Happy trails, Google Reader! You were much beloved and sure to be missed by many. Google is shuttering its Reader RSS feed service on Monday, and many users are scrambling to migrate to an alternative RSS solution, most notably Feedly. Feedly is our pick for the simplest, nicest-looking alternative to Google Reader. Here’s how to make the switch, in three easy steps.
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This week, it felt like summer finally arrived — both with temperature creeping up and in our kitchens. Don’t these chicken thighs glazed in honey and chili sound like the perfect dinner to take out on the porch? Especially if you have a few berry pavlovas to finish the meal? I think so! And you won’t want to miss this recipe for sparkling sweet tea cocktail, our nutty arugula pesto with penne, or any of the other great recipes from this past week. Take a look and plan your weekend meals!
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To cap off this week’s series on my All-American Beer Bottling Party, I wanted to share some of my best do-ahead tips to — hopefully! — reduce the stress many of us often feel in the days leading up to, and the day of, a big dinner party. I have not always been the world’s most calm and collected hostess (…ahem…), and these tips have been hard-earned. But they’re easy! More like habits, really. Once I got used to thinking about a dinner party in terms of doing things ahead, the amount of anxiety I felt in anticipation of the party itself disappeared.
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Does your dream vacation include a mix of history, American whiskey, rye and bourbon, all while indulging in southern BBQ, country music, and maybe a horse race or two? Break out your pitcher, brew up some iced tea, and I’ll tell you how to make it a reality as we kick off happy hour with a toast to some of the finest commerce coming from America’s heartland. Here’s my cocktail spin on the southern staple of sweet tea.
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Leave it to Aquaovo, makers of these seriously beautiful water filters, to come up with a water bottle that puts all other water bottles to shame. The Alter Ego is a water bottle with a built-in filtration system, which means you can drink clean water wherever you are in the world!
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Do you have your grill on? Here’s a quick and easy way to grill salmon. No marinade required. The trick to grilled salmon, so that your fillets stay whole and don’t fall through the grill grates, is to use skin-on pieces. Grill the salmon flesh side down first. Once you have some grill marks, turn over the salmon so that now the skin-side is on the grill. As the salmon cooks, the flesh tends to flake, but if the salmon does most of its cooking skin-side down, the skin will help keep the salmon together so it doesn’t flake apart into the grill. A little butter with dill is all you need to serve, with a few slices of lemon. Perfect!
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Do you have your grill on? Here’s a quick and easy way to grill salmon. No marinade required. The trick to grilled salmon, so that your fillets stay whole and don’t fall through the grill grates, is to use skin-on pieces. Grill the salmon flesh side down first. Once you have some grill marks, turn over the salmon so that now the skin-side is on the grill. As the salmon cooks, the flesh tends to flake, but if the salmon does most of its cooking skin-side down, the skin will help keep the salmon together so it doesn’t flake apart into the grill. A little butter with dill is all you need to serve, with a few slices of lemon. Perfect!
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Do you have your grill on? Here’s a quick and easy way to grill salmon. No marinade required. The trick to grilled salmon, so that your fillets stay whole and don’t fall through the grill grates, is to use skin-on pieces. Grill the salmon flesh side down first. Once you have some grill marks, turn over the salmon so that now the skin-side is on the grill. As the salmon cooks, the flesh tends to flake, but if the salmon does most of its cooking skin-side down, the skin will help keep the salmon together so it doesn’t flake apart into the grill. A little butter with dill is all you need to serve, with a few slices of lemon. Perfect!
Continue reading “Grilled Salmon with Dill Butter” »
Do you have your grill on? Here’s a quick and easy way to grill salmon. No marinade required. The trick to grilled salmon, so that your fillets stay whole and don’t fall through the grill grates, is to use skin-on pieces. Grill the salmon flesh side down first. Once you have some grill marks, turn over the salmon so that now the skin-side is on the grill. As the salmon cooks, the flesh tends to flake, but if the salmon does most of its cooking skin-side down, the skin will help keep the salmon together so it doesn’t flake apart into the grill. A little butter with dill is all you need to serve, with a few slices of lemon. Perfect!
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