What Are Dumplings, Types Of Dumplings & Dumpling History

September 26th is National Dumpling Day. Since National Apple Dumpling Day on September 17th, it begged the question: What are dumplings? Depending on the part of the world, the answer is different. In this article you’ll learn: What are dumplings? The different types of dumplings. An idea for a dumpling party. The history of dumplings.…
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Key Lime Pie Recipes & Other Recipes For National Key Lime Pie Day

[1] Key Lime Pie (photo © Morton’s The Steakhouse). [2] Key Lime Cake. The recipe is below (photo © Taste Of Home). [3] Key Lime Bars—better than lemon bars! (photo © My Baking Addiction). [4] A Key lime layer cake. Here’s the recipe (photo © The Baker Chick). [5] Key Lime Pie With A Chocolate-Almond…
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Classic & Modern Quesadilla Recipes For National Quesadilla Day

How are you celebrating National Quesadilla Day, September 25th? We started with this fried egg quesadilla and for lunch the Peanut Butter & Jelly Quesadilla. For dinner, we’re heading to our local Mexican restaurant, where we’ve been eying the crab meat quesadilla. Will we be all quesadilla’d-out tomorrow? We don’t think so. A quesadilla, from…
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Make This Horchata Recipe For National Horchata Day

[1] Some liken horchata to drinking rice pudding (photo © Pampered Chef). [2] Sunbasket adds sesame seeds to its horchata. Here’s the recipe (photo © Sunbasket). [3] This recipe adds sesame seeds (photo © Sunbasket). [4] The original horchata was made thousands of years ago from tiger nuts. You can buy them online for horchata,…
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Vegetarian Spaghetti Carbonara With Mushrooms For National Mushroom Month

September is National Mushroom Month. We’ve put together some of our favorite mushroom recipes, below, as well as this yummy recipe for Vegetarian Spaghetti Carbonara With Mushrooms. The mushrooms substitute for the cured pork in the original recipe. Here’s the classic recipe, and the history of Spaghetti Carbonara recipe, which includes the history of Spaghetti…
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