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Kick off your Cinco de Mayo weekend with a frosty mojito, margarita, or smoky mezcal cocktail Cinco de Mayo menu: 42 easy Mexican dinners 14 great Mexican side dishes 11 delicious Mexican desserts Grapefruit Margarita Ruby grapefruit juice gives an extra tangy bite to the standard marg, while a sugar-rimmed glass helps to sweeten things…
The classic Kentucky Derby drink requires the perfect balance of mint, sweetness, and bourbon It’s the drink synonymous with the Run for the Roses, and indeed on Derby Day, vast amounts of Mint Juleps are sipped under cover of splashy hats. The most common version consumed at Churchill Downs during the Kentucky Derby, however,…
By Kelsey Miller, Refinery29 It’s a simple thing – limes, liquor, and salt. Yet, the margarita has the power to turn an otherwise ordinary evening into an occasion. As soon as the temperature goes up, this fresh, tart quaff is all we want, all the time. But for such a bar basic, there is endless…
Crispy fish, sans recipeBy day, Carla Lalli Music edits food features for Bon Appetit, but at home she shuns instructions. Here’s how she feeds her friends and family while Cooking Without Recipes. People avoid cooking fish for lots of reasons, including the irrational fear that it will stink up the house. But the main…
It’s not traditional, but we love the heat that fresh ginger adds to salsa. 4 servings Active: 20 minutes Total: 50 minutes Ingredients 2 tablespoons olive oil, divide 1 medium onion, chopped, divided 1 cup brown rice Kosher salt 1/2 cup coarsely chopped fresh cilantro, divided Freshly ground black pepper 1 teaspoon ground coriander…
By Cheapism.com Like many things in life, preparing and enjoying cheap healthy meals requires just a bit of forethought. Keep your kitchen stocked with staples like canned beans, pasta, brown rice, quinoa, nuts, and frozen veggies. Liven things up with perishables like fresh fruits and veggies from the farmer’s market, lean cuts of meat, low-fat…
You know that scene in Mystic Pizza where Julia Roberts nonchalantly smokes some unsuspecting preps in a game of pool? That’s kind of what happened with this month’s Supper Club winner, when it turned out a snapshot of some good looking farro and asparagus (recipe below) was made by (surprise!) a cook who was a…
By Khalil Hymore for TheNest.com As a kid, whenever my family went to the movies, my mother used to pop up a great big pot of popcorn and portion it into little brown paper bags for us. She would then smuggle it into the theater in a giant tote bag along with pouches of Capri…
White Chocolate Strawberry Muffins Sweet and fresh – these muffins are a perfect after-school treat. Strawberries are one of my daughter’s favorite fruits and when they first come into season in spring, I can hardly keep enough in the house. Her favorite muffins are these strawberry white chocolate ones and they disappear fast. Strawberry White…
By Wendy Ruopp, Managing Editor of EatingWell Confession time: I’m a brownie snob. For years I’ve turned up my nose at “blondies.” (OK, maybe there’s a little “brunettes vs. blondes” thing going on too.) Given the choice, I’d always pick a fudgy brownie over a wan beige blondie more defined by its lack of chocolate…
The human diet contains thousands of antioxidants–nutrients that may help do everything from preventing wrinkles to killing off cancerous cells. But while many foods from chocolate to popcorn promise these health benefits, your best bet for a long, vibrant future begins with produce. ? Tomatoes Lycopene, an antioxidant that can combat free radicals (molecules or…
There’s something magical about the humble Tater Tot. Some might even argue that it’s the perfect food: bite-size, salty, crispy, crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside, greasy but not overly oily, and a great vessel for just about any topping. Its abundant nooks and crannies allow for nearly limitless surface area (aka more…