From sunny beach picnics to warm afternoon barbecues, one of the best parts of the summer season is the same as the rest of the year: the food. (Although, admittedly, we might be a little biased.) From sweet crisp apples to juicy grilled chicken, it's the perfect time to indulge in it all. Still, one of the all-time best, and most refreshing, indulgences of the season has got to be those ripe, red tomatoes. From refreshing pesto caprese paninis to the perfect burger topping, there's just so many ways to use this vibrant vegetable. For example, for a perfect summertime lunch, you can also use a tasty tomato to make a super simple three-ingredient sourdough bread sandwich that you need this summer.

The 3-Ingredient Sourdough Bread Sandwich You Need This Summer

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Bruschetta Chicken Casserole is a fresh and flavorful dish that combines the delicious taste of bruschetta with tender chicken and a cheesy topping. 1 tablespoon olive oil (additional)

Delicious Bruschetta Chicken Casserole: Fresh and Flavorful

Ready to revolutionize your salad game? Try this Doritos taco salad from Catherine’s Plates on YouTube. It’s a vibrant, flavor-packed dish that brings a playful twist to traditional taco salads. This recipe marries the zest of seasoned ground beef, the crisp freshness of mixed greens, and the creamy tang of a zesty dressing, all crowned with the irresistible crunch of Doritos.

Doritos Taco Salad Recipe

Rotisserie chicken is a fast and easy way to add protein to your meal prep routine. According to the National Chicken Council, broiler chicken is the most widely consumed protein in the U.S. You can add chicken to everything from Caesar salads to frozen pizza to get more protein and make your meals more filling. Rotisserie chicken is flavorful due to the constant turning of the meat, which keeps it moist and tender and prevents the chicken from drying out.

The Best And Worst Rotisserie Chickens You Can Find At The Grocery Store

The fluffy, steamy interior of a baked potato is the perfect canvas for some rich butter, sour cream, cheddar cheese, and all the other seasonings of your choice. While it's a tempting starch to whip up for dinner, and one of the simplest recipes out there, it's still not necessarily the quickest recipe in the book. By the time you finish prepping your potato, heating the oven, and finally start cooking the spud, you might not even be hungry anymore. Well this is exactly the type of job that microwaves were made for, so the next time you're craving a baked potato, skip the oven and use this handy kitchen gadget instead.

The Correct Way To Cook A Potato In The Microwave Couldn't Be Easier

These delicious salads are perfect if you’re looking for inspiration to use some fresh summer produce. Since they are made with anti-inflammatory ingredients like chickpeas, dark leafy greens and whole grains, these salads could help relieve uncomfortable symptoms of inflammation, like stiff joints, digestive issues and high blood pressure. Recipes like our Cucumber, Tomato & Arugula Salad with Hummus or Massaged Kale Salad with Grapes & Cheddar are packed with flavor to nourish your body and keep you satisfied.

20 Summer Salads Packed with Anti-Inflammatory Ingredients

Chicken parm (aka chicken parmigiana) is always a good time — how could crispy pieces of breaded chicken, topped in rich tomato sauce and gooey melted cheese, ever not be? In fact, this dish has been delighting our taste buds since the 1950s, when it was first introduced to the Northeast of the United States by Italian-American immigrants. Since then it's become a staple of Italian-American restaurants (and even those outside of this cuisine) – this version from Carbone is particularly popular — while also being on high rotation in our own kitchens. It's even inspired other dishes, like this cheesy chicken Parmesan spaghetti bake.

Bobby Flay's Pro-Tip For Truly Excellent Chicken Parm

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Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

Steak fries are large, thick potato wedges, filling enough to be a meal in itself. These roasted potato/french fry hybrids are easy to make at home but sometimes end up more floppy and soggy than desired. Sure, you can deep fry them for a foolproof method for crispy fries, but the thought of standing over hot, bubbling oil and cleaning a messy fryer — particularly the annoying task of dealing with the leftover oil — is enough to deter even the biggest steak fry fan. A cleaner, easier method for making legitimately crispy french fries at home is to bake them in the oven — just make sure to use cornstarch to get them nice and crunchy.

Make Baked Steak Fries As Crispy As Deep Fried With One Extra Ingredient

Emily Standley Allard

Marriage is a significant life decision that requires extreme commitment, understanding, devotion and a heck of a lot of compromise. While many people dream of a lifelong partnership, others find the concept of marriage challenging. Astrology offers insights into personality traits and behaviors, suggesting that certain zodiac signs might face more difficulties in maintaining a traditional marital relationship. This article explores the five zodiac signs that are often considered less suited for marriage due to their unique characteristics and tendencies when it comes to lifelong commitment.

The 5 Zodiac Signs Not Meant for Matrimony

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What is more summery than an icy, sweet frozen drink? If the heat wave is getting to you, try whipping up this simple frozen strawberry lemonade. All you need is your choice of lemonade and some frozen strawberries. You can use store-bought lemonade, make your own from scratch, or a powdered version. As for strawberries, frozen ones are the easiest choice. If you'd rather use fresh, add at least two cups of ice until you reach a nice, frozen consistency.

2-Ingredient Frozen Strawberry Lemonade: Beat the Heat!

This recipe creates a comforting and delicious pasta bake, perfect for a weeknight dinner. 1 green bell pepper, diced (optional) 1 pound dry pasta (penne, rigatoni, or ziti recommended)

Easy Pasta Bake: Comforting & Delicious

The fact of the matter is, our mainstream grocery stores offer us just a tiny fraction of the entire vast world of produce options Mother Nature provides. Within a typical produce section selection, you'll likely always have your apples, oranges, plums, pears, grapes, and maybe some melons or berries, and depending on where you live, that may be just about it. And by and large, you can expect to find the same maybe ten or so options from coast to coast, at least here in the United States, without many newcomers or lesser known fruits such as the kiwano melon, or horned melon, as it's often called.

What Does A Kiwano Melon Taste Like And Can You Eat The Skin?

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These savory stuffed cheese meatballs are versatile enough to be enjoyed on top of cooked pasta, nestled inside a sub bun, or paired with a flavorful marinara sauce. These cheesy meatballs aren't just tasty, but they are also surprisingly easy to make.

Delicious stuffed cheese meatballs

Claudia Lamascolo

Salads are refreshing all summer long. The combinations are endless what can go in them. Below are many suggestions on building a different variety of fresh vegetables and of course, you can top them with meat for all our meat lovers.

7 Refreshing Summer Salad Recipes and Ideas

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Zucchini Parmesan is a delicious and healthy twist on the classic Eggplant Parmesan. 2 cups marinara sauce (store-bought or homemade) Fresh basil leaves (optional, for garnish)

Healthy Zucchini Parmesan Casserole: Crispy, Cheesy, and Delicious!

We all scream for ice cream. That's a given, but really, we'll scream pretty indiscriminately for anything cold and creamy — be it fro-yo, custard, sorbet, soft serve, or gelato. There's a whole vast world of indulgent chilly treats out there — enough to give you a serious brain freeze while confusing you on the technical differences between the categories.

Custard Vs Soft Serve Ice Cream: What's The Difference?

Sweet or sour, cherries are a fruit lover's dream. Between their ruby red color and juicy flesh, fresh cherries are delicious on their own as a snack and just as tasty when par-cooked for the perfect pie filling or turned into maraschino cherries for cocktail garnishes. The main con of cooking or eating them is dealing with the pesky pits. Along with peaches and plums, cherries are classified as a stone fruit, aptly named for the hard and inedible seed-shielding pit at their center. The hand-staining and time-consuming process of removing these small stones can be annoying even with a dedicated pitter. And sometimes, cherry pits can accidentally slip through.

What Happens If You Accidentally Swallow A Cherry Pit?

In the canon — really — encyclopedia of ways to cook chicken, poaching doesn't get a lot of love. The technique that produces beautifully moist fish and perfectly runny eggs seems to often be overlooked as a legitimate and delicious way to cook poultry. Too often, at-home cooks take poaching to mean boiling, and short of being a great option for dogs with a tummy ache, boiled chicken ends up bland, texturally odd, and underwhelming. Poaching chicken is a gentler technique. Chicken is bathed in water — barely simmering — between 140 and 180 degrees. Boiling, in contrast, has the water temperature at about 212 degrees. But, regardless of the difference, folks often focus on the end result: wet, tasteless meat that isn't about to be the star of your next dinner plate.

Poached Chicken Doesn't Have To Be Bland. Here's The Secret

"Nutcrackers! Nutcrackers!" The calls echo through the air of Rockaway Beach and Coney Island. It rings out through New York City's parks and parade routes, advertising the city's unofficial summer beverage. Street vendors haul massive coolers filled to the brim with the colorful drinks, sometimes packaged in plastic juice bottles, sometimes in tall deli containers. Everyone has their own recipe, typically involving some combination of high-proof alcohol and fruit juice, but the ultimate goal is the same. The name "nutcracker" says it all: These drinks hit hard.

Nutcracker: The Banned NYC Cocktail You Can Find On Every Beach

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The Underrated Crusty Bread You Need For Perfect Bruschetta

Imagine you're at a picnic, sizing up the bounty. Your eye catches chopped-up bright, red tomatoes on tiny pieces of bread. Yes! Bruschetta! But why does...

The Underrated Crusty Bread You Need For Perfect Bruschetta

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