Easy Recipes: Veggie Bouquet, Fruit Bouquet, Yogurt Dips

Updated June 2026 At every party and dinner, we have a basket of crudités as a better-for-you option with pre-dinner drinks. Wen try to select veggies on the “heirloon” side to make the platter more visually arresting: lemon cucumbers, multicolor baby carrots and cherry tomatoes, purple green beans, red endive, romanesco, and watermelon radishes, for…
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Strawberry Rhubarb Galette Recipe, A Spring Favorite Pie

[1] Rhubarb with its leaves. Don’t eat the leaves—they’re mildly toxic (photo © OurOhio.org). [2] Trimmed rhubarb, as it is most often seen in stores (photo © Good Eggs | San Francisco). [3] A beautiful strawberry-rhubarb pie. Here’s the recipe (photo © The Baker Chick).   To many foodies, the beginning of spring means asparagus,…
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Halos Mandarins, Plus Mandarins Vs. Oranges, The Difference

[1] Keep a bowl of Halos or other mandarins on your kitchen counter, for a nutritious, 35-calorie grab-and-go snack (photos #1 and #2 © Wonderful Foods). [2] Halos, unpeeled and peeled. [3] A yogurt parfait with clementine mandarins and raspberries (photo © Hannah Kaminsky | Bittersweet Blog). [4] Mandarins vs. orange. Of course, each has…
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TIP OF THE DAY: The Dirty Dozen & The Clean Fifteen

We are encouraged to eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables daily for health and nutrition; but the items we buy are often heavily coated with pesticides residue. A quick rinse them doesn’t remove all of them; a sustained rinse under cold water with a light scrub from a vegetable brush is better. We use…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Easter Egg Dessert Pizza Or Fruit Platter

This Easter egg “dessert pizza” is glazed fruit atop baked cookie dough. Photo courtesy Elizabeth LaBau | Sugar Hero.   Pastry chef Elizabeth LaBau of the blog SugarHero.com decided back in 2013 to create an egg-shaped dessert “pizza” for Easter: a cookie dough base topped with glazed fruit. Looks delicious, doesn’t it? Here’s the recipe.…
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