RECIPE: Atlantic Beach Pie, A Spin On Lemon Meringue Pie

[1] A slice of classic lemon meringue pie. Here’s the recipe (photo © IncredibleEgg.org). [2] The Atlantic Beach Pie variation substitutes a crunchy saltine crust, and whipped cream for the meringue. The original recipe from Bill Smith of Crook’s Corner is below (photo © Crook’s Corner | Our State magazine). [3] Subsequent cooks have toyed…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Savory Tomato Clafoutis

Clafoutis (cluh-FOO-tee) is a rustic tart, initially made with cherries in the Limousin region of south-central France, where black cherry trees abound. Today, other stone fruits and berries are also used. When other kinds of fruit are used instead of cherries—apples, berries, pears, other stone fruits including prunes—dried plums—the dish is properly called a flaugnarde…
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TIP OF THE DAY: The Easiest Fruit Tart Recipe

Yesterday, August 11th, was National Raspberry Tart Day. It follows on the heels of National Raspberry Cake Day (July 31st), National Raspberry Pie Day (August 1st) and National Raspberries & Cream Day (August 7th). We celebrated with a homemade raspberry tart. It took fewer than 20 minutes. Thanks go to our dear friend Carol, who…
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Cookie Dough For Dessert & How To Pasteurize Raw Eggs

[1] One of our favorite treats. No need to turn on the oven: We’ll have it raw (photo courtesy Geraldine | Wikipedia). [2] For dessert or snacking: a few spoons of raw cookie dough (photo © Edoughble). [3] Buy pasteurized eggs, or pasteurize your own at home—instructions are below (photos #4, #5, and #6 ©…
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RECIPE: Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe?

[1] The best cookies use jumbo chunks of top-quality chocolate (photo courtesy Good Eggs | San Francisco). [2] Here’s the cookbook (photo courtesy Ten Speed Press).   May 15th is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day…and so is August 4th. It may be that one is simply Chocolate Chip Day, and the other Chocolate Chip Cookie…
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