Posts

Showing posts from July, 2021

Mexican Pizza Dip

Image
Mexican Pizza Dip: Whether your game day celebrations call for a full-blown parking lot party or homegating with your closest friends, the nibbles and noshes

Just Wing It

Image
Just Wing It: Rally the Crowd with a Masterful Game Day Menu Just Wing It. Skip the silverware at your next homegate and dive right in with a fan favorite that requires just your hands and a heap of napkins: wings. Whether you pick through your pieces or clean each wing to the bone, these Game Day Chicken Wings are perfect for eaters of all types. A simple flour-based coating keeps the recipe easy to make and baking in the oven means you can skip the messy fryer or firing up the grill.

Avocado Veggie Wonder Sandwich

Image
Avocado Veggie Wonder Sandwich: Avocado Veggie Wonder Sandwich, comfort food consumption is on the rise. As families spend more time at home, Americans are finding comfort in a surprising source: bread. In fact, a 20-year trend of declining grain food consumption has been reversed.

Farmers markets are growing their role as essential sources of healthy food for rich and poor

Image
Farmers markets are growing their role as essential sources of healthy food for rich and poor: For many Americans, buying fresh local food at one of the estimated 9,000 farmers markets across the U.S. is one of summer’s pleasures.

Mike Rowe: How We’ve Set Up the Workforce for Failure – Dirty Jobs

Image
Mike Rowe: How We’ve Set Up the Workforce for Failure – Dirty Jobs: Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs sits down with Matt Crouch on TBN’s Praise in Colorado. Listen in as Mike Rowe breaks down what he’s learned from “Dirty Jobs” and the impact that taking pride out of hard work has had on our workforce and how it inevitably crippled our younger generations.

Sweet and Savory School Day Snacks

Image
Sweet and Savory School Day Snacks: As children head back to school and parents work to balance hectic schedules, it can be difficult to maintain a meal plan that doesn’t consume too much time. Make your morning meals, lunchbox packing and meal prepping easier by including time-saving hacks like easy-to-use ingredients and recipes.

Apple and Mandarin Macaroni Salad

Image
Apple and Mandarin Macaroni Salad: Skip boring dishes and instead dive into a sweet, satisfying macaroni salad that’s perfect for enjoying al fresco. With fresh ingredients and appetizing flavor, this Apple and Mandarin Macaroni Salad is more than just a side – it’s a meal

Taste alone won’t persuade Americans to swap out beef for plant-based burgers

Image
Taste alone won’t persuade Americans to swap out beef for plant-based burgers: Consumers are more likely to choose a plant-based meat substitute when the restaurant’s advertising highlights the social benefits of doing so rather than its taste, according to recently published research I conducted with a colleague. We also found that showcasing the social costs of meat consumption also leads to a preference for plant-based “meats.”

Fight for control threatens to destabilize and fragment the internet

Image
Fight for control threatens to destabilize and fragment the internet: You try to use your credit card, but it doesn’t work. In fact, no one’s credit card works. You try to go to some news sites to find out why, but you can’t access any of those, either. Neither can anyone else. Panic-buying ensues. People empty ATMs of cash. This kind of catastrophic pan-internet meltdown is more likely than most people realize.

Lemon-Garlic Tenderloin with Warm Sorghum Salad

Image
Lemon-Garlic Tenderloin with Warm Sorghum Salad: Joining loved ones at the family table is an important moment for many, both as a filling way to enjoy a meal and an emotionally satisfying

The science of habits

Image
The science of habits: For many of us, the past year has disrupted deeply ingrained habits. Some people report exercising less, others are  drinking more. As we look forward to life returning to some semblance of normal, it’s worth considering what scientists have learned about how to create good habits and break bad ones.

How Sarah Baartman’s hips went from a symbol of exploitation to a source of empowerment for Black women

Image
How Sarah Baartman’s hips went from a symbol of exploitation to a source of empowerment for Black women: How Sarah Baartman’s hips went from a symbol of exploitation to a source of empowerment for Black women

Chopped Chicken Taco Salad

Image
Chopped Chicken Taco Salad: For a customizable kid-pleaser, turn to Chopped Chicken Taco Salad and garnish with your family’s favorite toppings. When it’s time to put a twist on a classic while changing up your dinner routine.

Sustainable Frittata – Deliver Flavor and Nutrition Despite Busy Schedules

Image
Sustainable Frittata – Deliver Flavor and Nutrition Despite Busy Schedules: Sustainable Frittata – Deliver Flavor and Nutrition Despite Busy Schedules. Whether you enjoy it together in the morning before getting the day started or mix it up with breakfast for dinner, this Sustainable Frittata is called “sustainable” because you can use leftover cheeses, veggies, ham, sausage and more to recycle ingredients you already have on hand.

Grilled Pizza Arugula Pesto

Image
Grilled Pizza Arugula Pesto: Grilled Pizza Arugula Pesto. Crisp, fresh greens, and a perfect blend of spices and savory ingredients make each of these refreshing dishes perfect solutions for toasty days.

Roasted Red Pepper and Pesto Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

Image
Roasted Red Pepper and Pesto Grilled Cheese Sandwiches: Roasted Red Pepper and Pesto Grilled Cheese Sandwiches for dinner. Whether you enjoy it together in the morning before getting the day started or mix it up with breakfast for dinner, this Sustainable Frittata is called “sustainable” because you can use leftover cheeses, veggies, ham, sausage and more to recycle ingredients you already have on hand.

Slow Cooker Macaroni and Cheese

Image
Slow Cooker Macaroni and Cheese: As kids and parents return to busy schedules full of sports, homework and weeknight activities, building a plan for nutritious and easy meals can be challenging. Piecing together a menu that fuels active minds without spending hours in the kitchen is a common goal for many families. Slow Cooker Macaroni and Cheese, which lets you put the work in the hands of your slow cooker for a versatile dish that can be served when homework is finished.

Is climate change to blame for the recent weather disasters?

Image
Is climate change to blame for the recent weather disasters? : Summer isn’t even half over, and we’ve seen heat waves in the Pacific Northwest and Canada with temperatures that would make news in Death Valley, enormous fires that have sent smoke across North America, and lethal floods of biblical proportions in Germany and China. Scientists have warned for over 50 years

Learn English Words while you sleep Intermediate

Image
Learn English Words while you sleep Intermediate: Learn English Words while you sleep Intermediate. Let’s learn English words and Increase your vocabulary range. In this video we feature over 100 Intermediate words to help you improve your English. To help you learn we say the word first, then the meaning of that word followed by an example of the word used in its correct context in a sentence. You can use this video anytime but for best results listen just before bed and leave playing while you sleep

How to Cook Ribeye Steak in Glass Jar?

Image
How to Cook Ribeye Steak in Glass Jar?: How to Cook Ribeye Steak in Glass Jar?

Billionaire space race: the ultimate symbol of capitalism’s flawed obsession with growth

Image
Billionaire space race: the ultimate symbol of capitalism’s flawed obsession with growth: Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids, laments the Rocket Man in Elton John’s timeless classic. In fact, it’s cold as hell. But that doesn’t seem to worry a new generation of space entrepreneurs intent on colonising the “final frontier” as fast as possible.

How to avoid food-borne illness – a nutritionist explains

Image
How to avoid food-borne illness – a nutritionist explains: Summer means cookouts, picnics and backyard barbecues. But a generous spread of food eaten outside raises some serious health questions. Nobody wants food poisoning – or to make their guests sick. But how do you know when you’ve kept the potato salad or fruit medley out too long?

7 Frugal Gardening Tips and Tricks

Image
7 Frugal Gardening Tips and Tricks : 7 Frugal Gardening Tips and Tricks – Gardening can be a simple way to beautify your yard, relieve stress and save money on your grocery bill, but like any hobby, you can get carried away buying necessary equipment.

Slow Cooker Chicken Burrito Bowls

Image
Slow Cooker Chicken Burrito Bowls: Slow Cooker Chicken Burrito Bowls are great during the hustle and bustle of the school year, it can be difficult to find time to sit down for dinner together as a family. However, on weeknights filled with extracurricular activities, homework, meetings and more, it’s still important to put delicious and nutritious meals on the table that can be served whenever your family members can find a few minutes to grab a plate.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chickpea Cookie Dip

Image
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chickpea Cookie Dip: Peanut butter chocolate chickpea cookie dip this summer months offers a break in routine, and that extra time around the house or gathering

Lab–grown and plant–based meat: the science, psychology and future of meat alternatives

Image
Lab–grown and plant–based meat: the science, psychology and future of meat alternatives: Would you eat cultured meat? HQuality via Shutterstock Daniel Merino, The Conversation and Gemma Ware, The Conversation Lab–grown and plant–based meat: the science, psychology and future of meat alternatives – podcast How do you mimic meat? We take a look at the science behind plant-based and cultured meat in this episode […]

Sopapilla Bars a Simple Sweet Dessert

Image
Sopapilla Bars a Simple Sweet Dessert: Sopapilla Bars a Simple Sweet Dessert. Finding a unique dessert to impress others can be a tall task. Cakes, brownies and cookies are classics but can be boring and repetitive. When you want something easy, delicious and made to impress, think outside the sweet treat box.

Roosters… Should You Keep Them? Process Them? What To Do!?

Image
Roosters… Should You Keep Them? Process Them? What To Do!? :  Roosters… Should You Keep Them? Process Them? What To Do!? Today we tackle the issue of Roosters and what you should do with roosters on your small farm or homestead. S

Dive into your summer reading list

Image
Dive into your summer reading list: Dive into your summer reading list with some poolside picks.. Laying out on the beach and floating in the pool are true hallmarks of summer. A good book, however, can elevate these relaxing experiences to a new level.

Knowing how heat and humidity affect your body can help you stay safe

Image
Knowing how heat and humidity affect your body can help you stay safe: Less than a month into North America’s official summer, heat waves are blistering much of the West. California and the Southwest are facing excessive heat watches for the second time, after a mid-June heat wave pushed temperatures above 100 F (38 C).

Are our smartphones afflicting us all with symptoms of ADHD?

Image
Are our smartphones afflicting us all with symptoms of ADHD?: When was the last time you opened your laptop midconversation or brought your desktop computer to the dinner table? Ridiculous, right? But if you are like a large number of Americans, you have done both with your smartphone.

How where you’re born influences the person you become

Image
How where you’re born influences the person you become: In some societies, kids are taught that they’re in control of their own happiness – which makes them more indulgent.

3 INCREDIBLE VEGAN BURGER RECIPES

Image
3 INCREDIBLE VEGAN BURGER RECIPES: 3 of the most incredible vegan burgers you will come across. Burgers are a great way of turning non-vegans into vegan food, especially when they taste good!

Sizzling science: How to grill a flavorful steak

Image
Sizzling science: How to grill a flavorful steak: Sizzling science: How to grill a flavorful steak Want to learn how cooking transforms beef’s flavor? Meat scientists have the answers.

How do you start your own company?

Image
How do you start your own company?: How do you start your own company? — Noah H., Conway, South Carolina Have you ever heard the expression “No guts, no glory”? Making your own business starts with guts. If you’re someone who likes to take risks and has great ideas, starting your own company could be for you.

Zaila Avant-garde – 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee champ

Image
Zaila Avant-garde – 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee champ: Why is it news that an African American won this championship? It’s significant because not so long ago, Black children would have faced a lot of obstacles just to compete in this spelling bee.

What’s a suborbital flight?

Image
What’s a suborbital flight?: “Suborbital” is a term you’ll be hearing a lot as Sir Richard Branson flies aboard Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity winged spaceship and Jeff Bezos

Mexican Lasagna

Image
Mexican Lasagna: Cook Comfort Food Once, Enjoy it Twice Cook once, eat twice. It’s a kitchen practice as simple as it sounds. Cook a base dish that can be enjoyed today and used for an entirely different meal tomorrow. For example, bake some fish for tonight’s dinner, and enjoy fish tacos for tomorrow’s lunch.

Croissant Chicken Salad Sandwich

Image
Croissant Chicken Salad Sandwich: They might not be the fanciest of foods, but when you eat a filling, protein-packed sandwich, you are usually left satisfied and full of energy.