Category: Great Food

TIP OF THE DAY: Birthday Cupcakes

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Instead of a birthday cake, consider a platter of cupcakes. Beloved by children and adults alike, they eliminate the need to cut a cake, have built-in portion control and can provide guests with their favorite flavors and special needs (chocolate or vanilla cake, different icings, some Splenda-based cupcakes for those who can’t have sugar, gluten-free…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: It’s National Pretzel Month

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It’s National Pretzel Month. What can you do to celebrate? Take our Pretzel Trivia Quiz. Bake this soft pretzel recipe. A soft pretzel is actually a yeast bread, rolled into a long rope and knotted. Make a super-special “monster” peanut butter sandwich on your fresh-baked pretzel. Take a tour of a Pennsylvania pretzel factory. Treat…
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TIP OF THE DAY: “Exotic” Meat

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Treat your favorite meat lover (yourself?) to a gift of something meaty, new and interesting. Boar, bison, elk, emu and ostrich are readily available. Farmed, usually raised naturally and low in fat, what may sound exotic is actually sweet, tender and not in the least gamy. Cooking an unusual cut is a good reason to…
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ENTERTAINING: Best Halloween Cupcakes

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The best Halloween cupcakes are those you make (or buy) yourself and then slip into these clever paper sleeves from Roundabouts Cupcake Sleeves. This witch, the most elaborate concept, tops the cupcake (behind the witch sleeve) with licorice strings and a chocolate-dipped ice cream cone. Other sleeve options include a skull (use with any white-frosted…
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