Gourmet Dried Mushroom Sampler & How To Use Dried Mushrooms

Updated August 2026 Do you use dried mushrooms in your cooking? If not, you’re missing out. They give you opportunities to throw mushrooms into your omelet, make mushroom soup, elevate grain bowls, and so much more. Take a look. Below: > The benefits of dried mushrooms. > How to rehydrate and use mushrooms. > Our…
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KITCHEN GADGET: Churro Maker

[1] Churros made with the San Diablo Artisan Churro Maker (photos #1 and #2 © San Diablo Churros). [2] This tube-shaped device turns the dough into churros, ready to fry or bake. [3] Party idea: a Fiesta Churro Bar, with DIY sauces and garnishes. Here’s the recipe (photo © BHG). [4] How about spicy churro…
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BOOK GIFT: Fruit Cake ~ Recipes For The Curious Baker

Wait! Don’t run! We’re not talking about Aunt Patty’s brick-in-a-box. Here’s a stunner of a book by Jason Schreiber. He’s a favorite food stylist of Martha Stewart (she wrote the foreword). It’s not the cookbook you might imagine. The book could just have easily been called Fruit with Cake, or Cake and Fruit, or even…
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