RECIPE: Green Tea Rice

If you like green tea, have you ever tried cooking with it? An easy way to start is with this Green Tea Rice recipe from Bee Yinn Low of Rasa Malaysia, a website that features easy Asian recipes. The recipe illustrates how green tea is not just for drinking but for adding flavor and nutritional…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Switch Up That Sandwich With Fusion Condiments

You may love ham and Swiss cheese on rye with mustard, or a chicken sandwich with mayo on whole wheat toast. These sandwich and condiment pairings descend from the venerable English tradition of the sandwich (here’s the history of sandwiches). But it’s a new year, so how about a new approach? How about a chicken…
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RECIPE: Grapefruit Salad With Honey

Remember the half grapefruit, a first course at breakfast, lunch or dinner? Rich in vitamin C, it became a staple at breakfast, lunch and dinner tables when train transport began to bring the fruits up from Florida in the the early 1900s. Today, the half grapefruit and grapefruit salad have largely fallen out of fashion.…
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RECIPE: Homemade Tomato Soup With Grilled Cheese Croutons

From McCormick, here’s a lighter version of the classic combination of tomato soup with grilled cheese. Instead of a sandwich, the grilled cheese is miniaturized into a crisp crouton. A bowlful of the soup will warm you up on a chilly day, and the croutons will make you smile with delight. We had fresh basil…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: Bake An Epiphany Cake

In France, the holiday season continues into January with the feast of the Epiphany on January 6th, the 12th day after Christmas. For the occasion, pastry shops are filled with galettes des rois, Epiphany cakes. (The name actually translates to kings’ cake; a galette is a flat pastry cake.) The cake is traditionally—more of an…
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