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Loved and hated in equal measure, garlic is the perfect companion to add to butter to create a dressing full of flavor that will take your breath away. Making a delicious garlic butter is as simple as its result is rewarding. You’ll see it’s made almost without making a mess and in no time you’ll have turned a good butter into a special ingredient that will elevate your dishes and bring you lots of joy. To you and your guests!

How many of you have heard about potato milk? It’s a completely new plant-based drink with great benefits for the body and for the environment. If this is the first time you’re reading about it, you might have had the same reaction as I did... I was astonished! In this post I hope you find answers to all the questions about potato milk and how to make it.

With the arrival of pellet barbecues, the revolution of barbecues has arrived: Can you imagine cooking with all the flavor of burning natural wood, but without the need or the time it takes to get the coals going, being able to control the temperature at all times, and with the space and convenience of a good grill area? That's exactly what Traeger pellet barbecues offer. Choose the pellet, press a button, and in ten minutes you'll be making the best grill-outs you can imagine.

In recent years, peanut cream has become very popular, which you may also know as peanut butter or crema de maní. It’s a spread with an intense peanut flavor, since it’s made solely from peanuts, and it lets you use it or pair it with a wide variety of desserts and sweet recipes.

Garrapiñadas, or candied nuts, are a delicious treat — a sugary snack you can't resist once you've had one. Today I'll show you how to make delicious candied pecans at home! Sweet and super crunchy, fair warning: they're highly addictive, and to make them you'll only need a frying pan.

A few days ago, we shared a post where we explained how to make royal icing for cookies. Christmas is here and it's the time to put it into practice! Simple decorations for Christmas cookies, but defined and elegant. That's what we want to focus on in this post. I hope the ideas for making Christmas cookies that I bring you today inspire you to prepare some beautiful, homemade, and original cookies.

Decorated chocolate sticks are a snack that's very easy to make and one of the most fun and decorative treats for your little ones' celebrations (and for adults, let's not kid ourselves).

Did you know you can make your roasts the usual way, in the oven or on the griddle, but finish them with a sublime glaze that makes all the difference? This brown sugar glaze will make all the difference!

I really, really, really encourage you to try it!

It's cookie time, and we can agree they look beautiful with icing to decorate them. Icing is all about consistency, and it's as easy to make as mixing sugar and egg white. If you haven't tried it yet, with all the explanations in this post about how to make cookie icing, now is the time to start.

Boiling chestnuts, not roasting them, is one of the easiest things you can do if you plan to cook chestnuts and the result is delicious. I fondly remember how at home, when I was little, at Sunday autumn dessert time they would bring two trays to the table: one with chestnuts roasted over the fire, and the other with boiled chestnuts. Honestly, it was hard to decide which were tastier. They always disappeared!

I bring you a kitchen staple, roasted garlic, a preparation essential both for enjoying on its own and for boosting the flavor and result of any dish you use it in. Here you'll find how to make roasted garlic, how to use it in your recipes, and also ideas for making the most of the wonderful garlic‑infused oil that comes from storing roasted garlic in oil.

If you like lemon flavor and enjoy baking, lemon curd will surely fit perfectly into your kitchen. Lemon curd, or lemon cream, is a typical English cream. Its color tends to be a more intense yellow than pastry cream, it has a creamy but light texture and a noticeable, tasty lemon flavor.