Peanut Butter Cheesecake Recipes, One With Chocolate, One With Caramel Corn

For National Peanut Butter Day (January 24th), we baked a peanut butter cheesecake. We’d always relied on this Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheesecake from Philadelphia Cream Cheese, but today’s cheesecake took a different route. The recipe below is a frozen cheesecake. It’s a lighter recipe than the Philadelphia version, which uses 24 ounces of cream cheese…
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Homemade Peanut Butter Recipe For National Peanut Butter Day

[1] Homemade peanut butter is an elevated taste experience. It will last for several weeks in the fridge (photos © #1, #2 and #3 © Hello Fresh). [2] You can make your favorite flavored peanut butters easily. Here, it’s honey. [3] Some people want to spread it on bread; others enjoy it on a spoon,…
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FOOD FUN: Oreo Cookie Recipe For National Oreo Day

Love peanut butter? Love Oreos? Combine them to create your own peanut butter Oreos (photo #1). The idea is from Peanut Butter & Co., one of our favorite brands of peanut butter. They have Smooth and Crunchy PBs in three versions: regular, No Sugar Added and Old Fashioned. And the flavors! Dark Chocolatey Dreams Cinnamon…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Bacon Jam For National Bacon Day

[1] Homemade bacon jam (photo © Grognar | CC BY 2.0 license). [2] Ready-to-eat bacon jam from Vino de Milo. You can buy it online (photo © Vino de Milo). [3] Brussels sprouts with bacon jam: a hors d’oeuvre, appetizer or side (photo © Pampered Chef). [4] Shredded short rib and bacon jam on crostini…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Easy Homemade Strawberry Jam & Blueberry Preserves

For those who like the idea of homemade jam but have never wanted to undertake the labor to make it: This tip’s for you! These fresh quick jam recipes—Strawberry Jam and Blueberry Preserves—came to us from Anson Mills, purveyor of organic heirloom grains: the finest grains, flours, grits, rices beans and peas we’ve ever had…
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