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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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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