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Food is an integral part of most holidays, and Valentine's Day is no exception. Whether it is a box of chocolates, dinner at a fancy restaurant, or a romantic dinner at home, food is going to be part of the celebration at one point or another. As a day intended to celebrate love, be it for one's mother, friend, or significant other, food, perhaps more than flowers or even a card, is a wonderful way of expressing that sentiment. Of course, there are many ways that people celebrate the holiday. Amorous couples give bouquets of flowers. Children exchange...
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This is the weather that chills to the bone. When your fingers are in a constant state of semi-numb and you have long since lost feeling at the tips of the toes, the last thing you want to be doing is running out to get ingredients for dinner. You need to have a pantry-stocked action plan to assemble a bowl of goodness that will warm both the kitchen and chilly appendages at a moment's notice. What you need is a plan for a winter's worth of simple soup recipes filling enough to be a meal. To prepare soup as a meal all itself, start by thinking about what you normally...
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For us vegetable eaters out there or those just those trying to eat better, this can be a frustrating time of year. The long winter seems to drag on and on, with spring just far enough away to make one yearn for just that spring bloom to give shed a glimmer of hope that winter will soon be coming to an end. Alas, no such luck this year as the winter storms continue to drag on across the country and with them the best fruits and vegetables continue to hide out in hibernation. Not all fruits and vegetables are dormant this time of year but arguably some of the best and...
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'Tis the season: of sneezing, coughing, congestion, flu, and curling up for the weekend bemoaning the illness that has interfered with your social schedule. Behind the nasal-y voice, or total lack of voice for that matter, few foods sound remotely appealing as chances are you won't even be able to taste them. But if you had listened to your mother, then you should remember that old axiom: starve a fever, feed a cold. And with Airborne and Echinacea clearly letting you down in the sickness prevention department, mom's solution to recovery sounds as good as any. After...
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When the arctic chill of winter gets the best of you, the best thing you can do is eat a bowl of chicken soup. Packed with nutrients and loaded with flavor, chicken soup can cure the common cold and even soothe the soul. There are so many ways to make what is broadly known as chicken soup. It can be stock, broth, or consomme garnished with meat, vegetables, noodles, rice or dumplings. But in its most basic form, chicken soup is water, meat and bones simmered for maximum flavor. Time-tested Technique: Begin with a large stock pot. The flavor comes
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"Snowed in" is a relative term, depending on what area of the country you live. The farther north you go, the less of a big deal a few inches of the white stuff is. As you head south though, just a light dusting is enough to cause snow days and delays. Either way there are plenty of fun things to do to take advantage of the beautiful results of a winter storm.
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Do you find yourself in a time crunch for almost every meal you prepare at home? I know I do, and lots of other parents I talk to do too. It seems like I always have hungry boys waiting on me, so in this house it's the faster the better. You have the best intentions to cook delicious homemade meals for your family, but this vision is hard to match up to the rigors of daily life. When you have all kinds of competing priorities, sometimes dinner inadvertently falls to the bottom of the list. It's times like these when everyone can use a few kitchen shortcuts under their belt...
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In middle school, I had a friend who lived in Italy for three years. Her dad was in the military, and he had an opportunity to accept an assignment overseas. For three years, she sent me letters about food, her mom shopping in the street markets for tomatoes and cheese, and pictures of her leaning against ancient-looking walls. A few years ago, my dad had to go on a business trip to Italy, to speak at a conference. My little sister was able to go with him, and she brought back pictures from Rome, a stylish blue turtleneck for me, and tales about the glorious food.
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When new friends find out I am a cook, questions inevitably follow. "My chicken never gets crispy and always dries out. What am I doing wrong?" "I have pork tenderloin I got on special from the store and I'm not sure what do with it. What do you do?" Of any food group, fish seems to cause the most consternation. It so intimidates people it seems, that many forgo cooking it altogether. The possibility of producing moist, flavorful filets is simply so foreign that many don't even bother trying. This is unfortunate because fish is, a. delicious, b...
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One dark, cold night last week, I came home from being at work too late, and as I climbed the stairs to my third floor apartment (who had the brilliant idea to have a third floor apartment, anyway?), I smelled the intoxicating scent of barbeque. My first emotion was anger. I was mad that someone had the time and energy at 9:00 at night to fire up the old grill. Then, desire. If I had known whose apartment the smell was coming from, I would have seriously knocked on their door. It was probably a good thing that I didn't know whose apartment the smell was coming from. I ended...
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Do you find your family eating the same foods, week after week? Each day of the week you have the same lineup of meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and after a while it begins to feel a bit like Groundhog's Day. Sometimes I get stuck in a rut of cooking the same predictable kid friendly meals such as pasta, pizza, and soups. But while I'll always love these choices, it's nice to have some mealtime variety. You know you're in the middle of a bout of the winter doldrums with food if you can say what day it is based on what's on the dinner table! It may be time to...
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Being of partial Italian descent, one of my dietary staples is pasta with red tomato sauce. I have had this meal for dinner about once a week for almost as long as I can remember. Unlike a lot of my friends, I have zero recollection of eating pasta with jarred tomato sauce while growing up. Although my mother always worked a full time job, one of her priorities was to have a family meal together around the table every night. But when pasta night came this didn't mean that she grabbed a jar of Ragu, which she openly criticized. Pasta night usually meant a long simmered...
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It is the Saturday before the Super Bowl and you head to the grocery store to do some pre-game shopping. Thinking you are ahead of the game with your Saturday morning shopping trip, you are shocked when you get to the store and find at least a hundred people are on your same game plan. All the wings are gone but the frozen ones, which certainly won't defrost in time for kickoff. The good chips are also gone and you are left to pick through the mangled packages searching for one that might not crumble in the face of a dip. And the soda and beer selections have been reduced...
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There's a wintery chill in the air and a fresh blanket of snow on the ground. This extra cold and snowy winter has turned out to be every winter sports enthusiast's dream. When you come in from a chilly day of ice skating, skiing, snowboarding or sledding, the first thing that comes to mind is a steaming cup of hot cocoa. And the perfect thing to complement your hot chocolate is a sprinkling of marshmallows. I'm not talking about just any old marshmallows, like those measly little ones that come in the premade cocoa mix package. What you want are pillowy soft freshly...
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Football fans are fun to feed. They're a hearty crowd. They're usually not picky. And there are so many suggestions and articles in every newspaper and magazine at this time of the year. Chili. Nachos. Pizza. Chips and dip. Hot wings. Satisfying finger foods that can keep the crowd at your house cheering to the last touchdown. So I'm not going to make even more suggestions for what you can pull together for your grab-and-go buffet. I bet you have more than enough ideas of what your crew would like - and there are tons of searchable recipes right here at...
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Do you find yourself in the situation of cooking different meals for different members of your family? One of your kids doesn't eat anything but pasta and the other is a meat lover. Your husband is on a diet and has restricted all carbohydrates. Plus there are all those different schedules to coordinate. It sure makes pulling out a frozen dinner or going out to eat that much more attractive. But you don't have to cook separate meals or go out to eat for dinner constantly to satisfy all the members of your family. Turn your family mealtime into an opportunity to...
From The Editors At CDKitchen: Feed Daily
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Food is an integral part of most holidays, and Valentine's Day is no exception. Whether it is a box of chocolates, dinner at a fancy restaurant, or a romantic dinner at home, food is going to be part of the celebration at one point or another. As a day intended to celebrate love, be it for one's mother, friend, or significant other, food, perhaps more than flowers or even a card, is a wonderful way of expressing that sentiment. Of course, there are many ways that people celebrate the holiday. Amorous couples give bouquets of flowers. Children exchange...
by
This is the weather that chills to the bone. When your fingers are in a constant state of semi-numb and you have long since lost feeling at the tips of the toes, the last thing you want to be doing is running out to get ingredients for dinner. You need to have a pantry-stocked action plan to assemble a bowl of goodness that will warm both the kitchen and chilly appendages at a moment's notice. What you need is a plan for a winter's worth of simple soup recipes filling enough to be a meal. To prepare soup as a meal all itself, start by thinking about what you normally...
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For us vegetable eaters out there or those just those trying to eat better, this can be a frustrating time of year. The long winter seems to drag on and on, with spring just far enough away to make one yearn for just that spring bloom to give shed a glimmer of hope that winter will soon be coming to an end. Alas, no such luck this year as the winter storms continue to drag on across the country and with them the best fruits and vegetables continue to hide out in hibernation. Not all fruits and vegetables are dormant this time of year but arguably some of the best and...
by
'Tis the season: of sneezing, coughing, congestion, flu, and curling up for the weekend bemoaning the illness that has interfered with your social schedule. Behind the nasal-y voice, or total lack of voice for that matter, few foods sound remotely appealing as chances are you won't even be able to taste them. But if you had listened to your mother, then you should remember that old axiom: starve a fever, feed a cold. And with Airborne and Echinacea clearly letting you down in the sickness prevention department, mom's solution to recovery sounds as good as any. After...
by
When the arctic chill of winter gets the best of you, the best thing you can do is eat a bowl of chicken soup. Packed with nutrients and loaded with flavor, chicken soup can cure the common cold and even soothe the soul. There are so many ways to make what is broadly known as chicken soup. It can be stock, broth, or consomme garnished with meat, vegetables, noodles, rice or dumplings. But in its most basic form, chicken soup is water, meat and bones simmered for maximum flavor. Time-tested Technique: Begin with a large stock pot. The flavor comes
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"Snowed in" is a relative term, depending on what area of the country you live. The farther north you go, the less of a big deal a few inches of the white stuff is. As you head south though, just a light dusting is enough to cause snow days and delays. Either way there are plenty of fun things to do to take advantage of the beautiful results of a winter storm.
by
Do you find yourself in a time crunch for almost every meal you prepare at home? I know I do, and lots of other parents I talk to do too. It seems like I always have hungry boys waiting on me, so in this house it's the faster the better. You have the best intentions to cook delicious homemade meals for your family, but this vision is hard to match up to the rigors of daily life. When you have all kinds of competing priorities, sometimes dinner inadvertently falls to the bottom of the list. It's times like these when everyone can use a few kitchen shortcuts under their belt...
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In middle school, I had a friend who lived in Italy for three years. Her dad was in the military, and he had an opportunity to accept an assignment overseas. For three years, she sent me letters about food, her mom shopping in the street markets for tomatoes and cheese, and pictures of her leaning against ancient-looking walls. A few years ago, my dad had to go on a business trip to Italy, to speak at a conference. My little sister was able to go with him, and she brought back pictures from Rome, a stylish blue turtleneck for me, and tales about the glorious food.
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When new friends find out I am a cook, questions inevitably follow. "My chicken never gets crispy and always dries out. What am I doing wrong?" "I have pork tenderloin I got on special from the store and I'm not sure what do with it. What do you do?" Of any food group, fish seems to cause the most consternation. It so intimidates people it seems, that many forgo cooking it altogether. The possibility of producing moist, flavorful filets is simply so foreign that many don't even bother trying. This is unfortunate because fish is, a. delicious, b...
by
One dark, cold night last week, I came home from being at work too late, and as I climbed the stairs to my third floor apartment (who had the brilliant idea to have a third floor apartment, anyway?), I smelled the intoxicating scent of barbeque. My first emotion was anger. I was mad that someone had the time and energy at 9:00 at night to fire up the old grill. Then, desire. If I had known whose apartment the smell was coming from, I would have seriously knocked on their door. It was probably a good thing that I didn't know whose apartment the smell was coming from. I ended...
by
Do you find your family eating the same foods, week after week? Each day of the week you have the same lineup of meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and after a while it begins to feel a bit like Groundhog's Day. Sometimes I get stuck in a rut of cooking the same predictable kid friendly meals such as pasta, pizza, and soups. But while I'll always love these choices, it's nice to have some mealtime variety. You know you're in the middle of a bout of the winter doldrums with food if you can say what day it is based on what's on the dinner table! It may be time to...
by
Being of partial Italian descent, one of my dietary staples is pasta with red tomato sauce. I have had this meal for dinner about once a week for almost as long as I can remember. Unlike a lot of my friends, I have zero recollection of eating pasta with jarred tomato sauce while growing up. Although my mother always worked a full time job, one of her priorities was to have a family meal together around the table every night. But when pasta night came this didn't mean that she grabbed a jar of Ragu, which she openly criticized. Pasta night usually meant a long simmered...
by
It is the Saturday before the Super Bowl and you head to the grocery store to do some pre-game shopping. Thinking you are ahead of the game with your Saturday morning shopping trip, you are shocked when you get to the store and find at least a hundred people are on your same game plan. All the wings are gone but the frozen ones, which certainly won't defrost in time for kickoff. The good chips are also gone and you are left to pick through the mangled packages searching for one that might not crumble in the face of a dip. And the soda and beer selections have been reduced...
by
There's a wintery chill in the air and a fresh blanket of snow on the ground. This extra cold and snowy winter has turned out to be every winter sports enthusiast's dream. When you come in from a chilly day of ice skating, skiing, snowboarding or sledding, the first thing that comes to mind is a steaming cup of hot cocoa. And the perfect thing to complement your hot chocolate is a sprinkling of marshmallows. I'm not talking about just any old marshmallows, like those measly little ones that come in the premade cocoa mix package. What you want are pillowy soft freshly...
by
Football fans are fun to feed. They're a hearty crowd. They're usually not picky. And there are so many suggestions and articles in every newspaper and magazine at this time of the year. Chili. Nachos. Pizza. Chips and dip. Hot wings. Satisfying finger foods that can keep the crowd at your house cheering to the last touchdown. So I'm not going to make even more suggestions for what you can pull together for your grab-and-go buffet. I bet you have more than enough ideas of what your crew would like - and there are tons of searchable recipes right here at...
by
Do you find yourself in the situation of cooking different meals for different members of your family? One of your kids doesn't eat anything but pasta and the other is a meat lover. Your husband is on a diet and has restricted all carbohydrates. Plus there are all those different schedules to coordinate. It sure makes pulling out a frozen dinner or going out to eat that much more attractive. But you don't have to cook separate meals or go out to eat for dinner constantly to satisfy all the members of your family. Turn your family mealtime into an opportunity to...