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A Place for the Curious Cook
What We’ve Been Up To!
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A Healthier, Better Tasting Sloppy Joe Recipe
This sloppy joe recipe has deep savory flavors, is simple to make, healthy to eat, and is the embodiment of everything good about comfort food.
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Turkey Chili with Creamy Salsa Verde
This turkey chili recipe uses dried chilies and a creamy salsa verde to create a deeply flavored chili with a hint of smokiness and a sublime texture.
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Blueberry Buttermilk Cake
This blueberry buttermilk cake is light and airy with warm cinnamon flavors and a juicy blueberry filling that pops with every bite.
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About Umami
Umami is a food and drink website for the curious cook. Our mission is to help people explore the world and expand their taste through delicious recipes and interesting stories. Learn about Umami’s Editorial Guidelines.
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Seasonal Favorites
A few of our favorite recipes, stories, and tips that celebrate the season.
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Cranberry Oatmeal Walnut Cookies
Plump, tangy cranberries and earthy walnuts fill these palm-sized treats, making these cranberry oatmeal walnut cookies the perfect anecdote to a tall glass of lemonade.
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Grilled Fig, Prosciutto, and Goat Cheese Naan Flatbread
Grilled flatbread has never been easier when you use Naan as the base. Grilled figs, prosciutto, and goat cheese make this a simple grilled flatbread recipe a sophisticated weeknight dinner.
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Thai Beef with Herbs
This Thai Beef with Herbs recipe gets its bright Thai flavors from a squeeze of lime and a handful of fresh herbs.
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Apple Galette
Apple Galette is a free-form apple pie with a flaky pie crust that gently encircles tart apples, brown sugar, and walnuts. This galette is less sweet and more of an everyday dessert, versus something for a fancy dinner party.
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Shredded Chicken Enchiladas With Creamy Salsa Verde
This shredded chicken enchiladas recipe is filled with plump, juicy chicken and bold flavors. Topped with a creamy salsa verde enchilada sauce this recipe is for people who love enchiladas.
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How to Make Enchiladas – A Complete Guide
Learn how to make enchiladas with this in-depth guide filled with tasty tips, step by step instructions, delicious fillings, cheeses, and sauces.
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Red Enchilada Sauce
This red enchilada sauce has deep flavors that soak into the tortillas and filling, adding layers of flavor perfect for beef, chicken, and cheese enchiladas.
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Instant Pot Chicken and Rice
This is the Instant Pot Chicken and Rice recipe to make if you love tender chicken, fluffy rice, and Caribbean flavors.
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Homemade Fresh Squeezed Lemonade
Once you see how easy this homemade lemonade recipe is to make, you’ll never buy the powdered mix again. See why fresh squeezed lemonade is one of the best things about summer.
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Steel Cut Oats with Brown Sugar Bananas
Learning how to cook steel cut oats is a delicious and easy way to make a healthy breakfast at home. For this steel cut oatmeal recipe, we add bananas and toast the oats to help them cook faster and come out creamier.
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French Toast with Maple Whipped Cream
This classic French Toast recipe is simple to make at home and uses a hint of cinnamon and a touch of orange zest to create slices of crispy golden brown French toast.
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Understanding Umami Flavor With a Simple Taste Test
The best way to understand what is umami flavor is to try it yourself. This taste test is an easy way to learn how to add more umami taste to your cooking.
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How to Cook With Umami Foods
Learn how to cook umami foods using a few simple techniques that will improve your cooking and add more umami flavor to dishes.
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Homemade Bacon
Making homemade bacon is a lot easier than it sounds. All you need is this recipe, some pork belly and a little time to create thick, smokey, delicious, bacon at home.
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Our Best Ideas for Grilling – Tips, Tricks, Recipes, & Secret Sauces
For people who love to fire up the grill and cook delicious food, we’ve collected our best ideas for grilling. This piece is filled with tips and tricks to help the most experienced cooks grill tastier food. It includes recipes for the grill, foods to grill, and grilling ideas for dinner.
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Banana Cream Pie
A good banana cream pie is the type of dessert that can make any meal feel like a special occasion. This recipe has a thick creamy center full of banana goodness, surrounded by a luxurious custard.
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A Dynamite Smoked Chicken Rub
This smoked chicken rub is a simple seasoning for chicken cooked in a smoker or on a grill that is packed with delicious flavors.
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Tips and Tricks for the Best Beef to Smoke
The best beef to smoke, whether it’s a juicy hunk of brisket, flavor packed tri-tip, ribs so tender the meat falls off the bone, or shredded chuck roast, is about using time, temperature, and smoke to add flavor and texture.
