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Taste the Best Dishes From the Buzziest NYC Restaurants—At Home

Cooking on the cheap shouldn’t mean minute rice and buttered pasta every night. With a little creativity and a little planning, Gabriella Paiella shows us how to make the most of a tight budget — without sacrificing flavor or variety. Today: Recreate must-try restaurant dishes at home, for a fraction of the price. One night, about a …

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Healthy Recipes for Icy Summer Treats Your Kids Will Love

Ice-cold treats are one of the hallmarks of summer (cue the Mister Softee chimes), as are the bounty of fresh fruit and berries. So how do you convince your kids to eat more of the fresh-fruit variety vs. the creamy, corn-syrup-laden ones? By sneaking them into homemade popsicles. While the store-bought pops are an obvious and covenient option, we’ve …

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Is This Your New Summer Workout?

In the past year, there’s been an 8.4 percent jump in the number of people swimming for fitness, making it one of the fastest-growing workouts, according to the Sports and Fitness Industry Association. “Swimming is amazing cardio, it improves full-body strength and flexibility and without impact on joints,” says Ellis Peters, a swim couch at Equinox in New …

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Which Sweets Are Better Made at Home Vs. Bought in a Bakery?

My weakness is bakeries. I will cross bridges and tunnels and then some in search of the perfect croissant, brownie, cream puff—you name it. I never met a piece of loaf cake I didn’t like, and I’d be hard-pressed to pass up a gourmet donut. A meal is unfinished without something sweet to signal the end. Unfortunately, …

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Is It Possible to Get An Effective Workout in Only 10 Minutes?

Some days, it’s a struggle to carve out 30 minutes for exercise. An hour? Forget it. If I’m not rushing to my son’s basketball game, I’m in a work meeting that’s running late, or I’m trying to squeeze in a date night with my husband. How many times have you skipped your workout because you didn’t have …

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Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi’s Deliciously Clever Meatless Monday Recipe

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are one Hollywood couple with whom we’d love to hang. Apart from serving up hilarious cultural commentary on a daily basis, the Emmy Award-winning Ellen host had us in stitches during the 2014 Oscars. (And we were not alone—this past year’s Academy Awards was the highest rated telecast of the ceremony since 2000.) …

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Stop Popping Pills! The Hair, Skin And Nails Vitamins You Need to Avoid

Spring has sprung, which means summer—that sun-filled time of year when we bare our skin, show off our pedicures and think of inventive new updos for our hair—is just around the corner. Gone are the hats, gloves and trousers of March, and we’re starting to feel that we may not be ready for the exposure. Given the circumstances, it’s tempting …

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Link Love: Recipes for Brunch

It’s Friday again! That means we’re showing some serious Link Love to our favorite bloggers. And because the weekend got us thinking about food, we decided to round up some brunch recipe ideas to help satisfy our weekend cooking and baking urges. After all, brunch practically doesn’t exist during the rest of the week—so we’re going to …

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The Kids Will Love Naomi Watts’ Three-Cheese Pasta Bake

Naomi Watts is an inspiration to us all. The Academy Award-nominated actress and mother of two has three films slated for release in 2014 (St. Vincent De Van Nuys, While We’re Young and Birdman), all of which are comedies, proving once again that the leading lady isn’t afraid to step outside her comfort zone. To top it off, Watts …

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