Bake This Angel Food Cake Recipe For National Angel Food Cake Day

[1] Angel food cake with strawberry glaze (photo © American Egg Board. [1] Berries are a perfect garnish for angel food cake (photo © Anna Ozerova | Dreamstime).   October 10th is National Angel Food Cake Day. Bake one from scratch, or pick up a ready-made cake and serve it with this delicious strawberry glaze.…
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HALLOWEEN: Custom Chocolate Bars

Scrumptious fun: custom-decorated Belgian chocolate bars for Halloween. Photo courtesy Chocomize.com.   Some of our favorite, affordable gifts are customized chocolate bars from Chocomize.com, a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week and ongoing favorite. The base chocolate bar, excellent Belgian chocolate in your choice of dark (72% cacao), milk (34% cacao) or white, is $4.50…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: National Pierogi Day

Today is National Pierogi Day and October is National Apple Month. So how about combining the two in an easy-to-prepare lunch or dinner? The recipe below, courtesy of Mrs. T’s, combines lightly browned apple slices with cooked sweet onions and sautéed pierogies. The dish is topped with a sour cream-cinnamon mixture that smoothly ties the…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: National Vodka Day

Crystal Head vodka gets our vote for “best packaging.” Photo courtesy Crystal Head.   In June 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a nationwide law banning distribution of “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations” among minors. While ostensibly seeking to protect minors (irony: it’s teens who are in most need of information about gender preference)—the statute…
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Popcorn Trivia For National Popcorn Poppin’ Month

[1] Sophisticated: lemon-dill popcorn. Here’s the recipe (photos #1, #3, #4 © The Popcorn Board). [2] For the purist: plain popcorn with butter or flavored oil (photo © Charles Deluvio | Unsplash). [3] Seasonal: white chocolate peppermint popcorn. Here’s the recipe. [4] Hot stuff: cheesy jalapeño popcorn. Here’s the recipe.   For more than 30…
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