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5 Ways to Make Visitors Feel at Home When You Don’t Have a Guest Room — Apartment Therapy
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7 Quick Toppings That Turn Salad into Dinner — Tips from The Kitchn
We like to eat salad for dinner, but we don’t want to be hungry an hour later. There are plenty of main-dish salad recipes out there (we wrote about some of our favorites in this post), but often we want just a simple green salad — only we need one or two extra things to make it more hearty. Here are seven quick additions.
Zucchini Noodle Chicken Pesto Bowl
Have zucchini? If you haven’t tried spiralizing zucchini yet, you’re missing out!
Seriously. Zucchini “noodles” are great. They trick your mind into thinking you’re eating carb-heavy pasta, when in fact, you are eating healthy, vitamin rich zucchini.
You know that spinach flavored pasta? This is like zucchini flavored pasta, that’s actually just zucchini. Gluten-free, low-carb, super healthy zucchini.
There’s something about the noodle shape that makes it way more fun to eat than just chopped up squash.
Zucchini Noodle Chicken Pesto Bowl
Have zucchini? If you haven’t tried spiralizing zucchini yet, you’re missing out!
Seriously. Zucchini “noodles” are great. They trick your mind into thinking you’re eating carb-heavy pasta, when in fact, you are eating healthy, vitamin rich zucchini.
You know that spinach flavored pasta? This is like zucchini flavored pasta, that’s actually just zucchini. Gluten-free, low-carb, super healthy zucchini.
There’s something about the noodle shape that makes it way more fun to eat than just chopped up squash.
Zucchini Noodle Chicken Pesto Bowl
Have zucchini? If you haven’t tried spiralizing zucchini yet, you’re missing out!
Seriously. Zucchini “noodles” are great. They trick your mind into thinking you’re eating carb-heavy pasta, when in fact, you are eating healthy, vitamin rich zucchini.
You know that spinach flavored pasta? This is like zucchini flavored pasta, that’s actually just zucchini. Gluten-free, low-carb, super healthy zucchini.
There’s something about the noodle shape that makes it way more fun to eat than just chopped up squash.
The Best Kitchen Trash Cans for Your Budget — Apartment Therapy
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From Apartment Therapy → The Best Kitchen Trash Cans: Rubbermaid, Simplehuman, IKEA, Brabantia & More
The First 5 Things to Buy at the Grocery Store While You’re on Vacation — Alien Territory
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If you’re renting a house or apartment for your summer vacation, you’re probably planning to do a little cooking. Whether that means grilling all week or simply using the kitchen as a place to make a pile of scrambled eggs for everyone in the morning, you’ll have to hit the grocery store at some point — so let’s talk grocery list.
5 Ways to Fall in Love with Eggplant — Easy Veggie Upgrades
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Oh, eggplant, you voluptuous vegetable. Short, long, round, narrow, and of course, the classically big-bottomed, you come in so many shapes. But you also come in so many colors. Some eggplants are deep and aubergine, a purple so dark it’s black like a Sicilian man’s eyes, beckoning me. Some are playfully striated like a tiger cub. Oh, eggplant, you shape-shifter, you color-spectrum challenger, you world-traveller, you meal-maker, you. Do I love eggplant? Yes, indeed.
Now, eggplants are all lovely to look at and lovely to behold, but cooking them is when they get to truly show their stuff. From this true lover of eggplant, here are five ways to help you fall in love with it this season.
6 Easy Recipes to Serve a Crowd (Wherever You May Be) — Alien Territory
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When friends come around for a backyard barbecue, it tends to feel simple. You’re comfortable in your surroundings; you know your grill and you know your pantry. But move that gathering to an unfamiliar place, like that beach house you’re renting for the week, and suddenly all bets are off — you’re most definitely in alien territory.
So how do you serve a house full of people when you’re out of your element, but still trying to channel that easy, breezy vacation vibe? These six recipes — covering everything from breakfast to dinner — streamline the cooking process to make vacation-kitchen cooking both fun and carefree.
Recipe: Pesto Tortellini Pasta Salad — Recipes from The Kitchn
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In my humble opinion, summer just isn’t summer without pasta salad. It rounds out a barbecue, makes a simple lunch, and can become dinner when it’s just too hot for a hot meal. That’s why it’s essential to have it around when you’re on vacation and living the easy, breezy summer rental life.