TIP OF THE DAY: Make Tarts With Cookie Dough

It’s hard to find a mascarpone cheese that isn’t delicious, but Crave Brothers Mascarpone has achieved the title of “most delicious,” winning first place awards in the American Cheese Society Competition, The World Dairy Expo and the Wisconsin State Fair Cheese and Butter Contest. Mascarpone is perhaps best known in the U.S. as the base…
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Mother Sauces Part 2a: The Secondary Sauces, Creole & Béarnaise

[1] Turn plain tomato sauce into Creole sauce (photo © Andrew Bossi | Wikipedia). [2] Shrimp with Creole sauce. Here’s the recipe (photo © Eating Well).   Earlier this week we introduced the five mother sauces, noting that each was the base for many other secondary sauces. Today, chef Johnny Gnall explains how the secondary…
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COCKTAILS: Classic Bourbon Recipes For Mad Men

On Sunday, March 25th at 9 p.m. (8 p.m. Central Time), millions of Americans will tune in to the 1960s, with the new season of “Mad Men.” The show has inspired (and licensed) a Mad Men clothing line from Banana Republic and a Mad Men cosmetics line from Estée Lauder. But what about Mad Men…
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