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13 Foods That Should Be Banned From the Thanksgiving Dinner Table, According to Lifehacker Readers

Last week, while thinking about a particularly unimpressive turducken my family made one year, I ask...

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An illustration of an ambrosia salad placed against a setting sun

My now ex-husband met his first ambrosia salad at a buffet in Aberdeen, Mississippi, after Sunday sc...

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How to Properly Freeze Your Extra Cookies so They Don't Go Stale

As someone who often cooks far more food than she is capable of eating in any given week, my freezer...

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Why You Should Save Your Cooking Water for Your House Plants

I am typically not good at caring for house plants. I currently have three indoor plants, all of whi...

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How to Line a Tart Shell Without Poking Holes in It

Tarts are the rich, European great-aunt of the American dessert pie. Dainty, refined, understated, a...

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Stop Adding Milk to Boxed Macaroni and Cheese (But Do This Instead)

Last week, I went on my very first elk hunting trip with my dad and a couple of other dudes. I had n...

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The Easiest Way to Keep Track of Your Favorite Instant Pot Cook Times

If you have an Instant Pot—or a “One Pot,” as my stepmom likes to call it—you have probably ...

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How Long Are Dried Beans 'Good' For?

My concept of food going “bad” is simple: If it doesn’t smell weird, feel stickier than it sho...

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8 Ways to Add a Little Luck of the Irish to Your St. Patrick's Day Spread

Tomorrow is March 17, also known as “St. Patrick’s Day,” “St. Paddy’s Day,” and “amate...

7 Perfect Pickles You Must Keep on Hand at All Times

I learned that I had ADHD late in life. It became funny when I went from hesitatingly revealing it to close friends to realizing literally every single woman I know (and most of the rest of the people...

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Popeyes' Pre-Cooked Turkey Absolutely Fucks (and You Can Make It Even Better)

It did not occur to me until quite recently that some people purchase pre-cooked turkeys to serve on Thanksgiving. Not only am I far too much of a control freak to trust the wellbeing of The Bird to s...

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The First 15 Things You Should Cook In Your New Air Fryer

This year felt, in many ways, like a repeat of the one that came before it. Covid is still around, our healthcare system still sucks, and eating inside restaurants still feels like a dangerous and mil...

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It's Almost Too Easy to Make Your Own Kettle Corn

Movie snacks are a rare source of conflict in my household. My boyfriend is motivated by an insatiable sweet tooth, while I’m a bottomless pit for what I call “salty crunchies,” and in the conte...

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Never Cook These Things in Your Air Fryer

To some enthusiastic food bloggers, the air fryer is an intuitive appliance that can cook anything and everything. To certain members of my family, it is an inscrutable black box that exist to take up...

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The '5-5-5' Instant Pot Method for Hard Boiled Eggs Is a Culinary Abomination

I haven’t done a formal study, but I would guess that I have written about eggs more than I have written about anything else (besides myself). Eggs are something of a miracle. They’re incredibly v...

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Khai Jiao Is the Best Way to Use Leftover Mung Bean Sprouts

For reasons unknown to the universe, a bag of mung bean sprouts is always just a bit too much for whatever dish you’re making. Even if you doubled the recipe, somehow there’s always one or two han...

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How to Give Your Quick Breads a Cute Little Butt

Loaf cakes and quick breads taste pretty good no matter their appearance, but sometimes you want that perfect, professional looking line down the center, signaling to everyone who gazes upon it that y...

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Spike Your Pancakes With Irish Cream

I have never investigated 23andMe (or any similar genetic test) because I’m not particularly interested in the results. I am white. I am from Mississippi. There is no good or noble fruit to be found...

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13 Foods That Should Be Banned From the Thanksgiving Dinner Table, According to Lifehacker Readers

An illustration of an ambrosia salad placed against a setting sun

How to Properly Freeze Your Extra Cookies so They Don't Go Stale

Why You Should Save Your Cooking Water for Your House Plants

How to Line a Tart Shell Without Poking Holes in It

Stop Adding Milk to Boxed Macaroni and Cheese (But Do This Instead)

The Easiest Way to Keep Track of Your Favorite Instant Pot Cook Times

How Long Are Dried Beans 'Good' For?

8 Ways to Add a Little Luck of the Irish to Your St. Patrick's Day Spread

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7 Perfect Pickles You Must Keep on Hand at All Times

Popeyes' Pre-Cooked Turkey Absolutely Fucks (and You Can Make It Even Better)

The First 15 Things You Should Cook In Your New Air Fryer

It's Almost Too Easy to Make Your Own Kettle Corn

Never Cook These Things in Your Air Fryer

The '5-5-5' Instant Pot Method for Hard Boiled Eggs Is a Culinary Abomination

Khai Jiao Is the Best Way to Use Leftover Mung Bean Sprouts

How to Give Your Quick Breads a Cute Little Butt

Spike Your Pancakes With Irish Cream

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