This content originally appeared on Everyday Health. Republished with permission. One of the easiest ways to improve your diet is to learn how to identify the most unhealthy foods to eat — and how to replace them with better options. However, viewing foods through a lens of “good” or...

The Top 10 Worst Foods to Eat

There are lots of different ways to improve a steak or a chicken breast, and if you've never experimented much with them, they tend to blend together like a bunch of spices. If you've never brined meat, then the word "brine" might bring up associations with pickles or the ocean, but soaking tough meat in a brine solution is a tried and true way to add flavor and moisture. A typical brine mixture consists of cold water, salt, and a little sugar (the water should be cold or lukewarm to avoid any accidental cooking). When you let meat soak in brine, a process called osmosis begins, and the flavors and moisture from the solution pass into the meat.

Does Brining Meat Make An Actual Difference?

The online debate about tilapia is endless. Did you know that it's a fish that's pumped full of hormones and fed its own waste? No, wait, it's an environmentally friendly and sustainable mild fish that can carry many flavor profiles and works well in a variety of dishes. With fans and critics either singing its praises or bashing it, one must ask the question: Is tilapia really a garbage fish?

Is Tilapia Really A Garbage Fish?

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Biscuitville, a North Carolina-based chain, has been named the No. 1 fast-food breakfast spot in the nation by USA Today's 10Best. This accolade comes after a month-long voting period where people across the country chose their favorite breakfast destinations.

North Carolina-based chain ranks No. 1 in the nation for fast-food breakfast. Here’s why

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While traditional Hot Pockets might cook in a microwave, that BBQ Recipe Beef tastes like it came straight from the grill. Now it is time to get saucy with the popular food brand and score a jar of that BBQ sauce for yourself. Sometimes a particular flavor just hits right....

Hot Pockets wraps its BBQ Sauce and here’s how to get jar

Are you looking for a quick and easy dish for tonight’s dinner? Try this sour cream beef noodle casserole from Southern Country Living on YouTube. This hearty and comforting dish takes under an hour to make, making it perfect for busy weeknights or potluck parties. In this tutorial, Southern...

Sour Cream Beef Noodle Casserole

If you're looking for a way to incorporate more vegetables into your cooking, canned corn is an easy and budget-friendly option that makes this sweet, tender veggie available all year. It also makes a fantastic item to stockpile in your pantry in case you have to deal with extreme weather or other hazards that might knock out power. The best brands have multiple styles available and offer a great value, not to mention fantastic taste. Flavor is the top criteria for my taste tests but texture and variety are also key. In my opinion, canned corn should be sweet but still maintain a hint of saltiness, which actually brings out the natural taste of the corn. It should also be tender without crossing over to mushy and not have an excess amount of water in the can, which can impact the flavor and texture. I like corn that has a bit of crispiness without being tough and chewy, which can be common at the base of whole kernel corn.

Ranking Canned Corn Brands Worst To Best

Even the most punctilious pantry hawks and fastidious fridge-cleaner-outers among us likely have a bottle of BBQ sauce that's been sitting around longer than they'd care to admit. Right up there with dry goods like flour and sugar, and other relatively long-lasting pantry staples like peanut butter and mustard, BBQ sauce is one of those condiments that seems like it might never go bad. Since most store-bought versions have preservatives, the tangy sweet sauce typically doesn't develop obvious signs of rot (like spots of mold) easily, but to be sure, even this seemingly indestructible product has its limits.

When Does Store-Bought BBQ Sauce Really Go Bad?

As the designated cook of the family, I am always on the lookout for easy but delicious recipes that will surely please the crowd and leave them with a full stomach. I almost always opt for dishes that are very quick to prepare and require little to no effort at all such as crockpot recipes, especially when I have no time or energy to cook.

Grandma’s Philly Cheesesteak Casserole Recipe

Air fryers have been a sensation since their popularity skyrocketed in the late 2010s. Offering the ability to cook countless foods in a shorter time span than a deep fryer or conventional oven — and with much less oil — numerous home chefs have discovered the appliance's benefits. Given air fryers can create both convenient and healthy meals, there's an ever-growing list of foods that they can make successfully. In fact, you can use your air fryer to prepare a variety of different meat products, as well.

The Best And Worst Types Of Meat To Cook In The Air Fryer

Perhaps you're one of the many people who've switched from milk to dark chocolate because the latter has less sugar and more antioxidants. But before you tear into that candy bar or hit the kitchen to start cooking up a homemade treat (like our salted caramel recipe), there's something you should know. Your dark chocolate may be hiding an even darker secret. It's known to contain two heavy metals — cadmium and lead — that can cause harmful health effects. Pregnant people and children are at higher risk.

The Dark Chocolate Brands With The Lowest Lead And Cadmium Levels

Buttery, toasty, savory, and oozing with cheese, crispy grilled cheese sandwiches are among the best midnight snacks one can have. Plus, they only take mere minutes to whip up. However, the next time you're up late and have a hankering for a quick bite, try replacing it with a snack that is sweet, nutty, crunchy, and melts in your mouth — a grilled peanut butter and jelly sandwich makes for one seriously scrumptious substitution. Nothing against a classic PB&J, but the extra effort is worth it for an experience that will truly excite your tastebuds — heating the sandwich changes it both texturally and flavor-wise.

Swap Your Midnight Grilled Cheese For A Grilled PB&J Sandwich

Leave it to Ree Drummond to prove that she doesn't need an expensive egg pan to make a perfectly moist omelet. Instead, she need only gather her ingredients, a pot of boiling water, and a simple zip-top bag. And in case you're wondering, no, she doesn't boil the omelet to make it so tender and moist, at least, not directly. Instead, the zip-top bag and the hot water work in tandem to cook the omelet. She demonstrated how she does it on her Food Network show, "The Pioneer Woman."

Ree Drummond's Plastic Bag Hack For Effortlessly Moist Omelets

Move over burrito bowls! You've been usurped by the new comfort food in town: the cornbread bowl. Basically, it's a bowl made of cornbread and stuffed to the brim with all the hot and savory foods you usually eat to warm up when the weather turns crisp. It's a comfort food container filled with down-home cookin'.

Ditch Your Burrito Bowl, Cornbread Bowls Are The Future Of Comfort Food

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Plus, the best ingredients to use for the richest taste, per the former president

Jimmy Carter’s Favorite Recipe Was a Bowl of Southern, Creamy Cheese Grits: Get the Recipe

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Craving a delicious and easy-to-make meal that the whole family will love? Look no further than these Ground Beef Philly Cheesesteak Sandwiches. Made with a savory ground beef filling and melted cheese that is nestled between two slices of perfectly toasted sourdough bread, these sandwiches are a delightful twist on the classic Philly cheesesteak.

Easy Ground Beef Cheesesteak Sandwiches: A Twist on the Classic

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Photo: Murray Hall • Food Styling: Jessie YuChen. Photo: Murray Hall • Food Styling: Jessie YuChen. Pimento cheese is a popular burger topping in and around Columbia, South Carolina, where it‘s often called a PC burger. According to the Southern food expert John T. Edge in his book Hamburgers & Fries: An American Story , “Every third joint serves one, and at least half of them are good.” Dolloped atop a hot grilled patty, the piquant spread of cheddar, pimentos, mayo, and spices melts and blends beautifully with charred beef. The cheese gives so much flavor to the burger that you won’t need ketchup or mustard.

Pimento Cheese Burgers

When the sun is blazing, it’s only natural for that cool ice cream craving to strike. Picking up ice cream during a heatwave is a no-brainer, but what's harder is selecting which ice cream to stock your freezer with. Do you want a pint or quart? What brand? And, most importantly, which flavor?

Turkey Hill Has 7 New Ice Cream Flavors Coming to Shelves Soon

Whisk together beef broth, soy sauce, brown sugar, cornstarch, ginger, garlic, and rice vinegar in a bowl until combined and sugar and cornstarch are dissolved; set aside. Heat 2 tablespoons of the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat until shimmering. Add onion, and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 2 minutes. Add broccoli, and cook, stirring occasionally, until bright green, tender-crisp, and onion is browned, 6 to 7 minutes. Transfer to a plate. Do not wipe skillet clean.

Ground Beef and Broccoli Stir Fry

While you might be used to using canned tomatoes for a sweet tomato sauce or savory soup, this pantry staple can be helpful in plenty of other ways too. For example, once roasted in the oven, canned tomatoes can actually make the perfect sandwich filling. The heat of the oven drives off excess moisture from canned tomatoes, resulting in firmer and more flavorful tomatoes that are perfect for sliding onto sandwiches. With this hack, you no longer have to worry about any tomato juice making your bread soggy, either.

Scorch Your Canned Tomatoes For Crave-Worthy Sandwiches

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Here's What's In Your Hot Dog, Beyond The Meat

Hot dogs are one of those special foods whose appearance doesn't give us much of a clue as to their ingredients. If you're like us, though,...

Here's What's In Your Hot Dog, Beyond The Meat

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