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What, you haven’t yet been to a farmers market this summer? You’re missing out on gorgeous produce and other goodies. Here are some tips from Birds & Blooms, America’s leading bird and garden magazine, to help make your visit easy, stress-free and, dare we say it, fruitful! DON’T expect it to be a quick trip.…
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Happy ever after in the marketplace: a really good gluten-free pie dough, plus cookie and pizza options. Photo courtesy Pillsbury. Many of us who are gluten-sensitive have said goodbye to baking, goodbye to homemade pies, pizza…and goodbye to the comfort of an impulsive batch of chocolate chip cookies. Sometimes you just don’t want to…
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Dessert stacks are easy to make. Photo courtesy Filicori Zecchini. Call it a dessert stack, a mock mille-feuille (Napoleon) or whatever you like: It’s a really easy way to serve an impressive and fun stacked dessert. Graham crackers, pound cake and loaf cake, phyllo or wontonscan be used as the base, filled with bananas,…
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Some people are purists; but when we enjoy a chocolate bar, we have a better time when it’s combined with another flavor. Ghirardelli has an armload of options in dark, milk and white chocolate: plump melt-in-your-mouth squares variously filled with caramel, mint, orange, raspberry and other favorites. The company recently added two new flavors to…
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An avocado boat, Southwestern style. Photo courtesy Avocado Central. If your principal enjoyment of avocado is in the form of guacamole, allow us to suggest an avocado “boat”—a stuffed avocado half. When our grandmother held her weekly card parties with “the ladies,” their choice of luncheon was Avocado Boat With Crab Salad. Not surprisingly,…
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