Category: Recipes

FOOD FUN: A Salad Bowl Of Radicchio Leaves

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The Alcove Cafe & Bakery in Los Angeles creates a bowl from radicchio leaves, and fills it with salad. It’s not just pretty: It’s fun food! The Cafe serves it with their ginger shrimp, seared ginger-marinated shrimp with mixed greens, sauteed mushrooms, tomatoes and plum dressing, topped with enoki mushrooms. The dish is called “Ginger…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Red, White & Blue For Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

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Enjoy the red, white and blue all day. Photo courtesy Shiloh Farms.   For three weeks leading up to Independence Day we’ve presented quite a few ideas for red, white and blue food. Here’s the last one for Independence Day 2013: For each meal today, use red and blue berries to create a red, white…
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RECIPE: Gazpacho Verde

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On really hot summer days, we like to cool down with a chilled meal. A bowl of gazpacho and a large salad, accompanied by lots of iced tea, fit the bill. Gazpacho, a low-calorie, high-nutrition dish, is one of those recipes that afford maximum customization: Each cook can do his or her thing, and even…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Fruit Cones

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Today’s tip is an easy, kid-friendly, guilt-free, handheld snack or dessert. Ice cream cones filled with fruit are a way to bring the fun without the refined sugar, calories or drippiness of ice cream. Simply cut up a fruit salad into a small dice (the size of raspberries). Blueberries and raspberries can go into the…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Things To Do With Polenta Slices

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Stack slices of grilled polenta with your favorite fillings; here, crab salad and guacamole (photo © Costanero Cocoino Peruana).   Polenta—which is both the Italian word for cornmeal and a cooked dish made from it—has become popular in America through Italian and Continental restaurants. But it’s not new to America. For the first two centuries…
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