Sweet Morning Potato with Yogurt, Maple Syrup & Nuts

Mornings are when I crave carbs: potatoes, toast, and congee, please. But I would love to find a way to incorporate more vegetables. Turns out that breakfast can actually be one of the easiest meals for adding vegetables, since you’re probably cooking and eating it at home.

And while avocado toast is an obvious and delicious choice, there are way more vegetables out there that should get some attention in the morning. Here are five easy ways to fill up on veggies before you even leave the house!

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The Empire Strikes Back Beer Stein

• $29.99

• eBay

It’s May 4th — and Star Wars Day, naturally. (Do I need to spell it out for you?) It also happens to be the day we kick off our Beer School! The perfect merge of these two happy days, then, is a roundup of Star Wars beer steins, starting with this colorful memento of the best film in the trilogy.

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There are any number of reasons why you might want to stash some cookie dough in the freezer. Maybe you like having treats on hand in case company stops by. Maybe the first day of fall kickstarted your holiday baking gene. Maybe you want a special treat to give your son or daughter at college, or a friend who just had a baby. (Side note: Give new parents frozen cookie dough and you win. Forever.)

But we’re friends here, so let’s be honest: Frozen cookie dough in our freezer means warm, gooey, fresh-baked cookies any time we want one. Or three. (No judgement.) Here are the best ways to freeze your favorite cookies for later.

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We love our canning jars for everything from storing grains in the pantry to shaking cocktails in the park. But by far one of our most favorite ways to use our pint- and quart-sized canning jars is to pack them with salads. Yes, that’s right, leafy green salads. Dressing goes on the bottom, veggies and other salad goodies get piled on top. Everything stays separate and dressing-free until you toss the salad together in the bowl — never eat another soggy lunch salad again. Even better, these salads last for days in the fridge so we can make a week’s worth of lunches ahead of time.

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If there was ever such a thing as legal crack, I think brown sugar-glazed bacon would be it. Not that I have much of a reference point, but I could not stop shoveling these sweet, savory strips of heaven into my mouth. Truth be told, I had to hide it from myself, which left me thinking about it, dreaming about it, until I had some more.

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Spot-cleaning kitchen cabinets after spills and drips is easy enough, but finding a process and product that removes the grime and grease from many a meal preparation takes patience and a little bit of label research (especially if you are tackling a painted surface).

I tested four cabinet cleaners — two spray formulas, a plant-based product, and a traditional oil soap — to find out which product would clean my kitchen cabinets best. Here’s what I discovered, and how you can clean greasy cabinets.

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Poppy seed dressing has a balance of sweet and tangy that I find completely irresistible. It’s great on a Spinach and Strawberry Salad, makes a fun spin in a coleslaw, and also does wonders as a marinade for chicken. It’s the Jack-of-all-trades of the salad dressing world.

This dressing is also surprisingly easy to make yourself. For years, it was so automatic to just pick up a bottle at the store that it never occurred to me that I could make it myself. Now that I have, I’m more smitten than ever.

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From Apartment Therapy → Don’t Wait to Move Before Cleaning These 5 Things

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Has that cut of meat been sitting in the fridge too long? Instead of relying on the wholly unscientific sniff test, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing a sensor that aims to answer that question definitively.

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