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Healthy Side Dishes For All: Vegan, Paleo and Gluten Free
Are you gathering with family and friends in person for the holidays this year? As we carefully make our way to a new normal, some old familiar challenges are back, namely how to make a delicious, (reasonably) healthy holiday meal that meets everyone’s dietary needs. Your daughter is a vegan but her girlfriend is gluten-free. Uncle Greg is vegetarian but allergic to nuts and eggs, you’re trying to eat a paleo diet and your son has just announced he’s going keto but you’re not sure if it’s different than paleo? It may
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8 Healthy Dishes to Order at Indian Restaurants, According to an RD
Fall is the season of Diwali, one of the biggest holidays for practitioners of Hinduism. The five-day celebration, also known as the Festival of Lights, symbolizes the victory of good over evil, according to Share America, a website run by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Global Public Affairs. Food plays an integral part in any celebration, and Diwali is no exception. The holiday is typically celebrated with a variety of traditional Indian dishes. If you are not of Indian heritage, you may prefer to experience the food by dining out. Like any other cuisine, Indian food
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delicious dishes in every decade
Dishes of the day Food fashions come and go and nothing highlights this more than digging up old recipes. Some years we demolished the foods that were in abundance and readily available, others we ate what would have been considered trendy at the time. From hoover stew to key lime pie, these were the most popular dishes of their decade. Microsoft may earn an Affiliate Commission if you purchase something through recommended links in this article. 1900s: chicken pudding Particularly loved in Virginia, a savory recipe called chicken pudding was popular at the start of the 20th
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4 Festive Dishes to Make You Happy to Be Home
Some of the very best dishes are those that take a long time — time you never used to have. These comforting but festive holiday recipes don’t require much prep time or hands-on attention, but they do need you to be around the house. You just have to wait while the dishes fill your home with the aromas you want this time of year. Case in point: Braised brisket takes only 30 minutes to be ready for the oven, but its spiced, meaty scent will waft through the kitchen for the next four hours or so. And it needs that
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Loaves and Dishes: Bring on the comfort food for 2021
This crab cake recipe is one of the more popular on the Loaves and Dishes website. As 2021 sets sail, I’m sitting here in the plush executive office suite at the Worldwide Headquarters of Loaves and Dishes (also known as the guest bedroom) trying to divine the tea leaves for all 2021 food trends. This is calling into question how the future contents of my website are going to jive with my 2021 health and personal safety goals. I mean, come on, Real Simple magazine says that the new year shall be full of comfort food classics (hooray!), mescal (instead
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Elizabeth Baer: Turn one head of cauliflower into two side dishes | Food
My friend, Lisa, once told me she will not embark upon a recipe that requires her to cook something first before getting started on the recipe itself. Although I love to cook so much this will not necessarily deter me, I do understand her view. I preview a lot of cookbooks from the library, and there have been many stunning volumes that I have decided not to buy because almost every recipe has at least one sub-recipe, and often more! But what if what you cook could be your side dish one night with enough left over to incorporate into
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These dishes will make for a lucky New Year
Photo courtesy of iStock / Foxys_forest_manufacture New Year’s Eve ends one year and begins another brand-new one, and in cultures across the world, what we eat can help determine the good fortunes the New Year will bring. So if you’re looking for a few ways to bring good luck into your 2021, here are 10 foods you can eat. Photo courtesy of Getty Images / mpessaris Black-eyed peas There are many ways to enjoy black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day. Alone, the peas represent pennies, but when served with greens (representing dollars) and cornbread (representing gold), the trio is said
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Try 4 dishes from Chrissy Teigen and more celebrity cookbooks
While the pandemic has left all of us eager to get back to our normal routines, one trend that I hope is here to stay is cooking more at home. What once was a chore to many has morphed into a therapeutic creative outlet. According to the International Food Information Council’s (IFIC) 2020 Food and Health Survey, as many as 85{c33c21346ff5e26ab8e0ae3d29ae4367143f0d27c235e34c392ea37decdb8bed} of Americans have made major changes in the food they eat or how they prepare food because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study showed that the biggest change was that 60{c33c21346ff5e26ab8e0ae3d29ae4367143f0d27c235e34c392ea37decdb8bed} of consumers reported cooking at home more
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New Year’s recipes for dishes to light on fire
Some say fire is, in part, what makes us human: Unlike animals, we evolved to cook our food before consuming it. That may be one reason why we are uniquely attracted to fire, a source of warmth and light that can be destructive and calming, dangerous and mystical. Its capacity to transform food, rendering it tender or burnt, smoky or crisp, has kept us alive and delighted since the beginning of time. So it’s no wonder that fireworks light up the sky to mark each passing year, and in many cultures the cycles of the sun and moon are celebrated
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Melaka’s Portuguese Settlement to celebrate Christmas with great fervour, traditional dishes and fellowship despite pandemic
The Telegraph Channel ferries and trains to run through Christmas to clear lorry gridlock after French travel ban Cross channel ferries and trains are to run through Christmas Day to help end the lorry chaos in Kent after the British and French Governments struck a deal to cancel the festive break. Grant Shapps, the Transport Secretary, announced on Twitter that they had agreed the UK-French border at Eurotunnel, Dover and Calais would remain open throughout Christmas “in order to help hauliers & citizens return home as soon as possible.” Some 10,000 hauliers are stranded in Kent and elsewhere in the
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