Category: Food Holidays & More

TIP OF THE DAY: Deconstruct Your Favorite Foods

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[1] Deconstructed pasta carbonara. Here’s the recipe (photo © Christopher Hirsheimer and Melissa Hamilton). [2] Deconstructed cheesecake maintains the flavors and textures of the original (photo © Garret Kern). See more from Garret Kern. [3] Deconstructed blueberry pie à la mode from Linda Anctil (photo © Linda Anctil | Playing With Fire And Water).  …
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FOOD HOLIDAY: A Caramel Popcorn Pie For National Pi Day

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Caramel custard popcorn pie with a caramel corn topping. Who can resist? Photo © Hannah Kaminsky | Bittersweet Blog.   March 14 is National Pi Day: 3.14 (get it?). And this is a very special National Pie Day: It’s 3.14. (actually, 3.14159265359, so next year will be the full-on Pi Day, 3.14.15). The next “double…
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FOOD FUN: Beer & Beer Nuts PB Sandwich

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Beer Nuts and PB Sandwich. Photo by Theresa Raffetto | Peanut Butter & Co. Food styling by Matt Vohr.   For your St. Patrick’s Day consideration, how about a PB and Beer Nuts sandwich with your beer? Beer Nuts is a brand of peanuts with a sweet-and-salty glaze. They don’t contain beer. Rather, they were…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: National Blueberry Popover Day and Cherry Popover Day

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[1] Blueberry popovers. Here’s the recipe from Joy The Baker (photo © Joy The Baker). [2] A popover, hot from the oven, is opened and filled with preserves. Here’s the recipe, originally from Elephantine Blog (now closed) and reprinted by Allspice Online. [3] Serve blueberry or cherry jam or preserves on the side. Here’s the…
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FOOD FUN: Mondrian Cake

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Modern Art Desserts is a call to art lovers who like to make dessert. Photo courtesy Ten Speed Press   Happy birthday to Piet Mondrian, the Dutch painter whose “grid” paintings have delighted millions. Pieter Cornelis “Piet” Mondriaan was born on March 7, 1872, grew up to become a primary education teacher and then entered…
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