Recipe: Green Smoothie with Spinach, Pear, and Ginger — Drink Recipes from The Kitchn

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Green smoothies get a lot of attention for “detox” or “cleanse” purposes, but I offer this recipe simply because it’s delicious. Packed with immune-boosting ingredients — like spinach, pear, and ginger — it’s bright and invigorating, yet not teeth-chatteringly cold. In other words: an excellent smoothie for winter.

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Join The Kitchn’s Freezer Cure! Four Weekends, Four Steps for a Fabulous Freezer — The Freezer Cure 2015

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What: The Freezer Cure 2015
When: Four weekends in February, starting this Saturday, February 7
The Goal: A clean and organized freezer freshly stocked with good food.

Does your freezer need a cure? For years we’ve been running our Kitchn Cure — a monthlong program to declutter, clean, and beautify your kitchen for better cooking. But recently our readers put forth requests for a Freezer Cure: a community effort to help us clean our freezers and fill them up with nutritious food. We thought this was a genius idea.

So. You asked. We listened! Are you ready for a Freezer Cure? Here’s the plan.

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A Week of Healthy, Make-Ahead Meals from Joy Manning — Meal Plans from The Kitchn

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When I get into healthy eating and weight-loss mode, I tend to rely heavily on routines and repetition to keep myself on track. I will often eat the same breakfast every day, and then make a giant pot of my chicken lentil soup to eat for dinners all week long. A few easy meals like nori rolls or open-faced chicken salad sandwiches fill in for lunches so the day has some variety!

Here’s how I bring it all together into a week-long meal plan. If you have more extensive plans for your dinners, though, substitute the word “lunches” for “meals” — this set of recipes also works beautifully as a plan for a week of make-ahead lunches.

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What to Read This Weekend — Food News: January 26 – February 1

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What’s Cooking This Weekend, Eva Katz? — Weekend of January 31-February 1, 2015

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This week we peeked into the Boston kitchen of Eva Katz — writer, food editor, and recipe developer extraordinaire. Eva had a wealth of kitchen advice to share with us this week, including her kitchen essentials and her favorite measuring spoons, not to mention her most important kitchen habit and opinion on slow cookers.

So there’s only one question left to ask: Eva, what’s cooking this weekend?

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