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Ripe Now: Winter Lasagna Squash

Not spaghetti squash. Lasagna squash. Winter squash is everywhere. Totally ripe, totally fresh. Really cheap. Lasagna Squash is quick and easy to make - a meal in a single pan. Aromatic and delicious. Fresh vegetables and cheese. Five dollars. Serves two or three.
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Give us our daily bread. In 5 minutes.

It doesn't take a miracle to pop a just-baked loaf of bread out of your oven and onto your table every day. Just takes some patience. Five minutes of preparation plus 30 waiting for it to bake. And cool down before you slice this great looking, great smelling, great tasting bread.
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Ripe and Right Now: Sweet Potatoes

They're digging them at farms everywhere and selling them - cheap - at markets everywhere. You don't want to eat them raw, but they have such great flavor - and so much of it - you really don't have to do much to get delicious, nutritious results. Save money. Save a life.
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Balance: Knee Lifts on the Board

You could slip, trip or otherwise sprain an ankle or end up on your butt later today. And off both feet for six to eight weeks. So take a minute to consider three minutes a day of Balance Training. One leg at a time. Just Press Play.
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Slower Sunday: Under the Boardwalk

It's a little spooky down here, but it's cool. You feel like you're in some surfer version of the underworld. Thirty feet up there, thousands of people. Down here, not a soul. Just the timbers holding up the old pier. Take a minute in a slow, cool place. Just Press Play and drift. Just for a minute.n
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Pumpkin Pops. This is a test.

They look great. They smell great. They taste great. They're like bite-size pumpkin pies on a stick, only better. No soggy pie crust and no gelatinous filling. A small random sample of adults love them. But only tomorrow - and the kids - will decide: trick or treat.
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The Walk That Ate Santa Monica

Want to eat your way through Santa Monica and burn more calories than you consume? You'll have to spend some time on the beach. If you're OK with that, here's an all-day culinary tour that leaves you with a serious calorie deficit.
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Halloween Curry

Surprise your pumpkin: don't carve it, curry it. Less than a dollar for the baby pumpkins I used for two big servings. Less than 50 cents worth of spices. Delicious. And the entire apartment smelled like an exotic spice market (and I mean that in a really good way) for hours.
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You need to make his bread to believe it

A killer loaf of bread. In your own oven. Without kneading dough. Really. No kneading. Almost no work at all. Add some water to bread flour, salt and yeast, stir for 30 seconds, wait for 18 hours. Truly a Better Cheaper Slower bread.
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Balance: Standing on one leg

You could slip, trip or otherwise sprain an ankle or end up on your butt later today. And off both feet for six to eight weeks. So take a minute to consider three minutes a day of Balance Training. One leg at a time. Just Press Play.
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