TIP OF THE DAY: Save The Sauerkraut Juice & A Bacon Sauerkraut Recipe

We have a delicious recipe for bacon sauerkraut below, but first a tip: Don’t toss the sauerkraut juice. Not only is it good for you*; if you like the taste of sauerkraut, the juice has the identical flavor. Drink It Drinking sauerkraut juice may sound strange to Americans, but it is a popular digestif and…
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FOOD FUN: A Salad Bowl Of Radicchio Leaves

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

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

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

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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