TIP OF THE DAY: Make Cabbage The New Kale

[1] Familiar green cabbage (photos #1, #2, and #4 © Good Eggs). [2] The equally familiar red cabbage. [3] Less often found: Savoy, the prettiest cabbage (photo © Monika Grabowska | Unsplash). [4] A Chinese cooking staple: bok choy. [5] Napa or Chinese cabbage (photo © MG Produce).   St. Patrick’s Day evokes corned beef…
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RECIPE: Cajun Chicken Salad & Difference Between Cajun & Creole

Top: Cajun Chicken Salad on a Martin’s potato roll. Bottom: Martin prefers a food-processor blended chicken salad, which is so creamy it can be used as a spread. We prefer chunky chicken salad.   Our favorite chicken salad recipe includes sliced grapes and almonds and dried cherries or cranberries in a curry mayonnaise. But we…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Beef-Buying Tips (What To Ask The Butcher)

Lookin’ good: a bone-in strip steak. Photo courtesy Remington’s | Chicago.   We recently were taken to dinner at Michael Jordan’s The Steak House N.Y.C., located on the lovely balcony of historic Grand Central Terminal in the heart of Manhattan. We wondered if Executive Chef Cenobio Canalizo would give us some advice on the most…
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FOOD FUN: “Stonehenge” Beef Carpaccio

Turn beef carpaccio into an homage to Stonehenge. Photos courtesy All’Onda | NYC.   We’re starting the new year of Food Fun with this eye-catching, low calorie treat. We love the eye appeal of the food at All’Onda in New York City. Take this “Stonehenge” Beef Carpaccio. Cut beets are arranged in a circle in…
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RECIPE: Frizzled Ham & Brussels Sprouts

Here’s what to do with the leftover Christmas ham: Add it to lots of good-for-you cruciferous vegetables. We think that the ideal pairing is Brussels sprouts. The recipe is from PorkBeInspired.com, the consumer website of the National Pork Board. You can serve it as a main or a side.   WHAT IS FRIZZLED HAM? Frizzle…
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