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I once believed that hearty steak dinners were a meal best enjoyed at restaurants. Oh, how wrong I was! I came to learn that cooking steak at home wasn’t just surprisingly easy, but the results also exceeded my steak-filled dreams. Here are seven helpful tips that will guide you through making the best home-cooked steak of your life.

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From Apartment Therapy → We’ve Found the Best Counter Stools for Every Budget

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While we can’t ignore the virtues of sliced cold leftover steak, sometimes a warm meal calls. The trick to reheating last night’s steak like a champ is warming it through while maintaining the same tender bite (and not over-cooking or drying it out). Here’s the best method reheat steak so it’s as enjoyable the second time around as it was the first.

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What should you be buying from your butcher? Theo Weening, the global meat buyer for Whole Foods, shares his favorite budget-friendly cuts of meat.

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From Apartment Therapy → Relive your 90s Childhood & Clean at the Same Time with Cleaning Slime

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Similar to french fries, steak fries are thick wedges of potatoes fried or roasted to crispy perfection. Because steak fries are thicker than french or even shoestring fries, they require just a little more finesse to get the ideal ratio of crispy outside to soft, creamy center. I find that the best steak fries aren’t fried, but are better off oven roasted. They are an easy side to weeknight burgers, date-night steak dinners, or even as a snack for dipping in your favorite sauce.

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My steakhouse skepticism runs deep. I love a good steak, but rarely want to endure the stuffiness of a traditional steakhouse that comes with it. In the past, there were only two reasons I’d visit a steakhouse: to take advantage of someone’s generous expense account or if I was going on a date.

But when new steakhouses started to get buzz near my home in Chicago, I was hungry, and curious about what I was missing. A lot, apparently, I learned after eating at five of them.

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Hello, vegetarians! What are you planning on cooking up for Valentine’s Day? Many traditional menus involve animal-based proteins (oysters, lobster, steaks, etc.), which means as a vegetarian you’re free to be as inventive as you want for this special meal.

Need some inspiration? Read on for 20 of our favorite vegetarian dishes, grouped into five menus representing France, America, Mexico, the Mediterranean, and India. Take your sweetie somewhere special for Valentine’s Day!

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There’s a vegetable shortage in the U.K. that has Brits freaking out and buying a whole lot of seeds. After floods and storms in southern Europe destroyed crops, there’s a deficit for iceberg lettuce, broccoli, courgettes, eggplants, and vegetable of the moment, cabbage. The deficit has U.K. retailers rationing supplies across the country.

Experts anticipate the shortage to last until April or May.

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Online shopping platform Amazon is working on its first physical convenience store and, according to reports, an automated grocery store could be next. The New York Post reports Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has toyed with the idea of a two-story grocery store equipped with a staff of robots and as little as three human staff members.

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