TIP OF THE DAY: Bake Biscuits On Sunday Mornings

✔ Smoked salmon with dilled cream cheese: check. ✔ Great brunch food: check. ? Homemade biscuits, warm from the oven: check? With all the good bread options available at retail, including refrigerated rolls biscuits, the art of the homemade-from-scratch biscuit is practiced less and less often. Why not make one Sunday a month Biscuit Sunday,…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Pane Bianco For Brunch, Lunch Or Cocktails

[1] Pane bianco, a delicious treat at any meal. [2] The award-winning recipe uses unbelted bread flour (photos courtesy King Arthur Flour).   Pane bianco means “white bread” in Italian, but this jazzy recipe is a cheese bread: dough stuffed inside-out with sundried tomatoes, basil, garlic and Italian cheeses. It’s a treat for breakfast, with…
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Cuban Sandwich Recipe For National Cuban Sandwich Day

Depending on where you reside, you may never have heard of a Cuban Sandwich, called a Cubano in Cuban restaurants. But August 23rd is National Cuban Sandwich Day, honoring a pressed hero-type sandwich that originated in Tampa and traveled to Miami and points beyond. In fact, there’s a rivalry between the two cities over small…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Celebrate National Sandwich Month & National Panini Month

August is National Sandwich Month, time to move beyond your standard choices and try something different. Since August is also National Panini Month, we dragged the panini press out of the closet (no room on the counter!) and invited a group of friends to a “Panini Brunch.” They asked what they could bring, and we…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make A Summer Panzanella (Bread Salad)

Bread salad, like French toast and croutons, is one of those delicious foods invented by necessity: Poor people needed to get another meal from leftover bread that had gone stale. Large croutons are a main ingredient of the salad, rather than the small American-style croutons used as garnish. Panzanella, the Italian word for bread salad,…
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