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A staple of both Venezuelan and Colombian cuisine, arepas are versatile enough to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. This corn-based griddle cake is also naturally gluten-free and reheats even better than bread, bagels, or English muffins, which makes them the best vessel for a breakfast sandwich you’re not eating — yet.
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To say that arepas are a simple corn pocket that can fried, boiled, baked, or stuffed is too basic a description for this regional specialty that typifies Colombian and Venezuelan cuisines. Arepas are not tortillas (although they hold the same cultural significance) and they are not bread (although they have as many iterations as the humble loaf). Arepas are both a vehicle for eggs, roasted meats, vegetables, and cheeses, and a meal in themselves. They can be cooked as many ways as they can be eaten. So consider this an entry-level arepa — master it and then begin experimenting with its versatility.
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Mise en place bowls, or mise bowls, are the small bowls of varying sizes you might be familiar with seeing on cooking shows. Sometimes you watch in horror as the chef uses not 10, not 15, but 20 tiny bowls and wonder who in the heck washes all those dishes? (hint: not the chef). But mise bowls can actually be useful for home cooks too, and here’s how.
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When I was about 13, I suddenly decided that I needed (not wanted) a melon baller. (I am fully aware of how strange this sounds.) Just starting to get excited about cooking, I became enamored of those fruit salads filled with perfect orbs of melon at friends’ birthday and pool parties. So much so that I convinced my dad to buy me a melon baller when we were at the grocery store one weekend after one of those parties — and so my fixation began.
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Currently, people entitled to SNAP benefits (commonly referred to as food stamps) can only be used at brick-and-mortar stores and other physical locations such as farmers markets that accept EBT cards. The thing is, a lot of the people who use SNAP live in food deserts, which makes it difficult to get to these designated spots. The USDA defines a “food desert,” or “low-access community,” as a location with at least 500 people and/or at least 33 percent of the population who reside more than one mile away (10 miles for more rural areas) from a supermarket or large grocery store. All this might change soon, though, as the USDA prepares to pilot a two-year online SNAP program.
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I love having friends over, but with three kids; big writing dreams; and the never-ending onslaught of preparing and cleaning up breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner, snack, snack, and snack, having a friend over for a meal started to feel too much like work and less like the break I craved.
I am not a neat freak or perfectionist by any stretch, but having company came to mean clearing a path in the explosion of crafts and creations on our floor, folding the mountain of laundry on the couch, and finding the source of that questionable smell. I started to feel grumpy when preparing for visitors, snapping at my kids to pick up their underwear and wipe the toilet seat, for crying out loud.
In one part of my brain, I knew that this reaction was ridiculous — my friends were coming to see me, not my home; they would understand the scribble marks on my hardwood and my 9-year-old’s unmade bed — but the other part of my brain said that pride in ownership is a healthy thing and germs are not.
Then I discovered the “Crappy Dinner Party.”
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It happens to the best of us — you’ve been staving off hunger for as long as possible, but Josh walked by with falafel and, well, it finally got the best of you. Or you’ve been inhaling the remnants of your first cup of coffee hoping to get some kind of contact high off the dregs. Or maybe you’ve resolved to be better about hydrating, even if it does mean you have to pee every hour on the hour.
Regardless, you make your way to the kitchen only to find Marianne holding court about her wedding. Again. It sounds like it’s going to be lovely, really, but do you have to hear one more time about how hard it is to find a decent cater waiters in Arkansas?
If this scenario is all too familiar, these easy-to-remember (and sure-to-not-offend) getaway lines will come in handy when in-and-out is easier said than done.
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You did it! You’ve officially moved in. And after spending countless hours carefully navigating furniture and lugging boxes into your new pad, it’s time to celebrate. But while planning a housewarming party to show off your cozy new nook, you may run into a bit of a dilemma: How are you supposed to throw the shindig of the century when you don’t have a table?
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If you’re tempted to order takeout tonight from your favorite Chinese restaurant, squash that urge and try this sweet and spicy tofu stir-fry instead. This dish comes together in the same amount of time it takes to steam rice, and the tofu gets browned and crispy without all the fuss of deep-frying.
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