One-Dish Summer Salads
When hot weather settles in, no one wants to spend time in the kitchen. Luckily, people crave salads in summer, particularly those that can be served as a one-dish meal – including this Asian Beef and Noodle Salad.
Diabetic Cooking
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Quick Fixings Are Sometimes Best
It’s the beginning of the make-it-ahead season. Quick, easy meals are a harbinger of summer, including this recipe for Mexican Chicken Salad.
Fun Food For Finicky Teens
When the school year ends and teens get together to celebrate their freedom, think of Vietnamese summer rolls as they congregate at your place, hungry as usual.
Make Mojo Your Marinade
The Cuban sauce called mojo criollo serves easily as both a great marinade and as an accompaniment to seafood, chicken, and lean pork.
Elegant, Easy Father’s Day Grill
See how an ordinary grilled entree can be turned into kebabs for an elegant, easy, diabetic-friendly Father’s Day meal.
Salty, Sweet, Sour, Bitter and Umami?
The four basic tastes – salty, sweet, sour and bitter – are familiar to us, but so is umami, the Japanese name for ‘the fifth taste’ that doesn’t have a name in the West.
Sugar Snap Peas Are Spring’s First Bounty
When country neighbors asked me to baby-sit their garden one May weekend while they were in the city, I warned them that choosing me could be botanically life-threatening. Even potted chives and ivy wither away under my black thumb. Includes recipe for Sugar Snap Peas and Carrots.
Surprising Soy
Since soy is, arguably, the most versatile food in the world, eating it is simpler and more appealing than you may expect. Soy has gone from geeky health food to a mainstream choice for healthy eating in appealing ways, including this recipe for Cream of Asparagus Soup.
A Classic Salad Gets A Makeover
It’s the time of year when a lot of fresh fruit isn’t yet available. But that doesn’t mean you can’t satisfy your craving for a little crunchy sweetness after months of strictly veggie salads.
Try Spring Onions at Their Peak
One of the best places to look for the first signs of spring is in the vegetable section of your supermarket. One of the first new vegetables you’ll find is green onions tied in small bundles.
Put a Bowl of Spring on the Table
You can’t beat Mother Nature, so why not join her? She’s given the plant world a tender, delicate green color synonymous with spring. You can put that color on your dining table this season with a delicate, delicious pea soup.
Enjoying Red Peppers and Homemade Pepperonata
The first time I ate a sweet red bell pepper, it was part of an antipasto at an Italian restaurant. The tender roasted pepper, glistening with olive oil, seemed completely unrelated to the grassy, almost bitter tasting green pepper in the salad that always accompanied dinner.
Winter Tabbouleh Helps Fit in Five-A-Day
If you have tried to achieve Five-a-Day, then you know that eating “the minimum recommended amount of fruit is easy. It’s fitting in the vegetables that can be the hard part.
More Spice Is Nice
Through eating in ethnic restaurants and travelling broadly, Americans have become more aware of how much seasonings can enrich a meal, and we keep a well-stocked spice rack. However, we tend to use only some of its contents regularly. Feature includes recipe for Mediterranean Chickpea Stew with Toasted Noodles.
