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Aside from being a songwriter and music producer for several Top 40 hits, a successful record executive, and Selena Gomez’s partner, Benny Blanco is now a bestselling cookbook author. In honor of the debut of Open Wide: A Cookbook for Friends, he went on quite the press-a-palooza, making appearances on podcasts, morning shows, and late night TV.
During one memorable segment on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the comedian/host and Blanco shared a table—rather than sticking to the standard desk and armchair set-up—because “this is an entertainment book. A guide to dining and wining, so I thought it would be fun to have a little kind of dinner with you,” Fallon said. The duo sat behind a table adorned with a platter of sliced steak and crispy potatoes, a big bowl of salad, bowls of strawberries with whipped cream, and two glasses of wine. Oh, and two shot glasses full of olive oil.
“Biggest trick. Olive oil. You take a shot,” Blanco tells Fallon, adding that some “old guys from Italy” shared the tip with his friend Nino. “Before you drink, you take a shot of this. You can’t get hungover. Impossible.”
Blanco went on to insinuate that it coats your stomach and protects you from getting a hangover. Is this really what happens, or is Blanco wasting his time—and olive oil? We asked dietitians for their recommendation.
A hangover is a collection of symptoms that are triggered by overindulging in alcohol, says Roxana Ehsani, M.S., RD, CSSD.
“Everyone metabolizes alcohol differently, so it's hard to say how much will cause a hangover,” Ehsani tells Better Homes & Gardens. “Even a moderate amount such as 1 to 2 drinks may cause a hangover in some people.”
Hangover symptoms can vary, but typically
How Can I Get a Stump to Rot Quickly? If you've got a stump to remove in a hard-to-reach spot, we have tips to help it decompose quickly. How to rot a stump quickly
Transport yourself back to the beginning of summer. You planted a few tomato plants in the hopes you'd have a summer full of tomato sandwiches, tomato pies, and simple lunches of juicy tomato slices with a simple dressing of olive oil, salt, and cracked pepper. A few months later, and one of your tomato plants is going above and beyond. It's delivering a bounty of rich, flavorful tomatoes, and you're wondering how you can recreate this harvest next summer.
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It may feel as though you were just setting up your backyard for the summer, but now that fall is on the horizon, it's time to think about prepping your space for the next season.
The glossy mahogany-brown nuts of the horse chestnut or conker tree, are commonly known as conkers, after the game played with them by generations of children. However, unlike the nuts of the similarly named but unrelated sweet chestnut tree, conkers aren’t edible to humans unless cooked. However they are widely used for crafts such as model-making as well as games.
I may well have created a vase on Monday with the title ‘Candy Girl’ before, but with Dahlia ‘Eye Candy’ as the main focal point that is what popped into my head, alongside lyrics of the Archies’ late 1960s song ‘Sugar Sugar’.
There are plenty of performance interior paints and coatings for walls, trim, and furniture that are purportedly durable against scuffs and cracks, and that boast waterproof, water-resistant, or water-repellent properties. While these qualities render them suitable for spaces and surfaces that come into contact with water and cleaning agents—such as a kitchen, bath, or tabletop—they aren’t necessarily durable for painting the exterior, or any exterior component, of your home.
Maybe you’ve already been living your best brat summer, or maybe you’re finally hyped up enough to give it a go—either way, we’ve got the plants to make all your techno-tinted dreams come true. Lime green is definitely having a moment, and if you aren’t familiar, Charli XCX’s hit album, “Brat,” has inspired everything from memes to fashion trends to presidential campaigns to countless TikTok videos. But we’re here to turn pop culture into plant cultivars, so get ready to infuse the now world-famous album cover’s green hue into your plant palette. Read on for the leafy lovelies you can add anywhere from bookshelves to backyard borders that will wrap up your summer with a botanical banger.
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If your lawn is looking a little sad or sparse this year, June bugs may be to blame. These beetles emerge from the soil in spring or early summer, earning the common name of May or June bugs. “June bugs are a type of scarab beetle, with several species found in the Southeast,” says Shimat V. Joseph, PhD, associate professor of turfgrass and ornamentals, department of entomology, at theUniversity of Georgia. “They release pheromones for mating so you’ll typically see them congregating on the side of a building, often near a light.”