Food & Drink
Affordable red wines for summer enjoyment
What defines the start of summer for you? A date on a calendar? Memorial Day weekend? The first day of your children's summer break?
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Satisfying a last-minute taste for carbonara
This is not a typical spaghetti alla carbonara. The traditional dish is a simple combination: spaghetti tossed with sauteed guanciale (pig's cheek, but often crisped pancetta or bacon are used instead), fresh eggs, Parmesan and Romano cheeses and lots of black pepper.
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Diabetes Quick Fix: Shrimp Caesar Salad
Keep frozen, cooked shrimp in the freezer to make this quick, diabetes-friendly salad on the spur of the moment. Succulent shrimp and romaine lettuce are the base for this tasty Caesar Salad.
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Fresh beets intrigue beet lovers and lure skeptics
Thanks to farmers who are growing under polytunnels - also known as hoophouses - fresh, local beets are available practically year round.
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Ask a cook: Storing chickpeas
Q: To add protein to my almost meatless diet, I add about 1/4 cup canned chickpeas to my salad. How long can I keep them in the refrigerator once I open a can? Should I store them rinsed and drained, or with the liquid from the can?
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Cook's Corner: Avocado the secret ingredient in silky vegan pesto
While I was visiting my daughter, a longtime vegetarian who recently went vegan, she served the best pesto pasta I've ever eaten. It was amazingly rich, and I could not believe it contained no cheese or heavy cream. The secret ingredient, it turned out, was avocado.
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Recipe Finder: Louisiana Ring Cake
Mary Quinn from Baltimore was looking for the recipe for the Louisiana Ring Cake that was made by the long-ago closed Rice's Bakery. She said the tube cake had a crunchy outer crust and the cake itself had a slightly orange flavor. The bakery cake clearly was one that was enjoyed and remembered ...
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Wine of the Week: 2011 Grgich Hills Estate Fume Blanc
Wine of the Week: 2011 Grgich Hills Estate Fume Blanc


