Category: Food Holidays

Homemade Pork Ramen Soup Recipe In A Slow Cooker

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[1] Get out your slow cooker and create this delicious Japanese comfort food (photo © Williams Sonoma). [2] Fully loaded pork ramen soup (photo © Mike Gles | Pexels). [3] Kamaboko, a type of surimi (fish paste) (photo © Just One Cookbook Essential Japanese Recipes (independently published). [4] Quick Slow Cooking by Williams Sonoma(photo ©…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: An Ice Cream Cake For National Strawberry Ice Cream Day

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Celebrate National Strawberry Ice Cream Day! (photo © Waitrose).   January 15th is National Strawberry Ice Cream Day. We love this easy strawberry ice cream cake adapted from British upscale grocery giant Waitrose. The company has a royal warrant to supply groceries, wine, and spirits to Queen Elizabeth II and to Prince Charles. In this…
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RECIPE: Elvis Burger

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January 8th marks the birthday of “The King,” Elvis Presley. Today he’d have been 80 years old. Loyal fans celebrate the day with Elvis’s favorite sandwich: a fried peanut butter sandwich with sliced bananas and bacon. (The recipe: Make a PB sandwich on white bread, with sliced bananas and fried bacon. Brush the outsides with…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Try A New Soup & The History Of Soup

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It’s well below freezing in much of the country today: a good day to focus on soup. Every culture makes soup. It’s easy, filling and nutritious, and can be inexpensive. In much of the world it’s eaten for breakfast, lunch and dinner. January is National Soup Month. Rather than fall back on your favorites today,…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: Bake An Epiphany Cake

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In France, the holiday season continues into January with the feast of the Epiphany on January 6th, the 12th day after Christmas. For the occasion, pastry shops are filled with galettes des rois, Epiphany cakes. (The name actually translates to kings’ cake; a galette is a flat pastry cake.) The cake is traditionally—more of an…
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