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To create ambience, it’s all about choosing the right type of lighting fixture for your backyard. Luckily, Michael Murphy, Interior Design and Trends Producer for Lamps Plus, is here to help. Here, Murphy breaks down the different types of outdoor lighting, where to place fixtures, how to calculate how much lighting you need, and much more. For a lawn quick fix, Murphy suggests using a landscape lighting kit. “Try a kit that plugs directly into any outdoor outlet,” he says....

Taking her rage out on a world with her father no longer in it, she grows up and begins to question the mythology that has engulfed her memories of the man behind the art. The best part? Photos of Schactman’s artwork appear within these pages, which creates an even more intimate feel. It’s a memoir that explores grief in a way that has never been done before. Not only is she faced with the startling discovery that her “loving” husband had been having an affair with 23-year-old Southern belle, Savannah, but it also turns out Eliot left his share of the business to this other woman in the will....

Take fad diets like juice cleanses: We’re drawn to them because they promise big results minimal time and effort, and they appear to work—but only for a while. Because of course the number on the scale is going to go down (temporarily) if you’re only drinking spinach water! But as soon as you go back to eating real food—as humans should do—you go right back where you started, not to mention you’ll feel hungry, low on energy, and bad for not being able to stick with it (even though it’s not healthy or possible live on juiced produce alone)....

Should you consider using aloe vera for more than just a topical solution for sunburn relief and start sipping the pulpy, thicker-than-water juice? Given that people have compared the taste to everything from laundry detergent to a more bitter wheatgrass, we thought it necessary to turn to experts to separate fact from fiction. What Is Aloe Vera Juice? “Aloe vera juice is extracted from the green outer leaf of the aloe vera plant,” says Rachel Berman, a registered dietician in New York City....

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The Potato Any potato—sweet, Idaho, red—works for a baked potato, and if you have a method you love for baking, stick with it! Larger potatoes offer more surface area for toppings but take longer to cook, while smaller baked potatoes can look cute on a platter to serve to guests. If you want to speed up your cooking process, use a fork to poke holes on all sides of the washed potato, and pop it in the microwave for three minutes until steaming....

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Tired of poking tiny holes in the top and bottom with a pin, standing over the sink, and blowing the contents from one end of the egg out the other? It turns out the best way to prepare Easter eggs is to simply learn how to hard boil eggs for Easter. Not only is boiling Easter eggs easier than standing over the sink trying to undo nature, but hard-boiled Easter eggs are easier to work with, easier to hide (say, inside the cookie jar or an adult Easter basket), and less delicate for tiny hands to handle....

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From the book: CHICANO BAKES by Esteban Castillo. Copyright © 2022 by Esteban Castillo. Reprinted courtesy of Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Related Video

To answer your first question, cottage pie originated in rural England and Ireland in the late 1700s, coinciding with potato’s rise as a staple in country cottage kitchens. It consists of a rich, meaty, stew-like mixture—made with ground beef and vegetables—that’s topped with a decadent buttery mashed-potato topping. Regarding your second question, the distinguishing element between cottage and Shepard’s pies is that Shepard’s uses minced lamb instead of ground beef, although the terms are commonly interchanged....

As a designer, Anita Yokota collects quite a bit of furniture and styling props that need storing, so the garage fills up before her annual summer garage sale. Finally, the designer decided to take the yearly clean-out one step further by not just decluttering but also organizing and decorating her would-be laundry room. The result is a beautiful, über-organized space full of laundry room garage ideas to steal for your own home....

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“Hot water is rough on our skin and can irritate and damage our skin barrier. Patients with eczema already have a damaged skin barrier layer, and over time, hot showers just make it worse,” says Papri Sarkar, MD, a board-certified dermatologist based in Brookline, Mass. She adds that her patients with eczema are sometimes extra tempted to take a hot shower because it can be temporarily soothing to their itchy skin....

“Airlines have always run on thin margins with tight turnarounds, and the [COVID-19] pandemic has only made that worse,” says travel expert Susan Moynihan of The Honeymoonist/Largay Travel. “Airlines reportedly laid off some 90,000 positions in 2020, and they are still short-staffed [in 2021], for all of the reasons that we know. So there is even less room to rebound for unfortunate issues in the form of weather, mechanical issues, quarantining staff, or anything else....

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