Category: Recipes

FOOD FUN: Bacon Rose Bouquet Recipe

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Mom gets flowers for Mother’s Day; perhaps Dad would prefer a bacon bouquet. It’s easy to make 12 long-stemmed bacon roses. Here’s a video from the National Pork Board that shows how to make bacon roses.   RECIPE: BACON ROSES Ingredients For 12 Bacon Roses 12 strips of bacon 24 toothpicks 12 stems from plastic…
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RECIPE: Rare Baked Salmon With Peperonata

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Rare baked salmon topped with peperonata, a bell pepper mix. Photo courtesy Cobram Estate.   In 1986, our palate was awakened when Le Bernardin restaurant opened in New York City. Its acclaimed French chef Guy Le Coze brought new insights to how seafood could be prepared. Everything was exciting, but among our favorites was Chef…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Savory French Toast

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Saturday was always “French Toast for breakfast day” in our family. It was always sweet, with real maple syrup and fresh fruit. So when we came across this recipe for savory French Toast from Castello Cheese (which used its Aged Havarti in the recipe), we picked the following Saturday (yesterday) to give it a try.…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Brown Rice Pudding Recipe For Breakfast

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Yesterday we popped into our local Le Pain Quotidien to meet a colleague for coffee. On the breakfast menu was brown rice pudding, topped with mixed nuts and raisins. We love rice pudding, so of course, we ordered it: our first “breakfast” rice pudding. It had much less sugar than dessert rice pudding, and, though…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Spiced Roasted Carrots With Sumac

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This recipe from the Williams-Sonoma Test Kitchen was so breathtaking, we traipsed through three different farmers markets to hunt down the beautiful heirloom carrots (and finally found them at Trader Joe’s). The recipe gave us an excuse to purchase sumac, a slightly tart and fruity spice popular in North African and Middle Eastern cooking. We’d…
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