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Meal Planning Made Easy: 9 Helpful Appliances
Whether it’s your budget you are trying to get under control, or the ingredients going into your meals, creating a weekly meal plan can help you achieve both. Meal planning can seem intimidating at first, but with a little prep work and the right...
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Cook While You Work (from Home): Six Slow Cooker Recipes
I have always loved the “walk away” convenience of slow cookers. But in this new time of working from home, home-schooling children, teens taking up all the wi-fi, and fighting with my husband for office space, the slow cooker has become my...
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3 Meal Planning Tips when Cooking for One or Two People
While working in the Hamilton Beach test kitchen today, performing test routines on a number of products, it occurred to me that my whole team is currently working from home and cooking for just one or two people. Our group runs the gamut from a...
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Stocked up? How to Turn Boring Pantry Staples into Extra-Ordinary Meals
Remember that classic 90s slasher film, "I Know What You Did Last Summer"? Well judging from the empty shelves at the grocery stores I frequent, I Know What You Bought Last Trip! Your pantries are full of some great ingredients and I bet I know what...
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6 Slow Cooker Pantry Staple Recipes for Hunkering Down at Home with Kids
Whether you’re trying to work remote or juggling keeping the kids busy while preparing breakfast, lunch, and dinner (and working remote), there's one thing you can count on - your trusty slow cooker. These six slow cooker recipes can be put...
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Cook Like a Pro: The No-Stress Plan for Hosting Friends and Family
The true test of becoming a pro in the kitchen? Cooking for other people. The pressure is on to impress, and there’s a million things to think about that you normally wouldn’t—planning a menu, getting the timing right, accommodating different...
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Multi-cookers, demystified
In the age of meal kits, grocery delivery apps and subscription-based shopping, it seems like everybody’s out to save a little time and effort where they can when it comes to cooking. Which may be why the multi-cooker has been surging in...
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How to Cook (Almost) Anything in the Toaster Oven
Most home chefs know that toaster ovens are go-tos for making simple snacks or reheating last night’s pizza. Fewer know that this approachable kitchen appliance can be the one piece of equipment you need to prepare an appetizer of Broiled Maryland...
