For National Breakfast Day, A Different Type Of Breakfast Potatoes

[1] An Italian variation on traditional breakfast home fries, substituting potato gnocchi for the shredded potatoes* (photos #1 and #2 © DeLallo). [2] Gnocchi have a light, pillowy texture and rich potato flavor. You can order them online. [3] Bacon is diced and cooked with peppers and garlic (photo © Snake River Farms). [4] Chopped…
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Quesadilla Recipes For National Quesadilla Day

What’s for breakfast? Or lunch? Or dinner? How about some quesadilla recipes? September 25th is National Quesadilla Day. The quesadilla is half indigenous Mexican, half Spanish, in origin. From the New World: the corn tortillas, hot sauce and other salsas, and eggs* for breakfast quesadillas. From Spain: the cheese†, beef-chicken-or-pork, and shredded lettuce…as well as…
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String Cheese Egg Rolls Recipe For National String Cheese Day

September 20th is National String Cheese Day. Have some fun with this String Cheese Sushi recipe, an the String Cheese Egg Rolls recipe below. Unlike breaded mozzarella or string cheese sticks, in this recipe the melted cheese is surrounded by crunchy egg roll wrappers (plus, they’re baked, not fried). Food trivia: Pasta† filata (“pulled curd”)…
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A Balsamic Negroni Recipe For Negroni Week

[1] A Negroni (photos #1 and #2 © Hannah Kaminsky | Bittersweet Blog). [2] Stir it and strain it. [3] A bottle of Campari will keep you in Negronis for some time (photo Wikipedia).   This is Negroni Week, celebrated worldwide the third full week each September. THE NIBBLE team sat down with a pitcher…
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Cheeseburger Meatloaf Recipe & History Of The Cheeseburger

September 18th is National Cheeseburger Day, and October 18th is National Meatloaf Appreciation Day. So how about combining them into a Cheeseburger Meatloaf recipe (photo #1)? It’s the creation of Beverly Goldberg, author of The Goldbergs Cookbook (photo #2). Inspiration came when she was contemplating new comfort food recipes. “Once I discovered I could combine…
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