Category: Food Fun

TIP OF THE DAY: Make A Spring Pie

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[1] Celebrate spring with your pie crust (photo courtesy The Topless Baker). [2] This flower and leaf set has cookie cutters in multiple sizes. Get it on Amazon.   What’s a spring pie? It’s any pie that celebrates spring, which begins today. To make a pie special for spring, use flower and leaf cutouts on…
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FOOD FUN: Easter “Egg” Avocados

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If you don’t care to make egg salad from all the leftover Easter eggs, how about guacamole? We found this suggestion from California Avocado Commission: Paint avocados instead of eggs! You don’t have to have ripe avocados. Today’s hard avocado is tomorrow’s ripe one, so don’t hesitate to buy hard ones for your “Easter basket.”…
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FOOD FUN: Green Eggs For St. Patrick’s Day

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Who says only the Easter Bunny brings colored eggs? The St. Patrick’s Day Leprechaun (i.e., you) can also bring them. We loved these designs from Terra’s Kitchen, a healthy meal delivery service. You can make them for the family, or get everyone involved in designing. Here’s how to make fancy colored eggs.   Make green…
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RECIPE: A Classic Key Lime Pie For Pie Day, 3.14

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Today, 3/14*, has been named Pi Day: 3.14. As you learned in high school geometry, the Greek symbol is used in mathematics to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, a constant which begins with 3.14159.     THE HISTORY OF PI DAY Pi Day was founded by physicist Larry…
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ST. PATRICK’S DAY: Two Takes On A Green Pancakes Recipe

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Green pancakes with optional Lucky Charms. The marshmallows have been plucked from the cereal, but you can buy a bag of the marshmallow charms only (photo © I Heart Naptime). Lucky Charms cereal (photo © General Mills).   From Jamielyn of I Heart Naptime, Saint Patrick’s breakfast includes green pancakes with Lucky Charms, green milk…
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