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The whole premise of Ina Garten’s latest cookbook, Cook Like a Pro, is to help home cooks gain confidence in the kitchen with the help of Ina’s no-fail recipes and ingenious tips and tricks. There’s a “pro tip” on almost every page, designed to help recipe followers avoid any hiccups and pitfalls that may arise along the way. Here are some of our favorites.
(To get the rest, you’ll have to get the book!)
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Casseroles are the ultimate weeknight dinner for when you want a filling meal that can come together in one dish with minimal cleanup. They can come in all forms, too — from creamy, hearty casseroles packed with cheese and meat, to lighter versions dotted with plenty of vegetables and whole grains. The 10 recipes below fall in to the latter category, and they’re some of our favorites when it comes to feel-good weeknight staples.
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I’m 65, and though I’ve been able to stave off the worst of what normally passes for the “aging process”—as can almost anyone by paying attention to how you eat, sleep, train, move, and live—the fact remains that I’m not training like I used to.
It’s not so much that I’m “losing” a step, although it happens to the best of us. It’s that I’ve totally transcended the need or desire to train hard for the sake of training hard. There are no more competitions. My ego is content on the training front. I’m not wrapped up in pounds lifted or miles run.
I get regular questions about what I do for workouts and how they’ve changed over time. Today I thought I’d answer this.
Miami has a fantastic gym culture with impressive facilities to support it. I almost have to go the gym. It’s something I still enjoy. I just make it count.
These aren’t always super-sets where you’re bouncing between the squat rack and the bench press every other set. The kind of super-set I’m talking about is a rest-pause super-set. I try to hit between 12-20 total reps—that’s my goal—in three mini-sets with minimal rest. The super-set is broken up into three subsets with very short rest periods.
An example: Deadlift, 9 reps. Rest 30 seconds. Deadlift, 6 reps. Rest 30 seconds. Deadlift, 4 reps. You’re done. That’s a total of 19 reps. Once I hit 20, I’m adding weight.
Why I like this method:
At this point in the game, I don’t need to hit PRs on the straight bar deadlift. Trap bars just feel safer, more natural, more versatile. Some great possibilities (many of which I throw in) include:
The average person can get 90-95% of the benefits using a trap bar instead of a straight bar. Maybe higher, even.
As for the weights I use, now that my PR days are behind me, I lift to avoid injury now more than anything. That means knowing what “heavy” really is and backing down a hair. I’ll do one or two upper body days, and one leg day each week. That’s it. Two, maximum three strength sessions.
Both of these are stressful enough (in a good way) that I want to be rested for (and from) those activities before I engage in a lifting session. Just to be clear, I play Ultimate all-out for up to two hours, so it’s become my sprint day.
The Miami Ultimate Frisbee scene is very high-level. I’ve fallen in with a regular pickup squad, and the level of competition rivals Malibu’s. So, that aspect of my activity hasn’t changed. I’m still getting my one day of Ultimate a week.
If I’m feeling up to it, Miami beaches are fantastic for sprints. You don’t go as fast because the sand is so powdery, but it makes you work even harder.
Miami has also really changed how I spend time with my favorite activity, standup paddling.
In Malibu, it was a bit wilder. I’d head out past the breakers and paddle in any direction. It was huge, free, open, and infinite.
In Miami, you have the ocean side which is great and much calmer than Malibu, but you also have these inland waterways, like huge canals running through Miami. I’ve been spending a ton of time exploring them, checking out the beautiful homes and boats and even the occasional manatee popping up. And because it’s so calm, I can really go hard without worrying about waves. While paddling is fun, I go pretty hard for at least an hour and up to 90 minutes, so it’s a serious aerobic day for me.
I can walk so much more in Miami. In Malibu, I had to drive somewhere to walk, whether it was a trail head for a hike, down to the beach for a stroll, or to Venice or Santa Monica to just wander. In Miami, Carrie and I can walk out the door and go the market, the water, the book store, the cafe, or just wander. It’s integrated into our day, not something we have to schedule. People don’t really think of Miami as a ‘walking city,” and it’s certainly no New York or San Francisco, but it beats the pants off Southern California.
Trap bar, rest-pause sets, and environment aside, what I train hasn’t changed all that much. I’m still lifting heavy things, running really fast, moving frequently at a slow pace, and doing activities I love. But somehow I’m doing a better job of seamlessly integrating them into my daily existence. I’ve minimized the amount of time I spend lifting without compromising my results. I’m using my compressed training to fuel the activities I love doing, giving me more time that’s also higher quality.
A lot of this could be the simple result of moving somewhere new after living in the same city for twenty years, sort of a honeymoon phase. We’ll see. My workouts here are even more a part of my general lifestyle. They’re, for the most part, parts of my life rather than interruptions to it, which is the ancestral model at its modern best maybe. That’s how I choose to see it.
Thanks for stopping by today, folks. I’d love to read your feedback and questions and hear what new routines you’re trying out. Take care.
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We know how overwhelming and out-of-control junk drawers can feel, but amazingly, we discovered a $1 buy that can help you get yours organized in mere minutes.
Believe it or not, those cheap plastic ice cube trays you can pick up at the dollar store are also awesome for organizing all kinds of crazy stuff around your home. Just stick one (or five) inside some of the messy drawers throughout your apartment to help streamline your place in seconds.
Here are a few clever ways to use them.
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Looks like Americans will have another opportunity to spice up their lives: Emma Bunton, who you’ll know as the Spice Girls’ Baby Spice, is returning to the spotlight as a host on The Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition. She will share hosting duties of the cooking competition’s fourth season with another newcomer: former NFL star Anthony ‘Spice’ Adams.
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Welcome to Kitchn’s series My Superpowered Morning, where we show you how interesting people use their morning routine to help them fuel the rest of the day.
I have a stack of sticky notes inscribed with the mantra “What Would Ina Do?” and I use them sparingly. They’re reserved for my most daunting to-do lists because I find that channeling Ina in stressful situations is a highly effective coping mechanism. Her voice soothes, her laugh twinkles, her sartorial choices comfort, her cooking tips delight, and her relentlessly tested recipes truly never fail.
While I only get to channel Ina from time to time, Ina’s assistant, Lidey Heuck, gets to channel Ina on a daily basis. In addition to assisting Ina with whatever each day brings, Lidey is her recipe tester, sous chef, ingredient coordinator, book tour travel sidekick, social media consultant, and more. She even runs her own blog called Lidey Likes, where she provides recipes and entertaining tips of her own. Basically, it’s Lidey’s literal job to figure out “What would Ina do?”
Recently, though, I got to spend a day with Lidey out in in East Hampton where she lives (just a mile away from her boss) to answer a different question: “What would Lidey do?”
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“How was your day?”
Every couple sharing an evening meal together has asked this question. It’s a fine question; you care about each other, after all, and are genuinely interested in what happened that day! But sometimes, especially for couples who’ve been together a long time, dinner conversations can settle into the same grooves night after night — work talk, complaining about the subway, what’s new with the kids.
Here are 10 more questions to ask at the dinner table tonight, because just when you think you know everything about your partner, isn’t it lovely to be surprised?
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Costco is my one-stop shop for organic foods, plant-based snacks, and bulk health and wellness items. (I eat pretty healthfully, if you can’t tell! I’m a nutritionist, after all!) It’s also one of my favorite places to discover new things at a great price.
A lot of people say Costco isn’t the best place to try new things — if you don’t like something, you’re usually stuck with a lot of it — but I’m so rarely disappointed! I like to reserve around $15 per trip to put toward something new. This keeps my budget in check and, at the same time, lets me experiment a little.
Here are five Costco items I tried recently — and my honest opinions of each!
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Between the vegan bakers, Paleo eaters, and lovers of all things coconut, there’s a big market for coconut oil out there — and manufacturers have certainly taken note. These days there’s coconut oil at every supermarket, not just the health food stores. Heck, even HomeGoods is flooded with the stuff.
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Fun fact: You don’t have to cringe every time you reach for the dishwasher detergent and get a glimpse of what’s going on under your kitchen sink. Just because that’s what happens for most people doesn’t mean that’s the way it has to be for everyone. It’s not how it is for me. I’ve actually got one simple little trick to keep things nice under there.
Here’s my secret to keeping the least sexy part of the kitchen looking spiffy.
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