TIP OF THE DAY: Immersion Blender Uses To Save Time & Effort

An immersion blender can take the place of a hand mixer, upright blender and food processor. Photo courtesy Waring.   We own a food processor, stand mixer, hand-held beater, upright blender and immersion blender. We gave away our mother’s 1970s-era hand-cranked egg beater* a month ago. We may have used it for scrambled eggs decades…
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PRODUCT: Hellfire Pepper Jelly, Cream Cheese & More

We love a good pepper jelly—and not all of them are good. Many are just too sugary, throwing the sweet/heat balance way over to the sweet side. In eight years of reviewing specialty foods, the only pepper jelly lines we’ve liked enough to review are Aloha From Oregon, Cherith Valley and Diane’s Sweet Heat. And…
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COOKING VIDEO: Fun Halloween Food

  Eyeball food is fun Halloween food. These Halloween Eyeball Bites will have everyone eating more veggies, too—a counterbalance to all the candy. Using favorite veggie slices—cucumbers, carrots and cherry tomatoes, for example—you only need to add cream cheese and olive slices. For a more sophisticated flavor, substitute fresh goat cheese for cream cheese. The…
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