Category: Food Facts – Food History

Baked French Fries Recipe, a.k.a. Oven Fries (It’s National French Fry Day!)

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What’s for dinner on July 13th, National French Fry Day? How about baked French fries—no need to deep-fat fry (which is our least favorite kitchen task). Fried potatoes have been around for thousands of years, since the ancestors of today’s Peruvians cooked wild potatoes over fire in oil. But what Americans call French fries began…
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Pound of Ground Crumbles Make Cooking Dinner A Cinch

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Forgot to buy the beef? No problem. Forgot to thaw the meat? No problem. Only need a small amount? No problem. Pound Of Ground Crumbles® is here to solve the dinner dilemma. No worries! Pound of Ground was created by a working mom to help ease the dinner dilemmas of moms everywhere. Pound of Ground…
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Lemon Blueberry Icebox Cake For National Blueberry Month

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[1] Bake a Lemon Blueberry Icebox Cake for National Blueberry Month. The recipe is below (photos #1, #2, and #5 © C&H Sugar). [2] Cool from the fridge, icebox cake is a treat on a warm summer day. [3] It’s blueberry season, and it’s easy to make fresh blueberry jam for the recipe (photo ©…
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FOOD FUN: Potato Chip Salad Recipe & History Of Salt & Vinegar Chips

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[1] Wylie Dufresne’s potato chip salad (photo © Lanna Apisukh for The New York Times). [2] We used salt and vinegar potato chips from Kettle Brand (photo © Kettle Brand).   Wylie Dufresne’s potato chip salad at Stretch Pizza in New York City may not seem so revolutionary. It’s a green salad topped with custom-made…
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Basil Compound Butter Recipe & Ways To Use Compound Butter

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[1] Basil compound butter. The recipe is below (photos #1 and #2 © Vermont Creamery). [2] Vermont Creamery’s cultured butter, a NIBBLE favorite, is available both unsalted and salted. [3] Fresh basil (photo CCO Public Domain). [4] Maître d’Hôtel butter, the original compound butter (photo © Brown Eyed Baker). [5] Five different flavors of compound…
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