Light Meals: Healthy Chili, Cultural Soups & Salad Prep

Light meals offer diverse nutritional profiles through global soup varieties, healthy dressing formulations, and creative salad meal preparation.

Caesar salad in close up

How to Cut Romaine Hearts for a Salad

Romaine lettuce is an unusually versatile salad ingredient. It combines the dark color and nutritional value of leafy lettuces with the crisp, juicy texture of head-type lettuces such as iceberg, giving it the best attributes of each type of lettuce. Romaine hearts are especially popular with home salad makers.

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How to Cook a Stewing Chicken

Most chickens sold in American supermarkets are slaughtered when very young and tender, to provide the greatest possible versatility in cooking. The only problem with this practice is that the birds are rather bland, because they haven't lived long enough to develop a strong chicken flavor.

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