Weekly cooking tips, tricks and kitchen wisdom from Stephanie Longstreth to help you cook better for your crowd
This Tuesday tip: vacation cooking is thirteen years in the making — after more than a decade of beach trips, VRBO stays, and Airbnb condos, I have figured out exactly what to bring from home so I can feed my family real meals all week without buying my entire pantry at vacation prices or lugging…
This Tuesday tip: feeding a crowd is the one I get asked about more than almost anything else — how do you feed that many people without spending a fortune at the grocery store? The answer is not buying more meat. It is learning to stretch the meat you already have, and the three ways…
Homemade biscuits cost $1.50. A can of eight Walmart biscuits costs $1.74. So… is making them from scratch even worth it? I did the math — with a little help from ChatGPT for the baking ingredient calculations, because honestly, who knows what two cups of flour costs off the top of their head — and…
This Tuesday tip: meal planning is one I wish I had figured out years ago — stop trying to invent thirty brand new dinners every month. Take one meal your family already loves and reinvent it four different ways. That is the whole tip. Same ingredients, different packaging, and dinner stops feeling like a brand…
Tuesday tip: cooking meat is one of those things that seems simple until it isn’t — and if your chicken is turning out dry, your steak is missing that gorgeous crust, or your pork chops are just kind of… fine, I’ve got three tips that are going to change everything. These are the small things…
This Tuesday tip: food flavor is something I have wanted to talk about for a long time, because I hear it all the time — “I followed the recipe exactly and it still tasted flat.” I have been there. And I want you to know it is almost never the recipe. It is almost always…
My Tuesday tip: pantry meals are what save you on the night everything falls apart. This is not meal prep — this is what keeps a sideways Tuesday from costing me sixty dollars in delivery. Keep a few emergency dinners on your pantry shelf, completely shelf stable, so that when practice is in forty-five minutes…
This Tuesday tip is one I get asked about all the time — how do I feed a crowd without breaking the bank? Grocery budgets are getting squeezed by rising prices, and if you’re feeding a family like I am, you feel it every single week. I’m sharing the three things I actually do to…
Tuesday Tip: frozen pizza night is not a failure. I said what I said. 🍕 This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. If you purchase through my links, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you for supporting StephanieCooksForACrowd.com! I am a…
Tuesday tip: forgot to thaw the meat — and now it’s almost dinner time. Sound familiar? Don’t worry, it happens to all of us, and I promise you are not out of options. I’ve got three quick, easy, no-thaw-required meals that your family will actually love, and at least one of them might become a…
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