Food
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Stir Crazy Cooking: Tacos when you're out of almost everything? You bet.Apr 29, 2020 6:03 am - Taco Tuesday? Amateurs. Every day is potentially a taco day in the Findlay-Shamie household. Name a meal, and my husband and I have a taco - or a taco-adjacent item - th...
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Now you can enjoy Ikea's Swedish meatballs at home - some assembly required
Apr 29, 2020 6:00 am - When I told my colleague - via Zoom, of course - that I was going to tackle making Ikea's Swedish Meatballs, her eyes lit up. "I LOVE them," she exclaimed. She's not alo...
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Canned tuna goes bold with Mediterranean flavors
Apr 29, 2020 6:00 am - I love canned tuna. A simple tuna salad piled on toasted bread or stuffed inside a ripe avocado or tomato is my idea of a delicious lunch. I eagerly dig into a salad niƧ...
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Dining in: Restaurants fete Cinco de Mayo, others re-open for take outApr 29, 2020 6:00 am - Cinco de Mayo Di Pescara: In honor of Cinco de Mayo, from Friday through Tuesday, May 1-5, the Northbrook restaurant will be offering special fish tacos to-go. A combo o...
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Adapt this simple pasta salad to whatever vegetable is in your fridge or freezer
Apr 29, 2020 6:00 am - Adaptability. That's what the world is requiring of us right now, and that's certainly what we need in our recipes. Because who knows what we'll find the next time we ch...
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Vegetarian enchiladas are so good, and they're good for you, tooApr 29, 2020 6:00 am - While my food growing and cooking classes are suspended, I've been scrounging in my freezer and kitchen cabinets to come up with something good for dinner. I wanted some...
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How to safely reheat all those leftovers without ruining them
Apr 29, 2020 6:00 am - Whether you're at home and working to stretch your cooking into as many meals as possible or trying to make the most of your takeout dinners (me and me!), leftovers are ...
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How to grow tasty ingredients for your saladsApr 26, 2020 7:00 am - Instead of heading to the grocery store for the ingredients of a salad - complete with masks and social distance - grow them in your own backyard. Once you've tasted a s...
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Geneva restaurateurs open The Burger Shop diner in the middle of the pandemicApr 24, 2020 6:00 am - It would make sense for a restaurant owner to say the past several weeks have been difficult because of the coronavirus shutdown. But it would be quite surprising to hea...
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How a Geneva family turned their nightly dinners at home into a themed occasionApr 23, 2020 1:00 am - Twenty-one days. Twenty-one themed dinners. Twenty-one sets of coordinating costumes, props and activities. Stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic, the McCall fam...