While its name might sound unappetizing, the “dump dinner” is a thing of beauty: Take ingredients, dump them into your cooking vessel, set a timer, and walk away until the timer goes off. And dinner is served. Plus if you’re feeling like spending less time in the kitchen, opt for ingredients that will save you more time on prep—things like a jar of minced garlic, pre-diced onion, herb paste, pre-made meatballs, or cooked rotisserie chicken. Lean into the laziness, guilt-free, with these fabulously low-maintenance dump dinners!
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My Favorite 1-Ingredient Upgrade for the Best Boxed Mac and Cheese
My entire childhood, my mom made The Dip. Every Super Bowl party, birthday, potluck, you name it–my mom showed up with a bowl of her “famous” dip in tow. It was my favorite thing she made, and I would even request an entire salty, tangy batch for myself on my birthday. So imagine my horror as a preteen, watching my mom prep her famous dip for the first time and realizing it was just Lipton French onion soup mix and sour cream. That’s it. I assumed it included a laundry list of ingredients and required some super special mom-only technique to achieve such deliciousness. It turns out that I just really like French onion soup mix, which never appeared in any recipe in my mom’s arsenal save for The Dip, so I had no idea that was the culprit.
Once I got to college, I was cooking all my meals by myself for the first time. Armed with a college student’s budget and the knowledge that French onion soup mix makes things delicious, I stumbled upon a creation I still eat more than a decade later: French onion mac and cheese.
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Cherry Cola Ribs
I’ve come to find out that cherry cola makes an incredibly delicious rack of ribs, which strangely enough, don’t really taste like either cherry or cola, but taste very similar to your All-American Midwest-style barbecue.
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Chef John’s Trick for Knowing What NOT to Order at Restaurants
We all know Chef John Mitzewich has superpowers in a restaurant kitchen, but we didn’t know he also has a unique set of skills at the restaurant dining table as well.
In an interview with our favorite cooking personality, we asked the chef for one rare skill he possessed that no one would ever pay him for. His response? “I can look at a restaurant menu and tell which items are made with leftovers and maybe should be avoided,” he shares.
Through his years of restaurant experience, Chef John has developed a keen eye for reading menus that makes him the best person to invite out to eat. But, believe it or not, there’s a trick to this that makes the chef’s secret skill easy to adopt for your own menu hacking. So, if you want to eat by Chef John’s standards (which, don’t we all?), here is the rule to follow.
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50 St. Patrick’s Day Recipes You’ll Want to Make Year-Round
Our Best Ideas for St. Patrick’s Day
If you’re a fan of hearty fare like potatoes and stew then you probably look forward to March 17th as much as we do. Sure, it’s fun to participate in the American version of the holiday by starting your meal with green appetizers or treating yourself to a festive St. Patrick’s Day dessert, but the best part of this day is digging into a plate piled high with dishes that celebrate Irish cuisine. For some of us, that means cooking up inspired classics like corned beef and cabbage or shepherd’s pie. For others, it’s all about sticking to tradition and making colcannon or boxty. However you choose to pay tribute to the food and cooking of the Emerald Isle, we’re sure these recipes will come in handy. We’ve rounded up everything from cute, shamrock-shaped scones to Irish coddle — and we’re sure you’re going to love each and every recipe. A must-make no matter how you celebrate? This 5-star corned beef and cabbage. It requires a bit of time and effort but the leftover corned beef makes for excellent hash the next day.

