Game Day Loaded Taco Dip Recipe
This hearty, flavor-packed, no-bake loaded taco dip features layers of guacamole, salsa, seasoned ground beef, and plenty of cheese: Perfect for game day.
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Sweet And Savory Monte Cristo Sandwich Recipe
This sweet and savory Monte Cristo sandwich is stuffed with ham, turkey, Gruyère, mayo, and raspberry jam on brioche bread and fried like French toast.
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Southwestern Pasta Salad Recipe
This hearty pasta salad features the classic flavors of the Southwest: warm spices, a touch of heat from the chipotle, lime, cilantro, corn, and black beans.
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Cinnamon Banana Bread Muffins Recipe
Inspired by platanos fritos, these banana bread muffins are kept perfectly moist with the addition of condensed milk, and layered with sweet cinnamon sugar.
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The Best Cheeses To Bring To A Picnic To Avoid A Melted Disaster
Picnic season is every season, but when the weather is hot, certain cheeses don't fair particularly well. These are the best cheeses to take on your picnic.
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How To Avoid Soggy Picnic Sandwiches, According To An Expert
Food Republic asked the head chef of Zingerman's Deli (an Ann Arbor, Michigan institution) Rodger Bowser for his thoughts on soggy sandwich woes.
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8 Rules For Planning A Picnic With Riesling
It’s the peak of summertime, and y’all know what that means — ‘tis the season to eat alfresco. Ranking high among alfresco frontrunners such as rooftop dining and backyard BBQs is one of our all-time favorite ways to dine outdoors: picnics.Whether you’re a city dweller taking the subway to the closest urban park or a…
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Picnic Picks: BLT Macaroni Salad
Food writer and blogger Melissa Sperka published a collection of recipes that will bring out your love of Southern food and cooking in no time at all. Pick up a copy of her cookbook and prepare to put some South in your mouth. This fun take on pasta salad combines the flavors of a classic BLT…
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How To Make A Bottled French 75: The Ultimate Picnic Cocktail Move
Jeffrey Morgenthaler is Food Republic’s contributing cocktail editor and the author of the column Easy Drinking. He currently manages the bars Clyde Common and Pépé Le Moko in Portland, Oregon, and is the author of The Bar Book: Elements of Cocktail Technique. You know what I’m not ashamed to admit? I’m a guy who loves a summer picnic.…
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Creamy Satay Dip With Cucumber Spears
Food stylist, author and TV chef Lisa Lemke is back with another excellent cookbook — this one focused on summer recipes and outdoor entertaining, two things we’ve been looking forward to. This low-stress picnic treat goes wherever you go.Satay dip is not only good on grilled chicken skewers, but it tastes darn good with cool cucumber…
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Picnic Gold: Hugh Acheson's Liverwurst Recipe
James Beard Award-winning chef and all-around food hero Hugh Acheson’s new cookbook, The Broad Fork, is inspired by the questions asked at farmers’ markets. Acheson demystifies varietals and underused veggies with in-depth analyses, seasonal recipes and other forms of vegetable-forward culinary encouragement. So why liverwurst? Well, you’ll need something to go with all those excellent…
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Skip The Snack Bar: 25 Recipes To Make For An Epic Day At The Beach
Of course you can skip thinking about food when preparing for a day at the beach. There’s always going to be a snack bar nearby, with bags of chips and soggy hot dogs available for $5 a crack. Maybe there will be chicken fingers if you are lucky. Or a microwave burrito. You can totally…
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10 Summer Sandwiches To Eat Outside
As the legend goes, John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich and one hell of a George Washington doppelganger, is the man credited with inventing the meat-between-bread concept we love today. And since around that time in the early 18th Century, the sandwich has evolved into one of our favorite foodstuffs. You’re probably eating one…
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Steady Sticks: Never Spill Wine All Over Your Picnic Again!
The lawn doesn't enjoy being inebriated like you do, so kindly spill your glass into your mouth and not on the grass, if you would. Now that we've gotten manners out of the way, let's discuss Tovolo's Steady Sticks for the ultimate drink-nic. Here are the facts:You want to drink wine at your picnicYou want…
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Pump Up Your Picnic: Kimchi Deviled Eggs
You may recall my zero-effort kimchi pickled eggs. You can make this recipe with regular boiled eggs or my magical spicy ones. Either way you're in for some fermented cabbage goodness. Kimchi and eggs are a natural pairing. The acid and heat cut the richness of the yolk, so it's only natural that during a…
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22 Picnic-Friendly Summer Salad Recipes
Face it — your casserole dish and Dutch oven have little use in the kitchen right now. Maybe they should just pack it up for vacation. It's high season for fresh veggie-packed summer salads, and if you think you've seen them all, we've got 22 recipes to freshen up your picnic repertoire. Whether you're a…
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Buckwheat Salad With Goat Feta And Smashed Cucumbers Recipe
I love using buckwheat groats for cold salads — they have a unique and unexpected ultra-savory earthniess that just begs for something creamy and/or briny. I usually go with feta cheese, it's a natural pairing and since I discovered goat feta, I've been crumbling it onto just about anything. Smashing cucumbers helps them pickle in…
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Grilled Potato Salad With Feta And Dill Recipe
Nothing ruins a great picnic spread faster than terrible potato salad. You know the kind I'm talking about: overcooked potatoes choked with mayo, lacking acidity and salt and just kind of gratuitously there on the table like anyone invited them. This grilled potato salad with lemon, feta and dill is that potato salad's hot cousin…
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Tobiko And Chive Deviled Eggs Recipe
I love a great blank canvas, and deviled eggs are just that. Their twist-friendly format just begs for specialty ingredients like truffles, exotic spices and caviar. Or in this case, a much more affordable option found at any Asian supermarket: tobiko, flying fish roe. You may have seen it adorning your sushi. Wait til you…
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Smoked Eggplant Fingerling Potato Salad Recipe
I'm always looking for alternatives to mayo when it comes to salads. I've used Greek yogurt and even guacamole to great success, but smoked mashed eggplant pulp is really where it's at when it comes to binding ingredients. This super-simple smoked eggplant fingerling potato salad recipe is great for cookouts because while you've got the…
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The Meal Plan: A No Holds Barred Fried Chicken Fiasco!
Tonight's menu features some good old-fashioned deep-frying. There's also blackening and grilling, two other things you should get into while it's hot. Sounds counter-productive with the heat and heat, but you'll be fine. Choose your fried chicken, there are several, then pick from our hand-selected list of salads and fixins to make a crowd-friendly feast…
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Video: Watch 13,000 Parisians In The World's Largest Secret Dinner Party
Shrouded in mystery since it began as a modest 200-person pop-up dinner in 1998 (well before the pop-up dinner was a thing), Diner En Blanc has expanded into a world-wide phenomenon. Last June, more than 13,000 people converged on a park near Notre Dame for a communal feast void of commercial territorialism (there are no…
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25 Recipes For Your Awesome Weekend Picnic
We all know that ants can ruin a picnic, but so can a slew of other scenarios. A soggy-bottomed sandwich, stale food, litter…these are just a few of the situations that can turn a happy, sunny day sad. But the perfect picnic is within your grasp — you just need to be smart and strategize.…
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Of Course Jay Rayner Hates Picnics
“Picnics are never lovely. Picnics are where lunch goes to die,” writes Jay Rayner in his ironically titled Happy Eater column for the Guardian. So if you’ve never heard of restaurant critic Jay Rayner, here’s the deal. He’s sort of a Simon Cowell character kicking around the British journalism world. He’s the head critic (and…
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Food Republic's Epic 4th Of July Grillout Menu
Ah, time for our big epic holiday menu. Of course if you're just doing a low-key burgers and dogs type of deal, we've got plenty of recipes for that. But for the grillmaster who truly wants to show off and pretend they launched the fireworks in celebration of his mighty grilling power, we bring you…
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