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Come fall, there is nothing I look forward to more than working winter squash — butternut, spaghetti, kabocha, acorn — into my meal plan. What I don’t look forward to, however, is cutting into these hard, roly-poly veggies. I used to dread it every single time, until I learned a few helpful tips that make it easier (and not so scary!).

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This dish features pork chops as the lean protein but you can easily substitute chicken if preferred.

The best thing about cooking a meal in a pressure cooker, such as an Instant Pot, is the ability cook a side dish and your main protein portion of the meal in one pot at the same time. Not only is this a time saver, but it’s also easy and quick for those nights you don’t want to stand hovering over the stove.

 

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Use small chunks of time throughout your day to stay mindful about how you can move.

When you’re out of the habit, finding the motivation to get up and get moving can be difficult. If you’re feeling out of shape and don’t know how to get started, just the thought of starting to exercise can be paralyzing. So what should you do?

 

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Even time management experts can get overwhelmed by the sensory overload that is a visit to Costco.

Virginia Maddan is the mastermind behind Comfortable Structure, where she coaches people on how to use time management tools to reclaim their time. As a busy working mom, she applies her strategies to Costco runs to make them quicker and way more effective.

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The question, “What’s for dinner tonight?” is often the easy one to answer. It’s the next question that’s tough: “What goes with it?” Do your answers reveal you’re stuck in side-dish monotony? The side salad rut? Let us help. Here are 26 simple side dishes that will bring some life back into supper matchmaking. Every one of these is green, fresh, and super simple — not counting salt and oil, I don’t think any of them have more than six ingredients to juggle.

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In the days before we all had smartphones in our hands and tablets on our counters, the way our parents and grandparents remembered recipes wasn’t by googling “that one pancake recipe Pioneer Woman made.” It was that worn-out tin full of hand-written recipe cards. Faded pencil scratchings, messy handwriting, and the occasional undecipherable abbreviation made cooking from them always a good adventure. But because only the very best recipes made it into the tin, it was also a treasure trove of amazing food.

Now the Pioneer Woman has done the hard work for you and made her own recipe tin — but with typed recipes for easy reading.

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I have a love/hate relationship with mugs. I don’t drink coffee, but I’ve still somehow managed to amass a pretty extensive mug collection, which I’m oddly and irrationally fond of. I see them as a scrapbook of my life. There are the ones from my alma mater, mugs gifted by visiting friends, and then some souvenirs from travel. Yet I probably only actually use one every week or so. At this point, they’re taking away precious kitchen cabinet space from my much-more-used wine glasses, and that’s just beyond the pale.

So, here’s what I’m thinking.

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When I was little, my family operated by the principle that when it was your birthday, you could ask for whatever kind of cake you wanted. My dad typically requested carrot cake, my older sister preferred yellow cake with a lot of chocolate frosting, and all my twin sister and I ever wanted was an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen (well, technically we wanted two — one Disney Princess-themed cake for each of us).

That all changed in December 2006, when we gave my mom Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa at Home for Christmas. The first recipe she cooked from the book was called Beatty’s Chocolate Cake, and it has since become the only birthday cake we ever make.

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After doing it for a few years, I can tell you that brewing kombucha at home is a really fun project and getting started is super easy. You’ll need a good recipe (I recommend this one!) and a handful of essentials, but don’t worry — you don’t have to run out and buy anything fancy or expensive.

In addition to a few basics that are probably already in your kitchen — like a stockpot, coffee filters or a clean tea towel, granulated sugar, and a wooden spoon for stirring — here are the five essentials you’ll need to pick up before getting started. Bonus: They’re all inexpensive and you’ll use them over and over again.

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This one pan meal balances fats, carbs, and protein to create a weekly menu staple.

I’ve just about introduced my whole gym to black rice. It may have been “forbidden” to commoners in Ancient China, but for me and my household, it’s a staple. I came across the idea of doing fried rice with a twist out of my curiosity to shake up meal prep.

 

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