony’s Pizza Napoletana, along with restaurateur Hans…

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