If you’re a fan of fun food facts, perfect pairings, kitchen hacks and other tantalizing trivia, you’ll love our Daily Dish Blog! Read on for delicious topics like DIY projects, Foodie FAQs, new and seasonal products, Wines of the Month, Health Notes from Dr. Liz and more.
Do you love the taste of freshly juiced fruits and vegetables? While many tales are often told about the benefits of juicing, it is fact that certain juices may boost your health and performance, keep muscle soreness at bay and be a tasty way to get some of those needed fruit and veggie servings. Here are some juicing basics along with what juicing can do for you...
You may have seen mason jars repurposed as cute drinking glasses for a backyard party, or maybe used to hold flowers for a rustic centerpiece. But the folks at Jarware have taken things a step further, coming up with tons of innovative uses for the humble jar.
The State Fair might have come and gone, but meat on a stick is here year-round in our deli department! Try these fun skewered meats, handmade fresh in our stores by Nugget chefs: Salmon Yakitori, Gaucho-Style Beef Skewers with Chimichurri, Lamb Kefta, Beef Kabobs and Chicken Satay.
We don’t know about you, but to us, the start of football season means one important thing: game time snacks! Pick up some no-stress snack options from our deli department for a football spread that’s a cut above your average bag of chips: 7-Layer Dip, Chicken Flautas, Chef-prepared Guacamole.
Moving to a plant-based diet – passing on meats, seafood, eggs, dairy and all that comes from animals – is fast becoming an eating trend. Many research studies support that vegetarian eating has numerous health benefits, such as lowering risk for heart disease and certain cancers.
Here are some simple ways to round out your vegetarian menu and make sure your body gets what it needs for good health.
No one said drinking water has to be boring — why not liven up that plain old H2O by infusing it with fresh fruit or vegetable flavors? We love the water bottles made by Zing Anything!, which come with built-in infusers that you can use to add flavor to water while you drink it. The Citrus Zinger is designed to press lemons, limes, clementines or other citrus slices directly into your water bottle, or try the Zing 54 Carafe to add fruit, vegetable, herb or spice flavors via a specially designed muddling wand.
There's more to great barbecue than just meat! There are also tons of great vegetarian options for the grill like these awesome veggie burgers from our frozen section. Dig in!
Using glass stemware near the pool is usually a no-go, but isn’t a chilled glass of white wine enjoyed poolside on a summer evening one of life’s little luxuries? Enter Govino wine glasses, which are indeed not glass but instead an ultra-thin, flexible BPA-free polymer.
Have you heard about the “Pinkies Down” campaign? The ultra-cool winemakers at Oregon’s Union Wine Co. started this trend, which encourages wine drinkers to focus more on the craft of winemaking, and less on the stuffiness and pretension that sometimes accompanies wine connoisseurship. In that spirit, they’ve released two of their most popular wines, Underwood Pinot Noir and Pinor Gris, packaged in aluminum cans.
We might be well into late summer, but the bounty of the season just keeps on coming in Northern California. Now is the perfect time to check out the local summer squash available in our produce department: we have yellow crookneck, zucchini and eightball varieties on hand that are super-delicious this time of year.