New in food: Breakfast burritos
Frozen burritos with good-for-you cred? Perhaps Good Food Made Simple’s three egg white burritos will fill the bill. A short microwave stop readies the flour tortilla packets. We enjoyed the chicken...
View ArticleCookbook: ‘Country Music’s Greatest Eats’
Many of the recipes in Country Music’s Greatest Eats: Recipes and Riffs From Country’s Biggest Stars with Tanner Latham, presented by CMT (Oxmoor House, $24.95) have been handed down in families to the...
View ArticleQuick & Easy: Wraps make great summertime meals
SUMMER WRAPS2 chicken breasts, about 1 lb.¼ cup nonfat Greek yogurt with honey3 tbsp. each: cider vinegar, chopped fresh tarragon2 tbsp. each: olive oil, bacon bits2 green onions, chopped1 small...
View ArticleKitchen Scoop: Cool off with berry pops, adult-style
For years, my multigenerational parties couldn’t include something as fun and tempting as today’s Vodka-Infused Berry Pops because the kids would have wanted one too. What’s more fun than a cool frozen...
View ArticleBeer notes: Numbers Brewing plans to open in Lisbon
Numbers Brewing Co. has no immediate aspirations to take the beer world by storm.Co-owner and brewer Jeramy DeBord says he’d be happy to take his backyard by storm at first.Numbers, a new nanobrewery,...
View ArticleKeep the grill going for a colorful July 4 dessert
As somebody who spends a whole lot of time thinking about grilling, I love that so many Americans celebrate July Fourth by busting out the grill.So many of us are eating the same thing cooked in the...
View ArticleEast Park in Ravenna mixes old-school with new style; pig roast in West...
Let’s get this out of the way. The tall illuminated sign outside the 60-plus-year-old East Park Restaurant is wrong. It says the eatery/bar in Ravenna is open 24 hours, though the place hasn’t been...
View ArticleKim Hone-McMahan: Andrea Rose Teodosio race lifts the spirits of her parents,...
The biggest fear for a parent who has lost a child is that people will forget her name — her memory and what she stood for gone with her last breath. It’s doubtful that Andrea Rose Teodosio, who died...
View ArticleSickle cell reversed with stem cell transplant in potential cure
A stem-cell transplant reversed sickle cell disease in adults, according to a study that offers a potential cure for the debilitating condition.Half of those who had the transplant, which involved the...
View ArticleTV food star’s new show delayed after online tiff
LOS ANGELES: The Travel Channel is delaying the new series “Man Finds Food” after its star’s online war of words.The channel said Tuesday that Adam Richman’s show has been postponed indefinitely, but...
View ArticleFirst lady’s tiara goes on display at McKinley museum in Canton
Canton: A bit of historically significant bling has come home to Canton.A tiara that wended its way from a first lady to the TV series Pawn Stars is now on display at the McKinley Presidential Library...
View ArticleLeBron James’ foundation, ‘Rehab Addict’ to team up on Akron renovations
LeBron James and TV’s Rehab Addict are teaming up on an assist.The basketball star’s LeBron James Family Foundation will partner with the home-renovation series to make over the house and yard of a...
View ArticleHow strong is that drink? Calculator helps figure
WASHINGTON: How strong is that pina colada? Depending on how it’s made, it could contain as much alcohol as two glasses of wine.The National Institutes of Health is trying to spread the word: Take a...
View ArticleMary Beth Breckenridge: Lessons from the garden
I wanted to be playing golf on my day off. Instead, I spent a chunk of that sun-warmed day wrestling with a too-long-neglected patch of lily of the valley.Those sweet little flowers were on an invasion...
View ArticleAsk Mary Beth: Controlling cluster flies difficult
Q: In the past few years we have had an increasing problem of dead cluster flies accumulating in one top floor bedroom on the southwest side of our condo. This room has a skylight but no windows...
View ArticleHome and garden happenings — Week of July 5
The Anchorage, the West Akron mansion that was once home to former Goodyear Chairman Paul Litchfield, will be the centerpiece of an upcoming tour of architecturally and historically significant...
View ArticlePlant Lovers’ Almanac: Protect yard by rooting out invasive plants
Before coming to Ohio State University Extension, I worked as an interpretive park ranger in Cuyahoga Valley National Park where I spent sweltering summers dressed as Smokey Bear.My primary duty as a...
View ArticleDrop-off sites for Plant a Row for the Hungry
Got a bumper crop to share? You can give the extra vegetables and fruit from your garden to someone in need through Plant a Row for the Hungry. Here are sites that accept donations:• Crown Point...
View ArticleAmerican Standard unveils latest smart toilet with bidet for $4,200
Will notoriously bidet-shy Americans embrace a $4,200 smart toilet with integrated washing system?Yoshiaki Fujimori, chief executive of Japan’s Lixil Corp., thinks so. In a recent interview with the...
View ArticleCleveland company builds furniture with a past
Northeast Ohio’s history as an industrial center is a proud part of its past.A Cleveland furniture maker is working to make it a proud part of Northeast Ohio’s homes and businesses, too.Rustbelt...
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