How to Add Heat to Your Food Without Scorching Your Tastebuds
Spicy food is a lifelong adventure. Even for the wary, the sensitive, the adamantly spice-less, there’s usually a moment when unexpected spice makes its way into the hors d’oeuvres at…
Fondue Doesn’t Have to Be Intimidating
I’m a 70s baby, and the badge of my people is our incredibly strong feelings for fondue. And, you know, talking cars and Care Bears and an unwilling affection for…
Use That Last Bit of Dip to Make a Salad Dressing
It’s hard for me to throw out the final scrapings of the dips I love. I want to avoid waste, but I have a hard time letting go of luscious,…
Creamy Scrambled Eggs Make a Surprisingly Good Dip
Eggs aren’t just breakfast food. You can have eggs for any meal, like with a Spanish tortilla or Thai kai jiao, but I think it’s time we allow them to…
Three Ways to Make Better Onion Dip
Onion dip does not need to be great to be enjoyable. Good or even mediocre onion dip is still better than a bowl of ranch dressing (and a bowl of…
Make Ginger Dressing With Only Three Ingredients
Photo: Bartosz Luczak (Shutterstock) I am obsessed with ordering side salads at sushi restaurants. Not because I feel the need to keep my body running with leafy greens—because I love…
Snack Supper Rules; Girl Dinner Drools
Every once in a while, I start to hate cooking. Or at least I start to hate cooking for myself. This feeling peaked during height of the pandemic and social…
Turn Any Vegetable Into a Smoky Dip
The saddest meal of the year is always the one immediately after returning from visiting family. Mine is usually more of a free-range fridge scrounge than an actual meal, and…
Buy Your Fast Food Sauces by the Bottle
I have an impressive, well organized collection of fast food sauce packets and tubs, some of them quite rare. I keep them around for saucing emergencies, like if Taco Bell…
For Better Tasting Tomatoes, Dip Them in Warm Water Before Chilling
Photo: Kamil Zajaczkowski (Shutterstock) Legend has it, tomatoes must stay on the countertop. Claire Lower, Lifehacker’s senior food editor, famously refuses to put them in the fridge. Sadly, not everyone…