Chilly weather calls for hearty comfort food recipes that warm you up from the inside out. You’ll find some of our newest and most delicious comfort food dinners for every night of the week in this bookmark-worthy collection, from stick-to-your-bones soups to crowd-pleasing and cozy casseroles you’ll never get tired of.
For home cooks that host, Thanksgiving might be the most stressful day in the kitchen. For people who don’t cook a lot, working on several recipes at once can be a little daunting. If you have a large crowd to feed or if you’re just cooking for a few, simple recipes with simple ingredients are your best friend. Luckily, these 34 lazy thanksgiving recipes do just that. Whether you need a low-effort side, a simple dessert, or an easy way to cook turkey, these recipes can save you time in the kitchen and energy at the end of the day.
Whether it’s a homemade or store-bought pumpkin pie, learn if you need to store pumpkin pie in the fridge.
So you’ve baked up a beautiful homemade pumpkin pie from scratch. Or maybe you just got home from Costco and have carried a store-bought pumpkin pie from the car to the kitchen. Now what? Can that pumpkin pie stay on the counter, or do you need to refrigerate it? Read on to find out!
The short and easy answer: Yes, pumpkin pie needs to be stored in the refrigerator. The USDA advises that all “egg-rich pies” must be kept refrigerated after baking and cooling. Pumpkin pie falls into this category, along with custard, pecan, and meringue pies.
This holds true whether you’ve baked your own pumpkin pie or brought a pumpkin pie home from the store. Both homemade and store-bought pumpkin pies need to be stored in the refrigerator, not on the kitchen counter.
Spread on waffles for breakfast on the go, added to a sauce for noodles, or just plain on a spoon for a protein-rich pick-me-up, peanut butter is as versatile an ingredient as they come. A jar of peanut butter almost never lasts one month in my house. But one day, I opened a container from my pantry and found dry, hard crumbles. Had I been storing my peanut butter correctly? Did it go badwithout me noticing? What did I do wrong?
Unlike other condiments we’ve covered recently, open jars are perfectly fine to sit in a pantry away from heat and direct light. A representative from Smucker’s had this to say when reached for comment:
“Stabilized peanut butters, like our Jif products, should be stored in a cool, dry area away from strong odors and direct sunlight. This applies to both opened and unopened jars. Refrigeration is not necessary and may make the product difficult to spread. Natural peanut butters that do not contain any stabilizers, like our Smucker’s ‘Adams’ and ‘Laura Scudder’s’ natural peanut butter products, are typically best stored at room temperature whether opened or unopened.”
The prepared foods section at Costco is diverse, affordable and delicious—the perfect solution for picking up a quick dinner on a busy night or a ready-to-eat dish for a potluck. In fact, the prepared meals are quite popular with customers and there is a wide variety to choose from.
However, a couple of items seem to be less satisfying and not worth the purchase, according to Costco fans and customers on Reddit. Actually, several users had a lot to say in a Reddit thread discussing the worst Costco prepared foods available based on personal experience and preference. (Plus, for the most part, users agreed on which ones to avoid, creating a general consensus.)
Here are the top suggestions from Redditors on which prepared foods to skip the next time you go to Costco.
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