Category: Food Holidays

TIP OF THE DAY: Memorable Champagne Cocktail Recipes: French 75 & Kir Royale

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[1] Celebrate Bastille Day with a French 75 cocktail (photo © Tanqueray). [2] Invented in Dijon, France, Kir and its variations have a base of crème de cassis, blackcurrant liqueur (photo © Chandon USA). [3] Cheers (photo © Champagne Bureau).   Today’s tip will help you make a perfect champagne cocktail, with advice from the…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make The Best French Fries

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If you love to make French fries, you need a fry basket. Photo courtesy Calphalon.   Today is National French Fry Day, the perfect day to explore how to make the best French fries. We contacted our friends at the Idaho Potato Commission, a website with tons of tips and recipes. They start by advising…
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RECIPE: Blueberry Sorbet

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July is National Ice Cream Month as well as National Blueberry Month. Why not combine both concepts and make blueberry ice cream? Or, lower in calories and lactose free, blueberry sorbet? You don’t need an ice cream maker to prepare this two-ingredient blueberry sorbet; just blueberries and apple juice concentrate. The recipe, from U.S. Highbush…
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Uses For Day-Old Croissants & A Hot Fudge Croissant Sundae

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[1] Turn yesterday’s croissants into today’s ice cream sundae. Toast them first. Yummy! (photo © California Cherry Board). [2] Croissants just out of the over (photo © Le Marais Bakery | San Francisco).   We just came back from the bakery with a bag of warm, fragrant croissants for breakfast. We know we’ll have leftovers…
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FOOD FUN: Soda, Sangria Style & The History Of Club Soda & Soda Pop

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[1] Club soda with a slice of blood orange (photo © Polar Seltzer). [2] A “sangria soda” of Sprite and peaches (photo courtesy Melissa’s). [3] A Victorian soda siphon, called a seltzogene or gasogene (photo Sobebunny | Wikipedia). [4] Bottlers branded their siphons with their names and graphics. Here are more antique soda siphons (photo…
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