CHINESE NEW YEAR: Godiva Chocolate For The Year Of The Horse

Lady Godiva rides in for the Lunar New Year. The image is larger than the actual chocolates. Photo courtesy Godiva.   Some foodies end the Christmas-New Year holiday season in anticipation of Valentine’s Day. But don’t forget about Chinese New Year, celebrated by Chinese, Koreans and Vietnamese, who follow a different calendar than Western cultures.…
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FOOD FUN: Crocamole, An Avocado Crocodile

You looking at me? Photo courtesy Shannon Seip | Bean Sprouts Café & Cooking School.   This fun idea comes from Shannon Payette Seip, author of Bean Appetit: Hip And Healthy Ways To Have Fun With Food. She is co-founder of Bean Sprouts Café and Cooking School in Seattle, where families learn to make dishes…
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TIP: Add Turmeric To Foods

Turmeric is a rhizome with edible roots that grow underground horizontally. It’s related to ginger, which it somewhat resembles in external appearance. Most Americans know turmeric as a deep gold spice that gives its intense color to curry powder. It’s been used for millennia to impart its color to foods. In the last century, it…
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RECIPE: Crunchy Strawberry Ice Cream Sandwich

January 15th is National Strawberry Ice Cream Day. You can have a scoop, a sundae or a shake; but you can have even more fun with this recipe from Pillsbury for Strawberry Marshmallow Crisp Ice Cream Sandwiches. The crunch comes from Rice Chex cereal, which is gluten free. The prep time 15 minutes; the total…
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RECIPE: Pasta e Fagioli Soup

If you’ve watched enough “Abbott & Costello” reruns, you’ll hear Lou Costello wanting a dish of “pasta fazool.” That’s Neapolitan Italian dialect for pasta e fagioli, correctly pronounced pasta ay fah-JOE-lee. Pasta e fagioli, pasta with beans (typically cannellini beans), is a popular Italian peasant dish. Some Americans call it bean and macaroni soup, but…
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