RECIPE: Salsa-Baked Cheese

Celebrate National Salsa Month with Salsa- Baked Cheese. Photo courtesy FronteraFiesta.com. For National Salsa Month, try a new way to use salsa. This is salsa’s answer to baked Brie: fresh goat cheese or cream cheese topped with a flavorful salsa and baked until warm. It’s from Chef Rick Bayless of FronteraFiesta.com. Serve Salsa-Baked Cheese with…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: National Salsa Month

Photo by Bluestocking | IST. May is National Salsa Month, honoring America’s most popular condiment: Since the early 1991, more salsa has been sold than ketchup! Salsa is the Spanish word for a sauce of finely chopped vegetables, that dates back to the ancient Aztecs. Red salsas are tomato-based, green salsas are tomatillo-based and there…
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CINCO DE MAYO: Frozen Cranberry Margarita

What does cranberry juice have to do with Mexican cuisine? Nothing: There are no cranberry bogs in Mexico. But in the name of fusion, you can celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a Frozen Cranberry Margarita. It uses antioxidant-packed unsweetened cranberry juice as a healthy mixer:   FROZEN CRANBERRY MARGARITA RECIPE Ingredients 6 ounces tequila 6…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Bake Pretzels

Today is National Pretzel Day. Bake up a delicious batch of soft pretzels with this recipe. Pretzels were created in 610 C.E. by a European monk whose name is lost to history. Food historians trace him to Italy or Southern France. He formed leftover bread dough in a shape that represent children’s arms folded in…
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