The general manager of Rasika in Washington remembers the pre-pandemic Friday lunch as if it were yesterday: a 30-something couple eating an Indian spread with their two young sons and a baby in a stroller. On his first pass by their table, Santosh Bodke noticed the boys enjoying butter chicken. The second time the manager stopped by, everyone but the younger boy was gone.
No one does pumpkin season like Trader Joe’s. The autumnal array of products, which seems to have arrived earlier than ever, includes a sizable number of returning bestsellers and a few new options. We bought two grocery bags’ worth of snacks and treats and put them to the test.
Panda Express diners are accustomed to the fast-casual restaurant adding new shrimp, chicken and steak recipes occasionally to its array of wok-fired dishes.
Fragrant spices add great flavor to this easy beef curry dinner. The combination of tender beef, diced tomatoes and coconut milk creates a delicious and comforting meal. It’s served over basmati rice. This is a type of long-grain aromatic white rice. Happily, it’s available in a microwave version, which means you can make the side dish in minutes and there’s no pot to wash.
It’s time to zhuzh your vocabulary. Merriam-Webster announced 690 words and definitions added to its dictionary in 2023. The words range from colloquial phrases like doggo and “beast mode” to important news words to know, like “forever chemical” and UAP (unidentified aerial phenomenon).
Old recipes and cookbooks are time capsules – relics that give you insight into a different era. Sometimes it’s just the type of recipe (so much Jell-O!) or the name of a particular ingredient (see my grandparents’ recipes that call for “salad oil”).
WAITSBURG, Wash. – A celebrated restaurateur closed his West Side hustle to set up shop in an idyllic southeast Washington town – and word is getting around far beyond Walla Walla County.
One way to get kids to try new things at mealtime while also teaching them about nutrition is to hand them a spoon (or bowl or knife, if they’re old enough) and get them involved in making dinner.
It’s not exactly a positive sign when a local drinking establishment is featured on “Bar Rescue,” the long-running reality TV show that swoops in to save flailing businesses.
Going cold turkey on turkey is hard. Same goes for giving up pork, beef, cheese and other food that comes from animals and adds to the planet’s environmental woes.
A few weeks ago, a reader in our weekly live cooking chat asked how to fix marinara sauce that leaks water onto the plate after they add it to pasta. At the time, my mind focused on the sauce itself. I suggested bringing it to an initial boil to deactivate the enzyme in the tomatoes that breaks down their pectin, and then simmering until it reaches the desired consistency. But others in the chat, and a reader who later emailed me, reminded me that the sauce might not be the problem – it could be the pasta.
Having to make dinner night after night can be a drag any time of year, but it can feel even more like a chore in September if you have kids in school. With a little planning, it's possible to get a nutritious family meal on the table, at least some of the time, while also pinching your pennies. It's even better if you can get family members to help with the chopping, stirring, plating and cleanup.
Chick-fil-A is no Taco Bell. Obviously, fast food chains offer vastly different menus, but their marketing playbooks are a study in contrasts, too. Taco Bell is forever churning out new, sometimes wacky, menu items. Novelty is its calling card.
Are you, like me, scratching your head about where the summer has gone? Did your Tomato Girl Summer also get thwarted by exorbitant airfare prices? Do you feel that Rosh Hashanah, which starts Friday evening, has snuck up on you out of nowhere?
Is there anything better than a well-built salad? And by salad, I mean a towering wedge of crunchy iceberg lettuce topped with a tangy yet creamy homemade blue cheese dressing and juicy chunks of ripe, diced tomato and crunchy bacon bits. A staple on steakhouse and some gastropub menus, the salad is thought to date back at least to the early 1900s, a few years after the first cultivar for ...
SEATTLE — The spicy, slick, crunchy, garlicky, umami goodness that is chili crisp isn't new by any means from a global perspective, but it's been having a moment in the broader food culture of the United States of late, and one Seattle version has become a national phenomenon. Ruby Sparks and Rob Griset started KariKari out of their Capitol Hill apartment just before the pandemic, in an ...
