6 Guilt-Free Alternatives to French Fries

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Find a yummy and healthier option to satisfy your cravings.

Top Ten Ten Year Old Boy Valentine’s Day Gifts

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This year, surprise your honey bunny with some sweet Valentine’s Day gifts from the innocent days of your youth. She’ll flip over these thoughtful and fun signs of your affection!

Quick & Easy Hot Chocolate From Scratch in the Microwave Oven—All in Pictures

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There’s no need to reach for instant hot cocoa powder when it’s so easy to make hot chocolate from scratch.

Roasted Chestnuts: Quick, Easy and All in Pictures

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Freshly roasted chestnuts are a winter delicacy you can make easily, using a microwave or toaster oven.

How to Shop in a Grocery Store – Part One

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Josh Bowman is spending the next couple of weeks offering tips on how to do basic activities (you’re welcome). Today: shopping in a grocery store. Part one.

Quick and Easy Sweet & Savory Salad Made with Local Farm Fresh Fall Lettuce

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Tender local lettuce, sweet fruit, and cheese combine to make an elegant, early fall salad.

Lighter Pasta Alfredo

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Bruce Tretter has got an Alfredo sauce you can’t refuse: rich and creamy, yet lighter than the traditional dish. Mangia!

Best Meal Ever: Football Sundays

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J.R. Reed and his teenage daughter make a Big Event out of little things, like bacon-wrapped jalapeños stuffed with cream cheese.

Peach, Avocado & Baby Bell Pepper Salad

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This sophisticated summer salad is a snap to make, with beautiful, easy-to-follow picture-book directions from Bruce Tretter.

Summer Fruit Salad

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Make the best of summer fruit while it’s in season. Here’s a tangy fruit salad from Bruce Tretter, and complete instructions on preparing it, with photos.

Heirloom Tomato, Basil, & Feta Salad

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Make this summer beauty—heirloom tomato, fresh basil, and feta cheese salad—while tomatoes are in season.

Old Bar Books and Braces

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Norteamericano, the braces and the cocktail, courtesy of John Tinseth, The Trad, and the 1980s.

Whiskey Sour (in Pictures) For Dear Ol’ Mom!

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Learn to mix this classic cocktail for a classy individual in your life.

Microwave Oven Cooked Bacon

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If you didn’t know you could microwave bacon, your life is about to get a whole lot better. Cook bacon easily with Bruce Tretter’s picture book directions.

How to Make Fresh Daiquiris

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Doesn’t a daiquiri sound great right now? Learn how to mix one up.

Instant Homemade Salad Dressing: “Shaken, Not Stirred”

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Learn how to make vinaigrette like you’re licensed to kill.