TIP OF THE DAY: Cold Pasta For Hot Days

If you love pasta but not the idea of a steaming plate of it on a hot summer day, the solution is simple: cold pasta. Cold noodles have been a standard in Asia since…the creation of pasta? That was around 1700 B.C.E. in China (here’s the the history of pasta). The recipes that follow were…
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RECIPE: Chocolate Flake Meringue Cookies

Could August 4th be our favorite day of the year? It’s National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. If you love chocolate chip cookies but not the calories, try this alternative from Good Eggs: chocolate-flecked meringue cookies. They have about 15 calories apiece. With only three ingredients, you can have them in the oven with just 10…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Caprese Sandwich

[1] Caprese Sandwich on a baguette. Here’s a recipe from Somewhat Simple. [2]Melt the mozzarella on a panini press! Here’s a recipe from Cooking Classy.   Every restaurant menu we’ve seen this summer has Caprese Salad on the menu. That’s because July and August deliver the best tomatoes of the year, and a Caprese—tomato, mozzarella,…
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RECIPE: Classic Peaches & Cream

For National Peach Month, August, try one of the oldest peach recipes: peaches and cream. If you read novels or short stories from centuries past, you’ve no There are many ways to make peaches and cream In a book of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short stories, The Basil And Josephine Stories, he introduces Basil, a fictionalized…
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RECIPE: Peach Panzanella, Just Peachy For Lunch Or Dinner

[1] Peach panzanella as a salad course and [2] a main course, with added mozzarella and prosciutto (photos courtesy Good Eggs). Fragrant ripe peaches [3] are a versatile ingredient at every meal (photos courtesy Pompeian.   August is National Peach Month, honoring the most popular stone fruit: the peach. (Other stone fruits, in the genus…
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