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Lunch Ideas Here is a list of some of our favorite quick, easy, and healthy lunch ideas. You will find tasty soup, salad, sandwich recipes, and more to liven up your lunch routine. If you’re looking for some ideas to spice up your lunch preparation, and/or bring on a little more excitement, we’ve got your back! We’re all about the Healthy Pizza, Homemade Mac and Cheese, and Turkey Sandwich with Brie....

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It was a lot of work, but I always got first dibs on the freshly made dumplings! Now that I live away from my family, I still try to keep that weekend dumpling-making tradition alive. If you have never made dumplings before, these vegetable and cream cheese baked wontons are a great place to start. The filling comes together quickly and folding the dumplings is quite simple compared to other, more elaborate dumplings....

Banana Berry Smoothie Banana Berry Smoothies are our favorite treat! My kids ask for them daily. This banana berry smoothie is fresh, cold, filling and oh so delicious! We make them for breakfast often throughout the year, but during hot summer months, these smoothies often serve as a refreshing lunch or dinner! They’re the perfect snack any time of day. And because they’re nutritious you can feel good about feeding them to your kids, sometimes multiple times a day!...

Never mind that the dish isn’t really eaten in Ireland, or at least not with the enthusiasm for it that you’ll find here. We’ll celebrate the day the way we like, and raise a toast with a pint of Guinness as well. Video: How to Make Baked Corned Beef and Cabbage Boiled or Baked Corned Beef? The traditional way to cook corned beef and cabbage is to boil it, both the beef and the cabbage....

What Is Cream of Spinach Soup? It’s basically a vichyssoise, with spinach in addition to the potatoes, and can be served either hot or chilled. Defrost and drain frozen spinach before adding it to the soup. To defrost, use one of these methods. Put the frozen spinach package in the refrigerator overnight.Leave the frozen spinach package at room temperature for about 5 hours.Defrost in the microwave — removed from the package and in a microwave-safe bowl — on the defrost setting for about 2 minutes....

Over the years the recipe has expanded beyond curry, cilantro, apples, and raisins to include many other ingredients, again usually whatever might work that’s in the fridge. This curry salad is ideal to cook ahead as the flavors blend better after the salad has sat in the refrigerator overnight. And it is easy to cook in large quantities for summer potlucks and barbeques. The salad gets better the longer it sits in the fridge (to a point) because of the absorption of the curry oil....

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In this recipe we are using a mix of fresh chopped herbs and some salt and pepper to season our chicken. The recipe comes (barely adapted) from Jamie Oliver, in his wonderful book Naked Chef. Want even juicier chicken? Try brining it overnight before roasting! Want to learn how to prep that chicken for the oven? Check out How to Truss a Chicken! Cook for 5 minutes, then turn the chicken so that the other breast is on the pan and cook for another 5 minutes....

We get it. It’s hard to know where to start. With so many options and so many recipes online, it can be overwhelming to know what will work best for you. But here’s the good news: we’ve got your back! Homemade Cake Mix Our homemade cake mix will definitely please any sweet tooth. They’re easy, convenient, and inexpensive—all things that you’d want in a cake mix. And they taste great!...

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There is a tradition in New England, and some parts of the midwest, to serve a slice of cheese, usually sharp cheddar, alongside a piece of apple pie, or even melted on top. For those of us who didn’t grow up with this tradition, even though we may love eating apple slices with cheese, the whole idea of cheddar cheese with a pie is well, just wrong. As in, “are you kidding?...

I want to give them a mocktail that truly lives up to the name, and for that, I’m turning to my friend Maggie Hoffman’s new book Batch Cocktails and her recipe for Pomegranate-Citrus Sans-Gria. How to Make a Good Mocktail While Maggie’s new book mostly concentrates on big batch cocktails made with alcohol—check out the recipe for Side Porch Sangria that I’m also sharing—she devotes an entire chapter to alcohol-free refreshments....

Called kolache (koh-LAH-chee), kolacky (koh-LAH-kee), or how my dad pronounces it, koh-LAH-chkey, these Czechoslovakian yeast-based pastries can be filled with any sweet pie or pastry filling. Dad loves poppy seed filling, and armed with an old Better Homes and Gardens recipe, he set out to recreate the kolaches of his childhood. I think he was successful (after quadrupling the filling to dough ratio in the recipe), so much so that the day after making and eating these, he announced that he had gained two pounds, prompting him to give up dessert for two whole days....

Use a Wok or a Skillet With Lots of Surface Area If you have access to a wok, that is definitely the standard for stir fry recipes, but it’s far from essential. I’ve made stir fries in a variety of skillets over the years. The most important thing is to make sure you have a skillet with a lot of surface area so your ingredients can cook quickly. A large 12-inch skillet or cast-iron skillet will work if you don’t have a wok handy....

It does however produce twice as much sauce as one can reasonably use with the meatloaf. We had ours the next day with pasta. One of the things I like about this recipe is that it is made entirely on the stove top. Most meatloaf recipes are made in the oven, but as the warmer months approach it’s nice to have a stovetop alternative. In a small bowl, combine the milk and bread, and mash until creamy....

Classic Cheese-Stuffed Shells It’s a weeknight and the hordes are hangry. That’s where these shells come in, baked with enough cheese and tomato to rival a big, fat pizza. But these shells are so much more rewarding! Seriously, who can resist a beautiful dish of golden, cheese-topped pasta in red sauce? Start by making the sauce, and while the sauce simmers, bring a pot of water to a boil and cook the shells....

It’s a sweet potato that is popular in the Caribbean. It’s light in color and fluffy when cooked. I first tried this sweet potato variety at a special food and wine festival event in the Bahamas. These fluffy sweet potatoes with mint were served alongside freshly caught wahoo fish, and as good as the fish was, I could have skipped it completely and just had a huge plate of the sweet potatoes, they were so good....