Category: Recipes

RECIPE: Chocolate Sea Salt Almonds

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February 25th is National Chocolate Covered Nuts Day. While you can easily head to the nearest store to pick up some chocolate-covered nuts, nut clusters or turtles, chocolate-covered nuts are something that you can easily make at home. Prefer to buy them? Our favorites are the Triple Chocolate Almonds from Charles Chocolates, coated in milk…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Olive Oil Polenta Cake

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We have advocated olive oil cake before. But this is a variation with polenta (cornmeal) instead of white flour. Olive oil cake is a standard in some parts of Italy, substituting olive oil for butter as the fat. So is polenta cake, with a hearty crumb. Both are rustic, uniced cakes. When we first tried…
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RECIPE: Chicken Tortolloni On Arugula

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This quick and easy recipe, from Buitoni, combines two different types of their refrigerated fresh tortolloni with fresh arugula. Tortellini are larger versions of the bite-size tortellini. You can also substitute ravioli or other stuffed pasta (check out the different types of pasta). Serve it for lunch, dinner, or as a first course for dinner.…
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FOOD FUN: Chicken Salad Without The Sandwich

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Like chicken salad, but trying to cut back on bread? If you want to avoid the bread, croissants, and wraps, there’s always a scoop of chicken salad on greens, in lettuce cups, or stuffed into a bell pepper, tomato, or avocado half. But we thought these ideas from Willow Tree Farm add allure to a…
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