Category: Recipes

RECIPE: Hungarian Rice Pudding

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Hungarian Rice Pudding. Photo and recipe courtesy Little Bucharest Bistro | Chicago.   A bone-chilling day like today calls for extra helpings of comfort food. One of our favorites is rice pudding. We’ve made it every way, including conventional, with rum-soaked raisins, with dried cherries and cranberries replacing the raisins, and a Thai-inspired version with…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Goat Cheese For Breakfast

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It’s the second day of the Year Of The Goat, and we’re focusing on goat cheese for breakfast. We love goat cheese so much, that a log or tomme of fresh goat cheese with toasted baguette (and fresh tomato and basil in the summer) is our kind of meal. But you can incorporate goat cheese…
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FOOD FUN: Green Tea Fortune Cookie Cake Recipe

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At last: an idea to repurpose the fortune cookies that so many of us acquire from Chinese food take-out. This Green Tea layer cake is made by Baked NYC, one of the most popular bakeries in New York City. The cake has three almond white cake layers, frosted and filled with green tea buttercream. You…
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RECIPE: Maple Syrup Blondies & The History Of Blondies

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January 22nd is National Blonde Brownie Day, and May 9th is National Butterscotch Brownie Day. Both are earlier names for a blondie. Some blondies have chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, toffee chips, or an assortment. Nuts are optional. The blondie got its name because as a brownie recipe without the cocoa, it was pale. Over time,…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Easy Grilled Cheese

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Shred the cheese first. Daryl Brooks | Dreamstime.   Grilled cheese sandwiches, one of America’s favorites, are pretty easy to make,. Yet they’re not problem free. Sometimes, the cheese does not melt evenly or quickly. This is especially true when you hand-slice quality cheese from a block, as opposed to using thin, easy-melting plastic-wrapped singles.…
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