Good Tips

Three updates to classic dinner party appetizers: Cheese Straws, Stuffed Mushrooms and Deviled Eggs.

The dusting wand has quickly become one of my favorite little tools that I never actually knew I needed.

This time of year it’s all about cookies– holiday parties, cookie swaps, there’s even a plate of homemade cookies in the office as we speak. For fun, uniform, shapes and big batches, we look to our Cookie Press for help. Here’s our guide to using the OXO Cookie Press:

Gingerbread, shortbread, molasses, chocolate chip, pfeffernüsse—it’s cookie season, y’all!

The smell of hot oil frying up latkes evokes many childhood memories for me, but latke-making is always hit or miss in my house: sometimes we get a plateful of golden brown latkes, perfectly cooked throughout that we happily dunk in applesauce; but other times we’re biting into dense, gummy centers.
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Our new batter dispenser was designed with comfort, cleanability and capacity in mind and it’s quickly become a household staple, especially as we’re gearing up for hosting and the holidays. We’ve discovered plenty of other ways to use it beyond just the standard pancake. Here are 7 ways to use your batter dispenser: 

When you wake up the day after Thanksgiving, the last thing you want to do is cook a big meal. Thankfully you have all those crazy-good leftovers just waiting to be repurposed into breakfast. Here are some of our favorite ways to cook Thanksgiving leftovers the morning after—we included some of your brilliant ideas in here too!

Ah, Thanksgiving, the biggest food holiday of them all. When so much depends on getting the turkey right, it’s key to know the basics so your bird is a masterpiece, and not an embarrassing family footnote.

Spatchcocking is a popular turkey cooking method where you remove the neck and backbone from the bird so it lays flat to cook quickly and evenly.