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Put Thai twist on quick beef pasta salad
Spice up a hot summer night with this easy Thai Beef Pasta Salad. Using bottled peanut sauce, deli roast beef, ready-to-eat salad greens and precut fresh pineapple, this one-dish meal can be ready in the time it takes to boil pasta.Thai peanut sauce mixed with mayonnaise is the base for the dressing. Look for it…
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A simple way to use summer herbs
The growing season is upon us, and if we’re smart, we’re taking advantage of the fresh herbs that are either flourishing in our gardens or sold at the farmers market. But with excess comes some guilt: A little herb goes a long way, and that generally means we aren’t using the bounty to its full…
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Bedeviled by an egg rut? Try these beguiling new takes
Deviled eggs scream of childhood summers, of picnics at the beach, lazy cookouts in the backyard, sunset snacks on the balcony or patio. There’s something simple and delicious about the basic deviled egg with its mash of yolk, mustard, mayo and paprika.But, let’s admit it: We’re kids no more. Basic can be yummy, true, but…
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Quick watermelon salad will impress
When it’s too hot to cook an entire meal — or you don’t have the urge — opt for something that takes just a little time to prepare and only a few seconds to heat.Pan-seared watermelon with peppery arugula, anyone?A summertime staple, watermelon is inexpensive and refreshing. It’s also good for you because it contains…
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Southwest cucumber salad is perfectly suited for summer
When it comes to nutrition, are you keeping current?Take the 5-a-Day message. A catchy slogan, scrapped three years ago when new recommendations pushed the number of servings closer to 10 a day, depending on your age, gender and physical activity.You can pop those eyes back into their sockets and untie those knotted fingers and toes.“It’s…
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65 ways to feed your addiction to potato salad
Is it possible to live on potato salad alone? I think I could do it. Really.I don’t know about you, but it’s the first dish I reach for on every picnic buffet. I save room for seconds. A good potato salad is better than all the burgers or perfectly grilled brats, chicken or shish kebab…
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Peppers, pasta pair well in simple, healthful dish
I admit to a sentimental attachment to this recipe, which is an abbreviated and more healthful version of the first meal my husband ever cooked for me.The main course was Pasta al Peperoni, a recipe he followed from Giuliano Bugialli’s “Bugialli on Pasta” (Simon and Schuster, 1988). It’s a very simple dish of peppers, roasted…
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ON FOOD: Peach Lady prepares for annual fruit run
Karol Peat, aka The Peach Lady, is making plans for her annual peach pickup day Aug. 24. She’s been making trips to the Western Slope to buy peaches — hundreds of cases of them — for 16 years.It all started when her piano teacher and she were waxing poetic about the great-tasting peaches they remembered…
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Co-ops deliver savings along with flavorful meals
What if you could find a way to eliminate multiple trips to the supermarket and have dinner delivered? Sounds like a win-win situation to save time and money.All across the country, there are book-club members exchanging foil pans filled with food when the meeting is over, neighbors who share serious sustenance rather than an occasional…
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Craving those Carolina red dogs
Depending on where you live in North Carolina, the hot dog peeking out from under your mustard, chili and slaw is likely to be bright red.Eastern North Carolinians, and especially folks in Johnston County, have an affinity for the cherry-red wieners over those tan national brands.“It’s the flavor and the tradition,” Manly Turner, 51, explained…