Category: Food Holidays

TIP OF THE DAY: Create An International Version Of Your Favorite American Sandwich

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August is National Sandwich Month. We love sandwiches so much, we created a glossary with the different types of sandwiches. It is true that the Earl of Sandwich was inadvertently responsible for creating the modern English sandwich. But what we recognize as a sandwich—bread and filling—likely dates to around 9000 B.C.E., when permanent settlements were…
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RECIPE: Chocolate Flake Meringue Cookies

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Could August 4th be our favorite day of the year? It’s National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. If you love chocolate chip cookies but not the calories, try this alternative from Good Eggs: chocolate-flecked meringue cookies. They have about 15 calories apiece. With only three ingredients, you can have them in the oven with just 10…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Caprese Sandwich

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[1] Caprese Sandwich on a baguette. Here’s a recipe from Somewhat Simple. [2]Melt the mozzarella on a panini press! Here’s a recipe from Cooking Classy.   Every restaurant menu we’ve seen this summer has Caprese Salad on the menu. That’s because July and August deliver the best tomatoes of the year, and a Caprese—tomato, mozzarella,…
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RECIPE: Classic Peaches & Cream

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For National Peach Month, August, try one of the oldest peach recipes: peaches and cream. If you read novels or short stories from centuries past, you’ve no There are many ways to make peaches and cream In a book of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short stories, The Basil And Josephine Stories, he introduces Basil, a fictionalized…
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RECIPE: Peach Panzanella, Just Peachy For Lunch Or Dinner

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[1] Peach panzanella as a salad course and [2] a main course, with added mozzarella and prosciutto (photos courtesy Good Eggs). Fragrant ripe peaches [3] are a versatile ingredient at every meal (photos courtesy Pompeian.   August is National Peach Month, honoring the most popular stone fruit: the peach. (Other stone fruits, in the genus…
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