RECIPE: Breakfast Fruit Salad

If you haven’t been getting your recommended portions of fruits and vegetables*, how about starting your day with a breakfast salad? You can have one of these fruit-based salads with your regular breakfast foods—cereal, eggs, a bagel—or with a side of cottage cheese, ricotta and/or yogurt. This recipe comes from Lynn’s Paradise Café, Louisville, Kentucky…
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Baked Potato Tots & More Tater Tot Recipes

Tater Tots are so beloved that the term is used generically, although it’s a trademark of Ore-Ida, which invented the little potato bites in 1953. (The story is below.) Everyone else can call them “potato tots.” These days, chefs reaching back to childhood are serving fresh-from-scratch versions. This variation, Baked Potato Tots, comes to us…
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FATHER’S DAY GIFT: Jalapeño Plant

Here’s something fun for chile-loving dads who’d like to try their hand at gardening. You can look for a jalapeño plant at your local nursery, or give Dad the “ingredients” to grow his own. Combine a packet of seeds, a planter and soil, along with some fresh jalapeños to show Dad what’s in store in…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Rabbit’s Garlic

Rabbit’s Garlic is pickled garlic in five flavors, used here a canapé garnish, in hummus-carrot and mozzarella-tomato combinations. Photo by Elvira Kalviste | THE NIBBLE.   We like garlic, but wouldn’t consider ourselves to be garlic lovers. Yet, we love Rabbit’s Garlic. The picked garlic is made in five flavors, each of which can be…
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Heirloom Produce Part 1, Heirloom Cucumbers

Charming lemon cucumbers. Photo courtesy Burpee.com.   LEMON CUCUMBERS It’s a lemon…no, it’s a cucumber. We spotted these unusual cukes and the ones in the photo below on the Burpee Seeds website. Imagine the surprise and delight when you serve a new and different twist on an everyday vegetable—or rather, fruit (see what makes something…
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