ST. PATRICK’S DAY RECIPES: Irish Spuds & Green Dip With Green Beer

St. Pat’s snack: wedge fries, green dip and a green beer. You can color any light-hued food green. Photos courtesy McCormick.   For St. Patrick’s Day you’ll be able to buy green-tinted bagels, beer, donuts, and more; but you can also plan to color your own foods. Chocolate chip cookies? Mashed potatoes? Milk? Oatmeal? Pancakes?…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Coffee Flavor Wheel

The new Coffee Flavor Wheel offers essential training on how to understand the flavors and aromas of coffee. Photos courtesy SCAA.org.   One of the ways you get to be expert in a category—beer, chocolate, coffee, olive oil or wine, for example—is to learn to identify the flavor elements. We do this with a flavor…
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RECIPE: Green Candy Apples

For St. Patrick’s Day, make chocolate-covered apples with green-tinted white chocolate. Photo courtesy Aiya Matcha.   We received a recipe from Aiya Matcha, for Matcha White Chocolate Candy Apples. The matcha tea powder colors the chocolate green. Voilà: a snack for St. Patrick’s Day. We whipped up a batch. Matcha imparts a sophisticated flavor to…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Gochujang Sauce, The Next Sriracha

Over the past five years, sriracha, a Thai hot sauce that most of us had never heard of previously, has emerged as the hot sauce of choice. It’s more flavorful than many of the big-brand American hot pepper sauces that had long been the norm. But climbing up the ladder is a new (to most…
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FOOD “HOLIDAY”: Caffeine Awareness Month

Top: People with no conflicting conditions can enjoy coffee 4 cups of brewed coffee daily. Want more? Switch to decaf (photo La Panineria). Bottom: Cold brew coffee, growing in popularity, has the most caffeine by a long shot (photo Seaworth Coffee).   March is Caffeine Awareness Month. The National Consumers League (NCL) shared these facts…
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