RECIPE: Blue Salad ~ Blue Cheese, Blueberries

Shoo the blues: a summer salad with blueberries and blue cheese. Photo courtesy Driscoll’s.   You’ll shoo the blues away with this “blue salad”: blue cheese, fresh blueberries and homemade blueberry vinaigrette. The recipe is from Driscoll’s Berries. The homemade blueberry vinegar will stay fresh for six months and can be gifted to your favorite…
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RECIPE: Smoked Salmon Potato Salad

Summer means potato salad, and you can never have too many good potato salad recipes. This one, from Tiffany Ludwig of Zabar’s, uses the stores famous smoked salmon to excellent effect. “With capers, dill and smoked salmon,” says Tiffany, “this simple summer dish transforms brunch or lunch into a spectacular meal.” Tiffany urges that the…
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RECIPE: Peanut Butter Brownie Ice Cream Sandwiches

This recipe for peanut butter lovers was contributed by Isabelle Boucher of Crumblog and posted to the recipe section of ILovePeanutButter.com, the website of Peanut Butter & Co. She used Peanut Butter & Co.’s Dark Chocolate Dreams peanut butter to make the ice cream, and sandwiched it between two layers of brownie. You can also…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Fruit Soup

You don’t have to turn on the stove or the oven to make this refreshing dessert: fruit soup. Made from fresh or dried fruit, served hot or cold, fruit soups are underrepresented on American menus. Yet, they offer variety year-round. Cold soups tend to be made with seasonal fruit and are thus served in warmer…
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Celebrate National Mojito Day With 3 Mojito Recipes

July 11th is National Mojito Day, and the Hard Rock Cafe is mixing up a storm. They sent us three recipes. The classic Mojito is a blend of white rum, club soda, sugar/simple syrup, lime juice, mint leaves, and ice. To vary the recipe, mixologists switch out the drink’s original muddled mint flavor with coconut,…
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