Dessert Grilled Cheese Sandwich Recipe~Bananas Foster & Dulce De Leche

[1] Bananas Foster on French toast (photo © Heidi Larsen | Foodie Crush | Wisconsin Cheese). [2] Another take on Bananas Foster Grilled Cheese uses cream cheese, Biscoff spread and regular toast. Here’s the recipe from Like Mother Like Daughter (photo © Like Mother Like Daughter). [3] Bananas Foster is usually served with vanilla ice…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Ways To Enjoy Rhubarb

By the time it gets to market, the leaves (which are mildly toxic) are typically cut off rhubarb, and only the stalks are sold. Rhubarb looks like pink celery, but it isn’t related. Photo courtesy OurOhio.com.   Spring is rhubarb season. It parallels asparagus season, available fresh for just three months a year—April through June.…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Dessert Pasta

Most people think of pasta as a savory recipe. But the noodles themselves are very versatile. Made with flour, water and egg, they can be cooked for dessert as well as the main course. While not an April Fool joke, it seems like the right dessert for April Fool’s Day. The recipe was created by…
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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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TIP OF THE DAY: Kitchen Torch

The kitchen torch, culinary torch, cooking torch or [less poetically] butane torch is used by chefs and sophisticated home cooks. Today’s handy culinary torch descends from the heavy duty blowtorches, long used by gold and silversmiths (the first patent dates to 1791). While its most famous kitchen use is to caramelize the sugar on the…
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