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Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Business
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Valley Kitchen: Shrimp, grits, or lemon ricotta blueberry pancakes
BOARDMAN, Ohio (WKBN) – A local restaurant's second location, open just a few months, has exploded in Boardman. Valley Kitchen on Route 224 has a massive menu with a full bar and incredible breakfast and lunch entrees, whether you want sweet or savory. 'On the sweeter side, we have the lemon ricotta blueberry pancakes. We start fresh every day with our lemon ricotta pancake mix. We have a fresh lemon curd, fresh blueberries, and we top it all with whipped cream. This is a very big seller here at Valley Kitchen at both Boardman and Hermitage,' said Valley Kitchen General Manager Rachel Gassner. 'A little more on the savory side, we have our shrimp and grits. Shrimp freshly cooked along with bacon, peppers, onions, and we serve a side of Thai sauce with grits made in-house every day.' The Roasted Beet salad and variety of skillets are also big draws at Valley Kitchen. 'Fresh spring mix, pistachios, beets, feta cheese, Granny Smith apples, onions, and dried cranberries served with your dressing of choice, but most people like our white balsamic on that. You can add grilled chicken, blackened chicken, fresh shrimp,' said Gassner. 'We offer a wide variety of skillets. Our Chorizo Lime skillet. It has Chorizo sausage in there. There's corn, there's peppers, eggs of your choice, and it comes with our fresh bread, either multigrain, white rye, or a biscuit and a lime on the side.' If you've never tried Valley Kitchen's stuffed French toast, you're truly missing out. 'Our Strawberry Nutella stuffed French toast is three pieces of French toast with Nutella in the middle,' said Gassner. 'Our in-house housemade strawberry glaze, whipped cream, and topped with fresh strawberries.' Valley Kitchen also offers healthier dishes like the 'Locks and Loaded.' 'The Locks and Loaded starts with an everything bagel. Then we add dill seasoning, cream cheese, smoked salmon, onions, cucumbers, and capers,' said Gassner. 'It does come with a side of your choice being either grits, potatoes, or fresh fruit, which includes bananas, strawberries, and blueberries.' Not only is the menu at Valley Kitchen packed with variety and fresh choices, but so is the full bar. 'We can do coffee drinks, and we also serve alcohol. A Cinnamon Roll latte–you could do this. Hot or iced, and then toppings of choice. We can mix flavors together. Whatever you're interested in, we probably have it here,' said Gassner. 'Next, we will go to our Espresso martini. Then we have our in-house Margarita, and then here we have a Lavender lemonade martini.' No matter what day you head to Valley Kitchen, expect it to be buzzing with lots of customers and a great open atmosphere with a patio. Valley Kitchen also offers catering and has another location at 3640 State Street in Hermitage. Valley Kitchen is located at 1393 Boardman Canfield Road in Boardman, across from Meijer's. Visit them Monday through Sunday from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call 234-338-9191, visit them online on Facebook. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Community Corner: Managing your mental health
We hear a lot about physical health — eating right, exercising, going to the doctor — but what about mental health?It's a big part of our overall estimated that 58.7 million adults in this country experience a mental more than 20% of the adult pediatrician Dr. Yolanda Rivera-Caudill also known as Dr. Beet and Chelsea Dye, Wellness Strategist & Mindset Coach, and Co-founder of Purpose & Plants sat down with WSAV's Kim Gusby to share some helpful advice. Learn about their 100 Days of Purpose Challenge here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
How To Make 'Midwestern Salad' 10x Better, According to Food Network Star Molly Yeh
It's nearly impossible not to be enchanted by Molly Yeh and her recipes. The cookbook author and star of Food Network's Girl Meets Farm peppers her food with fun flavors and a kaleidoscope of bright colors that radiate happiness. And all of that sweetness and light is on full display in Yeh's newest cookbook, Sweet Farm!: More Than 100 Cookies, Cakes, Salads (!), and Other Delights from My Kitchen on a Sugar Beet Farm. The recipes in the book are a mix of fun treats—think church cookbook classics, playful remakes of childhood desserts and fresh creations that incorporate flavors from her Chinese and Jewish roots. Related: Sweet Farm! is organized based on dessert type. There are cookies, cakes and breads, but it's the salads chapter (yes, salad can be dessert, especially in the Midwest) where Yeh's uniquely sweet food identity shines. We chatted with Yeh recently about the new book and talked to her about her love for all things sugar, her passion for nostalgic flavors and, most notably, the wonders of fluff, the iconic Midwestern dessert salad. Related: Parade: We'd love to know a little more about what inspired you to write ! Molly Yeh: My obsession with sweets has no end, and the fact that I married a literal sugar farmer meant that I couldn't not write this book. The sweets are inspired by life here—they're reflective of the local cuisine, as well as my heritage and the kinds of sweets that keep big burly farmers going in the fields. The recipes are big, rustic, whimsical and sometimes messy but it's ok because if you're eating them in a tractor, you're probably covered in some dirt already! Related: You're famous for blending your Chinese-Jewish heritage with your Midwestern roots. How do the recipes in continue to highlight that? I have absolutely no chill when it comes to expressing my love for my favorite nostalgic flavors, like black sesame, tahini, cardamom, pistachio, marzipan, rhubarb, halva and rose. So there are LOTS of recipes in the book with those ingredients. I also wanted to create new versions of classics, like babka, rugelach, cookie salad and pineapple buns that would tell the stories that make them special to me. 😋😋SIGN UP to get delicious recipes, handy kitchen hacks & more in our daily Pop Kitchen newsletter🍳🍔 Speaking of salad, it's Midwestern to dedicate an entire chapter to . Fluff, that classic combo of whipped cream (or Cool Whip) and Jell-O, is a potluck staple, but the ube fluff recipe in the book really turns that dish on its head. Can you talk about the texture and flavor of that dessert? Ube fluff is fluffy, creamy, wiggly and a little chewy from the tapioca. The flavor of ube has always reminded me of cookies and cream for some reason! It's sweet and earthy, similar to vanilla. I love it. And what makes this truly unique is the fact that ube wasn't really available in the Midwest until very recently, so the meeting of ube with fluff is a new phenomenon. I'm proud to make this shidduch (the traditional process of finding a marital partner within the Jewish community with the assistance of a matchmaker). First, make and chill the ube gelatin until set. While the gelatin sets, make tapioca pudding using coconut milk, sugar and ube halaya jam until thick and creamy. Once both components are chilled, whip heavy cream with powdered sugar, fold in the broken-up gelatin, pudding and mini marshmallows. Finish with more marshmallows. Serve immediately or refrigerate until ready. Do you have any tips for people who are new to cooking with ube or looking for it in stores? Ube halaya is the name for ube jam that's easy to order online. When ube is in its halaya state, it's already gone through a fairly long cooking process, which is necessary since you can't eat it raw. Ube extract is also easy to order online. Related: Are there any other underrated Asian flavors or Asian ingredients you think people should use to take classic desserts up a notch? Kinako is my current fave. It's Japanese roasted soybean powder and its flavor reminds me of peanut butter but funkier in a cool way. I like to add some to chocolate chip cookies or hot chocolate!
