Category: Food Holidays

FOOD FUN: Meatball Pot Pie Recipe

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For National Meatball Day, March 9th, here are two fun recipes with meatballs, courtesy of Casa Di Bertacchi. Both will be popular with busy moms, because the ingredients are quick to assemble. We don’t often use recipes that use a can of soup or canned potatoes as an ingredient, but here we make an exception…
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Easy Grasshopper Pie Recipes For St. Pat’s

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Grasshopper Pie is a crème de menthe chiffon pie with a chocolate cookie crust. It was invented in the U.S. in the 1950s following the popularity of the Grasshopper Cocktail, a minty chocolate dessert cocktail made from cream, green crème de menthe and white crème de cacao. Some recipes make it a frozen pie with…
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It’s National Frozen Food Day. Who Invented Frozen Food?

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While fresh is fashionable, we can’t ignore the importance of frozen foods today, National Frozen Food Day. While March 6th is one day to celebrate, the entire month of March is National Frozen Food Month. Frozen food revolutionized the way Americans consume food. First came the joy of off-season fruits and vegetables (which are tastier…
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Peanut Butter Fudge Recipe For National Peanut Butter Lover’s Day

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[1] Mmm, peanut butter fudge (photo © Horizon Organic). [2] You can place crushed peanuts in the bottom of the pan, sprinkle them on top, or mix peanut halves into the fudge for a bigger bite of peanut flavor (photo © Jif). [3] How about Peanut Butter & Jelly Fudge? Here’s the recipe (photo ©…
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FOOD FUN: Strawberry Cake Pops

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Strawberry-themed cake pops. You can use any flavor of cake that you like. Photo courtesy Bella Baker.   February 27th is National Strawberry Day. What better activity than to make these luscious strawberry cake pops from Lauryn Cohen of BellaBaker.com. If you’ve never made cake pops but think they’d fit in with family and entertaining,…
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