5 Quick Meals for Couples Who Loathe Leftovers — Go it Alone

Cooking for two can undoubtedly feel like a challenge. With most recipes serving four to six people, it might as well be that the entire culinary world is up against you and your small household. Because, to be honest, having leftovers for every single dinner you make isn’t that great — leftovers get boring by day two and rarely taste very good. To avoid that, you’re then stuck dividing every single ingredient until your head starts to hurt. We have a solution: Five easy meals that perfectly serve two — no complicated calculations required.

There are a few keys to easy, small-format dinners. Embrace them and cooking for two is a pleasure. And the best part is that you won’t be left with days of leftovers to swallow.

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5 Small Ways to Make Your Salad More Interesting — Tips from The Kitchn

If you’re trying to eat more vegetables, there’s a high chance you’re trying to bring salad to the table more often. It’s such an easy way to up your vegetable intake, but eat the same formula day after day and it becomes pretty boring pretty quickly.

To combat this, all you have to remember is that a salad is a blank slate for ingredients and flavors. Bring a few new elements to your bowl and suddenly your salad is interesting again.

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How I Learned to Love Traveling Alone — Go It Alone

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I recently spent a week in France with a friend of mine. We had a grand time laughing, gorging on croissants, and knocking back Champagne — forging such pleasant memories amid exceptional settings are, of course, why people choose to travel together. But I am just as content to navigate a foreign locale solo. In fact, I prefer it. On this sojourn, like any other where I am in the company of others, there were moments I yearned for solitude.

But this unbridled independence wasn’t always the case. Here’s how I learned to love the lone nomadic life.

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Recipe: Summer Green Beans in Aromatic Spiced Tomatoes — Recipes from The Kitchn

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Fresh string beans are a summertime staple, but it’s easy to get in a rut of simply steaming and slapping them on the plate. If the best thing we can say about a forgettable side dish is that it did no harm, it’s time for an upgrade.

This recipe will be your beans’ crush all summer long. You’ll make this recipe over and over, and will share it with your friends and relations because it’s just that good. Let us count the ways, and the whys.

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Are These the Best Wedding Cakes of All Time? — Weird Food

This week the internet has been abuzz with a new trend in wedding cakes. While “naked cakes” have been all the rage the last few years, something new has been popping up from many a cake baker, and they will definitely rock your world. Enter: the geode cake.

In case you’re not familiar, geodes are volcanic creations that look like normal rocks on the outside, but when you split them open, they reveal a sparkling interior. The wedding cakes you see below all use sugar rocks to get that sparkling cut into the cake. According to Refinery29, these beautiful creations are definitely not easy to make, and can take anywhere up to a week to create. Now, that’s a labor of love.

Here are a few of our favorite examples of the geode cakes we’ve found on Instagram.

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