Food
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Embrace spring with the season's freshest produceApr 24, 2019 6:00 am - The arrival of the earliest spring produce is absolutely thrilling — at least for me. But then I lead a pretty tame life. Even if seeing those first spears of asparagus ...
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Homemade broth is the key ingredient your bowl of soup deservesApr 24, 2019 5:00 am - I make and eat a lot of soup in the winter. More often than I want to, I will bust open a carton of store-bought broth. Sometimes the time and effort of making the soup ...
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Homemade broth is the key ingredient your bowl of soup deservesApr 24, 2019 5:00 am - I make and eat a lot of soup in the winter. More often than I want to, I will bust open a carton of store-bought broth. Sometimes the time and effort of making the soup ...
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A taste of Napa: New owners mark one year at The Wine Exchange in St. CharlesApr 23, 2019 11:00 pm - From their vantage point as 10-year members of The Wine Exchange in St. Charles, Bob Sommer and his wife, Keri Foster, had a pretty good idea what they wanted to do with...
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Caputo Cheese launches e-commerce siteApr 23, 2019 1:00 am - MELROSE PARK - Caputo Cheese announced it has launched an e-commerce site and online cheese shop at www.caputocheesemarket.com. The shop is easy to navigate and showcase...
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Stir-Fried Beef With Ginger and ScallionsApr 22, 2019 11:00 pm - The flank steak is cut in a way that yields meaty, tender pieces. We tested this in a nonstick skillet and a wok; the latter creates more crisped bits of browning on the...
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Mediterranean Chopped Salad Bowl With TunaApr 22, 2019 11:00 pm - 3 cups chopped romaine hearts or Little Gem lettuce ½ medium red bell pepper, seeded and chopped (½ cup) ½ cup chopped English (seedless) cucumber or Pers...
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Let good-quality canned tuna anchor this crunchy Mediterranean saladApr 22, 2019 11:00 pm - While making this salad for lunch recently, my umpteenth time over the years, it dawned on me that I should share it with you. I suppose I had not thought to do so befor...
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Steak meets stir-fry in this tender beef dishApr 22, 2019 11:00 pm - If you know your way around cuts of meat, you might balk at the initial directions here to first slice this flank steak with the grain. In this case, that means the long...
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Kick off rosé season with this $9 French beautyApr 20, 2019 7:28 am - While I agree that rosé is worthy of drinking year-round, I do welcome warm spring weather as the unofficial start to the rosé season. So I celebrate spring this week wi...