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Flank steak is a lean, somewhat tough but flavorful cut of beef that benefits from the tenderizing effects of a marinade. It is best cooked medium rare and thinly sliced at an angle. It actually could be sliced even more at a diagonal than what I’ve shown here in the photo. My [...]

I grew up with horseradish, sometimes called “German mustard”, as a common accompaniment to steak and pork dishes. With dad’s German heritage, no wonder there was always a jar of it in the house. These days I suspect many people are more likely to eat wasabi, an unrelated Japanese condiment with similar [...]

Leave it to the lady with the tree to have some great recipes for apricots. My neighbor Pat (the one whose tree is raining apricots this week) suggested cooking an apricot pie on the grill and passed along a recipe. I modified it a bit, but the essence is the same. The [...]

From the recipe archive.
What is it about a black bean salad that practically shouts, “summer potluck”? The mercury has been edging past a hundred degrees lately here and I’ve been getting nostalgic for some of the picnic foods I remember having often as a kid. The basic structure of a black bean salad [...]

Is there anything so wonderful as a fresh apricot, picked right from the tree, so ripe that it literally bruises in your fingers if you don’t hold it with the lightest touch? You can’t buy apricots like this; they are just too fragile. The commercial growers pick them still hard and let them [...]

When you’re losing weight it’s very important to weigh in at the right time. It’s important to get an accurate reading, but it’s also important to keep you motivated. So when is the best time to weigh yourself?

You know, it’s been 18 months since the Fitness blog launched here at the Families.com. When I first began writing for it, I didn’t want it to be just another ubiquitous blog that told you how to exercise.

Let me preface this by saying Happy 4th of July to all our American readers and visitors. For everyone else, good morning. Wednesdays are a particularly tough day for a fitness program, why? Because Wednesdays are a particularly tough day for anything. It’s hump day.

I remember watching the first season of the network show, â??The Biggest Loserâ? and being amazed as participants would weigh-in each week and lose 10-25 pounds a week.
By the end of the show, the winner was crowned and his name was Ryan Benson. In one season, he was able to lose a staggering 122 [...]

When I first saw this research - it seemed almost farcical: stressed out mice, eating junk food got fat.
Did the mice work 60 hour weeks - stopping by the McDonald’s drive-thru on the way back to the lab? Did they manage to force two cohabiting mice to get a divorce? Or maybe moving [...]