The Difference Between Muenster & Munster Cheese + Cheese Dip

On April 7th, National Beer Day, we made a recipe called Pub Crawl Muenster Dip (photo #1). We don’t have any pub crawl experience, but we liked the idea of melted cheese with dippers—a.k.a. fondue with an American twist. We ended up with this rather long article on the difference between muenster and Munster cheese.…
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Marinated Cherry Tomatoes Recipe For Fresh Tomato Day

[1] Turn cherry or grape tomatoes into a marinated salad. In the summer, you can find heirloom cherry tomatoes as in this photo (photo © Colavita Recipes). [2] We love onion in a tomato salad. You can use red onion, but the sweeter styles like Vidalia blend in effortlessly (photo © Vidalia Onions | Facebook).…
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Dolce Habanero Cheese, Sweet & Spicy, From Mozzarella Company

There are sweet cheeses, accented with fruit. There are spicy cheeses, blended with chiles. And then there’s Dolce Habanero cheese, Mozzarella Company’s artisan cheese that combines both (photo #1). Dolce Habanero blends sweet dried apricots and firey habanero chiles into a semisoft cow’s milk cheese, perfect for snacking or cooking. For a cheese plate or…
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Spaghetti Carbonara Recipe & More Recipes For National Carbonara Day

[1] This chef created a dramatic “shower” of guanciale instead of mixing it in with the spaghetti (photo © Rob Wicks | Unsplash). [2] This homemade version uses bucatini, wide spaghetti with a hole in the middle. The style was created for velvety pasta sauces like cacio e pepe and carbonara, to allow sauce to…
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Wilton Easter Egg Spatula and Carrot Whisk

Every baker knows to turn to Wilton for the best in cookie and cake bakeware, baking tools, and decorating ingredients. Whether for general baking or holiday-specific, you’ll find everything you need. But you don’t have to be a baker to treat yourself or give these cute Easter tools as gifts. They fit right into an…
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