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Stack slices of grilled polenta with your favorite fillings; here, crab salad and guacamole (photo © Costanero Cocoino Peruana). Polenta—which is both the Italian word for cornmeal and a cooked dish made from it—has become popular in America through Italian and Continental restaurants. But it’s not new to America. For the first two centuries…
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A spin on fries: tofu and coconut. Photo courtesy House Foods. Most people have had french fries in some or all of their variations*, sweet potato fries, zucchini fries, even yucca fries. But how about tofu fries? House Foods created this tasty recipe, which evokes coconut-battered shrimp: CRISPY COCONUT TOFU FRIES WITH SPICY APRICOT…
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We overdid it recently, purchasing a jumbo bag of white rice that we’re not likely to make a dent in anytime soon (we try to eat whole grains like brown rice, which we especially enjoy in rice salads). So we searched for other ways to use the rice, and found five more ways to employ…
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Hot and hearty cheese grits. Photo courtesy Tillamook.com. It’s so cold in the Northeast today, we’re warming up with a bowl of steaming cheese grits. If you’re not from the South, you might not totally “get” grits, a thick, creamy porridge. They can be bland in their traditional recipe, with salt and a pat…
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A “NEW” ANCIENT GRAIN Watch out, quinoa: There’s a new grain in town. Although it’s only new to America; freekeh dates to about 2300 B.C.E. As the story goes, freekeh was created by accident when a Middle Eastern village was attacked. The hostiles set the fields of young green wheat blaze. After the enemy departed,…
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