FOOD HOLIDAY: Surf & Turf Eggs Benedict

Eggs Benedict is a popular Mother’s Day or Father’s Day brunch entree. The classic recipe combines a poached egg and ham or Canadian bacon atop a toasted English muffin slice, topped with hollandaise sauce. There are many variations to the original recipe, including portabella mushrooms for vegetarians (recipe) and corned beef hash (recipe). Since today…
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RECIPE: Breakfast Salad & Dip With Tortilla Chips

[1] For breakfast, bacon and egg top a salad (recipe and photography © of Amanda Paa | Heartbeet Kitchen).   The world over, what people eat for breakfast varies widely. In eastern China it can include dumplings and vegetable soup with rice. In Guyana it’s whitefish preserved in salt, served with fried bread dough. A…
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RECIPE: Easter Yogurt Parfait

A basic Easter parfait. Make yours more Easter-like with pastel-colored yogurt layers. Photo courtesy Yoplait.   Here’s an Easter weekend breakfast suggestion from Yoplait: A yogurt parfait with Annie’s Honey Bunny Grahams. Just layer yogurt with colorful fruit and top the parfait with the bunny-shaped graham cracker bites. Variations: Use yogurt in pastel “Easter colors,”…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Homemade Chocolate Bacon Bunnies

What are you giving your favorite bacon lover for Easter? Oscar Mayer created these foodcraft projects: bacon-stuffed chocolate bunnies and an Easter basket filled with “bacon grass” and hard-boiled eggs—fun for breakfast on Easter Sunday. Go buy lots of bacon and get started! RECIPE 1: BACON-STUFFED CHOCOLATE EASTER BUNNY Ingredients Per Small Bunny 1 hollow…
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RECIPE: Hungarian Rice Pudding

Hungarian Rice Pudding. Photo and recipe courtesy Little Bucharest Bistro | Chicago.   A bone-chilling day like today calls for extra helpings of comfort food. One of our favorites is rice pudding. We’ve made it every way, including conventional, with rum-soaked raisins, with dried cherries and cranberries replacing the raisins, and a Thai-inspired version with…
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