Marinating steaks is a common step in many recipes, but it does test one's patience. Marinating takes at least a couple of hours and adds a lot of prep work to an otherwise simple piece of meat. Fortunately, it isn't always necessary. Marinades can bring tenderness, juiciness, and new levels of flavor to a steak, but sometimes, you don't actually need those things. Sometimes, a steak is tender, juicy, and flavorful enough all on its own.

3 Steak Cuts You Should Never Be Marinating

Rotisserie chicken is a fast and easy way to add protein to your meal prep routine. According to the National Chicken Council, broiler chicken is the most widely consumed protein in the U.S. You can add chicken to everything from Caesar salads to frozen pizza to get more protein and make your meals more filling. Rotisserie chicken is flavorful due to the constant turning of the meat, which keeps it moist and tender and prevents the chicken from drying out.

The Best And Worst Rotisserie Chickens You Can Find At The Grocery Store

The fluffy, steamy interior of a baked potato is the perfect canvas for some rich butter, sour cream, cheddar cheese, and all the other seasonings of your choice. While it's a tempting starch to whip up for dinner, and one of the simplest recipes out there, it's still not necessarily the quickest recipe in the book. By the time you finish prepping your potato, heating the oven, and finally start cooking the spud, you might not even be hungry anymore. Well this is exactly the type of job that microwaves were made for, so the next time you're craving a baked potato, skip the oven and use this handy kitchen gadget instead.

The Correct Way To Cook A Potato In The Microwave Couldn't Be Easier

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Shrimp Fajitas (Fajitas De Camarón) are an easy-to-make, delicious meal that the whole family can enjoy! Try out this flavorful recipe for yourself today. This easy and flavorful Shrimp Fajitas (fajitas de camaron) recipe is sure to become a go-to family favorite! With a mixture of colorful bell peppers and just a few ingredients, you can have this delicious dish on the table in no time.

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Jennifer Lopez was attacked by the style police as recent photos of her in The Hamptons made headlines this week. On July 8, the singer and actress was photographed in upstate NY while stunning in a flowing floral maxi dress, choosing a summery look with a cinched waist that more than highlighted her figure.

Jennifer Lopez Pitied In Floral Sundress She’s ‘Too Old’ To Wear

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Tina Howell

Southern comfort food is some of the best there is and one of my favorites is country-fried chicken. It is a thin piece of chicken breast coated in a seasoned flour mixture, deep-fried to a golden brown then topped with a creamy pepper gravy. It is usually served with mashed potatoes for a mouth-watering, delicious anytime meal.

Country Fried Chicken: Southern Delight

One of the best parts of ordering a pizza — besides not having to cook — might actually be a second time in everything that's left over. But if you aren't careful, you could expose yourself to foodborne illness by either not properly storing leftovers or eating them too long after they were cooked. Perishable foods don't last forever, so next time you go to grab a slice of pizza from the fridge or that pizza box you left on the counter, check yourself to make sure it won't make you sick.

Here's When Your Leftover Pizza Becomes Unsafe To Eat

When making a typical American breakfast that features bacon, eggs, and a starch, celebrity chef and restaurant owner Gordon Ramsay relies on this trick to cook up the most delicious, tongue-tantalizing hash browns: use waxy potatoes. In a cooking session on Dabl Network, he explains that waxy potatoes cook better than other types of spuds. Their secret? They hold themselves together – an important consideration if you like those stick-together potato patties found in most American diners at breakfast time.

Gordon Ramsay's Genius Tip For The Most Flavorful Hash Browns

Steak fries are large, thick potato wedges, filling enough to be a meal in itself. These roasted potato/french fry hybrids are easy to make at home but sometimes end up more floppy and soggy than desired. Sure, you can deep fry them for a foolproof method for crispy fries, but the thought of standing over hot, bubbling oil and cleaning a messy fryer — particularly the annoying task of dealing with the leftover oil — is enough to deter even the biggest steak fry fan. A cleaner, easier method for making legitimately crispy french fries at home is to bake them in the oven — just make sure to use cornstarch to get them nice and crunchy.

Make Baked Steak Fries As Crispy As Deep Fried With One Extra Ingredient

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If you are a huge fan of Southern-style fried chicken, this recipe for Southern fried chicken is going to be a home run winner for you. It's extra crispy on the outside, juicy and tender on the inside, and truly the best fried chicken recipe.

Buttermilk Fried Chicken Recipe

Pasta salads provide endless, breezy meals on hot days and are perfect for showing off the best of summer produce and flavors. This recipe for salmon and dill pasta salad — courtesy of recipe developer Julie Kinnaird – is as flavorful as it is easy to prepare. A quick sauce with a Greek yogurt base is flavored with lemon, capers, garlic, and lots of fresh dill before tossing with chunky, curly pasta and luscious hot-smoked salmon. Peppery summer arugula and fresh fennel bulb combine with the dill for a savory-meets-creamy taste and texture in this refreshing salad.

Salmon Dill Pasta Salad Recipe

Beef bourguignon is an incredible dish that is basically beef slow-cooked to tender and juicy perfections and smothered in a delicious sauce. This is a yummy dish that you can serve for dinner and share with your family. So if you want an impressive mealtime that will surely be remembered,...

Easy Crockpot Beef Bourguignon Recipe

We all scream for ice cream. That's a given, but really, we'll scream pretty indiscriminately for anything cold and creamy — be it fro-yo, custard, sorbet, soft serve, or gelato. There's a whole vast world of indulgent chilly treats out there — enough to give you a serious brain freeze while confusing you on the technical differences between the categories.

Custard Vs Soft Serve Ice Cream: What's The Difference?

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Juicy and full of beefy flavor, skirt steak needs little help in the flavor department. Even so, all meat deserves a little dressing up every once in awhile. This recipe for grilled skirt steak with corn and tomato salsa, developed by Kate Shungu, is a simple way to jazz up an already-flavorful skirt steak. "I love serving this dish when the weather is warm," Shungu says. "It has the flavors of summer (grilled meat, fresh tomatoes, corn), and you don't even have to turn on your oven to make it. Just season and grill the meat, mix the salsa, and dinner is done."

Grilled Skirt Steak With Corn And Tomato Salsa Recipe

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A 31-year-old Florida man is behind bars after he allegedly dropped a young boy from a second story balcony in order to "scare him a little bit," Daytona Beach police allege.
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Man who dropped young boy head-first off 2nd story balcony at resort was trying to 'scare him a little bit': Police

The PB&J is hard to beat, but it's also easy to modify. While the classic sandwich's popularity stems from how affordable and simple it is to put together, part of its beauty comes from all the creative ways you can improve it by changing things up. On the most basic level, you can elevate the sandwich by opting for the best store-bought peanut butter and premium jelly, but if you're in the mood for an extra gooey treat, try upgrading it entirely by stuffing a s'more inside.

Make A S'mores PB&J For An Ooey Gooey Upgrade To Your Sandwich

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A dangerous drug that is being mixed into fentanyl is causing those who inject it to develop a rash of sores that resembles a case of flesh-eating bacteria. People experiencing homelessness around Denver can sometimes be seen with these bloody, weeping wounds. I recently mentioned this phenomenon to a fentanyl user who told me about the xylazine connection.

Denver homeless people suffer sores as xylazine enters fentanyl supply

We all know Michelin tires (and the Michelin Man who looks like a bunch of donuts stacked on top of one another). We know that if a restaurant gets a Michelin star, it's pretty excellent. But how did a French tire company start awarding stars to prestigious restaurants? And how many stars can a restaurant receive?

What Is The Highest Michelin Star Rating A Restaurant Can Earn?

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Kanye West’s “wife,” Bianca Censori, seems to have had a personality transplant since coupling up with the rapper, going from a pretty normal girl to someone who steps out in near-naked outfits on the daily. This week in Japan, wher...

Fans Are Destroying Kanye West's 'Wife' Bianca Censori For Wearing Another Risqué Outfit On A Family Trip: 'I Feel So Bad For These Children'

Let's say you're making yourself a big breakfast of sausage, toast, and coffee; later, a large dinner with steak or chicken as the main course, a side of grilled veggies, and a glass of dark beer on the side. It might be hard to picture in text, but if you could see all these foods laid out in front of you, then you would notice that everything is mostly the same brownish color. That's not a coincidence, and if you're trying to improve at cooking, there's some food science behind this which can help you.

Your Beer Is Brown For The Same Reason Your Steak Is Brown

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The 5-Minute Step That Will Perfect Your Pan-Seared Ribeye Steak

Ribeye steak – beef taken from the rib section of a cow — is tender, juicy, and extremely flavorful. In fact, it's typically considered the most...

The 5-Minute Step That Will Perfect Your Pan-Seared Ribeye Steak

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