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Here’s your chance to get a taste of an outstanding chocolate nominee. Sweet Marguerites was recently selected as a Silver Finalist for both Outstanding Chocolate and Outstanding Food Gift in the 2010 awards from the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade. And they’re giving away some of their chocolate in this week’s Gourmet Giveaway!…
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Create your own family cookbook (or any type of album) with a customized Picaboo book. Photo courtesy Picaboo. Have you always wanted to create your own recipe book? Do you want to create a memorable volume of recipes from different generations of your family? Do you want to create a memorial to Grandma by publishing…
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Today is National Pretzel Day. Bake up a delicious batch of soft pretzels with this recipe. Pretzels were created in 610 C.E. by a European monk whose name is lost to history. Food historians trace him to Italy or Southern France. He formed leftover bread dough in a shape that represent children’s arms folded in…
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Enjoy a colorful asparagus frittata for breakfast or lunch. Photo courtesy California Asparagus Commission. Asparagus season is finally upon us! While asparagus shipped from South America are available year-round, we wait impatiently for the April-June window for fresh domestic asparagus. We steam fresh asparagus stalks to al dente, so tasty they don’t even require butter…
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When you buy fresh herbs, they’ll last longer if you keep them hydrated. You can buy an “herb keeper” like the one in the photo, but you don’t need one. It’s simple to create a makeshift herb hydrator: 1. If the herbs have roots, place them in a glass of water covered with a plastic…
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