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Stuck in a recipe rut? Try our assortment of versatile recipes, nutritious menus, and expert cooking tips. We've assembled the most delicious Better Homes and Gardens recipes and how-to instructions for every occasion, whether you need a creamy chicken casserole for a potluck dinner or quick and easy snacks for your next tailgate party. Our new and exciting recipes include tasty desserts and appetizers, as well as savory soups and salads that are sure to inspire your breakfast, lunch, and dinner menus. If you're on a time crunch or a budget, we have cheap and easy recipes, including slow cooker meals, no-bake dinners, and delectable pasta recipes complete with protein and veggies. Plus, we make the holidays less hectic by providing a collection of flavorful holiday recipes packed with seasonal ingredients.

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Dairy-Free Dessert Recipes Everyone Will Love

Yes, mouthwatering dairy-free dessert recipes are absolutely possible. These sweet eats are proof. If you’re avoiding dairy, eating lactose-free, or just need inspiration, these ideas for brownies, sorbets, cakes, and dairy-free cookie recipes are what you need.

May 2019 Better Homes & Gardens Recipes

With our May food issue, we’ve got a recipe for any possible craving. An easy chicken dinner, fabulous Mexican menu, recipes with cucumbers, a skillet cookie, ice cream pie, even Derby-theme eats. There’s no way your meal planning for the month will be lacking inspiration with this collection of recipes from the May 2019 issue of Better Homes & Gardens® magazine.

What You Need to Know About the Latest Diet Plans

If you’re toying with the idea of trying a new diet, read this first. We broke down the basics and discuss the pros and cons of the diets you’ve been hearing about lately so you can choose the one best for you. We’ve got the keto diet, the paleo diet, Whole30, intermittent fasting, and clean eating covered, plus more, so all your questions about each will finally be answered.

Our 13 Best Keto Recipes That Make the Keto Diet Easy (and Delicious)

From breakfast to dinner, these easy keto recipes make it a cinch to stick to the high-fat, low-carb plan.

15 Delicious Dairy-Free Dinner Recipe Swaps for Your Comfort Food Favorites

Mooove over, mozzarella. For these easy dairy-free dinner recipes, not one ounce of cheese, yogurt, milk, or butter is required. Including gluten- and dairy-free dinner recipes like shrimp “fried rice” and cozy chili, these crowd-pleasing recipes will have you feeling zero deprivation.

Everything You Should Know About Sumo Oranges

Don’t let their odd shape dissuade you, Sumo citrus is sweet and delicious.

5 Cute Ways to Dress Up Donuts

Whether you consider donuts a special breakfast treat or a decadent dessert, these donut recipes will make you rethink your daily stop at the bakery for a basic glazed donut. We never thought we’d call sprinkles plain, but these dressed-up donuts make sprinkle-covered cake donuts look downright dull by comparison.

This Is the Easy Way We're Making All Our Hard-Boiled Eggs

The experts weighed in, and the BEST way to make hard-boiled eggs requires steam.

Do You Actually Need to Refrigerate Butter?

It turns out you can store it in the fridge or at room temperature, but it depends on how quickly you'll use it.

What Is Lactose-Free Milk?

If you've been down the dairy aisle lately, you know the number of milk alternatives is exploding. Lactose-free milk was one of the first in the category. Find out what it is, how lactose-free milk is made, and if it's the right choice for you.

Keto-Friendly Chicken Recipes That Make Wonderful Family Dinners

Chances are your whole family loves chicken. With these keto chicken recipes in your recipe arsenal there's no need to make separate meals for those on the diet and those who aren't; everyone will love them! These recipes show how to make a typically lean protein work when you’re eating keto.

Keto Diet Plan Basics: Everything You Need to Know to Start

You've certainly heard about keto diets. Now learn the benefits, what you can and can’t eat on it, and how to get started. We've got answers to your most-asked questions so you can determine if a keto diet is right for you.

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Reverse-Seared Grilled Ribeye Steaks

This new method to grill steaks results in the best crust and juiciest center you've ever cooked.

Strawberry-Rhubarb Coffee Cake

When strawberries and rhubarb are in season, take full advantage of them by baking them into this delicious layered coffee cake. It's topped with a crumbly streusel and creamy vanilla icing, so each slice is almost like having dessert for breakfast.

Sausage, Egg, and Biscuit Casserole

Packaged biscuits and frozen sausage patties really help speed this tasty breakfast and brunch casserole along. It's easy, cheesy, and you can prep it the night before, so you don't have to spend time prepping it in the morning when your stomach's already growling.

Mushroom and Spinach Skillet Pizza

Use a cast iron skillet to make this hearty vegetarian pizza

Margherita Pizza

This classic pizza pairing of melty cheese, bright sauce, fresh basil, and chewy bread really shines in a cast iron skillet

Loaded Cheeseburger Skillet Pizza

The flavors of a cheeseburger loaded with all the fixings, but in cast iron skillet pizza form

Food Processor Pizza Dough

Use your food processor to whip up a quick and easy pizza dough that doesn't require kneading

Pork Chops with Fennel and Pears

Fall flavors of pork, pears, and apple cider come alive in this cast iron skillet recipe

Eggs and Bacon Bucatini

This hearty and cheesy cast iron skillet dish will be a hit at your next brunch

Crispy Ricotta Meatballs with Sheet-Pan Tomato Sauce

A typical homemade sauce simmers for hours on the stove top to meld flavors. Roasting a mixture of fresh and canned tomatoes, chopped garlic, and fresh herbs on a sheet pan gets you there in only 20 minutes.

Pad Thai Stir-Fry

The key to a successful stir-fry recipe is to have your ingredients prepped and ready to add to a hot skillet or wok. Feel free to add chicken or shrimp to boost the protein in this pad Thai recipe.

Soba Noodles with Sesame-Ginger Sauce

This Asian noodle bowl is an ideal place to use soba noodles. The brown noodles are masked in a brown sauce, then piled with vibrant green veggies, and topped with white sesame seeds for flavor and color contrasts.

Chipotle Mojo Blender Sauce

Make this quick blender sauce and store for up to a week to add to chicken, pork, beef, Mexican casseroles, eggs, if you can dream it, you can do it.

Cold Oven Chicken

This cold-oven chicken delivers juicy, tender results every time and with several flavor options, you could make a different version every weeknight this week!

Blackberry-Mint Julep Sparkler

Almost 120,000 of these bourbon cocktails are served at Churchill Downs every Derby weekend. Our version incorporates a mint-infused simple syrup, fresh berries, and a splash of club soda to lighten the spirit-forward cocktail.

Bourbon-Brown Sugar Nuts

Glaze toasted almonds in a quick caramel-like mixture of cinnamon, black pepper, cayenne, brown sugar, and a splash of bourbon

Pimiento Cheese Dip

For a smoky twist on a Southern specialty, use smoked cheddar for bolder flavor in your pimiento cheese dip.

Vietnamese-Style Noodle Salad

Don't let the longer ingredient list scare you off, it's mostly quick-to-measure items like vinegar, oil, and fish sauce that require no prep. In fact, the noodle bowl comes together in about 30 minutes.

Hot Brown Stromboli

Made famous by The Brown Hotel in Louisville, a hot brown is an open-face turkey sandwich with cheese sauce and bacon. To feed a crowd, we rolled the quintessential ingredients into a sliceable stromboli.

Chipotle Carrot-Onion Dip

Serve up a dip recipe that packs a dose of veggies with the carrot-onion dip.

Burnt-Orange Anejo Sour

This mash-up between a margarita and a whiskey sour stars ajejo, a dark aged tequilla. Top the cocktail recipe with an orange slice you've broiled or caramelized with a kitchen torch for a fab garnish.

Derby Skillet Cookie

Inspired by Derby-Pie's rich filling of chocolate chips and walnuts, this cast-iron skillet cookie version goes straight from oven to table. Topping the gooey cookie with a scoop of ice cream isn't mandatory but is strongly encouraged.

Rhubarb Agua Fresca

Sure, you've had agua fresca drinks, but we'd wager you've never made one with rhubarb before. Give it a try and see what you've been missing.

Amaranth Crackers

Love seeds? You'll love these crackers filled with six different kinds of seeds plus puffed amaranth to get in on the puffed grains trend.

Pickled-Jalapeno Fried Chicken

Recipe creator Kate Ramos uses the pickled jalapeno brine on this fried chicken recipe as insurance for moist chicken. "I like to brine overnight to guarantee the result is juicy and flavor-packed," she says.

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