Peanut Butter & Jelly + Corn Flakes Sandwich Recipe

A peanut butter and jelly sandwich made crunchy with a layer of Corn Flakes? Why not? Recipes follow (photos #5 and #6), but here’s how the idea began. First came the chip butty. A chip butty, chip barm* or chip bun (photo #5) is a British working class recipe, a sandwich filled with chips (British…
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What Do The Different Colors Of Plastic Bread Tags Mean?

You learn something new every day (if you’re lucky), and today we learned why bread tags—the colored plastic tags (photo #1) or twist ties that close plastic bags of bread—are made in different colors. Also called bread buckles and bread clips, these tags or twists are part of a color-coordinated system that marks when the…
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Raspberry Popover Recipe For National Raspberry Popover Day

May 3rd was National Raspberry Popover Day, but we saved this recipe for weekend breakfast. It was a big hit, the raspberries in counterpoint with the popovers’ egginess, the fruit brightened by lemon and orange zest. We’ll be making them again on Mother’s Day. Thanks to Driscoll’s the recipe to add their raspberries to what…
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Mardi Gras Challah Recipe: Fusion Food, Fun Food

Talk about fusion food: This Mardi Gras challah combines the colors* of a French Catholic tradition in New Orleans—and their iconic King Cake—with the braided yeast bread challah, the sabbath bread of the Jewish people. Mardi Gras is early this year, February 13th. To celebrate the occasion, our colleague Hannah Kaminsky of Bittersweet Blog created…
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Dutch Crunch Bread: What It Is & Recipes To Bake Your Own

[1] Hot Johnnie’s Dutch Crunch Pastrami Sandwich, made on Dutch Crunch bread. On this loaf, the rice paste forms “tiger stripes” (photo © Flavor & The Menu). [2] In these and the remainder of the Dutch Crunch photos, the pattern is giraffe-like. Here’s the recipe (photo © Honeyville). [3] Another example of why it’s also…
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