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Pair blueberry muffins with a Sea Breeze for a fruity breakfast.

On Mother's Day, Mom deserves royal treatment. What better way to make her feel like the queen she is than to make her breakfast in bed (and serve up some morning cocktails)? While the kids make breakfast, Dad can whip up a cocktail to complement her scrumptious and relaxing meal. He can also make nonalcoholic versions of the cocktails so the kids can enjoy a fruity drink as well, or if an alcoholic beverage is not your mom's cup of tea, she will enjoy any of these mocktails.

Here are five easy breakfast-in-bed meals with morning cocktails for Mom on her special day. And as Joanna said, take her out to dinner as well.

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Paula and Christa

Pack a picnic basket filled with these easy dishes.

When the weather is nice, I always like to head outside and eat my meals. Whether I'm sitting in the grass or on a bench in the park, or sitting on a beach blanket poolside, having a picnic is one of my favorite perks to summer.

Unfortunately, some foods just don't work logistically when you're transferring them outside, and they don't hold up in the summer heat for too long. In fact, my mom tells me a dreadful story of packing tuna fish sandwiches for the beach and how the summer heat turned them into a warm, unpalatable and overly fishy meal that caused several people stomach distress.

You can guarantee tuna fish sandwiches are not on this list, unless you love tuna -- in that case, pack it in a cooler with ice -- but here are five foods you can easily pack, transport safely and eat at your picnic location, wherever that may be.

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Monty Python's Spamalot will be coming to Houston's Theatre Under The Stars soon, running from May 14 through May 26. To pay homage to the musical, we've compiled 5 Spamtastic Recipes for y'all to try.

Time to "eat ham, and jam and Spam a lot."

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DeathByBokeh

Freeze peaches to enjoy the fresh and sweet fruit throughout the fall and winter seasons.

I don't know about you, but my favorite food is in season during the spring and the summer. Fruits and vegetables are super fresh, the legumes and beans are scrumptious and the herbs make everything taste so much better.

Unfortunately, because weather changes and the seasons change, you can't buy spring and summer produce all year long. But be thankful for your freezer; you can preserve a majority of fruits, vegetables and beans and enjoy them during the fall and winter.

Here are five farmers' market products that hold up well in the freezer, so you can enjoy them all year long.

5. Peaches

Peaches are growing rapidly in Texas during April, so now is the time to grab a bunch of them and stick them in the freezer. Pick ripe sweet peaches, which are the ones that easily split from the pit -- if you would eat it at that moment, then it is perfect for freezing. In order to keep the peaches fresh, freeze them with a sugar-and-water mixture or with fruit juice. This helps preserve the color of peaches and keeps them firm and sweet. Use about one cup of a sugar-water solution per quart of peaches. Keep them in the freezer to enjoy peach cobblers, peach ice cream and simple peaches-and-cream desserts throughout the fall and winter.

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shutterbean

Use these simple ingredients to make your salad dressings much healthier.

Salads can be excellent additions to a diet -- but if your salad is filled with low-calorie and highly nutritious toppings, adding too much dressing (especially creamy and fatty ones) can turn that salad into a diet villain. Of course, you could opt for the light or low-fat options found in the grocery store aisles, but those options almost always add more sodium, carbs or cholesterol to make up for the lack of fat and sugar.

So why settle for a "healthier" dressing when you can make simple substitutions to make your own at-home light salad dressings?

Have no fear, creamy-salad-dressing lovers. Here are five ingredients you can use to make your own at-home dressings that are healthy, light and have more flavor than store-bought ones.

5. Vinegars

When you take out a lot of the fat in salad dressings, you need to add strong flavors. Vinegars, like balsamic, raspberry or white wine vinegar, add a pungent and sharp touch to any vinaigrette salad dressing. Add these vinegars to extra-virgin olive oil, salt and pepper for a light dressing to toss in your salad.

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Photo by Katharine Shilcutt

Yaki Snack Attack chef Austin King in the kitchen at Grand Prize Bar.

Still haven't made plans for the weekend? It's not too late. It's never too late. Carpe diem and whatever else Robin Williams yelled at his English class in that movie where they all stood on their desks as the whitest act of defiance you've ever seen on-screen.

Yaki Snack Attack at Grand Prize Bar
Friday, 7 to 11 p.m.
1010 Banks

Tonight is the last night to catch Yaki Snack Attack in its most recent pop-up run at Grand Prize Bar. The talented young Austin King has recruited fellow cook Willet Feng to create an Asian fusion menu unlike any other. Instead of Southern-fried dim sum, this time King is making dishes such as frog leg karaage and unagi ice cream. Plus, Feng will be making classic Malaysian nasi lemak -- and at $8, it's the most expensive dish on the short, cheap menu.

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Even our goats are going crazy.

Ever since Taco Bell introduced the Doritos Locos Tacos in 2012 (Nacho Cheese) and again in 2013 (Cool Ranch), the Internet has lost its collective shit for Doritos. Our own Christina Uticone got the chip-induced fever and reviewed both flavors herself and rumor has it that Frito Lay is making a Doritos-Locos-flavored Doritos -- which just kind of blows our minds, but we digress...

Knowing that the Internet wouldn't let the madness stop at Taco Bell, we went on the hunt for some of the wildest Doritos creations out there. We figured y'all were crazy...and boy, were we right.

Check out these 5 Insane Genius Kinda Awesome Doritos Ideas:

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leojmelsrub

Cook with green tea leaves to enhance ordinary dishes.

Green tea is an excellent source of caffeine that provides you with antioxidants that can help fight against risks of heart disease, cancer and blood clots. It's also one of those beverages that can instantly improve your mood.

Strictly drinking green tea can be a little boring and monotonous, however, so here are five ways you can use it when you're fixing up dinner or baking a healthy treat to enjoy in the afternoon.

5. Steamed Fish with Green Tea Leaves

Adding green tea leaves takes an ordinary steamed fish dish to new heights. Jasmine green tea leaves with ginger and scallions instead of water and wood chips add a wonderful lightness to the fish. Finish it with other Asian ingredients, like soy sauce, red chile, and more ginger and onions. The green tea leaves will definitely improve the taste of a simple steamed fish meal.

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Just move (slowly) toward the melted butter.

Next year I should give up shelled creatures for Lent, so strong is my liking for crabs, lobster, oysters....and snails! Escargot isn't exactly something you can pick up at the market, so I'm always on the lookout for restaurants with interesting land mollusk options. Here are five that have caught my eye:

5. L'Escargot on a Baguette at L'es-Car-Go

Butter + garlic + snails + bread. Simple ingredients but rich in flavor and the perfect lunch for a slightly chilly spring day. I really hope the next stop for L'es-Car-Go is a permanent storefront because I'm wasting far too much time tracking them around town.

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Ever find that it's "simply impossible to settle on one protein to craft a burger?" ...Me neither.

But if you have faced that problem, have no fear! Top Chef All-Stars winner Richard Blais and the Web channel Tasted have teamed up to solve all of your single-meated-burger problems.

The solution "starts with the letter T...and ends with URDUCKEN."

My friends, allow me to introduce you to the Turducken Burger:

Now that Blais has "solved" this major "conundrum" in our lives (thank God!), you'd think all would be fine and dandy, right? Wrong.

You see, we here at Eating...Our Words don't like to rest on our (or okay, really Blais's) laurels, so we've come up with a few epic burgers of our own.

Here are 5 Ridiculous Burgers That We'd Love to See Become a Reality:

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