Category: Recipes

TIP OF THE DAY: Apple Crisps Are Easy To Make

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You may not make homemade pie because you don’t like crust that much—or just don’t like wielding it. You can enjoy the same baked apple flavor with a betty or crisp (a.k.a. crumble). The differences, along with dough-topped variations such as cobbler, grunt, pandowdy and slump, are below. BEST APPLES FOR BAKING When you bake…
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RECIPE: Figgy Blue Cheese Bacon Bites

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Bacon, blue cheese, figs and…Fig Newtons! Photo courtesy Litehouse Foods.   Here’s what we’re making this weekend to go with Olive Oil Martinis: Figgy Blue Cheese Bacon Bites. The recipe was developed by Jennifer Fisher for Litehouse Foods. You can see the whole photo spread here. These appetizers are simple to make from just four…
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RECIPE: Kimchi Fried Rice

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Enjoy this for breakfast, lunch or dinner! Photo courtesy Yotel New York.   Kimchi or kimchee is a traditional Korean fermented vegetable dish, the most common side dish in Korean cuisine. It is also a main ingredient in many popular Korean dishes, such as kimchi stew. Kimchi has always been made year-round, but in earlier…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Asian Pears

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In the spring, when the blossoms fall from the Asian pear trees, the nascent pears are the size of peas. Now, at harvest time, many are as large as croquet balls, some varieties the size of softballs (and yet low in calories—about 50 per 4 ounces). If you see a red and white Subarashii Kudamono,…
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RECIPE: Asian Lettuce Wraps With Steak

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East meets West in these Vietnamese-style steak and lettuce wraps, delicious for lunch, a first dinner course or main course. The recipe comes from The Great Pepper Cookbook, one of our favorite new cookbooks from the produce experts at Melissas.com, available in hardcover, paperback and Kindle editions. This recipe was created by Melissa’s chef Tom…
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