RECIPE: Homemade Graham Crackers

[1] Bake these graham crackers with an easy recipe from Go Bold With Butter. [2] If you don’t like to dip, you can buy these pretty grahams from Chocolat in Savannah. [3] You can also use graham flour for breads and pie crusts (photo courtesy Bob’s Red Mill). [4] If you don’t want to smash…
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TIP OF THE DAY: A Blueberry-Blackberry Pie With Meringue Dot Topping

Fun and beauty combine in this blueberry-blackberry pie, from Kindred Restaurant in Davidson, North Carolina. Just looking at the cuisine at Kindred makes us want to head to the charming lakeside college town for a week’s vacation of dining and enjoying the view. For now, we’ll have to content ourself with copying the pie, which…
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RECIPE: No-Bake Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Stars

A patriotic dessert doesn’t have to be red, white and blue. And a cookie doesn’t have to be baked. This recipe from McCormick makes chocolate chip cookie dough stars. Since there’s no oven and no knives, you can delegate the task to a fledgling cook. Prep time is 20 minutes. RECIPE: CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE DOUGH…
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PRODUCTS: 4 New Favorite Foods & Beverages

[1] A drink that says “summer” (photo courtesy Belvoir Fruit Farms). [2] A new, limited edition Cholula Hot Sauce (photo courtesy Jose Cuervo).   In two days we head to the Fancy Food Show, a trade show of specialty food producers so vast that, like Disneyland, you can’t possibly see it all, much less eat…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Special Cake Fillings

[1] A pumpkin naked cake with a filling of whipped cream and fresh raspberries (photo courtesy Driscoll’s Berries. [2] A white chocolate cake filled with whipped cream and chopped dried apricots. Here’s the recipe from Epicurious. [3] Chocolate cake with red velvet cake filling, based on cream cheese. Here’s the recipe from Cook The Story.…
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