Category: Recipes

FOOD HOLIDAY: National Vanilla Pudding Day

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Vanilla pudding with a bottom layer of banana cake. Photo by Dream79 | Fotolia.   Today is National Vanilla Pudding Day. Would you believe that the creamy, sweet comfort food started out as a very different dish: a bland, white stew made with chicken or fish, plus sugar? As far back as the 12th century,…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Beyond Greens, Healthy Salad Recipes

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Switch a green salad for a bean salad, beet salad or hundreds of other options. (photo © Sarsmis | iStock Photo).   Salad is more than a bowl of dressed greens, served as a first course. Leafy greens make up only one of seven categories in Chef Joyce Goldstein’s book, Mediterranean Fresh: A Compendium of…
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COOKING VIDEO: Bison Meat

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  Bison is an incredible red meat: sweet, juicy, and very low in fat/cholesterol (lower, in fact, than skinless chicken breast and many fish—see bison nutrition information). Bison meat is available in just about every cut that beef is. After all, cattle and bison are relatives with similar builds. But it’s precisely because there’s so…
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