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Nutritious Root Vegetable Cooking Guides for Winter
From carrots to beets, root vegetables are certainly having a moment in the spotlight in the culinary world. These creative cooking websites all have guides to help home chefs prepare these starchy, savory vegetables in a variety of different ways.
Healthy Cooking Every Day
The Food Network’s Healthy Cooking Every Day page now features a full guide to root vegetables, with recipes, tips for choosing the freshest veggies, and advice for how to pair each root vegetable with complementary foods. Here you’ll learn things like how to steam nutrient-rich parsnips and prepare a delicious Root Vegetable Hash with Horseradish Cream.
The Daily Green
The Recipes that Make Root Vegetables Taste Good page of The Daily Green website informs readers of root vegetables’ health benefits, from reducing heart disease to improving vision. It also features simple, delicious recipes like Creamy Potato Soup and Smoky Root Vegetable Gratin, separated by type of veggie for your convenience.
Fine Cooking
These hearty Roasting Recipes from Fine Cooking magazine are elegant, simplistic takes on the nutritious root vegetable. The search bar allows you to search the recipes by type of vegetable, while the photo gallery is a great opportunity to browse recipes by what looks most appealing. This guide features Carrots and Warm Lentil Salad, Roasted Beet Sandwiches with Herbed Goat Cheese, and a variety of other recipes that your friends and family will love.

Listen to Podcasts on Your Mobile Device with These Apps
Podcasts are an interesting, informative way to pass the time while driving or commuting to work, and they’ve also become extremely portable because of the large number of ways to listen to them. These three apps will make finding your favorite podcasts even easier than ever before.
Stitcher
Stitcher is an app that contains over 20,000 radio shows and podcasts. By downloading this app on your iPhone, Android, or iPad, you’ll have full access to the latest episodes of all of the most popular podcasts without even downloading or syncing with your computer.
PRX Public Radio Player
The Public Radio Player app is one of the simplest ways of streaming shows and podcasts from public radio stations like NPR, PRX, PRI, and APM. The app is available completely free of charge, and it even allows you to listen offline when you’re not in an area with Internet service.
Swell
Swell is an innovative streaming app that learns which subjects you’re interested in, and provides content based on those preferences. With the goal of providing only content that you want to listen to, Swell delivers podcasts and news radio shows that you might enjoy from sources like NPR, PRI, This American Life, and Comedy Bang Bang.
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