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These pumpkin cottage cheese muffins are soft, warmly spiced, and packed with real pumpkin. The cottage cheese melts into the batter, so nobody can tell it’s there.

It just makes the muffins tender and adds protein without any protein powder.

They’re an easy fall breakfast or after-school snack, and they freeze well, so one batch goes a long way.

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There’s nothing like a mug of mulled wine on a cold night. Red wine, orange, cinnamon, and cloves warm together on the stove, and your whole house smells like the holidays.

It’s one of the easiest holiday drinks you can make. But it’s also easy to get wrong. Cook it too hot or too long and it turns bitter. Leave the wrong part of the orange in the pot and it turns b...

Microwave peanut brittle is the easiest candy you’ll make this Christmas. One glass bowl, about 8 minutes of cooking, and no candy pot to scrub.

Here’s the honest catch:, the timing in most microwave peanut brittle recipes only works in the microwave it was written for. That’s why the comments under the popular versions are full of burnt batches and brittle...

The real prize of pumpkin season isn’t the jack-o’-lantern. It’s the guts. Those slick, stringy insides everyone scrapes into the trash are hiding a free snack.

Roast them right and you get pumpkin seeds that are nutty, salty, and crunchy all the way through, not chewy in the middle.

The trick…. is one extra step most people skip: a quick boil in salted w...

You buy a bunch of fresh mint for one recipe. A pitcher of iced tea, maybe, or a little sauce for the lamb. You use a handful of leaves, and the rest sits in the fridge until it turns black and slimy.

Then next time, you buy another bunch. We’ve all done it.

Here’s the good news. Those sprigs aren’t finished.

Stand a few stems in a glass of water...