TIP OF THE DAY: Purple Sweet Potatoes For Easter

For a festive Easter dish, look for purple potatoes. You can serve them baked, boiled with parsley, as fries, mashed or in other favorite dishes. You can make purple gnocchi and potato chips. Hash browns can become hash purples. We turn them into a red, white and blue July 4th potato salad, mixed with white…
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EASTER: Jelly Bean Chocolate Bar

Why make a decision when you can have both, our favorite thinking goes. Edward Marc Chocolatier is obviously of the same mind, with this jelly bean chocolate bar. It’s $3.50 for a 2.5-ounce bar at EdwardMarc.com. If you want to create your own jelly bean bar, head to Chocomize.com. For $4.75, you can make a…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Celebrate Spring Vegetables

[1] Puréed cauliflower and peas topped with a bouquet of colorful, lightly-steamed vegetables (photo © Maison Kayser). [2] Fiddlehead ferns (photo by Katharine Pollak | © THE NIBBLE).   June 17th is National Eat All Your Veggies Day. No matter what the weather is like in your neck of the woods, spring began this morning…
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