Category: Food Holidays & More

Peanut Butter Cheesecake Recipes, One With Chocolate, One With Caramel Corn

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For National Peanut Butter Day (January 24th), we baked a peanut butter cheesecake. We’d always relied on this Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheesecake from Philadelphia Cream Cheese, but today’s cheesecake took a different route. The recipe below is a frozen cheesecake. It’s a lighter recipe than the Philadelphia version, which uses 24 ounces of cream cheese…
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Homemade Peanut Butter Recipe For National Peanut Butter Day

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[1] Homemade peanut butter is an elevated taste experience. It will last for several weeks in the fridge (photos © #1, #2 and #3 © Hello Fresh). [2] You can make your favorite flavored peanut butters easily. Here, it’s honey. [3] Some people want to spread it on bread; others enjoy it on a spoon,…
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Homemade Fortune Cookies Kit For Chinese New Year – Lunar New Year

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Fortune cookies may not be authentically Chinese, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun making them at home for the Lunar New Year. For the Chinese New Year, a.k.a. the Lunar New Year, which begins on February 1st, why not make fortune cookies at home? In addition to making tastier cookies than you get…
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Hot Buttered Rum Recipe & The History Of The Drink

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January 17th is National Hot Buttered Rum Day. We’ve always been piqued about why Colonial Americans put butter into a mug of hot rum, so we drilled down. First, what is hot buttered rum? It’s a toddy with butter. What’s a toddy? A toddy, or hot toddy, is a warm cocktail concocted to add a…
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Why Don’t Asian Teacups Have Handles & The Right Temperature For Tea

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[1] Most Asian countries serve tea in handle-less cups (photo © Kanaya Tea). [2] These are freshly-picked tea leaves (photo © Paulina H | Unsplash). [3] Matcha, originally a ceremonial tea only, has even smaller cups (photo © T2 | Unsplash).   If you eat at Asian restaurants, you may (or may not) have given…
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