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My Husband’s Favorite 4-Ingredient Dinner Comes From a Vintage PTA Cookbook

My husband smokes delicious chicken wings and bakes amazing banana bread. But bierocks—rolls filled with seasoned ground beef and sauerkraut—are one of his all-time favorite dinners to make. 

The recipe comes from Crestview Café, a collection of recipes from friends and families of Crestview Elementary School in Boulder, Colorado. My husband, Gavin, inherited the vintage spiral-bound cookbook, which was assembled by the school’s PTA, from his late sister Kellee.

While the cookbook is a treasure trove of family recipes shared by teachers, staff, students, parents, and grandparents—from “Earl’s Steak Diane” to “Chili Weekend Cocoction”—Gavin was drawn to how simple the four-ingredient bierocks recipe seemed (and the fact that it’s spelled “beer rocks” in the book). “It almost seemed too easy,” he says.

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7 Easy 30-Minute Dinners for Every Night of the Week

Busy nights don’t have to mean takeout. If you have half an hour, you have enough time to make a quick and easy meal that doesn’t skimp on flavor. With this 7-day menu of 30-minute dinners, you can consider this week’s menu handled.

“Flaky white fish with crusty, caramelized edges is topped with a cilantro slaw and drizzled with a smoky sour cream sauce in this simple fish taco recipe. Baking the fish on a sheet pan is a little heathier and a lot less messy than frying it, and means cleanup will be a breeze!” —Nicole McLaughlin

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100 of the Easiest Meals We’ve Ever Made

Whether you’re looking for a hearty breakfast, quick lunch, satisfying dinner, or delicious dessert, we’ve always got you covered. Not sure where to begin or feeling short on time? Don’t worry! We’ve curated a collection of 100 easy, highly-rated meals to get you started. From comforting casseroles and pasta dishes to delicious chicken dinners, these recipes are some of our simplest and most popular. We hope they become classics in your kitchen.

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38 Spring Dessert Recipes That Are Perfect for Entertaining

From lemon-infused cakes to berry-topped tarts, these sweet treats are perfect for any springtime party.

Our Best and Brightest

The start of spring always makes us feel recharged, ready to host friends and family—and start baking from scratch again. Inspired by the cheerful array of in-season produce (we’re looking at you, strawberries and rhubarb!) our desserts tend to lean in a brighter, sunnier direction. Whether we’re whipping up a few special fruit desserts for a tea party or putting all our decorating skills into a showstopper for a spring dinner party, we’re always looking to make these sweet treats fresh, flavorful and full of color. If you can relate, you’ll love the recipes in this roundup—starting with this gorgeous tart. It uses a press-in crust so it’s easy for bakers of every skill level (no rolling required!). Filled with a sweet-and-tangy Meyer lemon curd, every bite is like a little burst of sunshine.

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Our 15 Most-Saved Easter Recipes of All Time

Easter is here, and so are all the wonderful seasonal foods that make the holiday special. To celebrate, we’ve rounded up 15 of our most-saved Easter recipes of all time. If you need recipes for glazed ham, cinnamon rolls, deviled eggs, and other classic dishes with plenty of praise behind them, these are ones that our Allrecipes community turns to the most. If there is a recipe that calls to you, save it to a collection using MyRecipes, a new home for all your favorite recipes.

If you don’t know about MyRecipes yet, sign up for it! And if you already have an Allrecipes account, the great news is you can use the same login for MyRecipes, too. MyRecipes is the new home base for all recipes you want to keep in one place—not just from Allrecipes, but also other sites like EatingWell, Better Homes & Gardens, and Food & Wine.

Just tap the heart icon below under any recipe or on the recipe page below the author’s information to save it to your MyRecipes recipe box. Then, you can organize recipes into custom collections and find new recipes you might not have come across yet. It’s the easiest way to get cooking!

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Costco’s $11 Kirkland Butter Is Even Better Than the $17 Kerrygold Version

There’s no doubt that Kerrygold butter is a top-notch butter product. If you aren’t familiar, the Irish butter is made with milk from grass-fed cows giving it a deeper golden hue than traditional American butter and an arguably creamier mouthfeel. But this premium product also comes with a premium up-charge.

I’ve personally found that everything I bake (especially cookies!) turns out so much better when I use Kerrygold rather than generic grocery store butter. So to save a buck, I’ve been stocking up on it at Costco where I can get four gold bars (the equivalent of eight sticks of American butter) for just $16.95—saving a few dollars compared to my local grocery store in the process.

But that all changed when I found an alternate on the shelf next to the Kerrygold at Costco: Kirkland Signature Grass-Fed Butter. It even comes in a shiny box similar to that of the Kerrygold packaging, signaling to me that this is Costco’s house brand version of the popular butter.

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The 14 Recipes We Can’t Wait to Make This April

Somehow, it’s a new month already—but if you’re like us, you’re more than ready. So move over corned beef, Shamrock Shakes, and March Madness (okay, maybe we’re still watching that). April is here, and we’re ready to shed some layers and start gathering rhubarb and asparagus to make seasonal favorites and celebrate a few holidays.

Temperatures might still be yo-yo-ing, but that doesn’t mean we can’t start grilling, right? Here are the dishes we have bookmarked to cook in April. Come join us in the kitchen!

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I Tried 5 Honey Mustards, and the Winner Was So Good I Ate It Straight off the Spoon

I’ve been a mustard fan my whole life. Even at a young age when everyone I knew was smitten with ketchup, I was reaching for a bottle of the tangy yellow stuff. I know it’s not a condiment for every occasion, but it’s the condiment I find myself using most often.

While Dijon and stone-ground mustards are my favorites, I have a soft spot in my heart (and belly) for a good honey mustard. It’s the unsung hero in the mustard world, and I wanted to determine which brand made the best. To find the winner, I tested five store-bought honey mustard brands to see which one had the best flavor and texture and ranked my findings.

How I Chose the Honey Mustard Brands 


Because I wanted to make sure that the honey mustard brands I tested were widely available, I put on my coat, got in my car, and went to several local grocery stores. I hit the condiment aisles and scooped every honey mustard they had. It turns out, there were only five brands total, which you’ll see tested below. 

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15 Tried-And-True Recipes from Vintage Cookbooks

Here at Allrecipes, we love a good tried-and-true recipe passed down through the generations. And what better place to find good, old-fashioned recipes than in a retro cookbook? From church and junior league treasures to classics tucked away on grandma’s bookshelf, we’ve compiled 15 of the very best recipes that community members found in vintage cookbooks.

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This Mind-Blowing Potato-Peeling Hack Doesn’t Even Use a Vegetable Peeler

I’m always looking for ways to do things better, faster, and easier in the kitchen—as long as the end result is quality. Peeling different foods is at the top of the list. Who hasn’t tried various methods for easily peeling a hard-boiled egg, removing the skin from a tomato, or peeling the thick skin from a butternut squash? And the various different ways I’ve tried to keep myself from crying while cutting an onion until I discovered onion goggles? I’ve lost count.

Recently, a viral video got the social media world buzzing about the easiest way to peel potatoes, and it’s intriguing. Particularly with the holidays coming up and the mountains of mashed potatoes many of us will make, the trick is definitely worth investigating.

How to Peel Potatoes Without a Vegetable Peeler 

TikTok’s kalejunkie shares various tricks, tips, and recipes with her followers. Her method for making potatoes easy to peel seems genius if you intend for the potatoes to be boiled for dishes like mashed potatoes or potato salad.

Here are the steps to her method:

  1. Bring a pot of water to a boil. 
  2. Score potatoes around the middle with a sharp knife.
  3. Carefully drop potatoes in the boiling water and cook them until you can easily pierce them with a knife.
  4. Remove and let cool a little so you can handle them. 
  5. Peel the skins right off by hand.

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