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EatingWell: Who needs takeout when you can make delicious sweet and sour chicken at home?
This easy chicken and broccoli recipe makes a delicious, healthier alternative to Chinese takeout — and it takes just 20 minutes to make, so it's ideal for an easy weeknight dinner. When toasted, ramen noodles make a tasty, crunchy topping for a stir-fry or salad.
Sweet & Sour Chicken with Broccoli
Serves 4
Active Time: 20 minutes
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Environmental Nutrition: Spotlight on supplements: Berberine
Berberine is a bioactive compound from a range of plants grown throughout the globe.
Overview
Berberine has proposed benefits ranging from relieving canker sores to managing blood glucose levels in type 2 diabetes. This supplement also has a history of use in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Special functions
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Seriously Simple: Enjoy this Seriously Simple meal in less than 30 minutes
It’s finally spring, and that means asparagus is in season. Combining it with salmon is a winner for lunch or dinner.
Make sure to use medium-sized asparagus so the salmon and asparagus can finish cooking at the same time. It’s important to snap off the woody ends of the asparagus; however, if you also have the time and inclination, peel ...Read more

JeanMarie Brownson: It’s time for turkey teriyaki bowls
In her super-personal book, “The Secret of Cooking,” author Bee Wilson lists ideas to motivate homemade meals. A category titled “extremely easy dishes to revive you when your cooking energy is gone,” proves most helpful.
My cooking energy usually runs out around Wednesday. That’s when I start opening the freezer and the pantry to ...Read more

The Kitchn: My chicken dumplings are so delicious, I’ve already made them twice this week
When it comes to comforting “bowl” foods, people tend to fall into one of three camps: team soup, team stew, or homeandleisure/recipes/varietymenu/s-3648622">Read more

The Kitchn: This beloved Hawaiian recipe will never leave my rotation
In Hawaii, we eat a lot of Spam. Like, almost 7 million cans of the ...Read more

Maple syrup lends a sweet touch to cocktails
Maple syrup is a natural for pancakes and baking, and it has shown its prowess in savory dishes. But the springtime ingredient is equally at home in cocktails, too.
Bentley Gilman, head distiller of Tattersall Distilling in River Falls, Wisconsin, created these four cocktails using its Birkie WI-SKI, which was created “in the spirit of” the...Read more

Nipsey Hussle's legacy lives on with Marathon Burger, a new Melrose diner
LOS ANGELES — You can smell the char of the Wagyu burgers from down the block, which is, coincidentally, how far the line often stretches. But at Melrose Avenue's newest diner, the food isn't the only draw. Marathon Burger is an ode to late community activist and rapper Nipsey Hussle, and his legacy continues with this new family venture and ...Read more

Gretchen's table: Tex-Mex cheese enchiladas with chili sauce offer an irresistible and filling option
Like a lot of Mexican food fans, I could stuff my face with tacos every day of the week and consider myself wonderfully fed.
But you've got to shake it up every now and again to keep flavors fresh and interesting at meal time, I suppose. Especially if the ingredients you reach for again and again — in this case, chili peppers, onions, ...Read more

10 apps that will help you save money on food
High food prices have American families feeling the pinch — grocery trips cost around 20% more than they did four years ago. Not only are outright costs higher, but shoppers are also dealing with “shrinkflation,” where products shrink in size while maintaining their price point.
There are ways to save other than opting for generic brands ...Read more

Vermont Country Store makes old-fashioned food fun again, sort of
The funniest part of the Vermont Country Store catalog is the underwear.
The women’s cotton briefs they sell reach from the belly button to the knee. I exaggerate, of course, but probably by less than you think.
They do not sell men’s underwear. They don’t sell much in the way of men’s clothes at all — just five of the current ...Read more

Every day is Pie Day for this Minnesota MMA fighter-turned-baker
MINNEAPOLIS -- Anyone who’s seen footage of two competitive fighters coming face-to-face at a weigh-in knows it’s a space for mean-mugging and chest-puffing.
The offering of baked goods is not typical.
But that’s what Ben Neumann has been doing every chance he’s had for the past 10 years. As an amateur baker, he dished pies and cakes ...Read more

EatingWell: You might not even miss the meat when you dive into vegetarian enchilada casserole
Think of this vegetarian enchilada casserole as a veggie-packed Mexican lasagna with corn tortillas standing in for the noodles! If your peppers are mild and you like heat, opt for spicy pico de gallo. This easy vegetarian dinner recipe is sure to become a new family favorite.
Vegetarian Enchilada Casserole
Serves 8
Active Time: 25 minutes
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Environmental Nutrition: Vegetable intake may prevent frailty
Increasing vegetable intake during midlife is associated with lower likelihood of physical frailty in later life, according to a Chinese study. The Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging, November 2024, says data from nearly 12,000 participants, with a mean age of 52 at the start of the study and 72 at follow-up, showed that compared to those ...Read more

Seriously Simple: Matzo Crunch, a Passover dessert for everyone
This recipe was originally developed by author Marcy Goldman in the 1980s. She named it Matzo Buttercrunch, and it became a sensation in food sections in newspapers across the country. She shared that her toddler son wouldn’t eat any Passover foods, so she came up with this Passover classic that has won a place on...Read more

JeanMarie Brownson: Cozy up with creamy pasta dishes while we await warmer temps this season
Sweater weather gives us the excuse to indulge in creamy pasta dishes. Adding vegetables to the pasta and cream takes away a bit of the guilt and adds a boatload of flavor and color.
The advantage of cream sauces is their speed — a delicious sauce comes together in less than the time it takes to cook the pasta. Since these tend to be rich ...Read more

The Kitchn: My chicken tortilla soup will cure whatever ails you
I grew up in Houston, Texas, and there were exactly two soups I would eat when I was sick. The first was Vietnamese chicken phở, and the second was tortilla soup. No other soup would do (sorry, ...Read more

The Kitchn: I’ve been making this old-school cake for years
After baking this pound cake, our cross-tester had said, “This is such a tasty, deeply chocolaty cake!” That reaction was my exact goal when developing this recipe. There’s nothing I hate more than baking a chocolate cake, only to find that the ...Read more

Mm-mm blah. (Canned) soup ain't good food.
Here is why I love my wife. She says things like this: Whenever a company says “new and improved,” you know it’s just going to be worse.
It is a corollary of another, similar truism of hers: When an insurance company says they have exciting news for you, it means they’re going to give you less coverage for more money.
We were talking, ...Read more

These restaurateurs proved that after COVID, anything is possible
MINNEAPOLIS -- On March 6, 2020, chef Sameh Wadi was in Mexico City when he noticed a number of people wearing masks.
On March 11, Jeff Rogers was prepping deep-dish pizzas, wondering if he could add a second employee.
On March 14, Jamie Malone was on the phone, canceling diners’ reservations at her restaurants Grand Cafe and Eastside.
On ...Read more