Category: Great Food

FOOD FUN: Boston Cream Cupcakes Kit For National Boston Cream Pie Day

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October 23rd is National Boston Cream Pie Day. Boston Cream Pie is actually a layer cake, not a pie. Two yellow cake layers are filled with vanilla cream and iced with chocolate ganache. Here’s more about it, and how it got its name—plus a recipe to bake your own from scratch. But let’s skip the…
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RECIPE: Autumn Mac & Cheese

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[1] Autumn mac and cheese, with whole wheat pasta, sweet potatoes and kale (photos #1 and #2 © North Carolina Sweet Potatoes). [2] Beautiful sweet potatoes, grown in North Carolina. [3] This variety of kale is variously called black Tuscan, dinosaur or lacinato (photo © Good Eggs).   Macaroni and cheese is a favorite in…
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HALLOWEEN CANDY: Childhood Treats In Gourmet Chocolate From Theo

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Our favorite Halloween candies were mini Almond Joys, Mounds, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and Skor bars. But our palate has since progressed beyond their childhood charms. Thank goodness for Theo’s artisan chocolates. Theo has brought these and more into the quality-chocolate universe. Coconut Bites (an upgrade of Mounds) Coconut Bites Salted Almond (an upgrade of…
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Pumpkin Cheesecake Recipes & Pumpkin History

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[1] Pumpkin Ricotta Cheesecake, less heavy than a cream cheese recipe (photo © Chef Marisa Churchill). [2] No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake. Here’s the recipe (photo © Kenwood World). The year’s 16 cheesecake holidays. > The year’s 8 pumpkin holidays are below.     RECIPE: PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE ICE CREAM Don’t want cake? How about some pumpkin…
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Prunes, Delicious At Every Meal: Prunes Uses & History

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National Prunes Day is June 17th and October 17th is Four Prunes Day. The latter may sound like a funny name for a food holiday, but it’s named after a medical study on digestive regularity: that eating four to six prunes daily will aid digestion*. Some people say “meh” to prunes, but we love the…
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