Category: Food

Short on Time? This Delicious Dinner Is Ready in 20 Minutes

Quick-cooking chicken cutlets are a time-saving hero in this 20-minute dinner recipe. A jar of sun-dried tomatoes does double duty — the flavorful oil they’re packed in is used to saute; the chicken, and the tomatoes go into the cream sauce. Chicken Cutlets with Sun-Dried Tomato Cream Sauce Serves 4 Active Time: 20 minutes Total…


Back to Banana Basics

Are you in the mood for a prepackaged healthy snack? Or how about a slice of quick bread to accompany your morning cup of coffee? Look no further than the ubiquitous banana. Bananas are naturally sweet and nutritious, high in fiber, and rich in potassium, magnesium, and B and C vitamins. Best of all, bananas…


Love, Loss and a Simple, Perfect Chili Recipe That’s True Comfort Food

By Bethany Jean Clement From The Seattle Times It’s this past August, and it’s my birthday, and the incoming voicemails are, as they have been for some time, inexplicably delayed. Today seems to be the day to consult the oracle: “How to fix …” The answer comes from the ether immediately: too much stuff from…


Baked Ziti with Sausage

This baked ziti is a MAJOR family-pleaser. Loaded with Italian sausage, which packs a ton of flavor, it’s similar to meat lasagna but without the fuss; it’s easy enough for a weeknight but also special enough for company; and it makes a great prep-ahead potluck dish. The dish can be assembled and refrigerated up to…


Chicken Noodle Soup

When the cold weather rolls in, nothing quite compares to a big bowl of comforting soup or stew. And, on those particularly frigid days, no soup is more warming than chicken noodle. The dish has been used to remedy everything from the common cold to the flu, and this recipe is sure to give you what…


Instant Pot Applesauce

Like many, you’ve probably celebrated the arrival of fall by heading to one of the best apple orchards in America and partaking in other bucket list fall activities. But if you’ve grown tired of eating apples plain or baking apple pie, apple crisp, apple kugel and apple pancakes, there’s a classic solution: applesauce. This childhood classic is great for a midday snack, or…


Butternut Squash & Leeks Baked in Parchment

Roasted vegetables in parchment paper pockets is an elegant, yet simple cooking method that intensifies the inherent tastiness of the vegetables inside. Imagine, warm, dry oven heat surrounds your vegetables, releasing moisture and steam that bastes the veggies. Their juices surround the chopped morsels and mingle with olive oil and butter to caramelize golden brown….


Spending: Meal Kits to Your Culinary Rescue

By Patricia Mertz Esswein From Kiplinger’s Personal Finance No more figuring out what to do with a giant bunch of parsley or a tub of sour cream before it spoils. A meal kit—a box of chef-created recipes and pre-measured ingredients delivered to your home—will help reduce food waste and spice up your cooking, with a…


Couple Turn Rocky Hillside Into Mega Food Forest, Provide Home-Grown Food to Community

Two years ago, a California family took up a huge garden project to beat the pandemic blues. Together, they transformed a scrubby hill into a food forest that is now providing plenty of fresh food and fruits to their friends and neighbors. Mom of two Taylor Raine Koutroumbis and her husband, Stelios, worked hand in hand…


Ground Beef Tacos

Why I Love This Recipe: The corn tortilla shells are made from fresh corn tortillas, and the taste is incomparable to the bland ones from the store. Make Ahead: The taco shells can be fried ahead of time and the ground beef filling can be made ahead and reheated, making this is the perfect meal for a…