How do you convince your child to eat the lunch you send to school? This is a real dilemma for parents, who are concerned about developing healthy eating habits in their children.
If you think ahead just a little, an impromptu picnic is just around the corner. Get great ideas on how to blend homemade, store-bought and restaurant finds to make quick, delicious picnics a regular event.
Warming up doesn't always mean a steaming bowl of soup. Sometimes, an inspired salad can turn up the heat as well or better. And when that same meal is packed with great vegetables, an amazing dressing, and sweet, spicy chicken, there's every reason in the book to love it.
A quick meal or snack using your air fryer can help make convenience foods work together to bring cheers to your table. Add it to a fresh salad or vegetable side and a cup of marinara and you've got dinner done in less than half an hour.
Mid-week, there's nothing like a healthy salad to help bring a little spring back to your step. Enjoy one featuring delightfully chewy wheat berries with a Moroccan theme.
Whether it's a traditional Caesar salad or something more unusual like spicy Indian cole slaw, just about anything your heart desires can make a salad.
Noodle bowls have a lot of different ingredients and that's what makes them amazing. I like to think of them as cool weather cousins of a good salad. So think texture, color, and flavor layering and you'll find yourself with a stunning dinner!
Lemon, garlic, herbs, wine, and more make a perfect marinade for this Greek chicken. On the stovetop or on the grill, it makes a flavor-filled meal any time of the year.
Seasonal produce mixed with a simple creamy dressing and crunchy pepitas gives you a coleslaw that speaks of harvest. Everything from the traditional cabbage and creamy dressing find onion, sweet pepper, and juicy cherry tomatoes to bring the harvest to your plate.
Make a main dish salad any cowboy would be proud to eat. Packed with fried taters, tender steak, and charred sweet corn, this salad is enough to fuel you no matter where your adventures take you. Saddle up!
On the shores of Waneta Lake, four generations of family gathered with old friends and shared food, drink and laughter. Stories were shared. Chicken was grilled. Memories were made. This is what summer is all about. Enjoy it before we have a new season to greet!
Salad days are upon us and embracing the nutrition, beauty, versatility, and flavor of main dish salads will serve us well. This time around, quick-cooking salmon gets paired with less speedy marinated beans to make a hearty salad worth waiting for.
If you are looking for a vegetarian meal that screams summer, look no further. Smoky, grilled portabella mushrooms blend with creamy feta cheese and top summer's finest greens. Yum!
More looks at summer salads has us enjoying one crowned with decadent crab cakes. Drizzled with a lemon-dill dressing, it is just what we need to cool down with the season's finest produce!
There's nothing like a wonderful blend of colors, textures, and flavors in food. This is especially true of salads this time of the year, when ingredients are at their freshest and we're all looking for something refreshing and light on our plates.
What does a food writer have for lunch? More often than not, it's something quick, easy to put together, and delicious. Get one of my favorite make-ahead lunch favorites featuring fresh broccoli and some unlikely ingredient candidates for a salad.
Summer entertaining means being about to toss together a potluck ready side at a moment's notice. If you stock a few pantry items and have fresh spinach in your garden or refrigerator, we've got the perfect dish for you.
Those that have the opportunity to enjoy fresh produce by way of a community sponsored agriculture share (or regular trips to your local farmers' market) know that now is the time when things really start to become truly breath-taking in the kitchen. Beautiful salads, tender rhubarb crisps, and stir-fries to make anyone drool become common on tables that are fortunate enough to experience CSA joy!
Using plain breadcrumbs in the tuna cake mix and panko breadcrumbs as a coating gives these a tender interior with a crisp exterior. Serve them atop a fresh salad, on an English muffin as a creative benedict, or on their own topped with a clever remoulade.
Full of creamy, spicy goodness, this cajun pasta dish has it all: tender chicken, fresh vegetables, a sauce that coats the pasta in an almost silk-like manner. Add to all this the fact that it's a one pot meal comes together in under an hour and you'll be making it again and again.
