RECIPE: Green Bean Salad With Bacon Vinaigrette & Bacon Garnish

If your salads have the winter blahs, you can revive them with bright red vegetables, fruits (apples, pears, dried cranberries, pomegranate arils), other colorful produce, and nuts. Another idea: Make this snappy salad with green beans instead of lettuce. You can make it with cooked green beans, but we like the beans to be raw…
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Hot & Spicy Congee Recipe For International Hot & Spicy Day

[1] Hot and spicy congee with chili crunch. The recipe is below (photo © Hannah Kaminsky | Bittersweet Blog). [2] Chili crunch gives heat to this recipe. It’s become a popular ingredient, found in Asian stores as well as general grocers, including Trader Joe’s. This one is available on Amazon (photo © Momofuku). [3] Plain…
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Dutch Crunch Bread: What It Is & Recipes To Bake Your Own

[1] Hot Johnnie’s Dutch Crunch Pastrami Sandwich, made on Dutch Crunch bread. On this loaf, the rice paste forms “tiger stripes” (photo © Flavor & The Menu). [2] In these and the remainder of the Dutch Crunch photos, the pattern is giraffe-like. Here’s the recipe (photo © Honeyville). [3] Another example of why it’s also…
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What Is The Great Fruitcake Toss In The Rockies In January?

[1] Why would anyone toss a tasty fruitcake? If you can’t eat it all, slice it and freeze it (photo © Williams Sonoma). [2] The slogan of the day (photos #2 and #4 © Visit Manitou Springs). [3] If you don’t BYO fruitcake, you can “rent” one (photo © Pikes Peak). [4] There are competitions…
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Cheesy Pancetta Mashed Potatoes Recipe For National Bacon Day

[1] Cheesy mashed potatoes with pancetta (photo © Wisconsin Cheese). [2] Use baby red jacket potatoes (photo © Good Eggs). [3] Pancetta, sometimes called Italian bacon, is traditionally sold in a roll, but you can also purchase it in strips (photo © Fra Mani). [4] You can purchase the roll and dice your own (photo…
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