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Weekends are different. Weekends are for food that is a little special.

Which means that if you are me, weekends are for disappointment.

I like to go out for dinner on Fridays, or at least get takeout and eat it at home....Read more

Spring is asparagus season, and it’s finally here.

I’ve been toting bundles of those brilliant green and violet stalks home from farmers markets — some skinny as pencils, others thick as my thumb. Let’s be clear, ...Read more

Upgrade a simple burger recipe and make it pop with an easy three-ingredient jalapeno cheese topping. Ground sirloin is lean ground beef made exclusively from the center loin cut and makes a super-tender burger. These days...Read more

One of the fun things about Asian food is when you’re with friends and everyone gets to sample a little of everything. But you don’t always have the time, or budget, for such a smorgasbord. Fortunately, Asian food at ...Read more

Sometimes I want to have a few friends over for a nice, relaxed dinner. This is the dish I fall back on year in and year out (with some variations along the way). I like to serve this chicken dish at small dinner parties, ...Read more

Chances are, your guests, your children, and your best friends say they dislike peas. Especially peas and carrots. Baby carrots bore us all. Challenge accepted.

First off, at this time of the year, ditch the frozen ...Read more

Wings are one of my favorite parts from the chicken — I could easily eat a pile as a meal. Deep-fried wings are wonderful, but ...Read more

When my grandparents moved to the United States from Thailand, they lived in Maryland for a few years before they found that to be too cold — the complete opposite of what their life was like in Thailand — and ...Read more

Let's talk about plastic wrap. That clingy, crinkly roll we all keep in the drawer -- the one that never tears straight and sticks to everything except the bowl you're trying to cover. It's convenient until you stop and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Louis Vuitton is gearing up to go over the top again in Beverly Hills.

With plans for an ultra-opulent hotel on Rodeo Drive stymied by voters two years ago, the Paris fashion house's owners are back with a...Read more

While automakers continue to offer larger and larger vehicles, Lexus has no problem touting its ever-popular LX. The long-lasting success of the big-fleet Lexus models needs no introduction and has been around for years.

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PALMAS DEL MAR, Puerto Rico — Among my earliest memories of driving was riding my Honda Z50s mini-bike along backwoods trails at 11 years old. These bikes were easy for a novice to handle and incredibly fun to ride. They...Read more

Gov. Tim Walz has gloated publicly about Tesla’s business troubles in his political spat with Elon Musk, once even saying he got “a little boost” from the company’s falling stock price. No automaker, however, has ...Read more

The Baby Escalade is Cadillac’s most mature electric vehicle.

The Vistiq is the fifth and final piece in the GM luxury brand’s EV squadron and, at $79,290, its combination of size, speed and tech make it the best ...Read more

This month In-N-Out Burger became the center of the discussion of synthetic additives in foods when news broke that the Southern California fast food chain had stopped using artificial colorings in its Signature Pink ...Read more

Where to this summer? Sure, the economy is worrisome as is the prospect of getting detained when you fly back from overseas.

But that doesn’t mean you should give up on summer fun. Your kindergartner will only be ...Read more

With six kids, a housekeeper named Alice and Tiger the dog, the fictitious “Brady Bunch” of the 1970s sitcom filmed in a real-life mid-century California house, a perfectly groovy set for all the shenanigans that made ...Read more

In 2019, Meta unveiled an ambitious pledge to spend $1 billion to help ease California’s affordable housing crisis that critics say the company, with its thousands of highly paid employees, played a role in exacerbating....Read more

U.S. sales of previously owned homes unexpectedly dropped in April to the slowest pace in seven months, restrained by ongoing affordability constraints and highlighting a lackluster start to the key spring selling season. ...Read more

SAN JOSE, California — Sky-high downtown office vacancy rates continue to haunt San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco as at least one-fourth of those spaces remain empty in all three urban cores, according to a new report ...Read more