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March 20, 2018

9 gut-busting treats to hit a store shelf near you

Just when you thought it was safe to start your summer diet, snack and candy makers are trying to tempt your taste buds with a slew of new sweet or savory or just plain strange new treats. Whether it's with unique chip flavors --such as blue cheese, dill pickle or barbecue ribs -- or the most mouthwatering chocolates, companies that specialize in munchies are competing for your appetite and your food budget. The hottest trends in palate pleasing goodies were recently on display at the Sweets and Snack Expo in Chicago, where buyers sampled the latest confections and product innovations. Here's a look at what's coming soon to a store shelf near you:

March 20, 2018

10 messiest dishes to make

We all take chances in life, especially with our cooking. Whether it鈥檚 using a sharp blade or handling scorching-hot liquids, sometimes we put ourselves at risk when whipping up a great meal. Not only can cooking be dangerous, but it can be messy, too. No matter how many years you went to culinary school or how obsessive-compulsive you are about cleanliness, there are some recipes that are just going to get downright messy. Like breading chicken for example, because no matter how many times you try to remember to use your right hand for dry ingredients and your left for wet, you鈥檒l always end up with sticky and chunky gunk stuck to your fingers. 聽Or meatballs. How else are you going to mold that ground beef into perfect, neat little balls without diving in hands first into that ground beef and getting it all over your hands and under your finger nails? And don鈥檛 get us started on mincing garlic, because the day someone figures out a cure for sticky-minced-garlic-hands syndrome is the day we are happy cooks. Despite all of the whining, this rant isn鈥檛 meant to turn you off from cooking, especially cooking these dishes. We couldn鈥檛 live without these dishes, not only because of the way they taste when they鈥檙e done but because they鈥檙e some of the most creative and therapeutic recipes we like to work with. This is meant to celebrate these messy recipes in all of their glory, and to tell you that, hey, it鈥檚 OK to get a little messy sometimes.

March 20, 2018

Hungry Girl鈥檚 best summer salad recipes

Summer is here, so it鈥檚 the perfect time to get reacquainted with all the beautiful and beneficial produce your grocery stores and local markets have to offer. Since May is National Salad Month, we asked one of our favorite celebrity foodies, Lisa Lillien, creator of the Hungry Girl food brand, what people can do to pump up their salads this season.聽 鈥淪alads sometimes get a bad rap because they鈥檙e considered boring diet food, but don鈥檛 be afraid to get creative,鈥� Lillien said. 鈥淭hrow in chopped Fuji apples, jicama, grape tomatoes, even strawberry slices,鈥� she said. Here are a few salads that can spice up your summer:

March 20, 2018

Top 10 kitchen tricks from expert cooks

Simplifying strategies, tips, and techniques鈥攆rom the Real Simple test kitchen to yours.

March 20, 2018

Dress your burger: make your own special sauce

Let鈥檚 take a moment to think about some of our favorite burgers and why we like to eat them. For those of you who are lucky to live on (or travel to) the West Coast, you may say In-N-Out鈥檚 beauty is the two thin patties of 100 percent American beef smashed together with fresh tomato and lettuce on a homemade bun. For all of you East Coasters, you may believe that Danny Meyer鈥檚 custom-blend burger topped with gooey American cheese is that much more incredible because of that incredibly long line you just waited on. And there鈥檚 even the McDonald鈥檚 Big Mac (we know there鈥檚 some of you out there who love it), which has some unyielding power over us when we wrap our hands around one in the late-night drive-thru lane. But all three of these burgers have one very important thing in common 鈥� a special sauce. For the McDonald鈥檚 patty, the sauce is nameless and is slathered on your burger every time; at Danny Meyer鈥檚 Shake Shack location, it gets a name (Shake Sauce) and comes without asking on their Shack Burger. And lastly, at In-N-Out, it鈥檚 called their Animal Sauce, and it's not even listed on the menu (but thankfully the majority of America knows to order it, anyway, and you can now buy it packaged and bring it home). With grilling season upon us, we want to make sure we have everything in line to prepare the perfect burger 鈥� from the beef blend to the bun, right down to the sauce. In order to craft our special sauce, we took a look at some of our favorite ones mentioned above, as well as some new versions we came across during our journey to find the 50 of the best burger recipes. To help us with our recipe, James Beard Award finalist Andy Husbands, barbecue guru Chris Hart, and food write Andrea Pyenson (also known as the authors of Wicked Good Burgers) gave us a few pointers that are important to remember when concocting an original recipe. This list of tips is meant to inspire you when you make your own special sauce at home, or even when you鈥檙e trying to replicate one of your favorite store-bought kinds.聽

March 20, 2018

Best back-of-the-box recipes

Here at The Daily Meal we value preparing a homemade meal every night, but that鈥檚 not often the case for everyone. For some people, the thought of standing over the stove exhausts them, and peeking into the takeout menu drawer seems like a much simpler alternative. Whether it鈥檚 a busy lifestyle or the concept of making something "from scratch" is intimidating, there are things that hold some of us back from getting into the kitchen. But a home-cooked meal doesn鈥檛 have to be intimidating, and thankfully for us, some of our favorite store-bought food products feature easy, delicious recipes on their packaging that make use of the products we've already purchased. Did you know that you can get homemade gumbo from a Campbell鈥檚 Soup can or that you can serve a prize-winning meatloaf with help from Quaker Oats? All of these recipes take minimal time and average skill to execute, and they highlight some of our favorite brand-name foods in ways we never thought of before. Best of all, they鈥檙e homemade. From appetizers and main dishes to dessert, these are some of our favorite back-of-the-box recipes that are sitting in your grocery store鈥檚 aisles waiting to be put to use. To make these recipes even more unique, we鈥檝e added our own twist to each one so that you can make these recipes your own. So stop letting the kitchen intimidate you and take some help the best back-of-the-box recipes. Before you know it, takeout menus will be a thing of the past.

March 20, 2018

10 best kitchen supplies

Real Simple tested the top gadgets on the market and came up with these kitchen-worthy winners.

March 20, 2018

15 cakes you would never know were cakes

Sometimes looks can be deceiving. We'd all love our asparagus to taste like chocolate cake, right? 聽Well, now you can have your veggies and cake, too. Here is a list of 15 fabulous cakes that look just like other, healthier meals. (Take a closer look. You won't believe these are really cakes.) 聽So if you're going to cheat yourself and binge on cake, try these. Those around you will have no idea your calorie intake has skyrocketed. Happy snacking.聽

March 20, 2018

Find and cook the best bacon

Real Simple staffers pigged out on 58 versions of the best food on earth, bacon. These winning strips truly sizzled.

March 20, 2018

9 crazy ways to get your caffeine fix

While a double-shot of espresso might be just the thing to snap us out of our midday lulls (and post-lunch food comas), the world seems to have other plans. Since before the new millenium, caffeine-laced food and drink products have been on the rise, most notably with energy drinks targeted toward hyperactive teenagers everywhere. Now, the energy drink industry is expected to be worth $21.5 billion by 2017, jumping from $12.5 billion in 2012. The caffeine influx doesn't stop there; the stimulant has infiltrated all sorts of products, from candy to gum to alcohol. But let's not get too crazy, guys; the Mayo Clinic says that 200 to 300 milligrams of caffeine a day isn't harmful for most adults, but more than 500 milligrams can cause some complications. So to help you figure out just how to replace a daily cup of coffee, we've rounded up nine crazy ways to get your caffeine fix, comparing them to a standard cup of coffee (85 milligrams) so you can get your fill of candy or hot sauce with a little jolt to power through.