TIP OF THE DAY: Bread Salad With Butternut Squash

Bread salad with butternut squash. Photo courtesy GoBoldWithButter.com.   Bread salad is often thought of as a summer dish, marrying lush tomatoes in season with day-old bread, vinaigrette and other seasonings. But you can turn it into a fall favorite by substituting the tomatoes, now out of season, with butternut squash (or other winter squash),…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Candied Chestnuts

Let us at them! Photo of marrons glacés courtesy PasticceriaCucinella.it.   Oh, do we love marrons glacés, candied chestnuts. They have been a favorite confection from our first childhood bite, atop a scoop of vanilla ice cream in a fancy silver dish in the tea room of a long-departed department store. Then, relatives visiting France…
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RECIPE: Peanut Butter Banana Dessert Cocktail

Peanut butter and banana dessert cocktail. Photo courtesy Blue Chair Bay Rum.   Elvis Presley’s favorite food was a pan-fried sandwich of peanut butter and sliced banana (recipe). To be seriously indulgent, he might have enjoyed washing them down with this peanut butter and banana cocktail, a kind of adult milkshake. We hadn’t seen a…
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RECIPE: Maple Cheesecake

While maple is a year-round flavor, we always enjoy it in the fall, as the leaves turn. We use it in a cup of coffee or tea instead of table sugar, we add a bit to mashed sweet potatoes, we drizzle it over baked squash and vanilla ice cream. And then, there’s cheesecake. This recipe,…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Serrated Peeler

Every kitchen has a standard vegetable peeler to slice the skin from carrots, cucumbers, potatoes and other veggies. But there’s also a serrated peeler, which works better on softer produce like mangoes, nectarines, peaches, plums and that toughest of peeling challenges, tomatoes. Most home cooks who have both use the word “love,” as in, “I…
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