Washington Post Food Anchor Mary Beth Albright shows how to shake up the best salad dressing, while reducing food waste in your kitchen.
Washington Post Food Anchor Mary Beth Albright shows how to make popcorn in the microwave without buying the expensive bags, with three unexpected sweet and savory toppings.
Washington Post Food Anchor Mary Beth Albright uses her muffin tin to make the best game-day (or any day) pizza appetizers ever.
Washington Post Food Anchor Mary Beth Albright shows how to turn almost any vegetable into a steaming, comforting, healthy bowl of delicious soup.
Washington Post Food Anchor Mary Beth Albright shares a quartet of quick food hacks that any chef can start using in the kitchen today
Washington Post Food Anchor Mary Beth Albright presents bacon hacks, four sizzling ways to up your bacon game.
Washington Post Food Anchor Mary Beth Albright shows you a lunch box that rocks.
Washington Post Food Anchor Mary Beth Albright shows you how to make your own meatballs.
Washington Post food anchor Mary Beth Albright shows you how to make a quick appetizer.
Washington Post food anchor Mary Beth Albright shows how putting a joke in your kid's lunch box can brighten their day.
Washington Post food anchor Mary Beth Albright has a great method for putting a note in your kid's lunchbox.
Washington Post food anchor Mary Beth Albright will inspire you to spice up your oatmeal, with a cornucopia of options -- all easy to make, healthy, and delicious.
Washington Post Food Anchor Mary Beth Albright on the safest way to cut an avocado and how to make guacamole with a few unexpected and delicious variations.
In under a minute, The Washington Post's Mary Beth Albright will inspire you to stop using canned tomato sauce.
A Bloody Mary bar makes entertaining a snap. Host 10 or 100 of your closest friends with icy pitchers of perfect cocktails. Guests create their own perfect drink skewer from bowls of toppings-add bagels and you have a great brunch.
Ginger ice is the first in a series of four Food Hacks boozy iced tea cocktails. Up your summertime porch drink game with this zingy drink.
Bourbon Black is the second in a series of four Food Hacks boozy iced tea cocktails. Strong black tea complements smoky Bourbon in a drink that's a delicious summertime sipper.
Gin & Grey is the third in a series of four Food Hacks boozy iced tea cocktails. Sophisticated and refreshing, the combination of Earl Grey tea and spicy gin is a perfect early evening drink for summertime-or when you wish it were summertime.
Chamomile Sangria is the last in a series of four Food Hacks boozy iced tea cocktails. Light and fresh, this drink will have you sipping white wine and herbal tea mixed with summer juicy fruit on the veranda all season long.
Grilling salmon on top of citrus slices and herbs is a simple, flavorful, and elegant technique for beginner and advanced grillers. This first in a series of Grill Hacks presents a dinner that is quick enough for a weeknight and special enough for company.
Summer entertaining is a cinch with this quick appetizer of gooey Camembert and rosé wine that stays cold, courtesy of frozen grapes. Ready for guests or an after-work cheese plate dinner any time.
Summer's best fruits taste can even better after a few minutes on the grill, when the sugars caramelize and the flavors get toasty. With some whipped cream or ice cream, it's the perfect quick dessert.
On the grill or on your stovetop, three ingredients make the tastiest and most addictive healthy appetizer ever.
A three-ingredient, one-skillet pantry fall pumpkin-inspired dinner is infinitely adaptable, healthy, and starts with a pasta hack you can use for any recipe.
Snack like famed chef Julia Child with an upside-down martini and Goldfish crackers, one of her favorite ways to start Thanksgiving.
An easy weeknight meal-cheesesteaks are quick to assemble with this trick for slicing meat super thin.
Mary Beth Albright's recipe for delicious roasted pumpkin seeds
Fried chicken and champagne makes the most fun and easiest two-ingredient party. Champagne's bubbles and acidity are a perfect pairing for fried chicken's crunchy, mouth-coating richness. It's the best of both worlds.
Mornings are a snap with make-ahead, versatile egg muffins-load them with veggies, sausage, cheese, whatever you like, and breakfast is always ready.
Chicken and vegetables in your freezer? Ramen in the pantry? A quick, comforting stir-fry is just minutes away, and you don't have to get out of your pajamas to pay a delivery person.
Make the perfect steak with our hacks - including one to lighten up this ideal summer meal.
Let summer do the plating for you with gorgeous tomatoes, leafy lettuce, and bacon.
A corn roast is the best party of summer, with savory and spicy butters--and cooking corn in their husks means your guests shuck their own ears (so you don't have to).
You don't need a stand mixer to make the lightest, creamiest whipped cream--with just one ingredient. Shake your way to dessert.
A few inexpensive ingredients will make your turkey look like it belongs on a magazine cover. You eat first with your eyes, so a little styling makes people think your turkey tastes better too.
Never too busy for cookies! These three-ingredient, no-mixer peanut butter cookies have a secret that made our testers wolf them down.
Flavor your favorite vodka with fresh fruit, herbs, and spices for a festive, easy, and inexpensive holiday gift. Also make great seasonal cocktails for your parties.
Simplify your season with delicious, gooey three-ingredient holiday potatoes. And turn them into festive shapes with cookie cutters.
Invite everyone over for dessert! It's a cinch with this quick and delicious from-scratch caramel sauce, ready in minutes in the microwave.