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Enjoy This Fried Chicken Recipe, From My Family to Yours

People like to ask professional cooks for their favorite recipe. Memories play a big role. I see my beautiful, hazel-eyed mother shaking floured chicken parts in a brown paper bag before rolling them in melted butter. Oven-fried chicken, a standard in her family dinner rotation, will always have a place on my table. Turns out,…


This Quick Taco Dinner Comes Together Even on Your Busiest Nights

This zippy, creamy slaw is so good you might find yourself making it for other sandwiches. Still, it pairs beautifully with the tangy pulled chicken for an incredibly quick dinner you can make even on your busiest nights. To save even more time, use a pre-shredded coleslaw blend. BBQ Chicken Tacos With Red Cabbage Slaw…


Taking the Kids: Athens Like a Local

What’s on the menu this busy Friday night in Athens? A traditional menu says Katia lordanidou. An eggplant salad, fried cheese, Greek salad followed by stuffed tomatoes and peppers and a traditional dessert — mini fried donuts topped with honey and almonds. But we aren’t in a trendy Athens restaurant. We’re in Katia lordanidou’s and…


Install a Wooden Window Cornice

A cornice board valance as a window topper is a handsome addition to a window treatment, whether it covers a window shade, blind or draperies. It’s a decorative element that makes a window appear larger, and it can be a nice coverup for the top of ordinary hardware. It’s a relatively inexpensive detail that adds…


Peanut Butter Chocolate Eggs

Easter is all about the eggs, baby. Hard-boiled eggs dyed in bright spring shades, eggs turned into herby omelets and ham frittatas for Easter brunch and, of course, candy eggs in Easter baskets. Sure, you can buy your Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs, Cadbury Eggs and caramel eggs at the store — but what’s the fun in that? You can easily make your own…


Dutch Baby

The best brunches always have some sort of pastry or sweet item in the spread. After all, what goes better with frittatas and breakfast potatoes than something sweet, silky and carby? And that’s why the Dutch baby, an underrated breakfast dish you can make in a cast iron pan, is the perfect thing to serve this spring. Also known as…


Asparagus Mushroom Swiss Egg Bake

Brunch is the perfect excuse to get dressed up and enjoy all of your favorite foods and drinks. From a platter of pancakes to perfectly poached eggs, the special meal has no limits. But if you’re the host of the event, it’s not as simple as just filling up your plate and digging in. You…


How to Choose the Best Kitchen Window Treatments

In a room as functional as a kitchen, window treatments provide one of the few elements of softness and decoration amid utilitarian appliances and hard surfaces. Curtains and shades can deliver a pop of color, pattern or texture that the room otherwise lacks, while boosting privacy and controlling natural light. Because you use this hardworking…


Spring Salad with Asparagus

Spring has a lot of perks — warmer weather, beautiful scenery, longer days and the return of baseball. But perhaps one of the most joyous parts of the season for foodies everywhere is the plethora of colorful seasonal fruits and veggies. From the bright green asparagus down to the deep purple radishes, this spring salad recipe makes…


How to Make Egg Salad With Sriracha and Avocado

One of the best Easter traditions is hard boiling eggs and dyeing the white-shelled eggs shades of pink, blue, green and yellow. But, after you dye a couple dozen eggs, uhh, what do you do with all of them? Sure, you can make delicious deviled eggs or toss sliced hard boiled eggs on your salad, but to really move…