Category: Recipes

TIP OF THE DAY: Pasta Made Tricolor With Veggies

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Mediterranean Pasta With Chicken. Photo courtesy Urban Accents.   Doesn’t this pasta dish look more exciting than a conventional red-sauced plate? It uses vegetables to make “tricolor pasta” instead of pasta colored green and red with spinach and tomatoes. Tricolor pasta—green and red plus white—looks appealing in the bag but typically fades when cooked. So…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Homemade Salsa For National Salsa Month

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Salsa fresca, made with raw ingredients. Other salsas are cooked. Photo courtesy Melissa’s.   Salsa, which has been America’s favorite condiment since 2000 (when it supplanted ketchup),actually has been a favorite condiment for thousands of years. The chile was domesticated around 5200 B.C.E., and tomatoes by 3000 B.C.E. both in Central America. The Aztecs combined…
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RECIPE: BLT Slaw With Bacon, Lettuce, Tomatoes & More!

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A BLT salad with blue cheese and avocado in addition to bacon, lettuce and tomato. In this photo, the tomato is blended into the dressing; but we added extra cherry tomatoes as a garnish for a pop of color. Photo courtesy SafeEggs.com.   We tend to use either shredded cabbage (packaged cole slaw) or romaine…
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RECIPE: Salmon Sashimi Hors d’Oeuvre

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Delicious bites. Photo courtesy Maille.   Maille, the venerable French producer of fine mustards, added a European spin to this, placing Japanese-style raw fish on a Parmesan tuile. It also combines substitutes the traditional wasabi for Maille Dijon Mustard With Honey. If you don’t eat cheese, or want to shave time from making the recipe,…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Jumbo Croutons

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Most croutons are miniature cubes. Some crouton lovers would like them much larger: more flavor, more crunch. And they certainly make salads more fun. So today’s tip is. Make jumbo croutons. They make salads more fun. And you can customize the flavors each time, so there’s no “crouton fatigue.”   GENERAL CROUTON TIPS Pick your…
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