Lifestyle - Tuesday, May 19, 2026

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Grilled chicken and bread star in this salad riff on a Binghamton, New York, specialty.

It's all about the two-ingredient glaze. The post This Sheet Pan Balsamic Salmon Is the Simple Dinner That Always Delivers appeared first on Camille Styles .

Always wondered what everyday stuff celebrities buy, where they shop for food, and the basic they scrimp on? The interior designer talks cheesemongers, chore jackets and lost engagement rings with the Filter • Don’t get the Filter delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Australian-born interior designer Banjo Beale lives on the Isle of Ulva in the Scottish Hebrides with his husband, Ro. He won BBC’s Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr in 2022, and went on to front his own Bafta Scotland award-winning BBC TV series, Designing the Hebrides. He has written two bestselling books, Wild Isle Style and A Place in Scotland , and is now renovating an abandoned mansion for his BBC series Banjo and Ro’s Grand Island Hotel , available to stream on BBC iPlayer. Continue reading...

I realized I was focusing on the wrong thing: I worried about what to say rather than how I’d say it.

Don’t just tip it into boiling water and leave it, says our pasta panel – it needs a bit of attention When I cook pasta with a hollow (eg, orecchiette), how do I stop it sticking together? The water is always boiling and salted, sometimes with oil, but last week my granddaughter and I spent half an hour going through the damn stuff. David, Manchester “Pasta is an engaged activity, so it’s really important that you don’t just drop it [in boiling water] and walk away,” says Dara Klein, of Tiella in east London. “Like a dear friend, pay it some attention.” David mentions orecchiette, which is a particularly vulnerable shape, says the Guardian’s Italian correspondent, Rachel Roddy : “They have a habit of falling into each other,” she sympathises, and in such times it’s best to check your basic principles. “It’s always the same rules,” Roddy says. “The water should be fast boiling, add salt, then stir, so you’ve got that double movement.” She isn’t one for adding olive oil, mind. Neither is Klein: “It’s just not necessary. And even if you’ve added a healthy glug of oil to the water, you’re still going to get clumping if you don’t stir.” This may seem obvious, but make sure your pasta hasn’t intertwined in the bag before shaking it into the rolling water, and don’t be daft and dump the lot in all at once. “As soon as the pasta is in the water, give it a stir with a wooden spoon,” says Klein, who then stirs every minute to ensure those pasta shapes float free. Got a culinary dilemma? Email [email protected] Continue reading...

This recipe turns the chicken spiedie — a classic sandwich from Binghamton, New York, that is piled with cubes of marinated meat — into a fresh, flavorful salad.

Letter writer with chronic illness resents that unsympathetic husband now expects full mercies for his aging body.