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Mushroom and Farro Pie
I made this as directed except my small local market had only medium-dry Madeira; I don't think the pie suffered as a result. It was fun to make and satisfying to eat, but I agree it needs a little enhancement. I look forward to identifying whatever that is. I made this dish and followed most of the advise by previous reviewers. I did not add any lemon zest, but did double the garlic and added the Parmesan cheese. I think I would try adding the Porcine mushrooms next time.
Welcome to Brooklyn
Discover why visitors are flocking to NYC's hippest, most happening borough With its exciting culinary scene, vibrant street art, quirky shops and groundbreaking start-ups, Brooklyn is hotter than ever. The most populous of New York City’s boroughs (more than 2.5 million people call it home), this well-loved district keeps changing for the better, and yet, with all its innovation and revitalization, Brooklyn still has a welcoming, small-town feel that resonates with locals and visitors, alike.
6 Holiday Potluck Recipes
No-Knead Onion Rolls Fluffy pull-apart rolls can be made up to 1 day in advance. Serve them at room temperature or warm in the oven for a few minutes before serving if desired. Get the recipe.
How to Organize the Family Command Center
A zone that everyone passes through is the most effective: a corner in the kitchen, a nook in a hallway, or a centrally located home office. Shelves are key; if you don’t have built-ins, just use an armoire or a bookcase. To keep this area from becoming an unloading zone, determine what belongs here and what doesn’t. Suggested yeses: bills, sports schedules, medical records, school papers with short-term relevance. Nos: backpacks, 3-D art projects, magazines, newspapers.
Smart Ideas for Organizing Your Kitchen
Kitchen Clutter Q & A The wizard behind so many Real Simple home stories, Chip Cordelli is an experienced organizer with insight and attitude. Here’s some starter wisdom from the smarty-pants who’s launched a thousand makeovers.Q. What bad habits do you see when it comes to kitchen organization?A. People keep things they don’t use, with a “maybe someday” mind-set: the bread maker, the pasta machine, the fish steamer.
Bathroom Storage and Organizing Ideas
Tame Your Hair Dryer A salon miracle you can replicate at home? Keeping styling tools from tangling and toppling. If you’re blessed with deep drawers, treat one to a bamboo caddy ($27, target.com), with slots for brushes, flatirons, and more. No room? Hang your blow dryer in a holster on the wall.
Medicine Cabinet Organizing Tricks
There’s only one way to approach a medicine cabinet, says Chip, and that’s from scratch. First empty contents into a box or a bin and wipe down shelves. Toss anything that’s expired, useless, or wrecked.
Organize the Entryway | Real Simple
E Pluribus Order Make a Group EffortReplace unruly piles—dog leashes, shopping bags, a cap collection—with multipurpose hanging systems that minimize hunting and maximize vertical space. Extra credit for one with Velcro tabs that grip oddly shaped items, such as water bottles and (come winter) earmuffs (try Jill Martin fabric hanging accessory holder, $33 for two, qvc.com).Hats (and Gloves) OffAssess accessories and give mateless gloves, that goofy panda hat, and other nonessentials the heave-ho.
17 Organizing Tips for Your Closets
Try to limit yourself to three sets of sheets per bed and as few as three sets of bath sheets or towels, hand towels, and washcloths per person (more if you change towels daily). This gives you one set in use, one in the hamper, and one in the closet ready for action. You’ll need only one or two sets for guests (one on the bed and one in the hamper or closet). Anytime you get a new set, retire an old one, and resist the temptation to hoard extras for emergencies.
9 Easy Recipes for Pork Shoulder
Rub the pork with garlic, rosemary, sage, and salt and pepper before roasting for a flavor-filled main dish that’s perfect for a dinner party.Get the recipe.
5 Surprising and Easy Painting Ideas to Add Color to Your Home
Gates suggests using a polyurethane-based porch and floor enamel here, as it's durable enough to withstand high traffic. Alternatively, try paint with a semigloss finish, which is easier to wipe clean and doesn't hold on to dust, grime, and scuffs like a flat finish can. Line the top and bottom edges of each riser with painter's tape (such as Frog Tape, $8 per roll; lowes.com) to protect the stair landings. Remove the tape before the paint is dry to help ensure a clean line.
Best Casserole Recipes
These comforting baked dishes can go straight from the oven to your table. Chicken, Spinach, and Noodle Casserole Jonny Valiant Skip the can of condensed soup—chicken noodle casserole gets an upgrade with real milk, sour cream, fresh spinach, and a buttery bread crumb topping. Get the recipe. Advertisement Eggplant Parmesan Rollatini Jonny Valiant In this pasta-free dish, browned eggplant slices mingle with marinara sauce, ricotta, mozzarella, and Parmesan cheese. Get the recipe.
How to Organize Your Dresser
Rescue overstuffed drawers from chaos-and your dresser top from its destiny as a drop spot for junk. Clutter coach Chip Cordelli makes an open-and-shut case for how to do it.
A Room-by-Room Makeover for an Organized Home
Coach Cordelli says to first make sense of the contents of your linen closet: “If your kitchen is halfway across the house, don’t store tea towels here.” At the Brunos’, beach towels were moved to a basket near the back door for use by the pool, while ratty rags went to the garage for greasy hands or into the trash. “The closet floor is where items get tossed and then lost,” says Chip. But fill that spot with a rolling bin and it stays debris-free and functional.
3 Life-Changing Room Makeovers
Moved by reader stories of cluttered spaces causing family fights, Real Simple extends the olive branch-tackling an overrun basement, an overstuffed closet, and a chaotic teen's room. And proving once and for all that in the right surroundings, everyone really can get along.
The Ultimate Bathroom Organizer
By minimizing the mess and maximizing the storage, you'll create a cool, calm space where you can feel collected.
Easy Cake Recipes - Real Simple
Baked with honey, eggs, and sugar and topped with whipped cream, this polenta dessert will convince you that the Italian cornmeal staple isn’t reserved for dinner. Get the recipe: Fresh Plums With Polenta Cake
22 Ways to Arrange Your Shelves
A few of our favorite cleaning pros share some of their best tips for stubborn spots around the house.
Mexican Dinner Party Menu
Seasoned with oregano, cumin, and cayenne pepper, the fork-tender pork is delicious when wrapped in corn tortillas and adorned with radishes, sour cream, and salsa. Get the recipe.
9 Recipes Kids Can Make
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8 Easy Scallop Recipes
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9 Craft Room Makeover Ideas
The work space/craft room of Pennsylvania newlywed Jess Mauras (shown here with husband Joe) was a pile of stress and ribbons, devoid of inspiration-and, for that matter, shelving. Real Simple transformed it into three tidy zones that foster calm and creativity.
20 Easy Super Bowl Appetizers
Shredded Pork Tacos Cook the pork with oregano, cumin, garlic, cayenne, and onion to ensure the meat is extra delicious. Get the recipe: Shredded Pork Tacos
11 Delicious Recipes for Mexican Side Dishes
This stellar salad, filled with plump shrimp, salty Cotija cheese, and crunchy pepitas, can serve as either a side dish or a main course.Get the recipe.
4 DIY Decorating Ideas for a Staircase
Want a hit of playfulness without making over an entire room? Here are four DIY ideas for a gorgeous staircase.
Festive Hanukkah decorating ideas for every room
Pepper the spirit of the holidays throughout your home by decorating for Hanukkah in unexpected ways. Here, the Star of David creates a bold look on the staircase, greeting family and friends with a welcoming chag sameach right when they walk in the door. To get this look, use a paper punch or a homemade template to cut out stars from card stock in two different shades of blue (the traditional Hanukkah colour).
Engagement Chicken
180 degrees?! Way overcooked. 165 is sufficient and will produce a juicier chicken. Simple and delicious. Don't pay attention to the herbs listed in the ingredients, they are for garnish. Practically identical Marcella Hazan's recipe Hubby said this is in the top 3 things I have made. Tips: For a 1/2 lemons, I handsqueezed 4 medium lemons. Followed recipe to the t-with a minor exception. Pan drippings looked a bit greasy.
Laundry Room Decor and Organizing Ideas
Clutter coach Chip Cordelli gives this often neglected spot a new spin, with a plan for efficiency that’s sure to lighten your load. Here’s how to turn any washer-dryer zone from scullery to sanctuary. By Lygeia Grace Start Right Arrow
Unique Gift Ideas for Women
Each year the holidays roll around, presenting a particular set of challenges that, though familiar, never seem to get any easier. While menu planning for more than ten people and figuring out where an entire assortment of extended relatives will sleep are certainly toward the top of that list, the clear winner for sheer difficulty always seems to be finding the perfect gift for everyone on your list. What makes it so difficult?
How to Fake a Clean House
A few of our favorite cleaning pros share some of their best tips for stubborn spots around the house.
15 Organizing Ideas for Your Drawers
After purging any obvious trash, bundle all “like” things (business cards, unmarked keys) that you want to keep. Fit the drawer with multi-sectioned inserts. Think about which of the kept items are most important to you: Advil, lip balm, a Post-it with your wireless password? Then fill each compartment accordingly. When you’re finished, banish any overflow to a large Ziploc bag in a high cabinet. Mark the calendar and check the bag in two months. If you haven’t missed the contents by then, toss it.
10 Cheap Organizing Hacks for a Clutter-Free Home
Create order out of chaos with creative, low-cost—or, even better, no-cost!—DIY ideas. Use Shoe Boxes as DIY Dividers Levi Brown Why pop for manufactured drawer dividers? You can make a completely customizable set with just scissors and shoe boxes. Simply cut the boxes in half by length or width, as needed for your space, then tuck into a drawer.
Chickpea Stew Recipe | Bon Appetit
Ingredients 4 tablespoons olive oil, divided 2 skinless, boneless chicken thighs Kosher salt 3 large garlic cloves, minced 2 tablespoons ground cumin 2 tablespoons tomato paste 3/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes 2 bay leaves 2 15-ounce cans chickpeas, rinsed, drained 1/2 cup chopped drained roasted red peppers from a jar 2 tablespoons (or more) fresh lemon juice 2 cups 1' cubes country-style bread 3 tablespoons coarsely chopped flat-leaf parsley Recipe Preparation Heat 2 Tbsp.
20 Make-Ahead Family Recipes
This fresh, spicy Mexican chicken soup is a meal in itself when served with tortilla chips, chopped avocado, and sliced radishes. For extra-easy re-serving, freeze leftovers in individual portions and let thaw in the refrigerator the night before you serve them.Get the recipe.
Italian Dinner Party Menu
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San Francisco Garlic Fries
This garlic fries recipe is baked, not fried, so it's healthy. Sorta? Kinda? Ingredients 4 to 6 Servings Nonstick vegetable oil spray 2 1/4 pounds russet potatoes, cut lengthwise into 3x1/3x1/3' batons 3 tablespoons vegetable oil, divided Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 4 garlic cloves, minced 2 tablespoons chopped flat-leaf parsley Preparation Step 1 Preheat oven to 450°. Coat a large rimmed baking sheet with nonstick spray. Toss potatoes with 2 1/2 Tbsp.
How to Create the Ideal Bed
Jonny Valiant Options abound—here’s how to choose wisely for a bed that will give you the restorative rest you need for years to come. Each product we feature has been independently selected and reviewed by our editorial team. If you make a purchase using the links included, we may earn commission.
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