RECIPE: Strawberry Salsa As A Sauce Or A Salsa

How about something special for National Strawberry Day (February 27th): strawberry salsa. In addition to serving with tortilla chips, strawberry salsa is delicious over grilled chicken, fish or pork. This recipes was adapted from TasteOfHome.com. You can customize it by adding other fruits to the strawberries. Mango, grapes, pineapple, pomegranate arils and stone fruits are…
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TREND: Sriracha, The New “It” Flavor

Each year, we notice a hot new food trend. Often it’s a new flavor, blasting through everything from salad dressing to popcorn. Notable past flavor explosions like chipotle, jalapeño, and wasabi introduced new kinds of heat to the American palate. The current “it” flavor seems to be sriracha.     WHAT IS SRIRACHA? Sriracha, pronounced…
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FOOD FUN: Carrots & Peas

Here’s some food fun that was created at the 2014 Roots Conference held by the Culinary Vegetable Institute. In Project Carrot, gifted chefs took a look at the under-utilized yet extremely versatile carrot, creating everything from cocktails to Carrot Rigatoni with Carrot Bolognese. While this photo looks like pasta, it is trompe l’oeil: What looks…
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Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Recipe For National Banana Bread Day

[1] Banana bread with chocolate chips and nuts. We highly recommend the optional chocolate glaze in the recipe (not shown) (photo © Lulu Durand | iStock Photo). [2] Don’t want chocolate chips or nuts? How about blueberries? Here’s the recipe from Driscoll’s (photo © Driscoll’s). [3] Fancy banana bread: baked in a rectangular pan, topped…
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