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These green enchiladas make smart use of a few store-bought shortcutsMar 12, 2025 5:41 am - While many recipes for enchiladas Suizas with chicken start with homemade salsa verde, this one uses store-bought salsa for ease. Thick with tomatillos, onions and green chiles, to make them “Swiss-style,” the salsa gets blended with Mexican crema.
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5 tips for better frozen french friesMar 12, 2025 5:39 am - While the best frozen fries are perfectly fine when made according to their labels, they can be made even better with a little care — and some creative zhuzhing up. Here are five tips for preparation and flavor enhancements to help you up your frozen-fry game.
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This chicken soup with peanut butter channels West African stewsMar 11, 2025 5:51 am - Seasoned with onion, garlic, ginger and a touch of cayenne pepper, this fragrant chicken soup gets its flavor cues from West African peanut stew.
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You have to break a lot of eggs to make a Spanish tortilla. Or do you?Mar 11, 2025 5:48 am - With the price of eggs these days, you don’t have to be vegan to appreciate this version of a classic Spanish potato tortilla. It uses two types of tofu instead of eggs for creamy texture, plus kala namak (black salt) for eggy flavor.
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DOGE hunts for ‘wins’ amid tensions with Trump administration, backlashMar 10, 2025 9:35 am - Facing weeks of negative headlines and growing pressure from within the Trump administration, the U.S. DOGE Service is racing to finish the first phase of its assignment - slashing the federal bureaucracy - and move on to what the team hopes will be seen as more constructive work: creating sleek tools for navigating government services.
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Carolyn Hax: Mom is angry daughter chose to spend holiday with her auntMar 10, 2025 9:25 am - Mom is angry that daughter chose to spend the holidays with her aunt’s family, who she had spent frequent time with over the years. Now the siblings are not talking. Carolyn Hax says to offer some grace and find why she is upset in the first place.
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Trump’s Justice Dept. ousts national security officials in latest purgeMar 08, 2025 7:36 pm - The Justice Department has removed top national security officials as part of a widespread purge of senior career leaders across the law enforcement agency, according to ...
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How the U of I and other state colleges are admitting students — before they applyMar 08, 2025 5:23 pm - Illinois and other states are easing the stress of the college search by letting high school students know they are promised admission before they even apply. It is a par...
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Repressed memories and grand opera are dance partners in ‘Seven Veils’Mar 07, 2025 3:52 pm - In “Seven Veils,” Amanda Seyfried puts her wide, unblinking eyes to good use as a woman staring at the present and unable to see anything but the past. The movie’s tension is built on an uncertainty: Is this a portrait of an artist having a nervous breakdown or the story of a woman using art to confront and exorcise her demons?
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DOGE targets child support database full of income dataMar 07, 2025 12:36 pm - Representatives of the U.S. DOGE Service have sought access to a powerful database of nearly all U.S. workers’ earnings kept by the health department’s child support office, setting off another disagreement with career staff over demands for legally protected records, according to four people familiar with the matter.