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Wings or salad? Wings or salad? I say, why choose when you can have both on the same plate! Because that’s just what you get with these crispy, crunchy Buffalo wing-inspired croutons.
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This recipe for sheer khurma, or warm sweet vermicelli milk, is the recipe my grandmother, or Nani, made for Eid. This is a warming drink with a texture that also makes it a great dessert. The milky goodness of ghee-tossed vermicelli, warm saffron milk, chopped pistachios, and chewy, sweet dried dates, is a pure taste of Eid in Pakistan. You can have it at breakfast, offer it as a hospitable drink to guests, or save it for an after-dinner treat
For one week every spring the local Catholic church, an otherwise unassuming dot on the landscape of my suburb, turned their property into magical kingdom of lights, music, cotton candy and so many rides it was impossible to remember that all other weeks of the year it was just an empty field next to a parking lot. I was obsessed with this carnival… from afar. My parents, citing such horrifically dull things as having their children live long, healthy lives, questionable safety practices and clearly a focused interest in ruining everything, refused to let my sister and me go, even though my best friend, who went to school there and ostensibly had parents also invested in keeping her safe, got to go every night. Worst weeks, ever. This story should end here but as we drove to my parents house last month and I saw the carnival all set up again, I realized two things: 1. I wasn’t remembering it with rose-colored glasses, it’s actually, objectively amazing. 2. This miiiight be the source of my ongoing obsessing with carnivals.
I can’t help it. I haven’t met a balloon race, ali baba, bumper car, ferris wheel, haunted house, carousel, mini-zipper, graviton or hurricane I didn’t like. Give me all the strung lights, popcorn in red and white boxes and musical reels that haven’t changed in 50 years. I delight in the vague creepiness of clowns and it’s basically no surprise that only one days into summer, we’ve already taken the “kids” (sure, okay) to Jenkinson’s and Coney Island.
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Grilled chicken is a rite of passage for summer cooking; it works for both a big barbecue blowout and a simple weeknight dinner. While you can just slap some pieces onto the grill, there are a few tips to keep in mind that will yield perfectly grilled chicken every time!
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How often do you order a salad or soup solely based on the promise of delicious croutons? I’ll be the first to admit I do. But as such, I have high expectation for these golden morsels. I want crunch, flavor, and intrigue. Yep, intrigue. Which is exactly how these 10-minute pizza-flavored croutons came to be.
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It’s a well-known fact that croutons make even the saddest of salads infinitely better. Crispy and crunchy, it’s hard not to just grab them with your fingers and toss them into your mouth as you dig into your bowl of greens.
But store-bought croutons can be lame, and making them in the oven requires baking sheets and heating up the house. That’s why you should make them yourself on the stovetop. The result is extra-crispy croutons that take no more than a few minutes to make.
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Summer comes and goes so quickly that I never feel like I’m taking full advantage of those magical months. Time is short, and this season in particular seems so fleeting. This year I’m planning on following these 10 commandments of summer cooking, so I don’t look back in October and remember I never had an ice cream sundae when it was hot out.
Consider it your duty to follow these 10 commandments of summer cooking. Go ahead and print out the cute illustrations and put them on your fridge. Don’t let summer pass you by without eating all the things available and taking time to enjoy the season.
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