FOOD FUN: A Year Of Crazy Cannoli (A Different Flavor Every Week!)

[1] Chocolate Amaretto Cannoli (all photos except #5 © Piccione Pastry | St. Louis). [2] Carrot Cake Cannoli. You can port your favorite cake flavor into cannoli cream. [3] Chocolate Cherry Cannoli, its shell dipped in a hard chocolate. [4] Maple Bacon Cannoli, maple cannoli cream topped with a strip of caramelized bacon affixed with…
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Have A Poutine Party For La Poutine Week (+ Recipes)

[1] Classic poutine (photo © La Poutine Week | Facebook). [2] Gourmet poutine with boar shank, duck confit and foie gras sauce (photo © Brasseur de Montréal). [3] Poutine topped with General Tso’s Chicken (photo © Wok N Roll). [4] Pulled pork poutine (photo © Dirty Dogs). [5] Surf and turf poutine with pork and…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Easy Homemade Applesauce

Homemade applesauce is one of the undersung delights of the table. Our mom made the best we’ve ever had, cooking McIntosh apples skin-on and puréeing them into velvet with a food mill (the recipe). These days, many of us are looking for simpler solutions. The hack is chunky applesauce: no food mill or elbow grease…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Sprouted Grains, Legumes & Seeds

[1] Not justs a side or salad: a sandwich of sprouted green lentils (all photos courtesy Tru Roots). [2] Any grain or legume can be sprouted. You can find them fresh in health food stores, or dehydrated in a broader selection of markets. [3] Sprouted bean and lentil dip with chia (Here’s the recipe). [4]…
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FOOD FUN: Piping A Lemon Meringue Tart

In the mood for lemon tart? Try your hand at this this particularly lovely lemon meringue tart, a deconstructed approach conceived by Khanh-Ly Huynh, a Parisian chef. She used a “deliberately very hard shortbread crust, an acidic lemon curd and a slightly minty meringue.” To make it, gather a: Shortbread tart crust recipe Lemon curd…
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