We’re excited to announce that we’re taking the first step in making our site search experience even better. Beginning tomorrow, we’re simplifying your search experience on Food.com so you can find the stuff you want even quicker. With this change, we’re making it one click easier to find recipes, ingredients, and members — the searches our members use most — directly from the search bar.

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Do you like your spuds with a side of cold, hard cash? Well then we’ve got the recipe contest for you!

We’re looking for your original recipe celebrating the almighty potato, and if your recipe comes out on top, you’ll win $2,000 and have your recipe featured in an advertorial spread in Food Network Magazine!

Money, fame and potato bragging rights? Pretty sweet deal.

There’s a bonus prize, too. We’re also offering a People’s Choice prize of $750 that goes to the recipe with the highest overall rating!

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Super Sunday is just around the corner, and, for me, the game is only half the draw. While the gridiron action is great, game day also gives me the excuse to eat all that salty, sticky, greasy grub that I (and my girlish figure) normally have to avoid. Salads, begone! Steamed veggies, so long! See you on Monday!

Like everyone, I look forward to the usual heavy hitters: piled-high nachos, thick ‘n’ meaty chili, greasy potato skins. These are all great dishes to switch up and try new versions of — basically, I want to wow my friends even more than the year before. But there is one do-or-die app in my repertoire that I’m not allowed to even think about tinkering with: Buffalo Chicken Dip. This uber-popular dip scores big with my crew (and loads of Food.com fans, too — it’s our second most popular dip recipe on the whole site!). Wing-loving men, of course, adore it, but I’ve also seen my girlfriends — tiny, fit women who consider their bodies their temples — devour this dip to the point of picking up the casserole bowl and licking it clean.

Why is it so doggone good? This dip tastes exactly like everyone’s favorite football food: tangy Buffalo chicken wings! BUT it comes without the hassle and mess of having to gnaw the meat off the bone. That and the fact that corn scoops (not corn chips, but corn SCOOPS) are part of the equation. I mean, when’s the last time you let yourself buy a bag of those?

Another bonus: It’s incredibly easy to make. Go dip!

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Behind our yummy recipes, reviews and photos are creative cooks, crafters, photographers and food lovers. This month we’re spending time with Shirl (J) 831!

Born in Alberta, Canada and now living in Eastern North Carolina, Shirl (J) 831 is a Food.com veteran. A forum host and low-fat and healthy eating advocate, she found the time to sit through our Q&A so we could get to know her a bit better and find out her food (and Food.com!) favorites.

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Behind our yummy recipes, reviews and photos are creative cooks, crafters, photographers and food lovers. This month we’re spending time with IngridH!

Born and raised in the Seattle area, this accountant is also a gardener, hiker, camper and snowshoer – and, of course, cook!

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We’re into the final week and there are only a few days till the big day! Here is a final checklist — broken down by days to go — to keep you cool, calm and collected. You can do it!
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If you’re like me, your head is swimming with worries when the dinner countdown starts ticking on Thanksgiving day.

Is the turkey cooked enough? Or even worse: Is it overcooked and dry? Wait, why is the gravy all lumpy? I need a sieve, stat! Oh no, are the rolls still frozen?

During all that last-minute chaos, the last thing I want to be doing is whipping — or more likely over-whipping — my potatoes into a gluey mess. And let’s say I do whip them perfectly. Great, but are they still hot? Probably not as hot as I want them to be. Room temperature is more like it.

Well, this year, I’m taking the potatoes out of my final kitchen scramble, making them ahead and serving them creamy and lava-hot directly from the oven. Do I know it’ll work? Yep, because I’ve tested these make-ahead mashed potatoes several times — at a potluck dinner party and for a weeknight family meal. Why these? Well, 130-plus glowing reviews couldn’t wrong, right? The verdict from friends, family and Food.com members: These are the best, most crowd-pleasing mashed potatoes you’ll ever have.

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Only 10 days to go! Now’s the time to finalize the plan and prep your kitchen, do your initial shopping run, practice any tricky dishes and get to work on your decor.

What you can do now…

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We asked for your best Thanksgiving memories in our Thanksgiving forum and, boy, did you all deliver! From heartfelt to hilarious, your stories have been making everyone smile and dish their own special memories.

But one story, from La Dilettante, really made us laugh and we couldn’t help but share.  Channeling her inner David Letterman, La Dillettante posted a charming and chuckle-worthy send-up her dear mom. Check it out:

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You’ve got 17 days until T-Day! Worried your goose (err, turkey) is cooked? Don’t stress. We’ve gathered some next steps to take. Follow them and it’ll be gravy from today till the bird comes out of the oven.

What you can do now…

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