Food
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Why are the chicken breasts I cook rubbery and stringy?
Sep 02, 2025 4:58 am - Q: Sometimes I find my boneless chicken breasts to be rubbery. I don’t think it’s due to cooking. It just seems to be the meat itself. Can anything be done before cooking to eliminate this?
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How to make creamy, dreamy no-churn ice cream
Aug 27, 2025 5:55 am - You don’t need an ice cream machine to make good ice cream, as this no-churn recipe proves. While the ice cream won’t be quite as aerated as batches churned in a machine, a combination of pre-chilling the cream and pulsing in the food processor will give you a delightfully creamy, rich and easily scoopable texture.
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The secret to going gluten-free? A great rice pastaAug 27, 2025 5:32 am - For Don Mauer, tasty food items made with wheat — like cookies, bread and pizza — trigger a strong desire to eat more. It’s like one cookie is too many and a dozen is not enough. His solution: stop eating wheat in any form. No trigger, no hunger, no problem. Luckily, cutting out wheat does not have to mean giving up pasta.
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This charred corn salad adds verve and color to grilled chicken
Aug 26, 2025 5:52 am - In this healthful, flavor-packed main, grilled chicken breast tops a salad of charred corn and poblanos, which are mounded over mashed avocados. Lime, scallion and pickled jalapeños lend verve to the salad, resulting in a bold weeknight-friendly meal that can be served warm or at room temperature.
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This virgin sangria casts a spotlight on juicy summer peaches
Aug 26, 2025 5:49 am - This virgin white sangria leans on sparkling nonalcoholic wine for an effervescent base. Like most sangria recipes, this one is relaxed, allowing you to adjust amounts to your taste.
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Ripe tomatoes and Brie meld into this luscious, no-cook pasta sauce
Aug 26, 2025 5:46 am - This is an ideal summer pasta for when farmers markets are overflowing with peak-season tomatoes. Roasting garlic mellows out its bite but preserves its signature complexity, and creamy Brie adds body for a luxurious weeknight dinner that comes together in little time.
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Tuna tostadas are a cool, crispy restaurant-style dish to make at home
Aug 26, 2025 4:29 am - These no-cook tostadas feature thinly sliced sushi-grade tuna atop mashed avocado that’s seasoned with white miso, Dijon mustard and citrus juice. Small slices of tangerine, fresh herbs, green chile and toasted sesame seeds add color and balance to each bite.
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Where did the potato come from? Tomatoes, 9 million years ago, apparently.
Aug 22, 2025 7:15 am - Researchers say the modern-day potato evolved from hybridization of the ancestors of tomato plants and another potato-like plant, known as etuberosum, in South America up to 9 million years ago.
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Sweet corn to share: Salad with ‘creamy’ vinaigrette the perfect side dish for late-summer gatheringsAug 20, 2025 5:22 am - Fresh sweet corn is one of the best things about summer, but it’s hard to bring as a side dish. That’s where this chopped vegetable salad with a “creamy” (but dairy-free) corn vinaigrette comes in.
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Trader Joe’s wines are sneaky good. Here are 9 budget bottles to try.
Aug 20, 2025 4:26 am - There’s more to value than what you spend. An $8.50 wine is a steal only if you enjoy drinking it. Is it possible to find quality bottles at Trader Joe’s that don’t break the bank? Absolutely. But you have to know how and where to look.