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Learn the basics, master new skills, and feel more confident in the kitchen with my step-by-step how-to guides. Whether tackling a new technique or just wanting to sharpen everyday cooking know-how, these practical tips are here to help—no fluff, just real results.

Whether it’s learning how to make pho or how to remove hard water stains from glass shower doors, I have you covered!

Some of my readers’ favorite how-to articles include how to remove hard water stains, how to make your own acai bowl, and one of my personal favorites is how to make bone broth.

Five white bowls each filled with a different type of lentil: red, brown, beluga, French green, and green.

Popular Types of Lentils (and How to Use Them)

A raw, uncooked spatchcock chicken on a large cutting board flattened with breast-side-up.

How to Spatchcock a Chicken

Sauce whisk set inside a skillet filled with dark brown roux.

How to Make A Roux (Easy Roux Recipe)

Shallow white bowl filled with various different seasonings mixing together.

Taco Seasoning Recipe

White plate filled with cooked, peeled, and sliced red beets garnished with chopped parsley.

Instant Pot Beets

Bowl filled with perfect hard boiled eggs with creamy yellow yolks.

Instant Pot Hard Boiled Eggs

White bowlful of homemade cream of mushroom soup topped with two slices caramelized onions and placed on a large cutting board with a soup spoon to the left.

Cream of Mushroom Soup

Glass mason jar filled with homemade cream of chicken soup.

Homemade Cream of Chicken Soup

Baked Sweet Potato

Perfect Baked Sweet Potato

White platter filled with simply seasoned delicata squash

How to Cook Delicata Squash

Cooked quinoa in a large saucepot.

How to Cook Quinoa

White bowl filled with cooked jasmine rice.

Jasmine Rice

A mason jar of homemade marinara sauce

Marinara Sauce

3 glasses of Bubble Tea on a table, with Boba at the bottom of the glasses

Bubble Tea Recipe

White stock pot filled with meatballs simmering in a homemade tomato sauce.

Meatball Recipe

Blended red enchilada sauce.

Homemade Enchilada Sauce

How to caramelize onions.

Perfect Caramelized Onions

Three cooked baked potatoes in an air fryer basket.

Air Fryer Baked Potatoes

Small pile of garlic cloves separated from a single bulb.

What is a Clove of Garlic?

Close up image of one whole garlic bulb surrounded by additional bulbs of garlic in the foreground and background.

How to Mince Garlic

Shallow serving bowl filled with cooked pearl barley.

How to Cook Pearl Barley

Image of two white ramekins one filled with pearled barley and one with hulled barley with the text overlay "Barley: What Is It And Is It Good For You?"

Barley: What Is It And Is It Good For You?

Image of a small white ramekin filled with oat groats with the text overlay "What are Groats? Varieties and Cooking Methods".

What Are Groats?

Image of different types of winter squash.

Types of Winter Squash: A Guide to Winter Squash Varieties and Cooking Methods

Homemade strained turkey stock in a large Dutch oven.

Turkey Stock

Large stock pot filled with one whole browned chicken, garlic, vegetables, and fresh herbs.

Homemade Chicken Stock

Glass jar filled with syrupy pomegranate molasses.l

How to Make Pomegranate Molasses

Overhead image of a negroni served in a rocks glass with a single large square ice cube and orange peel.

Negroni Recipe

Three glasses filled with classic lime margarita on the rocks.

Classic Margarita Recipe (How to Make a Margarita)

Whole mango on a marble cutting board.

How to Cut a Mango

Before Image of a Toilet with Hard Water Ring around the water line in the bowl, with a after cleaning picture next to it showing toilet bowl without hard water stain

How to Remove Hard Water Stains from Toilets

Image of cooked Instant Pot black beans in a white bowl with an Instant Pot in the background.

Perfect Instant Pot Black Beans – No Soaking Required

Image of small ramekins filled with different types of dried beans

15 Types of Beans – And How to Use Them

Small white bowl filled with homemade roasted pumpkin seeds

Simple Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

White bowl filled with homemade pumpkin puree.

How to Make Pumpkin Puree from Scratch

Two halved sugar pumpkins roasted in the oven

How to Cook Pumpkin: A Step-by-Step Guide

Large shallow bowl filled with Indian red dal served with brown rice and cilantro.

Red Lentil Dal Recipe (Indian Masoor Dal)

Shallow serving bowl filled with apple crisp and topped with melting scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Easy Apple Crisp Recipe (How to Make Apple Crisp)

Two whole butternut squash, halved with seeds scooped out, placed in an Instant Pot.

How to Cook Instant Pot Butternut Squash (Whole and Cubed)

A close up halved roasted butternut squash that has been roasted in a white dish

How to Roast Butternut Squash

Roasted butternut squash on a large baking sheet.

All About Butternut Squash: How to Pick, Peel, and Prepare Plus Recipes

Two cooked bone-in garlic butter and thyme pork chops.

Garlic Butter Pork Chop Recipe (Ready in Just 15 Minutes!)

A bowl of Vietnamese Pho with a spoonful of bone broth

Pho Recipe (How to Make Vietnamese Noodle Soup)

Quinoa vs. Rice: What’s the Difference?

Quinoa vs. Rice: What’s the Difference?

Two plates one filled with just sashimi and the other with sushi, or more specifically, negiri, with a side of soy sauce and edamame.

Sushi vs. Sashimi: What’s the Difference?

Large platter filled with cooked lamb and chicken biryani recipe.

Biryani Recipe – How to Make Chicken and Lamb Biryani

Spoon scooping cooked brown rice from a medium stockpot.

How to Cook Brown Rice (2 Ways!)

Dry white basmati rice in a tall clear plastic storage container with text overlay "what is basmati rice"

What is Basmati Rice?

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