Category: Food

Walnut Crust Adds Flavorful Crunch to Chicken Dish

By Linda Gassenheimer From Tribune News Service It’s easy to dress up boneless, skinless chicken thighs with this nutty walnut crust. It keeps them juicy and adds a flavorful crunch. The recipe also works with boneless, skinless chicken breasts. While the chicken bakes in the oven, the rigatoni and broccoli cook together on the stove….


Sumac Has Deep Roots in Minnesota

By Nicole Hvidsten From Star Tribune Use it to flavor everything from lamb to lemonade. Sumac might be best known for flavoring Middle Eastern cuisine, but its roots run deep in Minnesota. Long used in Indigenous cooking, staghorn sumac, with its clusters of bright-red berries, is easy to spot growing throughout the Upper Midwest. (Stay…


Gretchen’s Table: Chicken Meatballs With Quinoa and Pan-Roasted Carrots Pack in the Protein

By Gretchen McKay From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette There’s a certain magic in a meal that can be pulled together on the stovetop, with just a handful of everyday ingredients and not a whole lot of brain power. Put this healthy meatball dish on your list of fuss-free favorites you’ll want to make again and again. As…


Shoyu Chicken

Oven-baked chicken is a staple for easy weeknight dinners. And although the iconic dinner food may seem like a predictable option, this shoyu chicken recipe is anything but average. The easy recipe yields 24 perfectly marinated pieces of chicken in less than one hour of cook time. Although you will need to marinate the chicken overnight, it’s worth…


Sweet and Spicy Salmon

If you’re looking for ways to incorporate delicious but healthy foods into your diet, then this recipe for sweet and spicy salmon is the perfect addition to your weekly meals. Bursting with bold spice flavor and finished with a perfect sear, this fresh fish dish is one of those meals you can make in less than…


What Is the Difference Between Evaporated Milk and Condensed Milk?

Whether you’re an avid baker or an amateur still working on your skills, you’ve probably used both evaporated milk and condensed milk at one time or another — perhaps even together. With differences in taste and consistency, the two are clearly not the same. So just what is it that makes them different from one another?…


Cheesy Broccoli Tater-Topped Casserole

If you’re looking for a comforting dish to put on your dinner table, this recipe for cheesy broccoli tater-topped casserole is a staple the entire family can enjoy. The blend of melted cheese and perfectly crisp tots makes for an amazing kid-friendly dinner dish. Just don’t tell them it’s loaded with vegetables. As one of the best…


How We Won the Fight to Ban Trans Fat

There are three broad approaches to mediating the ruin of risky choices: inform people (like using labeling), nudge people (for example, by offering financial incentives), or directly intervene to make the activity less harmful. Which do you think prevented more car fatalities: mandating driver education, labeling cars about crash risk, or removing the human element…


Beauty and the Blade: Meet the Knife-Maker Transforming Discarded Farm Tools Into Beautiful, Bespoke Knives

In deep rural Vermont, there’s a handbuilt post-and-beam house made of boards chiseled by hand from logs hauled out of the woods by a man and a horse. Attached to the house is a carpenter’s workshop and a blacksmith’s shop. It was in these workshops that, as a child, Chelsea Miller watched her father do…


OUICOOK: A French Mother’s Day Brunch

Mother’s Day is just around the corner and I am so excited! In my family, any holiday means a big huge brunch. Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, Mother’s day, everything! Brunch foods are so easy to make in large portions, are family favorites, and are great for celebrations. My mom always makes this divine apple fritter and…