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Our Tip of the Day is to bake oatmeal cookies. That’s because it’s National Oatmeal Cookie Day. While Scotland long had crunchy oatcakes, the pliable oatmeal cookie we’re familiar with was a 19th-century American creation. Jean Anderson, author of The American Century Cookbook: The Most Popular Recipes of the 20th Century, notes: “The first recipe…
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We love Aunt Nellie’s beets: whole beets, sliced beets, pickled beets, Harvard beets. The company is the largest provider of jarred beets. And now, the brand has introduced Baby Whole Pickled Beets, sized just right for one bite. They’re available nationwide and a great boon to anyone who likes to make hors d’oeuvre and small…
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We love this fusion recipe for St. Patrick’s Day: Corned Beef and Cabbage Egg Rolls. It’s from Dietz and Watson, purveyors of fine deli meats. Chinese egg rolls are filled with cabbage and bits of pork. Here, corned beef substitutes for the pork, creating an “Irish” egg roll. The recipe serves 4. “FUSION” CORNED BEEF…
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Advice from the experts: Eat more salad. Additional advice from the experts: Don’t load up the salad with fattening dressings. Here are 10 tips to make your salads so exciting, that a small amount of olive oil and negligible-calorie vinegar (or citrus juice) is all the dressing you need. 1. Mix Your Greens. If you’re…
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Risotto is made from rice, but you can cook other grains in a similar fashion. Here, barley, which grows well in the northern Irish climate, gets the Italian risotto treatment. To add an Irish touch, the barley risotto is used as a filling for stuffed cabbage. The pearl barley used in this recipe has had…
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