Phew, it’s been a wild year, but New York Times Cooking readers still found their way into their kitchens. (Cooking is a great escape, and, despite the news, you do have to eat.) Simple, quick dishes like Ali Slagle’s five-ingredient cucumber-avocado salad and Hetty McKinnon’s cauliflower piccata dominated our list of most popular recipes, but project recipes like Claire Saffitz’s croissants and Josef Centeno’s birria de res also made an appearance. Below is a list of the 20 most popular new recipes on New York Times Cooking this year. (View our top 50 …….

Serving vegan and vegetarian holiday meals is all the rage this season, which makes plant-based cookbooks an excellent gift. With pandemic-fueled interest in veg foods continuing its upward ascent, publishers responded with plenty of new books. I’ve sifted through this year’s tasty vegetarian titles and selected these eight books, which cover a range of interests and abilities, as the best plant-based books of 2021.

I’ve divided this collection of books into categories so you can easily find one best suited for cooks who are health conscious, meat lovers, young or food history…….

Nov 25, 2021, 4:13pmUpdated on Nov 26, 2021

By: News 12 Staff

Those who need some last-minute advice about cooking a Thanksgiving turkey, Butterball is there to help. 

It’s the 40th season for the Butterball Turkey Talk Line.

People have been able to get their turkey questions answered by phone since 1981 – and now turkey talk has also gone digital.

People can reach out on social media, the Butterball website email or even contact them via Amazon Alexa.

They can be reached by phone at 1-800-BUTTERBALL.

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Let’s be clear: This isn’t about “tricking” your friends and family into eating something they normally wouldn’t want to — rather, it’s all about re-creating the dishes they already love to eat, but with a plant-based twist they can easily get behind.

“I make pecan ‘meat’ for tacos,” Tabitha explained. “I even make pecan ‘meat’ for chili, using all the same ingredients I would’ve normally added to ground turkey or beef. I’ll soak the pecans and make ’em soft, then use the food processor to whizz them up. People don’t really know! They’ll be like: ‘This is great, but I thought yo…….

Since the holiday season is here, I decided to share some recipes. These were shared with me and my daughters by readers over the 19 years of my writing. So, as you do your holiday baking you might enjoy incorporating a new recipe!

Lovina’s Amish Kitchen is written by Lovina Eicher, Old Order Amish writer, cook, wife, and mother of eight. Her newest cookbook, Amish Family Recipes, is available wherever books are sold. Readers can write to Eicher at PO Box 1689, South Holland, IL 60473 (please include a self-addressed stamped envelope for a reply); or email LovinasAmishKitchen@MennoM…….

Creativity might be the first item on the grocery list this holiday season.

As supply chain issues and higher costs continue to wreak havoc among all aspects of food production, those of us who are used to baking up a storm might be feeling a bit more Scrooge-y than usual.

Please don’t despair. There are ways to circumvent the “bah humbug” of out-of-stock ingredients and packaged goods. If you can’t find your favorite baking staples at the supermarket, it may be time to pivot to a new recipe or try a new technique.

Several factors are contributing to current food supply issues, …….

Emotional, non-rational, even explosive remarks in public discourse have escalated in recent years. Politicians endure insults during legislative discussions; scientists receive emails and tweets containing verbal abuse and threats.

 

What’s going on? This escalation in angry rhetoric is sometimes attributed to social media. But are there other influences altering communication styles?

As researchers in the field of nutrition and mental health, and authors of The Better Brain, we recognize that many in our society experience brain hunger, impairing their cognitive funct…….

Share on PinterestA new review investigates which diets are best for achieving weight loss with diabetes. Juan Moyano/StocksyScientists have been studying the effect of diet on type 2 diabetes for years. Research has shown that losing weight can lead to remission.However, previous studies have yielded conflicting results, and it is unclear which diets are most effective.A recent review of previously published data found that very low energy diets and meal replacement were the most effective way to manage weight in people living with type 2 diabetes.

The International Diabetes Federation (IDF…….

Panettone and yule logs

Vergani pistachio and chocolate panettone750g, £18.80, eataly.slerp.comThe dough is light, nice density, perfectly proved, really good aeration. The pistachio is lovely and prominent throughout. A really great Christmas variation.★★★★★

Waitrose tiramisu panettone750g, £7.50, waitrose.com Gimmicky and fun. The middle bit is not bad. I like the chocolate topping. The dough is a bit dense. ★★★

Marks & Spencer triple chocolate panettone750g, £10, ocado.com Very ni…….

TUPELO • The oldest bakery in Tupelo, Creative Cakes, officially turns 30 years old today, and Holly Whitworth Landers has been a part of the iconic business for more than half of those birthdays.

Landers began working for Creative Cakes founder Rose McCoy in 2005, and bought the business 10 years later when McCoy retired.

But Landers almost missed out.

“I had decorated cakes at home since I was 15, and in 2005 I came up here to fill out an application for a position,” she said. “I had come by a couple of weeks later to check on it, but s…….