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Amy Schumer Shares Emmy Acceptance Speech If Her Cooking Show Had Won, Loses to Cheer

Jaime E. Love 2 days ago

Amy Schumer/Instagram

Amy Schumer has no hard feelings toward her Emmy loss this year.

On Saturday, the comedian, 39, shared the adorable acceptance speech she and her family pre-recorded if her series Amy Schumer Learns to Cook took home its first award.

The Food Network series was nominated for outstanding unstructured reality program but was ultimately beat out by Netflix’s Cheer during the Creative Arts awards on Saturday.

“Emmy loss,” Schumer captioned the sweet clip featuring husband and chef Chris Fischer, their 16-month-old son Gene David, Gene’s nanny, Jane, and their dog Tati.

“The vid we made in case

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Trader Joe’s Is Releasing A Brand New Seasoning & It’s Going to Transform Your Fall Cooking

Jaime E. Love 4 days ago

Every month, we look forward to two things: New Trader Joe’s podcast episodes announcing new products, and the new products that actually do arrive on shelves. This month, it was — finally — TJ’s highly anticipated Cookie Butter Beer. And, according to TJ’s latest podcast episode, we have a new seasoning slated to arrive this fall that might just rival Everything But the Bagel Seasoning (emphasis on “might”).

On Episode 29 of Inside Trader Joe’s, hosts Tara Miller, Marketing Director, and Matt Sloan, VP of Marketing, revealed that they’re adding a new seasoning blend to their already popular

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This Texas Entrepreneur is Cooking Up Soul Food-Flavored Popcorn, and Y’all Need to Try It

Jaime E. Love 1 week ago

Courtesy of De J. Lozada

De J. Lozada thinks your popcorn could use a little soul.

A single mom to two sons, a caretaker to her niece and elderly father, and unable to work due to a since-cured undiagnosed illness, Lozada had just $53 left in her bank account when she sold her first batch of gourmet popcorn in 2016.

“I chose popcorn because it was my favorite snack and I already knew how to flavor it in new and different ways,” says Lozada, who lives in Austin, Texas. “Before my illness, I always gave popcorn as love offerings to

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How I beat ‘cooking fatigue’ during the pandemic

Jaime E. Love 3 weeks ago

In the early days of stay-at-home orders, so many of us collectively discovered the joys of cooking: making sourdough, baking elaborate desserts, making pasta from scratch. But after months of being home, the novelty has worn off and cooking has become a repetitive chore.

A recent survey of 2,000 Americans, conducted by OnePoll on behalf of Sun Basket, found that 55% of Americans are experiencing “cooking fatigue.” Respondents said they cook an average of nine times a week, yet they’ve eaten the same meal 28 times since the pandemic started. Unsurprisingly, most people say they’re

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Nigella Lawson’s simple cooking hack for sweetening leftover tomatoes overnight

Jaime E. Love 4 weeks ago
Fans are loving Nigella Lawson's tomato hack, pictured here April 2019 (Getty Images)
Fans are loving Nigella Lawson’s tomato hack, pictured here April 2019 (Getty Images)

Nigella Lawson has been praised for sharing a cooking hack to make tomatoes deliciously sweet.

We’re slap bang in the middle of tomato season, which runs from June to October, and with many of us taking to growing our own in lockdown, ideal weather conditions have meant we’ve been left with an excess of the humble fruit.

Thankfully, Lawson has revealed a clever trick to help make use of the additional toms – and the really brilliant bit is it involves no time spent standing over a

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‘Milking’ Cucumbers Is The Newest, Grossest TikTok Cooking Hack…But It Works

Jaime E. Love 1 month ago
Photo credit: TikTok/BasicallyPerkfect/Kristin Salaky
Photo credit: TikTok/BasicallyPerkfect/Kristin Salaky

From Women’s Health

The internet is full of weird and wonderful food hacks…and then there is something called “cucumber milking,” which I would not classify as wonderful, but I would call VERY WEIRD. The trend is currently taking over TikTok and it promises to give you better, less bitter cucumbers.

We first spotted this thanks to BuzzFeed, but they spotted it when user @basicallyperkfect outlined how to “milk your cucumbers.” She identified it as kind of a cooking secret she learned via her sister-in-law. It basically requires that you chop off the end of the

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