Diagnosing food allergies is a complicated matter. On top of pinpointing the source of an allergy, there’s the added murkiness of the fact that people can outgrow them. So how do you figure out if you’re still allergic to something without jeopardizing your health? A new study published in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology spotlights something called food challenge, which serves as a pretty good test, reports NPR’s The Salt.
Alright, I get it. Amazon is taking over the world one step at a time. For the most part, I have little qualms with that. They’re a secure and trusted site that allows us one-click ordering for most items we need in a jiffy (something this writer appreciates fully living in cow-town Wisconsin). But their recent new partnership with food delivery service Olo has me scratching my head and taking a stand.
Sorry, Amazon, I don’t want burrito delivery.
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If you believe the best breakfast smoothies boast a taste of the tropics, this is the smoothie kit you need to keep in your freezer. It comes together with a medley of sweet topical fruits partnered with a pop of pungent fresh ginger and the warm flavor and golden hue of turmeric.
Recently my wife Laurie and I attempted to reminisce about the carefree days before our daughter Iris was born in 2003. I was reviewing restaurants and getting into home sausage-making and bread-baking. We were young and flexible.
It turns out we both suffer from parenting-induced retrograde amnesia, because we couldn’t remember a damn thing about what we ate for dinner back then — or when we ate it.
Now we have a strict dinnertime and it turns out I love it even more than our daughter does.
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A layered lasagna is a true labor of love that requires slow cooking a sauce, boiling noodles, and layering the ingredients all before it even goes in the oven. While I appreciate a well-constructed lasagna, it’s not feasible for weeknight dinners.
Here’s how you can skip the oven entirely and still have a lasagna that’s loaded with a savory sausage and mushroom red sauce, tender noodles that are cooked right in the sauce, and, of course, three kinds of cheese to meld and hold everything together. Cooked in just one skillet on the stovetop, this is truly a weeknight lasagna that you can add to your dinner rotation.
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Welcome to Kitchn’s new series A Week of Dinners, where we show you how people put dinner on the table for their family, thanks to the five weeknight recipes they rely on.
Jessica Merchant lives with her husband, Ed, and 2 1/2-year-old son, Max, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she writes and develops recipes. “I’m madly, outrageously, inexplicably in love with food,” Merchant explains enthusiastically. She is the author of bestselling cookbook Seriously Delish and upcoming cookbook The Pretty Dish. Since 2009 she’s been the blogger behind How Sweet Eats, a wildly popular food blog with the most gorgeous photos. (Do yourself a favor and follow her on Instagram immediately. I’m serious.)
Today Jessica shares how she gets food on the table for her family (even when she’s 9 months pregnant right now!) and what weeknight dinners look like for them.
My most prized possession in my kitchen is my Dutch oven. Ever since I began rifling through food magazines as a teenager, I’ve pined over the classic Le Creuset one and, knowing this, my aunt gifted my husband and I one as an engagement gift. It hasn’t budged from my stovetop since. That’s partially because we don’t have room to store it anywhere else in our tiny apartment, but we also use it incredibly often.
When fall hits, we use it almost daily to churn out soups, braised meat, and one-pot meals. Do you do the same? If not, let these 25 recipes convince you. Once you discover a Dutch oven’s endless possibilities, you’ll leave yours out on the stovetop too.
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It may be a cliché, but I’ll admit that my husband and I have had actual arguments over how to load the dishwasher. Turns out, we’ve both been wrong a few times, according to the dishwasher pros I’ve interviewed. Here are the 10 best things you can do when loading the dishwasher.
A bonus thing: Don’t fight with your significant other. After all, it’s just one load of dishes.
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I am a firm believer in the power of a roasted vegetable. Not only can virtually every vegetable be cooked in this way — no recipe required — but roasted vegetables are universally pleasurable to eat. Have a picky eater in the house? Want a break from your usual steamed veggie side dish? Try roasting your broccoli or green beans or cauliflower tonight. I think you’re in for a treat.
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You’ve had roasted sweet potatoes before, so you’ve had them all, right? I used to think the exact same thing until I learned a technique for butter-roasting thick slices of sweet potato until they turned from hard tubers to almost butter themselves.
Popularized by the blog Dessert for Two, this technique for butter-roasted sweet potatoes — dubbed melting sweet potatoes by Christina over at Dessert for Two — roasts the potatoes until they are a dark amber on the outside, creating a layer of deeply caramelized sweet potato that just barely holds the soft, buttery insides together. She serves this with an incredible maple pecan sauce, but we think they are perfection all on their own with a fat pinch of salt to finish them off. This recipe won’t let you think of roasted sweet potatoes the same way ever again.
