FOOD FUN: Bunny Rolls

Artisan Bread In Five Minutes A Day, a blog by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois, inspires people to make homemade bread, like these adorable brioche bunny rolls. It’s a standard roll shape; some dough has been pushed up to make ears, up and holes have been poked for eyes. Ah, such delicious creativity! We wish…
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HOLIDAY: National Egg Salad Week

Deviled ham-and-egg salad. Photo courtesy QVC.   It’s National Egg Salad Week. Here’s a different way to enjoy “ham and eggs”—as deviled egg and ham salad. QVC’s chef David Venable sent this deviled egg and ham salad recipe as a way to use leftover Easter ham, but there’s no time like the present. You may…
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FOOD FUN: Pineberry

Pineberries are a cultivar of strawberries that actually have a sweet pineapple taste and aroma—thus inspiring the “pine” in the name. While they are very pretty, delicious and aromatic, you may never have seen them because they are also delicate, fragile and very limited in their growing season—which is now. The small strawberries (from 1/2…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: National Twinkies Day

In 2012 and 2013, it looked like National Twinkies Day, April 6th, might be in jeopardy. Hostess Brands, the manufacturer, closed 33 bakeries in November 2012, declaring bankruptcy. But thanks to an investment by two private equity firms, the golden snacks were back on the shelf in July 2013. And a number of fans don’t…
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FOOD FUN: Peeps Dunkin’ Donuts

Peeps donuts, new this year. Photo courtesy Dunkin’ Donuts.   Why did it take so long, we wondered, as we read the press release about Dunkin’ Donuts’ new Easter donut topped with a real Peeps marshmallow chick. The yeast donut, shaped like a flower, is available in two flavors: strawberry flavored icing with pastel green…
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