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EatingWell: Sheet-pan salmon is a breeze

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Looking for a recipe to help you eat more heart-healthy fish and veggies? Add this salmon and asparagus dinner to your rotation. Not only is it healthy and delicious, this sheet-pan dinner is also easy to make and a breeze to clean up.

Salmon & Asparagus with Lemon-Garlic Butter Sauce

Serves 4

Active Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 25 minutes

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Environmental Nutrition: Can supplements help tame blood sugar?

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If you have prediabetes or have been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, you’re going to want to do everything possible to bring blood sugar levels down. Elevated levels can damage your eyes, kidneys, nerves, your dental health, and increase your risk of cardiovascular disease.

A diet high in fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes, beans, ...Read more

Seriously Simple: This quick-cooking soup is comfort in a bowl

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Sometimes I want a comforting bowl of chicken soup but don’t have the time to labor over the stove with multiple steps. Even when you have a cold and have a desire for chicken soup but are tired, you’ll be able to cook this up in a few minutes.

This recipe uses chicken broth from a box or can, but it still works nicely. Make sure to use a ...Read more

JeanMarie Brownson: Enjoy grilled lamb this Easter, and add the recipe to your regular rotation

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I rarely cook a Sunday roast these days. For a couple of reasons, not the least being the cost. Tastes have changed. We eat less meat. We spend less time in the kitchen. We’re more likely to top pasta with a modest amount of slow-cooked meat, smoked fish or roasted vegetables.

However, at this time of the year, I eagerly seek out leg of lamb....Read more

The Kitchn: The is the best glaze for a holiday ham

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Brown sugar and honey-glazed ham may be surrounded by platters of glazed carrots and fluffy mashed potatoes, but it is the classic centerpiece of a holiday table. This ham ...Read more

The Kitchn: Round out your Passover menu with deep-fried matzo balls

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There is something profoundly comforting about a steaming bowl of matzo ball soup — those airy matzo balls floating in a rich chicken stock dotted with carrots and sprinkled with dill. Known for being healing and restorative, matzo ball soup is a prominent ...Read more

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Food blogger Jessica Merchant makes cooking 'Easy Everyday'

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PITTSBURGH — Tracing blogger and author Jessica Merchant's career is almost like charting the history of the internet itself.

An early food blogger, she started her site, How Sweet Eats, in 2009, only 5 years after Mark Zuckerberg started "The Facebook" for his Harvard classmates.

"There was no Instagram, there was no Pinterest," Merchant ...Read more

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Home cooks are shopping a little differently for groceries in 2025

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PITTSBURGH — With restaurants closed and stay-at-home orders in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during the early months of the pandemic, Americans responded in the only way they could at meal time.

We started cooking at home more than ever before, even though it was harder than ever to find some ingredients on store shelves. And all ...Read more

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Gretchen's table: Pork chop crusty rolls conjure delicious memories of Hong Kong

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I ate a lot of things that surprised me when I lived in Hong Kong in my mid 20s, often from carts hidden from street view in back alleys or larger street-side stalls known as dai pai dong. And I have to say, save for one unfortunate dinner that included fresh sea urchin, I never regretted these impromptu meals.

Street snacks made by "hawkers," ...Read more

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Column: How to eat green iguanas and other invasive species

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If you ever happen to come across a green iguana, don’t be frightened. Don’t run away.

Just kill it, cook it and eat it.

You can pan fry it, deep fry it or roast it. You can even boil it, though boiled green iguana doesn’t sound particularly appetizing, for some reason. Green iguanas are white meat and are said to taste like chicken, of ...Read more

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Cheesy homemade manicotti is the star of this budget dinner for four

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Home cooks looking to stay on budget often opt for simple Italian dishes as a way to save a buck or two.

And more often than not, choosing an easy-to-make dish like spaghetti with marinara makes good, economical sense. Dried pasta is one of your more inexpensive pantry items, and so is the quick-cooking red sauce that accompanies it if you use ...Read more

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Creamy, crunchy, spicy, mild -- the many personalities of chickpeas

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PITTSBURGH — Emily Crusan, a registered dietitian at Allegheny Health Network, is a fan of the chickpea. Also known as garbanzo beans, like all legumes, they have many health benefits. Legumes are nutritionally "very well-rounded," she said.

"Legumes are a great plant source of protein in the diet, and are also a good source of unsaturated ...Read more

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Federal cuts squeeze already-struggling food banks, school lunch programs

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For the Day Eagle Hope Project, federal money has helped volunteers deliver fresh produce and meat to families in need across the remote Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in northern Montana — while putting cash into the hands of farmers, ranchers and meat processors.

The nonprofit generally has less than $300,000 to spend per year. So the $200...Read more

EatingWell: Who needs takeout when you can make delicious sweet and sour chicken at home?

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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

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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

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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

It’s time for turkey teriyaki bowls

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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

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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

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Maple syrup lends a sweet touch to cocktails

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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

 

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