FOOD HOLIDAY: National Caramel Popcorn Day

Popsations’ dark chocolate caramel corn. Photo by Elvira Kalviste | THE NIBBLE.   Caramel corn, also called toffee popcorn, is popped corn covered with caramel or molasses. Caramel corn can be drizzled with chocolate or tossed with nuts, like peanuts or almonds. The most famous of these recipes is the classic baseball stadium treat, Cracker…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Save Money With Organic Bulk Foods

Buy nuts in bulk for daily healthful snacking and recipe ingredients. Photo courtesy The Almond Board.   April is Earth Month; April 22 is Earth Day. You can make every day Earth Day and do something sustainable. Research findings show compelling reasons for shoppers to buy in bulk (from the bulk bins at the grocery…
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RECIPES: Gourmet Grilled Cheese Sandwiches ~ With Strawberries Or Brussels Sprouts

April is National Grilled Cheese Month, a sandwich we love so much we could eat a different recipe every day. We’re beginning our “grilled cheese coverage” with two creative recipes from Vermont Farmstead Cheese Company, an artisan creamery. The first gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches is called the French Connection, because it uses the creamery’s Lillé…
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A Recipe For Lemon Chiffon Cake Day & A Candied Peel Recipe

March 29th is National Lemon Chiffon Cake Day. A recipe that isn’t seen much anymore, it was a favorite of our mother’s. She baked them in a tube pan and garnished the light, lemony slices with sliced strawberries and whipped cream. We prefer the lemon glaze and candied lemon peel in the recipe below. >…
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FOOD FUN: The Most Mispronounced Foods

It’s broo-SKET-tuh, not broo-SHET-tuh. Photo by Vitalina Rybakova | IST.   When we were young, there was a long-running ad for a self-improvement course that promised to make upwardly-aspirational Americans more cultured. One of the ads had this headline: “I’ll have a cup of expresso, please. And make it black.” There is no “expresso,” of…
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