Quesadilla Recipes For National Quesadilla Day

What’s for breakfast? Or lunch? Or dinner? How about some quesadilla recipes? September 25th is National Quesadilla Day. The quesadilla is half indigenous Mexican, half Spanish, in origin. From the New World: the corn tortillas, hot sauce and other salsas, and eggs* for breakfast quesadillas. From Spain: the cheese†, beef-chicken-or-pork, and shredded lettuce…as well as…
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Breakfast, Lunch, Appetizer: Whipped Ricotta Crostini Recipe

[1] Crostini with whipped ricotta and a sweet topping of honey, or savory marinated cherry tomatoes (photo © Belfiore Cheese Company). [2] Fresh ricotta before it’s whipped (photo © DeLaurenti Food & Wine). [3] When ricotta is whipped, it looks like this. Here, it’s garnished with maple syrup and Calabrian chiles and served with grilled…
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RECIPE: Thanksgiving Sausage Stuffing Is Turned Into Waffles

Our favorite holiday is Thanksgiving; not just to remember to give thanks for all that we have, but for the foods we don’t make at any other time of year. Why ask why, but as much as we love stuffing and cranberry sauce, we only make them in late November. Perhaps we should mark the…
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RECIPE: Fried Eggs & Polenta For Brunch & Lunch

[1] Comfort food: warm, creamy polenta topped with a fried egg and sautéed cherry tomatoes (photo © Good Eggs). [2] Cherry tomatoes are sauteed into a jammy sauce, called “burst tomatoes” (photo © Barilla). [3] Buy a box of polenta. You can use it at any meal of the day (photo © Delallo). [4] An…
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JULY 4th: Recipes For Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Drinks & Snacks

July 4th is the one holiday where you can make everything (except meat) red, white and blue. Our collection of 60 more July 4th recipes follows, for breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, snacks, cocktails, and other beverages. We start with a patriotic cocktail:     RECIPE: RED, WHITE & BLUE STRIPED (LAYERED) COCKTAIL Ingredients For 1…
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