FOOD FUN: Deconstructed Cannoli Recipe

We love cannoli; can’t get enough of them. Although we’re rarely up for making the pastry tubes, we do relish a dish of “deconstructed cannoli”: the cream filling with a cookie on the side. A bonus with cannoli cream is that you can substitute your sweetener of choice for the sugar. When we’re dieting, we…
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Make Spiced Tea: Recipes For Easy Spiced Tea & Masala Chai

[1] It’s easy to make spice tea without special tea. Just blend your own (photo courtesy Republic Of Tea). [2] Add butter cookies, ginger cookies or shortbread for a classic snack (photos #2 and #3 © Yankee Magazine). [3] Constant Comment, America’s favorite specialty tea   Many tea lovers buy spiced tea as a fall…
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Lasagna Soup Recipe For National Lasagna Day

July 29th is National Lasagna Day. Lasagna is one of our favorite foods, but if we make a lasagna, we eat the whole thing. Not to mention, we spend the whole day making it. One of these days, we’ll try Crockpot Lasagna. But one way to get a quick lasagna fix is ravioli lasagna, with…
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RECIPE: One-Pan Chicken Dinner For Fall & Winter

[1] Winner, winner: quick and easy chicken dinner. [2] Delicata squash has an edible rind and a built-in scalloped edge (both photos courtesy Good Eggs).   Winner, winner chicken dinner! This phrase is typically credited with originating on the Vegas Strip. Back in the 1950s, every casino had a $1.79 three-piece chicken dinner, which included…
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HOLIDAY: National Bittersweet Chocolate With Almonds Day

November 7th is National Bittersweet Chocolate With Almonds Day (National Almond Day is February 16th, National Chocolate Day is October 28th, National Milk Chocolate Day is July 28, National White Chocolate Day is September 22…and National Chocolate With Almonds Day is July 8th [hold the bittersweet]). Most celebrants would run out for a dark chocolate…
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