HALLOWEEN RECIPE: Apple Cider With Apple Skulls

[1] A skull with your cider (photo courtesy The Pampered Chef). [2] Granny Smith apples (photo courtesy Good Eggs).   Looking for Halloween fun? This cider recipe, from The Pampered Chef, will take you there. Carved apples become shrunken skulls as they cook in the cider. You can serve the cider straight, or augmented with…
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HALLOWEEN: Ghost Marshmallows For Cocoa / Hot Chocolate

If you’ve never made marshmallows, here’s your chance to delight family and friends as you warm them up with a cup of hot cocoa. In addition to cocoa, you can use them to garnish fruit salad, ice cream, cakes, pies and other desserts. You can make them in traditional squares, or use cookie cutters to…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Pumpkin-ize Your Favorite Comfort Foods

[1] Mac and cheese with a touch of pumpkin (photos #1 and #2 courtesy Libby’s). [2] How about a pumpkin peanut butter sandwich? [3] Another delicious comfort food: pumpkin mashed potatoes. Here’s the recipe from Taste of Home. You can also make a pumpkin and cauliflower mash. [4] Be sure to use pumpkin purée, not…
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WORLD BREAD DAY: Make An ‘Everything Bagel’ Savory Babka

October 16th is World Bread Day, and our colleague Hannah Kaminsky of Bittersweet Blog has created something new: the Everything Bagel Babka. First, a bit of history: A Queens bagel maker lays claim to having “invented” the Everything Bagel around 1980. There was nothing like it among New York Bagels. Seth Godin came forward to…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Miso Soup

[1] An easy version of traditional miso soup, made with instant dashi (photo courtesy Sushi Lounge | NJ). [2] An Americanized version: miso broth with broad noodles (photo and recipe courtesy Pasta Fits). [3] Non-traditional garnishes for miso soup: bean sprouts and edamame (photo courtesy Sun Basket). [4] Miso paste. When you’re done with the…
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