TIP OF THE DAY: Rethink The Green Bean Casserole Recipe

  Oh, how we feel for people who are fed green bean casserole made with canned green beans, canned fried onions and canned mushroom soup. If you know such unfortunates, please share with them this splendid recipe for the real thing, from Alton Brown. Alton’s green bean casserole recipe uses fresh green beans, cooked al…
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TIP OF THE DAY: The Best Way To Reheat Pizza (In A Frying Pan)

Crisp up that pizza! Photo by Moi Cody | SXC.   Do you reheat your pizza in the oven? In the microwave? We’ve got a better technique, courtesy of Chef John of FoodWishes.com. Refreshing a pizza on the stovetop delivers a much crisper pizza, in a fraction of the time it takes to heat the…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make An Easy Taco Recipe With Leftovers

If you only eat tacos at restaurants, you’re missing out on an easy-to-make lunch or dinner item that can expand far past its Mexican roots. Today, anything rolled in a tortilla becomes a taco—from octopus to leftovers of almost any type. Dating back thousands of years, corn tortillas were the bread of Mesoamericans. In addition…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Bake A Quince Tart

Quince are pear-green when unripe. When ripe, they turn gold. Photo courtesy Wikimedia.   The tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden may have been quince, not apple. The book of Genesis does not name the specific type of fruit that Eve picked and shared with Adam. Cultivation of quince may have preceded apple…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Baking Cookies, One Sheet At A Time

Photo by Molly Little | SXC.   Here’s our first baking tip of the 2011 “baking season”: cookies. With a lot of holiday baking to do, it’s tempting to put two cookie sheets into the oven at once. But unless you have a convection oven, you need to place just one sheet dead center for…
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