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Calling all reluctant cooks: It’s time to step up in the kitchen

Caroline Chambers likes to cook – which, as the creator of the No. 1 food and drink newsletter on Substack, is a good thing. Of course, both the newsletter, “What to Cook When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking,” and her best-selling 2024 cookbook by the same name are also perfectly tailored to those who might be reluctant to get into the kitchen in the first place – including someone right in her own home.
A&E >  Beer/Drinks

Le Verre delivers a sip of old Hollywood to downtown Spokane’s Bennett Block

As you enter the doorway of Le Verre, a wall-length, black and white mural with prodigious images of Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, Bing Crosby and other legendary showbiz icons beckons you farther inside. Vintage chandeliers and Rat Pack-era music add to a sultry, retro atmosphere which seems to invite patrons to relax and enjoy a trip back to yesteryear.
A&E >  Cooking

How much is a serving of pasta? It’s not always 2 ounces.

Americans love pasta. Per the National Pasta Association, we consume 5.95 billion pounds of it per year, with the average American enjoying about 20 pounds annually. Is that too much? Too little? Just right? People have lots of thoughts on the topic, as our readers regularly remind us – especially when it comes to the question of what constitutes a single serving of one of the Washington Post’s recipes.
A&E >  Cooking

Make this speedy chicken soup to help you through cold season

I probably shouldn’t put this in writing, but I did not get sick with a respiratory illness in 2024. I got close, though. One day in November, after a night spent near a drafty window, my head felt heavy and my throat scratchy. “I’m going to have some tea and take a nap,” I told my partner, Joe. “Could you get me some chicken soup?”
A&E >  Beer/Drinks

1902 Coffee Co. in Airway Heights continues Stimson family legacy

When Gracelynn Stimson decided she wanted to open 1902 Coffee Co., a coffee stand in Airway Heights, she followed the procedure typical to starting a business. She applied for applicable permits, came up with a business plan, and presented it to her money lender. Where her story veers from the typical is all in the timing: Stimson was a student at Medical Lake High School when she applied for her permit.
A&E >  Cooking

Community Cookbook: Turning dried beans into slow cookin’ delicious dishes

If you tell me I’m full of beans today, I’ll take it as a compliment. Truth be told, I’ve been full of beans since last September, when the weather started to change. The onset of fall was all the excuse I needed to throttle up the dried bean express. I’ve prepared these three recipes seven times since, including this past weekend, so they’ve been thoroughly tested.
A&E >  Cooking

The best ways to cook broccoli, beyond roasting florets

I was at a young, impressionable age when President George H.W. Bush made his somewhat tongue-in-cheek declaration to the press that “I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!”
A&E >  Cooking

This sweet potato and ground beef chili breaks all the rules

As I watched fat, fluffy flakes dance outside my window last week during one of the first snowfalls of the year in Washington, I longed to be wrapped in a blanket on my couch, binging my latest television obsession and cradling a bowl of something warm to eat. Instead, I was prone in bed, down bad with some sort of cold (strep throat, I later discovered), watching shows only between the rounds of sleep my body forced upon me to try to recover.