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Flavorful garden vegetable hummus goes perfectly with your choice of dipper

Diet and health go hand in hand. Perhaps that’s why there’s a growing interest in foods that are purportedly curative. Some people even choose foods in the hopes that they can help to reduce symptoms of allergies and inflammation. While there’s no quick fix, consuming a wide variety of fresh, nutritiously diverse and not overly processed ingredients, like those found in this recipe for “Garden Vegetable Hummus” from “The Brain Boosting Diet” (Whitecap) by Norene Gilletz and Edward Wein, Ph.D. Garden Vegetable Hummus Makes 21⁄2 cups 1 19-ounce can chickpeas, drained ...

Pittsburgh chef making homemade pasta goes viral on social media

Ryan Peters went viral for simply making homemade pasta for his wife in 2020. The dish turned out really good, he said. “For the next 64 nights, I made homemade pasta,” he said. “I became obsessed with it. I posted on social media. It became my thing, trying to make it better each time.” In January, he took his pasta making to the next level — he decided to double the number of eggs in successive pasta-making sessions, record it, and then post it on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. All that doubling added up to 4,096 eggs. Yes, 4-0-9-6. “It was quite the ...

Crispy smashed potato salad is a new take on this summer favorite

This is a must-try, fun and different variation to the classic Potato Salad. Crispy Smashed Potato Salad Recipe courtesy of Michael Gulotta, Maypop Ingredients: 8 large Idaho Red potatoes, unpeeled 2 teaspoons kosher salt, divided 2 garlic heads, roasted 1/2 teaspoon dill seed, ...

Culinary Creations: Cowboy Candy is a sweet and spicy addition to barbecue

(EDITOR’S NOTE: Culinary Creations is a column that prints the last week of every month. It is written by Shawn L. Hanlin, executive chef of Le Jeune Chef Restaurant, operated by Pennsylvania College of Technology’s School of Business, Arts & Sciences as a training site for students in ...

Newsroom Nosh: Bold BBQ sauce for all of your summer needs

(EDITOR’S NOTE: Newsroom Nosh is a column of recipes written by newsroom staff from personal or family recipes.) Who doesn’t love a barbecue in the summer? It is a wonderful time to gather with friends and family while making good memories and eating good food. Plus, you have the added bonus of grilling, swimming, playing yard games and enjoying the outdoors. When making some fan-favorite summer dishes like grilled chicken, we tend to gravitate towards the simple bottled barbecue sauce. While delicious, it sometimes doesn’t hit all of the marks we want in a barbecue sauce — a ...

Cheese fondue at camp? You have to try this

This recipe for Instant Caramelized Shallot-Cheese Fondue by Chris Nuttall-Smith is exactly the dish you pull from your pack at 7,500 feet as a pre-winter storm blows past. It’s also exactly the dish you want while car camping on a crisp fall day when everybody’s got rosy cheeks and ...