PRODUCT UPDATE: Gluten Free Comfort Food

This gluten-free chicken pot pie will please many. Photos courtesy Blake’s All Natural.   BLAKE’S GLUTEN-FREE CHICKEN POT PIE & SHEPHERDS PIE With the fall season, the gluten-freer’s thoughts turn to comfort foods—which usually mean soups, hearty stews, pot pies, mac and cheese and heaping dishes of pasta. This is also, as it turns out,…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Farmer Cheese At Home

[1] Make it today, enjoy it tomorrow. Photo courtesy Good Eggs | San Francisco. [2] Homemade cheese draining in cheesecloth (photo © The Pines | Brooklyn).   What are you doing this weekend? How about making some farmer cheese? Do it today and enjoy it for Sunday brunch. All you need is buttermilk, cheesecloth and…
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TIP OF THE DAY: A Pre-Holiday Diet Of Low-Calorie Comfort Food

Why do we only get pitches for slimmer versions of food in spring, before “bathing suit weather?” After an especially tasty month visiting restaurants, for everything from fried skate sandwiches to duck confit mac and cheese, we noticed that clothes were getting snug. As if on cue, we got this list of tips from Warren…
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FOOD FUN: Spaghetti & Meatball Sundae

For National Pasta Month try this “spaghetti sundae” inspired by a dish from VP3 Restaurant in Jersey City, New Jersey. RECIPE: SPAGHETT & MEATBALL SUNDAE Ingredients Spaghetti or linguine Pasta sauce Optional: meatballs or sausage Grated Parmesan cheese Minced fresh basil “sprinkles”   Preparation 1. COOK the spaghetti according to package directions and drain, reserving…
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Roasted Balsamic Brussels Sprouts & Use The Leaves As Dishes

What’s the beautiful dish in the photo? Balsamic Brussels Sprouts, nested in a leaf from the stalk on which they grow. In French this presentation is called “en feuille” (pronounced “on FUY”–think of a very shortened “phooey”). The English translation is “in the leaf” or “in its leaf.” The Brussels sprouts in this photo were…
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