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Easy Rice Bowl

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This easy rice bowl is a 30-minute dinner loaded with flavor-packed black beans, colorful veggies, and a zingy cilantro lime sauce you’ll want to put on everything. Every time I ask readers what they want, I get a similar answer: fast and easy dinner recipes! That’s right: you don’t care how basic it is, you just want easy, healthy ideas to get food on the table. So here’s one to file under dinnertime basics: this easy rice bowl! This 30 minute dinner features my easy black beans , a trick to make a bland can of beans taste amazing in 5 minutes. Pair it with rice and colorful veggies and a zingy cilantro lime ranch that you’ll want to bathe in. This bowl is so tasty and easy, I simply inhale it every time I make them! Start With The Rice The longest lead time on a rice bowl is cooking the rice. So get that started first! You can use any variety of rice you’d like. I like cooking rice on the stovetop, but a pressure cooker also makes quick work of it. You can also ...
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How to Cook Eggs: 10 Ways

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Learn how to cook eggs 10 different ways, from sunny side up and scrambled to poached and soft-boiled. Includes step-by-step instructions and helpful tips! Good morning! It’s your resident egg-spert here (sorry, I had to!). Want to master sunny side up ? Need a skillet of scrambled eggs or the perfect omelette? I’ve got you. As a cookbook author and recipe developer, here are my 10 best ways showing how to cook eggs! These master methods will get you from 0 to breakfast in minutes. These are the egg basics every home cook should know. How To Cook Eggs: 10 Ways Below you’ll find my favorite 10 methods for cooking eggs, from the quickest fried eggs on the stovetop to slow-baked eggs in the oven. Each one includes doneness cues so you know exactly when the eggs are ready. I’ve linked to full recipes for if you want a deeper dive on a specific technique! 1. Sunny Side Up Sunny side up eggs are cooked until the whites are solid but the yolk is still runny. The round yellow y...
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How to Cook Asparagus

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Learn how to cook asparagus perfectly every time with these easy methods: broiled, roasted, sautéed, grilled, and more. Each one takes 10 minutes or less! Hello, asparagus fans! If you’re looking for the best way to cook this healthy veggie, you’re in the right place. Asparagus is easily overcooked, making it mushy and bitter. But if you cook it correctly, it’s beautifully bright green and tender, with a mild and sweet flavor. As a cookbook author and former asparagus hater turned fan, I’ve found all the best ways to cook asparagus. Here are all my favorite ways to prepare it! The Best Ways to Cook Asparagus Before I start, here is an overview of each method and the timing for each: Method Time Best For Broiled 10 min Fast, charred flavor; no need to preheat the oven Roasted 20 min Deep flavor and tender texture Sautéed 10 min Weeknight speed; bite-sized pieces Grilled 10 min Smoky flavor; outdoor entertaining Steamed 10 min Light, low-fat, s...
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Classic Mojito

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Here’s how to make a classic Mojito recipe ! Mix up the original with just a few ingredients: lime juice, sugar, club soda, and rum. It’s minty fresh, zingy and bubbly, and simple to whip up with just a handful of ingredients. Here’s how to make one of the most popular rum cocktails of all time: the Mojito! In all honesty, there are a handful of classic cocktails that I keep coming back to, even after tasting hundreds of cocktail recipes . This one is in my top 3 best drinks of all time (along with my classic Margarita recipe , of course). The harmony between the boozy rum, zingy lime, herbaceous mint, and sparkling bubbles is legendary. Ingredients You’ll Need For a Mojito The mojito is a classic  sour cocktail  that originated in Havana, Cuba and has become one of the world’s most popular rum drinks. Some people think its origins go back to the 1580’s with a drink called the Draque named after Sir Francis Drake. Others say it was in the mid-1800’s when th...
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