TIP OF THE DAY: Broccoli Salsa & More Ways To Love Broccoli

A broccoli veggie mix, ready to spoon into a baked potato. Photo courtesy Potatopia | New York City.   We love broccoli, lightly steamed*, raw with dip, puréed as a side dish and as soup. Perhaps the most famous words ever said about broccoli were from our 41st president, George H.W. Bush, and they were…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Gourmet Hot Dog Recipes For Labor Day

A hot dog Boston-style, topped with baked beans, crumbled bacon and chopped red onion. Photo courtesy Applegate.   If you didn’t whip up some gourmet hot dogs on July 23rd, National Hot Dog Day, Labor Day Weekend is another opportunity to strut your hot dog stuff. In case you’re thinking chili cheese dogs, corn dogs…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Peach Lemonade Recipe

Before all the peaches disappear from the market, make fresh peach lemonade. This tip was inspired by one of our favorite bloggers, Vicky of the U.K.-based blog Stasty.com. Vicky in turn was inspired: “We were at a restaurant recently and they had peach lemonade on the menu. It was divine, so I had to replicate…
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TIP: Mango, A Year-Round Fruit

Mango is a fruit we think of as summery: tropical, juicy, yellow-orange and just heavenly as sorbet and in a frozen Mango Margarita. But mango is a year-round fruit, with different varieties coming into season at different times. So it can be enjoyed in desserts, incorporated into dips and relishes, and enjoyed in hundreds of…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Salmon Salad With Easy Homemade Ranch Dressing

Pretty as a picture, and much tastier. Photo courtesy Stasty.com.   If you have less-than-great memories of salmon salad made from less-than-stellar canned salmon: Forget them. They have nothing to do with this delicious salmon salad recipe—something you can be assured of just by looking at the tempting photo. This salmon salad is the creation…
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