The Perfect Potato Salad Recipe For Fall: Sweet Potato Salad

[1] Sweet potato salad with dried cranberries: delicious warm, room temperature, or chilled (photos #1 and #2 © Taste Of Home | TMB Studio). [2] The ingredients. [3] A sweet potato salad with Mexican flair: with black beans, corn, cilantro, and red bell peppers, in a honey-Dijon dressing! Here’s the recipe from Averie Cooks. [4]…
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Carve A Pineapple Jack-O’-Lantern For Halloween

The original Jack-o’-Lantern was not a pumpkin. Pumpkins are a New World crop. On All Hallows’ Eve in the Old Country, people placed candles in hollowed-out turnips in their windows to keep spirits and ghosts away from their homes. In the New World, Irish immigrants discovered that the native pumpkin made the biggest, scariest jack-o’-lantern.…
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Winter Squash & Peanut Sauce Recipe For Hispanic Heritage Month

If you like winter squash and peanuts, here’s a side dish that’s delicious and good for you. Called Calabeza Con Pipián Rojo in Spanish, it’s comforting roasted winter squash with beautiful seasoning, covered with a spicy peanut sauce. Pipián rojo is a peanut sauce from the central Pacific region of Mexico, and is typically served…
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TOP PICK: Cambio Coffee, Organic & In Recyclable Aluminum K-Cups

[1] Cambio’s aluminum K-Cup: totally recyclable for the same price as plastic (photos #1, #2, and #4 © Cambio Roasters). [2] Aluminum pods are airtight. Unlike with plastic pods, the flavor and aroma won’t evaporate six months after they’re packed.. [3] The result: a rich, aromatic cup of coffee (photo courtesy SXC). [4] There are…
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Rosh Hashanah Recipes Including Zoodle Kugel With Zucchini

This year, the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, begins October 2nd at sundown*. A traditional part of the festival’s dinner is kugel (KOO-gull), a casserole-like (or baked pudding-like) side that is served as part of the main course. The name means, simply enough, “head (i.e. beginning) of the year.” Kugel, in Yiddish, is a baked…
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