Easter Desserts to Make Right Now

Images of rebirth and renewal are everywhere at Easter: hatching chicks, hordes of bunnies and emerging flower buds. Also returning, prompted by the occasion and a crowd to feed, are the seasonal bakers, rested from the holidays and re-energized for spring. Easter is an opportunity to bake for loved ones, and these two recipes, charming…

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How Healthy Is Asparagus? – The New York Times

Proper asparagus-eating etiquette has long been a subject of debate: Should you cut the treelike spears with a fork and knife, or are they an acceptable finger food? When it comes to asparagus’s nutritional value, though, there’s little dispute. Here are its most notable health attributes, plus fresh ways to prepare it from New York…

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The Colorful Cult of Le Creuset

April Hershberger is not the only collector of Le Creuset cookware who owns so many pieces that she can’t count them. But she may be the only one who built an entire house around one: the deep-red, nine-quart oval Dutch oven that she received as a gift for her 2006 wedding. It sparked an obsession….

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Chicken Breast Dinner Recipe With a Side of Salad

Wherever the cook extraordinaire Yewande Komolafe goes, I will absolutely follow — even if it’s to boneless, skinless chicken breasts. Normally I’d prefer literally any other part of the bird (thigh, drumstick, wing, neck, liver, giblets, tail or feet), but I know from experience that Yewande works magic with everything she touches. And that includes…

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How Healthy Is Asparagus? – The New York Times

Proper asparagus-eating etiquette has long been a subject of debate: Should you cut the treelike spears with a fork and knife, or are they an acceptable finger food? When it comes to asparagus’s nutritional value, though, there’s little dispute. Here are its most notable health attributes, plus fresh ways to prepare it from New York…

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