The best senior meal delivery services take into account the unique health concerns that may arise for this age group. Fortunately, many companies are dedicated to filling this need; whether you’re looking for yourself or an older adult in your life, you’ll find great options to take the pressure off of mealtime. Best Senior Meal Delivery Services of 2022 Best Overall: Freshly Best Value: Mom’s Meals Best Variety: Magic Kitchen Best Gourmet: CookUnity Best for Dietary Restrictions: BistroMD Best Gluten-Free: ModifyHealth Best Plant-Based: Mosaic Best for Groceries: Hungryroot...

It’s known as bibim guksu in Korean, and if you’ve ever had bibimbap, it’s a lot like that, but chilled, and with thinly sliced raw vegetables and a hard cooked egg. The sauce that holds it all together is sweet and spicy and made with red chili paste, rice vinegar, sugar, and sesame. So good! I recommend making extra sauce and just keeping some around to dress up leftovers. The meal comes together quickly, the most time needed to cut up the vegetables....

Fast forward to this century and you have what is probably the most popular restaurant salad in America, with plenty of variations around the theme of romaine lettuce, garlic, Parmesan, and croutons. What follows is my friend Suzanne’s recipe. I love Suzanne’s family-sized Caesar salad, and have been a frequent guest at her house when it has been served (lucky!). Homemade Caesar Salad Croutons In this recipe we are making croutons from scratch, from baguette slices that have been brushed with olive oil, toasted, and then roughly chopped....

There would be a lot of bowing and fussing—stuff I never fully understood as a young child. All that ritual in front of a bunch of dead relatives felt a little morbid to me. As an adult, of course, I understand that those rituals were to pay respect to the elders and to the generations before us. In a Confucian society, lineage was super important, and family was everything. As a child, I understood nothing of this....

Celery root, like its close relation celery, is one of those under-appreciated vegetables. It’s actually a variety of celery that is cultivated just for its sturdy, starchy root. I’m guessing celery root lacks for mass popularity because it can be a bit difficult to peel! It’s nobby all over and you can’t easily skin it with the vegetable peeler. Like butternut squash, celery root requires a steady hand and a sharp solid knife to master....

What Is Chicken Marsala? Traditionally, Chicken Marsala is chicken cutlets dredged in flour and fried, served with a sauce made with a Marsala reduction. It often includes mushrooms. Chicken Marsala Special Ingredient: Pancetta This recipe for Chicken Marsala is a favorite of my father’s and is adapted from one he found in Fine Cooking magazine years ago. It doesn’t have mushrooms (though you could easily add them) and gets tons of flavor from Italian pancetta....

I love this vegetarian “non-chicken” chicken salad sandwich! It’s got everything I love about a chicken salad or tuna salad sandwich, but without the animal protein. On the face of it, it seems almost too simple to be that good. To be honest, I was pretty wowed by how tasty chickpeas are in a sandwich. My skeptical better half, a die-hard meat and potatoes guy, was even more impressed when I sprung this on him....

When I was in the local Chinese market perusing the mushrooms I asked one of the other shoppers, a tiny and ancient woman half my height whose etched wrinkles framed a friendly smile, where the wood ear mushrooms were. “What are you using them for?” “Hot and sour soup,” I replied. “What? You don’t want those. Here,” she grabbed a bag of dried shiitake, “use these.” “No! You don’t want those for hot and sour soup!...

Since most of us are staying close to home right now, I figured a big pile of clams is a perfect way to do a bit of armchair travel. The inspiration for these brothy bivalves comes by way of Spain, thanks to the smoky chorizo that’s essential to the dish. When simmered with onions, garlic, tomatoes, and wine, the chorizo infuses the broth with incredible flavor. Then it’s just a matter of adding a heap of clams, simmering until they open, and serving them in shallow bowls with plenty of broth....

Buying the Best Crab for Crab Bisque When buying crab, ask the guy or gal behind the counter when they got the shipment in. The answer you want to hear is “this morning”. If the crab came in that morning, or even the day before, it should be good. If it is 3 or 4 days, I would wait until the next shipment. Make sure that you get a crab that is at least 2 pounds....

Healthier Creamy Chicken Soup In most cases, the base is heavy cream, a roux made of fat and flour, or both. I love a good stick-to-your ribs soup as much as the next person, but for this Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup, I wanted to lighten it up a bit and increase the protein, without adding loads of heavy cream or making a roux. To do that, I pureed a couple cans of cannellini beans....

These fish tacos are assembled at the table and eaten with your hands. They can turn any gathering of respectable people into a group of unruly friends with riotous laughter. There’s no pretense here. Just kick off your shoes, grab yourself a drink, and have a good time! Why Make Crispy Fish Tacos I mean, really, what’s not to love about fish tacos? A crispy breading, loaded with chili powder and citrus, encasing tender, flaky white fish?...

The black pepper and lime in the basil vinaigrette add a brightness and layer of complexity that gives this dish the perfect balance of sweet and savory. This quick and easy salad is delicious on its own but also pairs wonderfully with savory meats, adding a cool and zesty bite to whatever it’s served alongside. You’ll quickly see why this unexpected combination just works. How To Slice Stone Fruit First, cut the fruit in half, lengthwise, slicing all the way around the pit using the indent as a guide....

Here, creamy fontina, salty Parmesan, thin ribbons of zucchini and slivers of sweet red pepper get you started. Once the pizza comes out of the oven, it’s crisp at the edges and chewy in the center. Top it with some greens, cherry tomatoes, and fresh herbs, and presto! You have pizza and salad all in one! Naan, an Indian oval shaped flatbread, is perfect for pizza because it has just the right chewiness of good pizza dough....

So it was much to my surprise to learn that elderberries grow wild all along the American River, less than half a mile from my home. We moved to Sacramento when I was nine; I have spent countless summers catching minnows and picking blackberries at the river. I can’t believe these elderberries have been there the whole time, right in front of me! Foraging For Wild Elderberries Picking them can be a challenge, given the star thistles that poke through your jeans, constant vigilance for ticks (I really don’t like those) and rattlesnakes (have had a couple close encounters with those at the river)....

I’m going to fall back on all of the superstitions, rituals, and plain old prayers I know to will 2021 into being a good year for everyone. I’m starting off the week with comfort food in the form of Chicken Noodle Casserole, filling in the middle with Freekeh Vegetable Soup and Spring Rolls, and then ringing in the New Year with Hoppin’ John, a Southern meal intended to bring prosperity and wealth....

It is rich and creamy due to egg yolks and sweet, unsalted butter which gives this buttercream a beautiful ivory color. French Buttercream is easy to adapt and flavor, which makes it an excellent option for your desserts, especially if you’re not into cloyingly sweet frostings. What is French Buttercream? French buttercream is a meringue-based icing that is often made with whole eggs or just yolks, sweetened with liquid sugar and bulked up with softened unsalted butter....

So you use a match, and for some reason that grill. Will. Just. Not. Get. Hot. Enough. So you start over with the Weber and some charcoal, and grill a batch of beautiful skirt steak skewers that were marinating the whole time you were futzing with the equipment. And they are so perfect and delicious that you don’t care about the broken starter that needs to get fixed or your close call with a black widow....