Log Out | Member Center

31°F

35°/6°

Life & Entertainment > Life > WichiTalk

WichiTalk

Every weekday, get Let's Eat, a daily e-mail with quick, economical and helpful recipes and cooking tips, delivered to your inbox. Sign up here. Also, see our recipe archive.

More Stories

Chives handy in salads, sauces and vegetables

April 21 at 12:02 a.m.

The tulips have pushed their way through the soil and are in full bloom, the flowering crab trees are blossoming and the Bradford pear is a sea of white — spring is unfolding around us.

Puff pieces

By Sharon Thompson, McClatchy Newspapers | April 21 at 8:31 a.m.

I have always considered cream puffs to be the province of the French, until I discovered the Japanese version last month in San Francisco. While visiting the city, I saw more Beard Papa stores than McDonald's. The name caught my eye first. When I saw that the specialty was cream puffs, I had to try one, and then another, and so on.

Fitbit tracks activity, day and night

By Krista Jahnke, Detroit Free Press | April 20 at 9:20 a.m.

Turns out, I wake up about eight times a night.

Aid from Al-Anon

BY KAREN SHIDELER, The Wichita Eagle | April 20 at 12:02 a.m.

Twenty-one years ago, Audrea was a young mother at her wits' end. Her husband's drinking was getting progressively worse, and she felt overwhelmed by her responsibilities and unable to do anything about her life.

Chicken doesn't have to be bland

By Jill Wendholt Silva, Kansas City Star | April 20 at 12:02 a.m.

Once there was a chicken in every pot. Now there's a boneless, skinless chicken breast in every skillet. Economical, versatile and quick-cooking chicken breasts are often what's for dinner. They're a good source of lean protein, with less total fat, saturated fat and cholesterol per ounce than beef, according to USDA's Nutrient Database.

I am Man, hear me roar

By Lini S. Kadaba, Philadelphia Inquirer | April 19 at 7:40 a.m.

Leo Mulvihill looks like the classic man's man. The hat is one clue. Displaying an old-school flair for style, the 25-year-old law student at Drexel University walks around campus sporting a vintage Brooks Brothers three- piecer and authentic 1960s Florsheims, his trilby cocked just so.

Must women step it up as they age?

By Krista Jahnke, Detroit Free Press | April 15 at 12:04 a.m.

For nine years, 47-year-old Detroiter Elizabeth Schneider has exercised for 40 minutes, three times a week. Her workouts have held her weight at a steady 145 pounds, which is in the ideal range for her 5-foot-9 frame.

Mom vs. mom

By Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press | April 15 at 7:44 a.m.

Melissa Summers has two adorable children. While she loves hosting birthday parties and makes great Halloween costumes, she also dislikes school vacations — they mean she doesn't get a break from her kids — and admits that sometimes what she wants most in the world is quiet time with a cocktail.

Sauces star in French visitor's recipes

April 14 at 12:04 a.m.

As I wrote in this column last week, French cooking instructor Laurence Herve arrived in Wichita a couple of weeks ago to teach a few classes for me.

Samuel Adams hops on beer-infused dessert trend

By Molly Klinefelter, McClatchy-Tribune | April 14 at 12:04 a.m.

It's hard to find a person who doesn't love dessert.

Stalking spring

By Russ Parsons, Los Angeles Times | April 14 at 8:06 a.m.

If you want a concrete example of rebirth and the potential for new beginnings, just walk an asparagus field in early spring. What a few weeks before had been brown raw dirt is now studded with hundreds of bright green asparagus spears poking through. Over the past couple of weeks I've eaten asparagus for dinner at least three times. That may not seem like a lot, but when I say "eaten asparagus for dinner," that's just what I mean: My dinner was asparagus. OK, maybe some bread too. And a glass of wine (though asparagus can be a tough match, Navarro Gewurztraminer is perfect).

Products that seem healthy aren't always

By Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune | April 13 at 12:04 a.m.

Sometimes you feel like eating a large slice of cheesecake with nary a thought about calories, fat grams or recommended daily value of vitamin C. It's cheesecake. If it tastes like heaven, its work here is done.

Pitch the paunch

By William Hageman, Chicago Tribune | April 13 at 12:04 a.m.

"There's an increased risk of heart disease with increasing waist circumference or abdominal fat, and increased risk of overall mortality," warned Donald Hensrud, the chairman of the division of preventive medicine at the Mayo Clinic and the medical editor-in-chief of the Mayo Clinic diet.

Putting a black hat on fat

By Rick Montgomery and Mara Rose Williams, Kansas City Star | April 8 at 12:02 a.m.

At some point in recent history, America's youth got the message that Marlboros were hazardous, but Doritos were hip.

Cinnamon rolls top visit to Hudson

April 7 at 12:02 a.m.

When French cooking teacher Laurence Herve arrived last week to teach a class, one of her requests was to learn more about how food is produced in Kansas.

Ham it up

By Lisa Abraham, Akron Beacon Journal | April 7 at 9:18 a.m.

It's Benjamin Franklin who is often credited with the phase, "The definition of eternity is two people and a ham." For many cooks, eternity has started as leftover holiday ham takes up residence in their refrigerators.

Tropical flavors jazz up salad

By Jill Wendholt Silva, Kansas City Star | April 6 at 12:01 a.m.

Longing for the salad days of summer? Wake up a tired palate with this recipe for sesame pork and mango salad with pineapple vinaigrette, a treasure trove of tropical tastes, textures and nutrients.

Weighty matters

BY KAREN SHIDELER, The Wichita Eagle | April 6 at 10:30 a.m.

In 2003, Daphne Conour hit a turning point — actually, a series of them. Today, she's 100 pounds lighter than she was then. It's weight she has kept off for three years. The journey from there to here took 3 1/2 years. And Conour's destination looks completely different from the place she started.

In full bloom

By Ellen Warren, Chicago Tribune | April 18 at 11:03 a.m.

Everybody needs a pick-me-up now and then. I got one when I was shopping recently. What I found were pretty, modern variations on the classic trench coat, just in time for April showers.

A gift for the ages

By Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, Chicago Tribune | April 1 at 7:32 a.m.

Few things spur a person to action like the hollow ache of regret, the helpless longing to rewind time and take advantage of what was, in hindsight, a missed opportunity. So it was when Cynthia Hart, a product designer and artist who lives in New York, lost two friends in the same week, one to a heart attack and the other to an unexpectedly short battle with an illness.

Search for a job

in

Top jobs