Category: Recipes

RECIPES: Alternative Holiday Potato Recipes

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If you don’t have sacrosanct holiday potato recipes, here are two outside-the-box ideas, one for mashed potatoes, one for sweet potatoes. Of course, they work on non-holidays, too. Both are from GoBoldWithButter.com, one of our go-to sites for delicious recipes. RECIPE: BLUE CHEESE MASHED POTATOES Butter, buttermilk and blue cheese give these mashed potatoes a…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Chicken Or Turkey Stock

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Enjoy your feast, but don’t toss the carcass. Use it to make stock! Photo courtesy Sur La Table.   Plan ahead: Don’t throw away that turkey carcass. Or the roast chicken* carcass. Or those tops, root ends and stems from trimming vegetables. Save the vegetable trimmings from the week’s meals: carrot tops, celery ends, fennel…
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RECIPE: Make & Bring Sweet & Savory Nut Clusters

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Sweet and savory nut clusters, with pumpkin seeds added for the holidays. Photo courtesy QVC.   If you’ve been invited to Thanksgiving but not asked to contribute, you may still want to bring a gift that isn’t a bottle of wine. Something like these Sweet & Savory Nut Clusters from QVC’s chef David Venable can…
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RECIPE: Vanishing Oatmeal Raisin Cookies From Quaker Oats

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[1] Quaker’s most popular recipe is for its Vanishing Oatmeal Cookies (all photos © Quaker Oats. [2] What great-great grandmother would have purchased. [3] Today’s canister reminds us that oatmeal is a heart-healthy food. [4] Milled oats, ready for oatmeal and baking (photo © Kelly Cline | iStock Photo).   National Oatmeal Cookie Day is…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Meyer Lemons

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A profusion of Meyer lemons at Good Eggs | San Francisco.   You should start seeing Meyer lemons in stores now. The no-pucker lemon’s season is November through March. A cross between a true lemon and either a sweet orange or a mandarin, Citrus × meyeri was named for Frank Nicholas Meyer, who brought it…
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