PASSOVER: Delicious Nut Flours You Can Eat

Gluten-free almond flour. Photo courtesy Bob’s Red Mill.   Gluten free pioneer and whole grains leader, Bob’s Red Mill, offers delicious recipes for Passover using the company’s gluten-free Natural Almond Meal and Natural Coconut Flour. Nut flours have long been a gluten-free salvation as well as a Passover alternative, and these organic flours will also…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Hot Cross Buns For Easter

Homemade hot cross buns. Photo courtesy Hot Bread Kitchen.   With Easter a week away, you can start baking the seasonal treat, hot cross buns. The first recorded use of the term “hot cross bun” appears in 1733. A sweet yeast bun made with raisins or currants, the cross on top was originally made with…
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EASTER CANDY: Gourmet Bunnies

Hopster Bunnies, a gourmet preference over buttercream-filled eggs. Photo courtesy Recchiuti Confections.   As a child, we yearned for a three-foot-tall chocolate Easter rabbit. As a teen, we couldn’t get enough buttercream-filled chocolate Easter eggs. These days, as a far-more experienced chocolate eater, we want Easter candy with a gourmet touch. Recchiuti Confections is happy…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Kurobuta Ham

Ham doesn’t get any better than this Kurobuta. Photo courtesy Snake River Farms.   If you’ve been thinking about a juicy Easter ham gracing your table next week, there’s still time to order the best. In our opinion, that’s a Kurobuta (koo-row-BOO-tuh) ham from Snake River Farms. We’ve order at least one each year, and…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Bake Irish Soda Bread

Having published a recipe for Irish soda muffins for St. Patrick’s Day, we hadn’t planned to feature Irish soda bread this year. Then, we received this recipe from The Baker Chick and realized how much we wanted to tear into a warm loaf of soda bread and slather it with Kerrygold butter from Ireland. So…
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