TIP OF THE DAY: Bake Some Cornbread

Top: Scallion cornbread from Good Eggs. Bottom: Cream Chipped Beef On Toast from RecipeTips.com. Here’s the recipe.   We love, love, love cornbread, a specialty of the South that’s hard to find in the Northeast, where we live. Sometimes you’ll get some at a barbecue restaurant or with a dish of chili; but otherwise, you…
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RECIPE: Easter Salad

Top: Pastel beet salad for Easter, from the Oyster Club. Middle: Gold beets is the name given to the orange varieties. Bottom: Chioggia beets, pronounced KYO-jah, sometimes called candy cane beets. Beet photos from Good Eggs.   We adapted this charming salad concept from the Oyster Club in Mystic, Connecticut, as our Easter salad. Look…
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FOOD FUN: Easter Popcorn Recipe

For an Easter weekend snack, how about some “Easter” popcorn? Just combine plain popcorn with an Easter-theme confection: pastel sprinkles, mini pastel jelly beans or baking chips. We use pastel mint chips from Guittard, but a trip to the nearest candy store will yield other choices. You can go one step further and make white…
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