Peeling garlic doesn’t have to be a smelly challenge with Fabio’s super-simple technique!
 
Tips:

• Soaking garlic just makes the peels wetter, which isn’t any easier than dry cloves.

• Smashing garlic definitely makes peeling easier, but does nothing to help you avoid stinky hands.

• The two-bowl method not only strips your garlic quickly and easily, it leaves no oils on your fingers and can be used to peel multiple cloves at a time!

Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl


From the Marx Brothers to Jon Stewart, for years Jewish humor has helped define American culture. Historians have often speculated that this rich vein of comedy stems from young Jewish children watching their parents try to pair wine with the Passover Seder meal. Ba dum sha!

But really: you start with pickled horseradish and gefilte fish, move on to chopped chicken liver, perhaps a sweet-and-sour-stuffed cabbage, or beef borscht, then there's a baked chicken stuffed with matzo or a ketchup-topped brisket, and somewhere in there come hard boiled eggs and charoset, that mixture of cinnamon, nuts, and fruit. This is supposed to pair with wine? Let me tell you about the best wine pairing for pickled horseradish. It's beer. So, does that mean you should give up and have beer this Passover? No! There's a solution to this problem--but it's drastic. It's really drastic.

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Josh Bernstein

It often starts with a single batch of homebrewed beer. Your friends like drinking the bitter IPA, or the roasty stout. More beer is brewed. More accolades. "You should start a brewery," someone suggests, planting a seed inside your hobbyist head: Could this be a career?

Taking the professional leap, however, is not so simple. Costs and licensing fees to open a brewery can easily runs into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions. The loans may be crippling. That's why aspiring brewers are starting to think small.

These days, hopped-up entrepreneurs are increasingly opening pint-size nanobreweries. What constitutes a nano? The cutoff point is debatable, but one measuring stick is that nanobreweries make beer on a three-barrel system or smaller. That's less than 93 gallons at a time, a minuscule amount that allows brewers to experiment, take creative risks and see what sticks. And according to San Diego's Hess Brewing, which has kept a running tab of

Barbecue Turkey MeatballsThis will be a new family favorite from the very first bite. Serve with simple mashed potatoes on the side to catch the sauce.

Barbecue Turkey Meatballs

Ingredients

2 tablespoons dark brown sugar
2 1/2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon smoked paprika
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
1 (14.5-ounce) can diced tomatoes with mild green chiles (such as Del Monte)
1 1/4 pounds ground turkey
3 tablespoons Italian-seasoned dried breadcrumbs
1 tablespoon chili powder
Cooking spray

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Preparation

1. Place first 6 ingredients in a blender; blend until smooth.

2. Combine turkey, breadcrumbs, and chili powder in a large bowl; using wet hands, shape into 16 meatballs.

3. Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Lightly coat pan with cooking spray. Add meatballs; cook 2 minutes, turning to brown on all sides. Add tomato mixture to pan; bring to a simmer. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer for 6

Photo by Romulo YanesBy Marilyn He, Bon Appétit

By now, pretty much everyone knows that salty and sweet are inextricably linked. It's why people dip Wendy's fries into their Frostys, why they eat caramel popcorn, why we layer salt on chocolate chip cookies. The appeal of salty-sweet may have biochemical explanations, but it also just feels sophisticated--an adult way to get a sugar fix.

With that in mind, we'd like to introduce you to the Almond Bread Pudding with Salted Caramel Sauce. Rounds of brioche or challah are spread with almond butter, artfully arranged with a sliced almond and raw sugar topping, and baked in vanilla custard. Add a dusting of powdered sugar, and it's ready for that adult topping--a decadent (and hearty) drizzle of salted caramel sauce.

You kids have fun now.

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Almond Bread Pudding with Salted Caramel Sauce
Recipe by Alison Roman
8-10 servings

Adding salt to this classic sauce lets you taste the rich complexity of the caramel,

By Wendy Ruopp, Managing Editor of EatingWell

Maybe you are like me: the very rare times you settle for fast food for dinner, you think you can at least make a healthier choice by ordering the fish sandwich. But it turns out that may not necessarily be better for you after all. Sure, fish on its own is healthy: low in fat and often high in omega-3 fats, which are good for your heart and your brain. The problem is, once fish gets deep-fried, slathered with tartar sauce, covered in cheese and piled onto a white bun, it becomes a calorie bomb. In fact, a classic fried-fish sandwich you might get at one fast-food restaurant (I'm not naming names) can weigh in at 590 calories and 30 grams of fat.

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That makes the fish sandwich a great candidate for a makeover by the EatingWell Test Kitchen. This healthier recipe for Crispy Fish Sandwich with Pineapple Slaw is ready in just 25 minutes and packs a lot of deliciousness into only 400

This simple, hearty feast can go from any day to holiday with ease.

If this dish doesn't have a sense of occasion, I'm not sure what does. This gorgeous and impressive roast is special and elegant enough to say "Easter dinner," yet easy enough for just another Tuesday night at home. Whether it's a holiday or not, I can assure you few other presentations command the ceremony and awe a perfectly roasted leg of lamb straight from the oven does. Total crowd-pleaser - mark my words.

I know you'll be tempted to carve the meat right away, but I can't tell you how crucial it is to let it rest after it's cooked. I find that 15 minutes of resting is just about ideal to achieve the perfect pink and succulent medium temperature I love for lamb.

Personally, I don't like medium-rare lamb, but if you do, cook it about 10 to 12 minutes less than called for in the recipe here, and let it rest the same 15 minutes. If you're going for well-done, just let the lamb rest a bit longer - 30 to

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