FOOD HOLIDAY: Recipes For National Lemon Cream Pie Day

Frozen lemon cream pie with a hit of lemon-flavored vodka.   National Lemon Cream Pie Day is November 29th. This year, we’re serving up something special courtesy of a recipe from New Amsterdam Vodka: a frozen pie with vodka. Don’t want the alcohol? Don’t want a frozen pie? There’s a very creamy lemon cream pie…
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FOOD FUN: A New Take On French Toast

Not the same old French Toast. Photo courtesy Fabrick | NYC.   November 28th is National French Toast Day, so have fun with it. At Fabrick, a fine restaurant restaurant in New York City, part of the culinary journey is food fun. Almost everything on the menu offers a new take on the traditional. For…
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FOOD FUN: PieCaken & Its Recipe

[2] Zac Young’s Thanksgiving PieCaken (photos #1 and #2 © Dillon Burke | sndwch creativ). [2] Cinnamon buttercream and oat crumble add the finishing touches. [3] Before the PieCaken there was the Cherpumple: three layers of cake with a different pie baked inside of each. Here’s the recipe (photos #3 and #4 © Matthew Clark…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Easy Rum Raisin Ice Cream

Look for it in stores or make your own Rum Raisin ice cream. Photos courtesy Häagen-Dazs.   Our favorite Thanksgiving ice cream flavor is not Pumpkin, but Rum Raisin. It’s an old-fashioned flavor that seems very American (as rum was produced close to home, in the Caribbean). Actually, its roots are in Sicily; the history…
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TIP OF THE DAY: The Best Thanksgiving Dessert Could Be Bites

TOP PHOTO: Cut up the brownies, cheesecake and pumpkin, insert toothpicks, and everyone will enjoy dessert more by eating less. BOTTOM PHOTO: The photographers also cook. Take a look at their fruit and veggie-centric cookbook. Photos © WhiteOnRiceCouple.com.   You know how you feel at the end of the turkey course at Thanksgiving dinner: stuffed…
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