How Cutting an Onion Can Help You Pay Your Bills — Weird Food

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Crying while you cut an onion is annoying at best. There are plenty of tricks that help stop the tears — including putting bread in your mouth or wearing goggles — while you get the job done, but what if I told you those tears you produce have a purpose? What if I told you those tears can help you … be a productive human? Before I confuse you anymore, let’s watch this video.

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A Fantasy Menu for Alice Waters on Bastille Day — Bastille Day

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Alice Waters has said that creating a menu “means creating your own reality.” For many years at her famous restaurant, Chez Panisse, she offered up a very special menu for Bastille day, and for the last two decades, she has served a meal that celebrates Northern California garlic.

In that same spirit, I’ve created an imagined menu in tribute to her for Bastille Day.

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7 Homemade Popsicles That Are Way Better than the Ones from the Ice Cream Truck — Recipes from The Kitchn

It wouldn’t be summer without a whole host of frozen treats — ice pops foremost among them. Anyone can enjoy a sugary, drippy treat from the ice cream truck, but we’re here to challenge you to make one of these frosty treats at home.

From chocolate ombré pops to a mango-coconut confection, these don’t take a lot of equipment — you can even make them without popsicle molds. Plus, you can do something that most ice cream trucks can’t: Add your favorite wine or spirit for a refreshingly boozy treat.

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Recipe: Feta & Eggplant Pasta Salad — Recipes from The Kitchn

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Summer cooking is supposed to be as easy and carefree as the season itself. You should be able to toss together a meal at a moment’s notice, after a long day of fun, without too much hassle or seriously heating up the kitchen. This pasta salad follows this order — speckled with roasted eggplant, tangy feta, and fresh herbs, it’s just the kind of dinner your summer evening is asking for.

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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.

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