TREND: Sriracha, The New “It” Flavor

Each year, we notice a hot new food trend. Often it’s a new flavor, blasting through everything from salad dressing to popcorn. Notable past flavor explosions like chipotle, jalapeño, and wasabi introduced new kinds of heat to the American palate. The current “it” flavor seems to be sriracha.     WHAT IS SRIRACHA? Sriracha, pronounced…
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Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Recipe For National Banana Bread Day

[1] Banana bread with chocolate chips and nuts. We highly recommend the optional chocolate glaze in the recipe (not shown) (photo © Lulu Durand | iStock Photo). [2] Don’t want chocolate chips or nuts? How about blueberries? Here’s the recipe from Driscoll’s (photo © Driscoll’s). [3] Fancy banana bread: baked in a rectangular pan, topped…
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RECIPE: Maple Syrup Blondies & The History Of Blondies

January 22nd is National Blonde Brownie Day, and May 9th is National Butterscotch Brownie Day. Both are earlier names for a blondie. Some blondies have chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, toffee chips, or an assortment. Nuts are optional. We recently received a gift of maple syrup, and were checking out our list of ways to use…
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RECIPE: Homemade Peppermint Patties

February 11th is National Peppermint Patty Day. Whip up a batch today, and make extras to hand out on Valentine’s Day. (For Valentine patties, top with heart-shaped sprinkles or Conversation Hearts.)     IS IT PATTY OR PATTIE & THE HISTORY OF PEPPERMINT PATTIES Whether it’s candy, meat or veggies, to be perfectly correct, the…
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Nutella Recipes For World Nutella Day

[1] Nutella and Yogurt Breakfast Parfait Pops (photo © Baking A Moment. Here’s the recipe. [2] From breakfast through dessert, there are many ways to use Nutella (photo © Mikael Stenberg | Unsplash).   In 2011, two bloggers declared February 5th to be World Nutella Day. Typically, holidays are official proclamations by a city, state,…
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