Make Fresh Tuna Salad, Mediterranean-Style
Today, 95 percent of the tuna we eat is canned, but you can also find glistening, fresh tuna steaks in the fish department at nearly any supermarket. Includes recipe for Marinated Fresh Tuna Salad.
Diabetic Cooking
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A Cold Soup for a Hot Day
As temperatures climb outdoors, the heat should go down in the kitchen. One way to accomplish this is by serving cold soup, like this Chilled Melon Soup.
A World of Brown Rice
As peoples interest in eating grains has grown, so has the variety of rices available in stores.
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.
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.
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.
