Category: Recipes

TIP OF THE DAY: Fall Salad & Fall Cheese Course Recipes

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[1] Make a fall salad with brussels sprouts, squash, and seasonal garnishes (photo © Sweetgreen). [2] Another popular fall combination: endive, pear, and maple-candied walnuts (photo © Barrel and Ashes [permanently closed]).   With each change of season, change your perspective on food. Look for seasonal ingredients in everything from salad ingredients to beer styles.…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Savory Cooking With Grapes

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[1] Roast chicken with grapes, recipe below (photos #1 and #3 courtesy Good Eggs). [2] Asian chicken salad with grapes, showing how a pop of color from red or purple grapes would have given the dish more eye appeal (photo courtesy California Table Grape Commission). [3]Use red grapes to add color, green grapes to pop…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Bake Biscuits On Sunday Mornings

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✔ Smoked salmon with dilled cream cheese: check. ✔ Great brunch food: check. ? Homemade biscuits, warm from the oven: check? With all the good bread options available at retail, including refrigerated rolls biscuits, the art of the homemade-from-scratch biscuit is practiced less and less often. Why not make one Sunday a month Biscuit Sunday,…
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RECIPE: Sparkling Pear Cocktail

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[1] La Poire sparkling cocktail (photo courtesy Grey Goose). [2] America’s favorite pear, the Bartlett (photo courtesy CookThink). There are also red Bartlett and d’Anjou are available in green and red varieties.   This week we had a bottle of Angry Orchard’s Knotty Pear Cider at lunch, and it reminded us that fall is also…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Purple Potatoes

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Just a few years ago, purple potatoes were hard to find, especially for our Red, White & Blue Potato Salad (here’s a bonus recipe), popular fare for Memorial Day and Independence Day. Thankfully, things have changed. Once called purple Peruvian potatoes, they are now grown worldwide in response to consumer demand, so are much more…
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