TIP OF THE DAY: 12 Delicious Ways To Use Grapes

Grilled fish with grape relish. Photo courtesy California Table Grape Commission.   Grapes are an easily portable snack and energy food, high in fiber, potassium and vitamin C. Composed 80% of water, they’re also a help with hydration. Yet beyond snacking, versatile, popular grapes demand to be incorporated into recipes. What kind of grapes? Many…
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COOKING VIDEO: Chocolate Black Russian “Cocktail” Recipe

  Our Top Pick Of The Week is Adult Chocolate Milk: a pour-and-serve combination that tastes like chocolate milk with a shot of vodka. It rocks! What if you’re jonesing for a shot or two, but don’t have Adult Chocolate Milk? If you have chocolate ice cream, coffee liqueur and vodka, you can make this…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Adult Chocolate Milk

A glass of chocolate milk evokes the pleasures of childhood. A glass of Adult Chocolate Milk shows how the sweet children’s drink can be elevated to please grown ups. And it’s not just chocolate milk. The Adult Beverage Company also makes Adult Strawberry Milk for the enjoyment of deserving [adult] boys and girls. We love…
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What Is Quark Cheese? A Creamy, Slightly Tart Fresh Cheese

[1] Quark can be eaten like yogurt or used as a bread spread and in recipes (photo © Vermont Creamery). [2] Pancakes with savory garnish: Quark cheese and marinated cherry tomatoes. Here’s the recipe (photos #2, #4, #5, and #8 © Wisconsin Cheese). [3] American style, creamy quark from Vermont Creamery (photo by Claire Freierman…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Salad With Goat Cheese

Salad with a creamy, fresh goat cheese crottin, halved. Photo courtesy Vermont Creamery, one of America’s greatest producers of goat cheese. Read our review.   Whenever we see a goat cheese salad on a menu (chèvre is the French word), we order it. Typically served with mesclun or frisée, sometime with beets, sometime with toasted…
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