Category: Food

6 Best Summer Beers for 2023

The season is upon us once again (and long overdue if you’re a northerner!), so it’s time to break out the summer sippers. While there’s no law against drinking a heavy beer or perhaps a stout in the summer months, we’re generally looking for those thirst-quenching, lighter-bodied brews. That might mean a crisp and clean…


Garlic Scapes: How to Cook With These Short-Lived Seasonal Treasures

In late spring, an enchanting botanical curiosity captures the attention of experienced gardeners and enthusiastic cooks alike. Slender green stalks emerge from the garlic bed, rocketing toward the sky in serpentine curls before forming a wedge-shaped, tapered bud. Known as a scape, it’s the bud of the hard-neck garlic plant, and its season lasts only…


Japanese Cucumber Diet May Aid Weight Loss

Cucumbers have been used since ancient times for weight loss benefits due to their high water and low-calorie content. In addition to containing rich nutrients, cucumbers can help people to maintain an ideal weight, according to renowned Japanese physician Dr. Takashi Tsurumi, who is famous for his research on enzyme nutrition and introducing a simple cucumber…


Cucumber May Aid Weight Loss Argues Japanese Doctor

Cucumbers have been used since ancient times for weight loss benefits due to their high water and low-calorie content. In addition to containing rich nutrients, cucumbers can help people to maintain an ideal weight, according to renowned Japanese physician Dr. Takashi Tsurumi, who is famous for his research on enzyme nutrition and introducing a simple cucumber…


This Quick Version of Chicken Cacciatore Is Ready Fast on Busy Weeknights

Classic chicken cacciatore recipes are day-long stewed affairs, but this revised recipe is a quick weeknight dish that gets plenty of flavor from garlic, fresh basil, cremini mushrooms, and red pepper. We found that white or button mushrooms can be substituted for the cremini in our recipe. Be sure to scrape the browned bits of…


Strawberry-Blueberry Strata Makes Fourth of July Sweeter

When I think of comfort food desserts, the first thing that comes to mind is bread pudding. And strata is a bread custard that has many creative adaptations. From chocolate to dulce de leche flavoring to a hint of caramelized peaches or pumpkin, strata is no one definitive recipe. Whether served in large souffle dishes…


Classic Reds

A century ago, many of the finest French red wines were known to improve after they had been aged for a decade or more in a cool cellar. The main reason was that the wines were basically undrinkable when they were young. Winemaking back then was fairly rudimentary and the astringency that developed in such…


Fermented Foods Improve Brain Health: Study

Fermented foods, which we all know are good for the gut, are also beneficial for our brains, preliminary findings from a new study out of Ireland suggest. Foods can significantly impact our mental health, and certain foods in particular can positively affect the brain. For example, according to a review published in Preventive Nutrition and Food Science,…


Just a Little Patience

“Overnight” often means to get something in a hurry. But with oats, it means the opposite. Overnight oats are currently having a moment as a breakfast fad, but the dish is based on a very old concept: the fact that you can prepare grains by soaking rather than cooking them. To make overnight oats, you…


Let Me Tell You Why I’m in Love With Local Asparagus

Fresh asparagus, purchased close to its growing area, tastes vastly different than the bunches sold most of the year at the supermarket. Local asparagus tastes sweeter, greener, and richer, even with a superior crisp snap. For the next couple of weeks, we plan to eat our fill of the local deep green and purple varieties…