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Coq au vin: Close enough for Stew Week

Whether or not it's a stew, it's aromatic, herbaceous, smoky, tender organic chicken in a deep, dark, rich wine sauce thick with mushrooms and onions. Totally luscious and satisfying. Just 40 minutes on your stovetop. Just $4 per serving.
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Fragrant Lamb Stew for Stew Week

Earthy, sweet, tangy, tart, herbaceous and spicy all at once. Totally luscious and satisfying. It warms up the kitchen, it warms up the house. When it's miserable outdoors, this stew makes it wonderful indoors.
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Stew Week: Boeuf Bourguignonne

When it's miserable outdoors, make it wonderful indoors. Warm up your kitchen with a highly aromatic humidifier. Boeuf a la Bourguignonne. Beef braised in a rich wine sauce until it's beyond tender and into the zone of melting.
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Your Monday #9: Look ma, no chair

Like all first-Mondays-of-the-month, today's comes with a simple, gentle one-minute Way to improve your health. Get up! C'mon, you can read standing up. By the time you finish reading this Way, you're done with the first rep of today's healthy exercise.
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Don’t Just Sit There. Shiver!

If you've been shivering during this crazy cold winter season, you've been burning calories. In a very desirable Way. You've been converting white fat to brown fat. Say what? Click to learn two really interesting things. You can do one of them in your chair.
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Boardwalk to Heaven. And a High Swamp

4,000' above the Pacific Ocean, right on top of Kauai's Waimea Canyon. The highest swamp in the world. Eight miles out and back. Strangest, and maybe the coolest, trail I've ever hiked. The Alaka'i Swamp Trail. You have to see the photos.
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Don’t Just Do Something

Sit there. And think about what you might do with your extra day. An extra sunrise and sunset. Twelve hours in between. Press Play. C'mon. The e-mail can wait. Happy Leap Year.
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Back to BCS Basics: Poaching Chicken

Less than five minutes of preparation to get an exceptionally tender, flavorful and aromatic chicken. The chicken, some herbs and your stove do the rest. Then you eat. Tender, moist, delicious. Way to be.
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Chicken-Coconut Soup, sweetly spiced

A bright, refreshing but very warm party in your mouth. No signs of Spring where I live, so I'm making soup this week. Starting with this south by southeast Asian Chicken-Coconut Soup. Inhale. All the Way. You won't get stoned, but you'll be transported.
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