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What Are Green Bananas And What Do They Taste Like? Christian Ender/Getty Images By Hope Ngo/Sept. 30, 2021 8:21 pm EST Those of us who love bananas will have a preference for when the fruit should be enjoyed. There are those who like their bananas when they’re at a stage just before (or just as) they become a textbook bright yellow, while others might prefer them when they’ve gone a bit past that, with a few brown speckles so that the fruit is as sweet as it can get without being overripe....

WhistlePig’s New ‘Non-Whiskey’ Helps Bartenders Weather Dry January stockfoto/Shutterstock By Mirtle Pena-Calderon/Jan. 5, 2022 9:17 am EST January has become synonymous with the phrase “New Year, New Me.” Folks are suddenly looking for ways to kickstart their health goals by meditating, journaling, joining the gym, or cutting out fast foods. Some people will even participate in Dry January, which means cutting out all alcoholic beverages for the entire month. Yes, even beer....

30-Minute Twice Baked Potatoes Recipe Sher Castellano/Mashed By Sher Castellano AND Mashed Staff/Jan. 19, 2022 10:44 am EST While baked potatoes are all well and good on their own, let’s be honest about it — no matter how healthy a plain, unadorned potato is, they tend to be incredibly bland without any type of topping, and few of us are inclined to eat them this way despite nutritionists urging us to do so....

36 Sausage Recipes You Need To Try Shutterstock By Erica Gerald Mason/Sept. 19, 2021 4:42 pm EST Sausage is one of those comfort proteins that most people love. Yeah, you can grill it, use it for a pizza topping, or crumble it into spaghetti sauce, but there’s more to sausage than BBQs and delicious Italian food. And let’s not even start with the different types of sausages… Polish kielbasa, anyone? Sausage is a sleeper hit in the kitchen....

All The Actors In Michelob Ultra’s Star-Studded 2022 Super Bowl Commercial Steve Cukrov/Shutterstock By Taylor Huang/Updated: Feb. 13, 2023 10:31 am EST Imagine being at your local bowling alley and seeing Peyton Manning as you look to your right. That’s exactly the experience that Nneka Ogwumike had in Michelob Ultra’s 2022 Super Bowl Commercial. (Wait a minute, who’s really the lucky one here?) The beer brand loaded its Super Bowl LVI ad with famous faces, with the former NFL quarterback and Los Angeles Sparks basketball player being just two of the celebrities in the 90-second spot....

Clean Out Your Fridge With Sunny Anderson’s ‘Bottom-O-Tha-Jar’ Salmon David Livingston/Getty Images By Justine Lee/Nov. 23, 2021 1:10 pm EST Take it from Sunny Anderson: culinary magic can happen when you know how to repurpose leftovers lying around in the fridge. On her Instagram, the Food Network personality and cookbook author shared her easy-peasy “bottom-o-tha-jar” salmon recipe for using up what’s left in your fridge. The star schooled followers on the importance of proper hygiene, food safety, and food waste in the process....

Creamy Pasta Salad Recipe Kristen Carli/Mashed By Kristen Carli AND Mashed Staff/Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 11:48 am EST If you like creamy pasta salad, you’ll love this fun play on the classic that recipe developer and registered dietician Kristen Carli is cooking up. In this recipe, macaroni is tossed with a vibrant, colorful combo of red onion, tomato, bell pepper, green onion, and fresh dill. A creamy, mustard-spiked dressing gets a touch of added pizzazz from white vinegar....

Healing with food Phillip Faraone/Getty Images Currently, information about the new “Fix It With Food” book is limited, but Symon did take time in his July Instagram post to share some of the broad strokes of the forthcoming sequel. Like the first installment, “Every Meal Easy” will include a 10-day cleanse or “reset” regimen, intended to help readers identify their unique autoimmune triggers. If “Every Meal Easy” is anything like the first “Fix It With Food” book, it will start with the premise that certain, common foods are – for some people – sources of inflammation....

Here’s The Right Way To Boil Chicken Denis Torkhov/Shutterstock By Suzanne S. Wiley/Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 10:56 am EST Boiling a chicken sounds so simple, but when you actually set out to do it, you soon find out how much you don’t know about the right way to boil a chicken. Everyone seems to have their own recipe, from plain breasts boiled quickly in water to adding an array of vegetables and herbs and leaving it to simmer for hours (via Barefoot Contessa)....

Hostess’ Iced Cupcakes Are Now Available In This Fall Flavor calimedia/Shutterstock By Gina LaVecchia Ragone/Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 4:17 pm EST There are two types of people: those who welcome fall with open, flannel-clad arms, and the resistors who fiercely cling to their margarita glasses until September 22, when they must finally admit that the days are getting shorter and beach season is a memory. The first group tends to be the early adopters of pumpkin spice....

Instagram Is Raining Hearts Over Rachael Ray’s Adorable Dog Astrid Stawiarz/Getty By Maria Scinto/Feb. 14, 2022 5:19 pm EST Rachael Ray is a woman of many talents and is proficient in several areas. She obviously knows her way around a kitchen, as well as a TV studio. She also knows quite a bit about dogs, as she even created her own line of dog food inspired by her beloved pit bull, Isaboo....

Justin Bieber’s New Tim Hortons Collab Features 3 New Timbits Flavors DFree/Shutterstock By Ceara Milligan/Nov. 10, 2021 1:43 pm EST Looking for something sweet to indulge in this holiday season? This one’s for all the Beliebers out there. “What Do You Mean?” you may be asking. Well, folks, iconic pop star and Ontario native Justin Bieber, who has released dozens of crowd-pleasing, chart-topping hits over the years, has officially partnered with Tim Hortons for the Canadian coffee chain’s new celebrity menu campaign....

Meatless Mondays Are Returning To Starbucks. Here’s What We Know Starbucks By Ashley Steinberg/Dec. 22, 2021 5:29 pm EST New Year’s resolutions are calling, and that means, around the world, billions of people are thinking about what they would like to change or improve about themselves and their lives in 2022. According to Go Skills, some of the most common resolutions for New Year’s include more exercise and weight loss, trying to become better organized, saving money, learning a new hobby, traveling more, quitting smoking, or spending time with family and friends....

Mountain Dew’s Bizarre Gingerbread Flavor Has Finally Arrived Instagram By Boshika Gupta/Nov. 2, 2021 10:41 am EST As a company, Mountain Dew has come up with many surprises for its fans over the years. According to Thrillist, Mountain Dew has come with special flavors in the past that are specifically meant for gamers. Some of the options included Frost Bite, Sweet Lightning, Voltage, and White Out. A Redditor expressed their love for Voltage by writing, “this was the flavor that made me love Dew....

Pizza Hut Detroit Style Pizza: What To Know Before Ordering Instagram/Pizza Hut By Julia Mullaney/Feb. 16, 2022 10:00 am EST Since its inception in 1958, Pizza Hut has grown to become one of the United States’ most popular pizza chains. Brothers Dan and Frank Carney wanted to open a restaurant, so they borrowed $600 from their mother to get their dream started, according to the Pizza Hut blog. The Carney brothers quickly grew a following because of their great customer service and solid menu items....

Selena Gomez And Serendipity3 Have Teamed Up On A New $30 Ice Cream Sundae Andrea Raffin/Shutterstock By Katherine Mclaughlin/Sept. 1, 2021 4:53 pm EST Celebrity food endorsements aren’t anything new, as Eat This, Not That! reports. Charli D’Amelio teamed up with Dunkin’ for the “Charli,” Ringo Starr helped launch the first stuffed crust pizza at Pizza Hut in 1995, even Travis Scott worked with McDonald’s for a special combo meal....

Starbucks Baristas Are Upset About This Change To Their Employee Perks Sorbis/Shutterstock By Ralph Schwartz/Sept. 20, 2021 6:51 pm EST When COVID-19 started, Starbucks took steps to do right by its employees. As essential workers on the front lines of the pandemic, baristas at the world’s largest coffee chain earned an additional $3 an hour if they showed up to work the drive-thru when the seating areas were closed (via Los Angeles Times)....

The Most Popular Kitchen Gadget In Florida Is Functional And Practical Pinkyone/Shutterstock By Justine Lee/Jan. 4, 2022 2:45 pm EST Most kitchens in the United States have a similar roundup of tools. They usually have blenders, toasters, coffee makers, ice machines, pressure cookers, and air fryers, to name a few. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t regional differences in how people define kitchen efficiency. And that’s why, as 2021 wrapped up, Surety First combed through Google Trends data to determine the most popular kitchen gadgets based on searches....

The Reason Aldi UK’s Vegan Bacon Is Facing Backlash DronG/Shutterstock By Lisa Curran Matte/Sept. 29, 2021 6:04 pm EST Aldi UK just stepped in it big time. The German-based discount grocery chain debuted vegan bacon at its UK locations, and the Brits aren’t having it. “Who said vegan needed to be boring (and expensive)? Not us. In store now,” Aldi UK announced via Facebook. Not long after, the gloves came off — with meat eaters decrying the use of the word “bacon” for a meat-free product and vegans (or vegan sympathizers) standing firm....

The Reason Starbucks’ Unionized Employees Just Staged A Walkout Chinnapong/Shutterstock By Felix Behr/Jan. 7, 2022 12:45 pm EST The month after a Buffalo, New York, Starbucks unionized in the U.S., its employees walked out this week over a disagreement with how the company is handling workplace safety amid the Omicron variant, according to Reuters. It is the only corporate-owned unionized Starbucks in the country. In a statement published to Twitter, Starbucks Workers United explained that with one-third of the Elmwood Avenue store’s workforce in isolation after being exposed to or becoming ill with the virus, they were severely understaffed and overworked....