RECIPE: Not Your Mother’s Potato Salad…Grilled, With Bacon, Corn & Jalapeno

For your summer cookout menus, how about this tasty Grilled Jalapeño, Corn, and Bacon Idaho® Potato Salad? Equal parts spicy and sweet, it’s made with Idaho® red potatoes, bacon, jalapeños, corn, onions, sour cream, honey and mayonnaise. If you can, make it in the morning, or the night before, to let the flavors meld.  …
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JULY 4th: Pousse-Café, A Layered Drink

[1] A pousse cafe for July 4th. The recipe is below (photo © Molecular Recipes). [2] Use Campari for the red layer (photo © Campari Group). [3] Coconut rum provides the white layer (photo © Pernod Ricard). [3] Get great blue color from blue Curaçao (photo © De Kuyper).   For July 4th food fun,…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Blue Tea

Today’s tip comes via one of our favorite artisan tea blenders, Tay Tea. It’s blue tea, an herbal tea from Thailand that made its way here a few years ago. It still remains largely under the radar, except at artisan tea shops that blend their own teas. Butterfly pea flower tea is made by steeping…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Heritage Chicken

[1] A Red Ranger chicken, a heritage cross created by Root Down Farm. Get yours from Good Eggs (photo © Good Eggs). [2] The Red Ranger chicken, ready to eat (photo © Good Eggs). [3] The Brahma breed of heritage chicken. Here’s more about it (photo © The Livestock Conservancy). [4] The Campine breed of…
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RECIPE: Beer Ice Pops

[1] First, make the ice pops. Serve them with sliced watermelon and Coors Light (both photos © Coors Light). [2] Before taking a bite, dip the pop into the chili salt blend. Bite, enjoy, then have a sip of Coors Light.   National Michelada Day is July 12th. But because you might want to serve…
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