TIP OF THE DAY: Go Nuts With Non-Chocolate Easter Treats

Fill an Easter basket with all six flavors. Photo courtesy Ricky’s Lucky Nuts.   It’s hard to believe, but not everyone likes chocolate. Our friend Maria, for example would rather have something salty, or a combination of sweet and salty. So she, and other salt fans, are getting salted nut treats in their Easter baskets.…
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PRODUCT: Ready To Eat Cookie Dough

Get a spoon and dig in! Photo courtesy GoDairyFree.org.   As many people who bake Toll House cookies know, the raw dough is as delicious as the baked cookies. Some people, wanting to eat the raw dough but not wanting to mix it, buy rolls of ready-to-bake chocolate chip cookie dough for that purpose. This…
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RECIPE: Easter Yogurt Parfait

A basic Easter parfait. Make yours more Easter-like with pastel-colored yogurt layers. Photo courtesy Yoplait.   Here’s an Easter weekend breakfast suggestion from Yoplait: A yogurt parfait with Annie’s Honey Bunny Grahams. Just layer yogurt with colorful fruit and top the parfait with the bunny-shaped graham cracker bites. Variations: Use yogurt in pastel “Easter colors,”…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Homemade Chocolate Bacon Bunnies

What are you giving your favorite bacon lover for Easter? Oscar Mayer created these foodcraft projects: bacon-stuffed chocolate bunnies and an Easter basket filled with “bacon grass” and hard-boiled eggs—fun for breakfast on Easter Sunday. Go buy lots of bacon and get started! RECIPE 1: BACON-STUFFED CHOCOLATE EASTER BUNNY Ingredients Per Small Bunny 1 hollow…
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The History Of Sourdough For National Sourdough Bread Day

April 1st is National Sourdough Bread Day. (There’s also an entire month devoted to sourdough: Sourdough September.) Sourdough is an ancient bread made by a long fermentation of dough, using naturally occurring lactobacilli bacteria and wild yeasts (other types of breads use cultivated yeasts, which became available only in the 19th century). In comparison with…
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