Easy Grasshopper Pie Recipes For St. Pat’s

Grasshopper Pie is a crème de menthe chiffon pie with a chocolate cookie crust. It was invented in the U.S. in the 1950s following the popularity of the Grasshopper Cocktail, a minty chocolate dessert cocktail made from cream, green crème de menthe and white crème de cacao. Some recipes make it a frozen pie with…
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It’s National Frozen Food Day. Who Invented Frozen Food?

While fresh is fashionable, we can’t ignore the importance of frozen foods today, National Frozen Food Day. While March 6th is one day to celebrate, the entire month of March is National Frozen Food Month. Frozen food revolutionized the way Americans consume food. First came the joy of off-season fruits and vegetables (which are tastier…
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Peanut Butter Fudge Recipe For National Peanut Butter Lover’s Day

[1] Mmm, peanut butter fudge (photo © Horizon Organic). [2] You can place crushed peanuts in the bottom of the pan, sprinkle them on top, or mix peanut halves into the fudge for a big bite of peanut flavor (photo © Jif). [3] How about Peanut Butter & Jelly Fudge. Here’s the recipe (photo ©…
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FOOD FUN: Pizza Portraits

Are you hungering for your portrait in pizza? Commission one from Domenico Crolla. A native of Glasgow, Scotland, where his Italian-born father Alfredo had a café, Chef Crolla graduated from the Scottish Hotel School and launched his first restaurant, a pizzeria. His next Glasgow restaurant, Italmania, became Scotland’s very first designer pizza emporium. It closed…
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FOOD FUN: Strawberry Cake Pops

Strawberry-themed cake pops. You can use any flavor of cake that you like. Photo courtesy Bella Baker.   February 27th is National Strawberry Day. What better activity than to make these luscious strawberry cake pops from Lauryn Cohen of BellaBaker.com. If you’ve never made cake pops but think they’d fit in with family and entertaining,…
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