Category: Food Holidays & More

TIP OF THE DAY: Make Parsnip Chips

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Parsnip: the new snack chip. Photo and recipe courtesy Actifry.   Earlier this year, we wrote about the new healthy chip craze, nutritious kale chips. Will the next hot snack be parsnip chips? These root vegetables, cousins of carrots, are popular in soups and stews. But they also lend their honeyed sweetness to a crunchy…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: National Angel Food Cake Day

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  Calling all cake lovers: October 10th is National Angel Food Cake. An angel food cake is a light, flourless affair made with sugar, a dozen or so egg whites, cream of tartar (which increases the heat tolerance and volume of the egg whites) plus vanilla or almond extract and salt. It is also a…
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Have A Moscow Mule: For National Vodka Day & Moscow Mule Day

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  October 4th is National Vodka Day. Do you know the first vodka cocktail invented in the U.S.? (If you read the headline of this article, you do; and Moscow Mule Day is celebrated on March 3rd). Today vodka and vodka cocktails are ubiquitous. In 2011, roughly 62 million 9-liter cases of vodka were sold…
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RECIPES: Mocha Latte, Iced Mocha Latte & More

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Iced mocha latte. Photo courtesy Krups.   After we published the recipe for three-minute caramel latte, the mocha latte fans wrote in: “Where’s our mocha latte recipe?” Here it is, just in time for National Coffee Day, September 29th. Thanks to Krups for the recipe: We’re making the espresso in a Krups combination Coffee Maker…
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