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7 Super-Common Dishwasher Mistakes You Should Stop Making — Apartment Therapy
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These 2 New Stores Give Home Goods and TJ Maxx a Run For Their Money — Shopping News
There’s nothing quite as exciting as scoring a great deal. Maybe seeing your kid walk for the first time hits high on some people’s lists, but grabbing a crystal bowl for a fraction of its retail price or getting an artisanal food product that isn’t usually available is our idea of a great time.
That’s why the news that Southern Living and HomeSense stores are expanding is so exciting.
Recipe: Strawberry Slab Pie — Strawberries: A Field Guide
(Image credit: Linda Xiao)
Strawberries don’t have to work very hard to earn a place as one of our favorite berries of summer. They are the first to arrive, tend to be the most affordable, and really know how to work the spotlight with very little help. So when you’re ready to take your fresh munching to the next level, make this slab pie dreamed up by cookbook author Yossy Arefi.
Pair Dates with These Foods for a Delicious Snack — Snack Intelligence
Sticky, sweet dates have many wonderful uses. They can be chopped up for a salad, blended into a smoothie, or even made into caramels. They don’t, however, actually need that much fussing to be enjoyed. All on their own, they make for a pretty good snack. Add just one more ingredient to the equation and you’ve got a snack that’s truly great.
Even better, you don’t need to go out of your way to buy anything special. These fancied-up dates call for pantry ingredients that transform the dried fruit into something that not only feels like a treat for yourself, but can also be served to company. Here are seven combinations we love.
grilled pepper and torn mozzarella panzanella
This salad is not here to break the internet. Even among my friends, roasted sweet red peppers seem to be a perplexingly hard sell, although I hope all roasted pepper resistors are not basing their impressions on the jarred ones — those slippery things shouldn’t even rank. Because it’s the year 2017, I’m sure at least half of the people we know at any given time aren’t eating bread, so that’s not going to go over well either. I’m not sure why people — even my own father — loathe capers, but I bet I will soon find out. I understand that lots of people don’t like onions, even marinated and grilled lovelies, in salads. I know we all agree on mozzarella, at least. (Phew.)
But if there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years writing recipes and sending them out into the world, it’s that not all dishes will stop everyone in our tracks and cause us to reroute our entire day to ensure it ends with this. Not all dishes elicit, or need to elicit, popular fervor.
My 10 Favorite Road Trip Snacks from Trader Joe’s — Road Trips for Food-Lovers
I admit that my love for Trader Joe’s is a passionate affair. Their products have made themselves at home in my pantry, fridge, freezer, and desk drawer.
But let’s be honest — what we all love most about Trader Joe’s are the snacks. As I prepare for a summer of road trips, TJ’s is riding shotgun. Here are 10 of the snacks I’m taking along for the ride.
How To Make Thai Iced Tea — Cooking Lessons from The Kitchn
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Here’s the drink I’ll be sipping on all summer long: Thai iced tea! I used to reserve this refreshing drink for combatting the heat when I ordered spicy curries at Thai restaurants, but not anymore. I recently discovered that making your own Thai iced tea is surprisingly easy.
7 Ways to Make the Most of Your Hotel’s Breakfast Buffet — Breakfast Matters
The free breakfast buffet is one of the purest pleasures of the hotel experience. This is not necessarily because it is unusually good, in any common definition of the word. While there are exceptions — I have experienced exceptions! — the breakfast buffet at a mid-range hotel is almost certainly some degree of mediocre. The bagels will not be the best possible bagels; the fruit is unlikely to be the best possible fruit. The scrambled eggs have probably been slowly coagulating in a trough on the steam table for at least half an hour.
However, these are not bugs, but features. Hotel breakfast is magical not in spite of its mediocrity, but because of it. It is the glorious flavor of vacation. And here’s how you can make it all even better.
5 Good Habits to Adopt in the Kitchen This Summer — Happy in the Kitchen
Bad habits are hard to break, but maybe that’s because we’re thinking about them all wrong. What if it’s less about breaking a bad habit and more about making space for something better? Here are five ideas for small, simple changes you can make to help you feel better about yourself and your kitchen this summer.
Recipe: Slow-Cooker Ratatouille — The Summer Slow Cooker
(Image credit: Diana Yen)
You might not think “summer” and “stew” belong in the same sentence, but stewing and braising aren’t winter-exclusive cooking methods. The colorful spectrum of summer vegetables can be slow-cooked until meltingly tender and sweet — and it’s quite easy to do with the help of a slow cooker. Ratatouille, the classic French vegetable stew, is a perfect candidate for this hands-off cooking method.