Category: Food Fun

TIP OF THE DAY: Tree & Wreath Christmas Crudités

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Give the crudités some Christmas spirit. Top photo courtesy Superhealthykids.com; bottom photo courtesy MomEndeavors.com.   Recently we showed how to Christmas-ize your breakfast, lunch and dinner. But we saved the crudites for last. At any holiday gathering, it’s a good idea to have a raw vegetable platter (the French term, crudités, pronounced crew-dee-TAY, sounds much…
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RECIPE: Christmas Peppermint Hard Candies

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Use your holiday cookie cutters to make these fun mint shapes from conventional peppermint candies. Photos courtesy Reynolds Kitchens.   We love the recipe developers at Reynolds Kitchen, who often surprise us with their creativity. Just by looking at the photos, you can see what they’ve done with an everyday bag of striped peppermint candies.…
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Christmas Cupcakes From Scratch Or Decorate Store-Bought

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December 15th is National Cupcake Day (there are 8 more cupcake holidays). When a holiday like this falls right before Christmas, there’s only one way to go: Christmas eat cupcakes. We have great ideas for you, but first, for your consideration: > The history of cupcakes is below. > The history of cake. > The…
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Holiday Oysters With Cranberry Cocktail Sauce & More Recipes

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[1] Make cranberry cocktail sauce for the holidays (photo courtesy Willapa Oysters, a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week). [2] A classic cocktail sauce with its favorite partner, shrimp (photo © Sheri Silver | Unsplash). [3] Oysters on the half shell with mignonette sauce. The recipe is below (photo © Whole Foods Market). [4] A…
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CHRISTMAS: A Star Made Of Cheese

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Cabot Cheese commemorates the Christmas Star (Star of Bethlehem) using a different flavor of their excellent cheddars for each point on the star. In addition to regular cheddars in different stages of sharpness, there are delicious flavored cheddars: Chipotle, Everything Bagel, Garlic & Herb, Horseradish, Hot Buffalo Wing, Smoky Bacon and Tomato Basil. The company…
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