Category: Recipes

TIP OF THE DAY: How To Cook Beans

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Beans are delicious, beans are healthful, beans are inexpensive protein, and we should all eat more beans. That’s beans made from scratch, not canned beans, which have a lot of sodium and a mushier texture. (But, let us hastily add: It’s better to eat canned beans than no beans). Beans can be added to green…
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FOOD FUN: Guacamole Stuffed Eggs & Uses For Leftover Egg Yolks

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Here’s a fun way to present stuffed eggs: as boats filled with guacamole and a tortilla chip or Wheat Thin “sail.” But what to do with all those leftover cooked egg yolks? Add to tuna salad, potato salad, pasta salads and other salads. Add to a layered salad. Crumble or grate atop green salads (especially…
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FOOD FUN: Gourmet Bagel

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We love bagels. We could eat them three meals a day. Our three favorite bagel toppings: olive cream cheese and smoked salmon, whitefish salad and tomato, and herring salad and tomato on a sesame or garlic bagel. Optional garnishes: capers, onion or chives. Our favorite “gourmet” bagel is topped with smoked sturgeon and salmon caviar,…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Layered Vegetable Salad

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Layered vegetable salad: The veggies look even more appealing. Photo courtesy Hidden Valley.   If you have veggie-resistant eaters at your table, try turning the vegetables into an artistic presentation. Good packaging can make what’s inside much more exciting. Here’s a fun way to incorporate vegetables into a meal with panache. This recipe, from Hidden…
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RECIPE: Hazelnut Praline Cake

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“Hazelnuts make the best desserts,” says one of our favorite food bloggers, Vicky of Stasty.com. I feel like a lot of desserts are almond based, and poor old hazelnuts never get a look in. Hazelnuts are more complex and work well in both sweet and savoury dishes. “This is a different kind of cake than…
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