Food Fun: Creative Toast Toppings

At our house, toast comes to the table with butter, cream cheese, and jam. But this weekend, we’ll adapt this idea for creative toast toppings from Woodstock Foods. Whole grain toast (so much more flavorful than packaged white bread!) is served with guacamole as the bread spread, and a DIY assortment of healthful toppings: Capers…
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Pineapple Rum BBQ Sauce & More Recipes For National Barbecue Month

May is National Barbecue Month, and May 16th is National Barbecue Day. What better way to celebrate than by making your own barbecue sauce. Today’s featured recipe is a Pineapple Rum urbon BBQ Sauce made with dark rum. There are additional links below to more recipes that use beer, bourbon, cola, and dark chocolate. Barbecue…
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Baked Apple Rose Recipe For Kentucky Derby & Mother’s Day

[1] Baked apple roses (photo and recipe © Hannah Kaminsky | Bittersweet Blog). [2] Fuji apples (photo © Good Eggs). [3] Beet juice—a delicious drink by itself (photo © Knudsen). [4] The recipe uses maple syrup instead of refined sugar (photo © Rent Mother Nature).   Whether you’re watching the Run For The Roses* or…
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Fresh Orange Cookie Recipe For National Orange Juice Day

May 4th is National Orange Juice Day, and we went over our list of 10 uses for orange juice besides drinking it. We opted for the 11th use: Bake something with it! We dug up a Fresh Orange Cookie recipe we’ve been meaning to try for a while. This recipe, from Pillsbury Kitchens, delivers a…
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Chicken Enchilada Baked Potato For National Enchilada Day

[1] Stuff a baked potato with enchilada ingredients. The recipe is below (recipe and photo © Idaho Potato Commission). [2] Classic enchiladas with red enchilada sauce (photo © Melissa’s Produce). [3] Enchiladas Suizas, made with a white sauce of cream, tomatillos, onions, cilantro, and green chiles. Here’s the recipe (photo © Chef Ingrid Hoffmann). [4]…
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