TIP OF THE DAY: “Zig-Zag” Baked Potatoes

Do you like to get creative with food design? Bring fun to the dining table? Next time you bake a potato, zig-zag the cut edges. We baked the potato, then sliced it across the top and used a kitchen scissors to create the zigzag effect. There’s no wasted food: We added the cut-out portion, along…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make An Easy Cookie Sundae

You may have had a sundae with a side of cookies but in this simple concept, the cookie become the sundae. A cousin of the ice cream sandwich, a cookie sundae is a lot easier to make. Try it tonight! COOKIE SUNDAE RECIPE Ingredients Per Serving 2 cookies, ideally a chewy style that can be…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Design Your Own Halloween Pizza Recipe

Decorating your own individual Halloween pizza is a fun family dinner activity on the nights leading up to Halloween. Or, turn it into a Halloween party feature. Set out bowls of garnishes—bell pepper, sliced mushrooms pepperoni, olives (eyes)—and let the participants make their own designs. If your kids are too young to plan a design,…
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HALLOWEEN: Haunted Fruit Salad With Ghost Peeps

Are you scared into eating your fruit? Photo courtesy PEEPS.   This dessert is so easy to make, it’s spooky. Just top fruit salad with vanilla yogurt or plain yogurt (we use Greek yogurt slightly sweetened with a no-cal sweetener). Then, insert Ghost Marshmallow Peeps into the the topping. The dessert is officially haunted! You…
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