If you’ve never learned how to make cobbler before, this is an excellent opportunity to utilize your favorite fresh seasonal fruits (frozen fruit works, too!) and create a warm, delicious dessert masterpiece. Get your ice cream ready—you’ll want a giant scoop to go with your fresh-from-the-oven seasonal cobbler. How to Make Cobbler To get started, you’ll pick a great fruit cobbler recipe (we’ve got some tasty recommendations), then follow our Test Kitchen’s easy process to make a sweet cobbler filling and crust....

How to Make Corn Bread Our Test Kitchen’s easy corn bread recipe is a great place to start if you want to learn how to make corn bread moist and fluffy. That’s the recipe we’re using in this guide, but you can use your favorite recipe. Step 1: Preheat Oven and Prepare Your Pan Step 2: Mix the Dry Ingredients In a medium bowl, stir together flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, and salt....

What Is Hot Honey? Hot honey is a brilliantly simple combination of honey and chile peppers. The honey is infused with dried chile peppers—see below for a basic recipe on how to DIY the process—to create a perfectly sweet, spicy, and all around stellar topping for pretty much any dish you’re serving. I first tried hot honey when it was served to me at a pizza joint alongside my red pie topped with bacon and jalapeños....

We’ll teach you how to make pulled pork in the oven, smoker, slow-cooker, and on the stovetop. Then, you can enjoy a juicy pulled pork sandwich for any occasion, such as tailgates, family reunions, and even weeknight dinners. Use Pork Shoulder to Make Pulled Pork Before you roll up your sleeves to learn how to make pulled pork, memorize these two critical words: pork shoulder. No matter how you plan to use the pulled pork—in sandwiches, casseroles, tacos, stews, or even lettuce wraps—the key to the most tender meat is to start with a cut with ample marbling and connective tissue....

For the second installment of our “Taxes in Ten” series, we talked with Jada (not her real name), a 40-year-old public service worker who adjusted her tax withholding to increase her take-home pay and pay down her debt faster. While the under-withholding did allow her to make progress on her debt, she had also avoided filing her taxes for two years, and the penalties that came later brought her total debt balance to even more than where she’d started....

Varieties of Parrot Tulip Uncle Tom Tulip Double-flowered tulips stand out because their blooms are packed with petals. Some have so many petals that they are referred to as peony-flowered tulips for their resemblance to those flowers. Bloom time depends on type; some bloom in early spring and others bloom late. Regardless of when they show off their flowers, the blossoms last a long time because the flowers have so much substance....

“These free radicals attack the keratin (especially the cystine bonds responsible for hair strength and elasticity) in your hair, making it more porous and prone to damage,” says Joseph Maine, celebrity hairstylist and co-founder of Trademark Beauty. “UV rays also weaken the protective lipid layer on the surface of your hair, making it feel rough and look dull. If you have colored hair, it breaks down both melanin and artificial colorants in your hair, causing your color to fade or lighten....

Before you begin, try to get as much of the sticker residue off with your fingers as possible. Simply roll the sticky adhesive into balls with your fingertips and pluck them off. If you’re removing tape residue from clothing, do not wash or dry the garment before the stickiness is gone. The stain will be tougher to remove if it has been through a drying cycle. How to Remove Sticker Residue Once you’ve removed as much as you can by hand, use one of the following methods to remove any sticker residue that remains....

But tonight, you had planned to cook steaks with grilled vegetables, so there’s just one problem: You are short one steak, and the clock is ticking. If you know how to thaw steak fast, you can still get the beef on the grill with time to spare. Thanks to this no-fail steak-thawing method, dinner is saved. The Most Ideal Option In all situations, the ideal way to thaw a steak is in a refrigerator....

That being said, we’re often asked about the coating on nonstick cookware and its potential toxicity. The original Teflon pans were made with PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). PFOA has been linked to various cancers, so it was removed from Teflon products in 2013. However, Teflon cookware still contains PTFE. PTFE is considered safe, but the problem is that it starts to break down around 450-500 degrees, releasing potentially toxic fumes....

This problem has significantly contributed to the loss of nearly 30% of the North American bird population since 1970. The good news is that you can do several simple things to stop birds from flying into your windows. Understanding why it happens will help you find the best solutions for your home. Why Birds Fly into Windows “Research estimates that 365 million to one billion birds collide with buildings every year in the U....

You can imagine how stunned I was to figure out that all of those small hairs I’ve been demonizing were actually just new hairs trying to make their way. This eye-opening realization made me question the difference between breakage, new growth, and baby hairs altogether. So to find out, I tapped several hair experts to answer my questions about the signs of each, and how to take care of them....

The good news is that there are easy steps you can add to your preparations and vacation packing list to get ahead of, and even take advantage of, different vacation styles (and interests) to ensure that everyone’s individual needs are being met. Whether you’re traveling with your S.O., a group of friends, or your entire family, read on as experts share their top tips for minimizing conflict leading into and during your next getaway so everyone comes out of it feeling relaxed, fulfilled, and even closer than before....

So I was thrilled when The Ted Lasso crew released the shortbread recipe they use for said biscuits–and realized they’re incredibly easy to make. (It’s been all over TikTok and the internet ever since.) Odds are you already have everything you need in the kitchen right now—it’s just 2 sticks of butter, a pinch of salt, ¾ cup confectioner’s sugar, and 2 cups of flour. The Ted Lasso biscuits were very rich and buttery, and simply divine fresh out of the oven with a cup of tea....

Never heard of contact time? You’re probably not the only one. Essentially, it’s the amount of time a cleaning agent—a spray or a wipe, whatever you use—needs to be in contact with a surface in order to kill the bacteria, viruses, and other not-great things lingering there. If you’re not waiting long enough, your cleaner likely isn’t getting rid of the potentially illness-causing cells. If you’re spraying and wiping as you go to clean quickly, without waiting the prescribed contact time, you’re really just doing a surface clean by wiping up dirt, debris, and other particles—not the bits that can really get you sick....

What Is Cottage Cheese? Cottage cheese is a fresh cheese made of curds and cream. It has a mild, milky flavor and its texture is soft and creamy. According to Jesse Merrill, co-founder and CEO of Good Culture, the process starts by fermenting milk with gut-friendly live and active cultures which form curds. “Once the curd is made and the whey is drained, cream is added to finish off the ridiculously good, thick and creamy cottage cheese we know and love,” he says....

The Bureau of Labor and Statistics reported that nearly a half-century later, in 2020, “women’s annual earnings were 82.3 percent of men’s, and the gap is even wider for many women of color.” Fifty years have only brought us 25.3 more cents to the dollar, and the great “She-cession” set women’s labor force participation back thirty years. February 2021 data mirrored that from 1987, with only 55.8 percent of women employed in the workforce....

10+ years of experience in print and digital mediaHost of Spotless, Real Simple’s cleaning how-to video series Designed rooms in the 2020 and 2021 Real Simple HomesHas made appearances on Good Morning America, PIX11 News, and Cheddar as a home decor and cleaning expertCurrently working on a home decor and organizing book, Embrace Your Space, being released in March 2023. Before joining the team at Real Simple, Katie was an associate editor at Apartment Therapy, where she became well-versed in reversible decor for rentals and small spaces....

Lauren was previously a Commerce Writer for The Dodo, the number one most-viewed and most-engaged with animal brand. She also freelance writes horoscopes and astrology content. Lauren previously worked in the advertising industry. Her client was one of the largest retailers in the U.S., which provided her with experience working with retail brands.Lauren graduated from Boston University Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and Spanish, and she received her master’s degree in communication from Boston University....

Highlights: Melanie has bylines in Real Simple, Allrecipes, Better Homes & Gardens, Southern Living, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, and more. She was the former SEO writer for Allrecipes, covering product reviews, cooking tutorials, and food news. She graduated from the University of Georgia Summa Cum Laude with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and international affairs. Favorite Purchase The Revlon One-Step Hair Dryer and Volumizer was Melanie’s best pandemic purchase. It’s held up to over two years of use, and it’s been a complete game-changer in her hair styling routine....