RECIPE: Chocolate Flake Meringue Cookies

Could August 4th be our favorite day of the year? It’s National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. If you love chocolate chip cookies but not the calories, try this alternative from Good Eggs: chocolate-flecked meringue cookies. They have about 15 calories apiece. With only three ingredients, you can have them in the oven with just 10…
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RECIPE: Blueberry Pie With Purple Crust

[1] and [2] Have some fun with your pie crusts (photo courtesy Dulce Delight). [3] You can make the crust in different colors (photo courtesy Balducci’s). [4] Vermont Creamery’s European-Style Butter has 86% butterfat, compared to 80% with most supermarket brands (photo courtesy Good Eggs).   We came across this purple crust on the website…
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Piña Colada Cheesecake Recipes ~ One Gluten Free, One Very Rich

July 10th is National Piña Colada Day, for which we offer two Piña Colada cheesecake recipes. The first is no-bake, family friendly recipe from from Invo Coconut Water. It’s gluten-free, made with a coconut crust and a lighter filling that uses coconut water instead of cream of coconut. It is adapted The second recipe is…
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Homemade Graham Cracker Recipe & Graham Cracker History

[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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