RECIPE: Baked Pumpkin Doughnuts

With their seasonal orange color, moist texture and delightful pumpkin flavor, these baked doughnuts are better-for-you, with less sugar and no hot-oil frying. Make them for breakfast, snacking or dessert, with a scoop of ice cream. They also freeze nicely. The batter also keeps well in the fridge, in case you want to make a…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Cherry Tomato Pasta Sauce

October is National Pasta Month, and we’ll be sharing different takes on pasta. We start with tomato sauce. Some people use fresh summer tomatoes to make their sauce, freezing batches to last through the year. Others used canned tomatoes year-round. Less often, cherry tomatoes are employed. For us, since lush summer tomatoes have drifted into…
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RECIPE: Moroccan Quinoa & Roasted Carrots

October 1st is World Vegetarian Day, the annual kickoff to Vegetarian Awareness Month. Vegetarian diets have proven health benefits, are kind to animals and help to preserve the Earth (meat production is a major source of greenhouse gas and deforestation). According to ProCon.org, some prominent vegetarians include/have included: Lord Byron, Bill Clinton, Leonardo da Vinci,…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Café Liégeois

We made this recipe yesterday, for National Coffee Day. Instead of our favorite after-dinner coffee—a steaming cup of French or Italian roast with a shot of coffee liqueur, substituting for dessert—we celebrated with a Café Liégeois (lee-eh-ZHWAH). It’s a parfait with layers of iced coffee, ice cream, and whipped cream (called chantilly [shon-TEE-yee] in French).…
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RECIPE: Caesar Salad Pizza

A grilled Caesar Salad Pizza from Chef Marcus Samuelsson. Photo © Paul Brissman.   When we saw this photo on the website of Chef Marcus Samuelsson, we couldn’t wait to make one. The grilled pizza combines the ingredients of Caesar salad—romaine, olive oil, anchovies, garlic, citrus juice, egg—with pizza crust standing in for the croutons.…
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