Category: Recipes

TIP OF THE DAY: 20 Ways To Use Leftover Wine

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You may need no arm twisting to have a glass of wine on February 18th, National Drink Wine Day. But don’t feel obligated to finish the bottle. Instead, retain some of the wine in your cooking.   TIPS You can use any wine, including dessert wine, Port and sparkling wine, whether flat or still bubbly.…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Homemade Lentil Soup

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Top: Vegetarian lentil soup with mustard greens from Good Eggs. Bottom: Black beluga lentils from InHarvest.com.   Lentil soup is a winter favorite: hearty, nutritious comfort food. Why make your own? Better lentils, more nuanced flavors and the ability to control the salt. Today’s tip is an easy recipe for homemade vegetarian lentil soup, with…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make A Savory Galette

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Beet and Sweet Potato Galette from Vermont Creamery.   Shoo the winter blues away with a colorful galette. In the pastry world, a galette is a rustic, open-face pie, made without a pie pan. It is flat, with a turned-up crust that wraps around the filling to create a “dough pan.” It can be round,…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Soup In A Tea Cup

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It’s zero degrees here right now, with a wind chill below zero—the coldest February day since 1963. It’s a good day to focus on soup. We prefer to consume soup in a mug instead of a bowl. It can be easily sipped, and we never drip soup on ourselves. Our ability to avoid spilling some…
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FOOD FUN: Make Beet Yogurt For Your Valentine

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Top: The secret ingredient is popped mustard seeds. Photo courtesy Samin Nosrat. Bottom: Serve either recipe with homemade pita wedges. Photo courtesy The Pioneer Woman.   Our supermarkets are filled with cooked, packaged, ready-to-eat beets brought in for Valentine’s Day. While we love fresh-roasted beets, they’re the most time-consuming root vegetables to prepare. We got…
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