Category: Recipes

COOKING VIDEO: Make A Luscious Yet Simple Lemon Tart Recipe

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  How does one pick a favorite pie or tart when one loves them all? Given a choice—facing a restaurant dessert menu or a bakery display case, for example—we almost always pick the lemon tart. A buttery crust filled with a creamy, refreshing lemon filling, it’s hard to come across one that isn’t a delight.…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Customize Bloody Mary Drinks With A Bloody Mary Bar

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The Bloody Mary is one of the most popular drinks in America (some studies put it at the top of the list). No wonder innovative Chef Geoffrey Zakarian of The National in New York City decided to take the standard up a notch. At The National, a “Bloody Mary specialist” wheels the “Bloody Mary cart”…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Have A New York Egg Cream

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[1] The glass is contemporary, but the egg cream ingredients are classic. The recipe is (photo © Linda Schirmbeck | Fotolia). [2] With a soda syphon, you can get a bubbly head on your egg cream (photo © Make Your Own Soda). [2] Like mint? Try this chocolate mint egg cream recipe (photos #2 and…
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TIP OF THE DAY: A Cocktail Or Dessert Of Champagne & Sorbet

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Add the right fruit sorbet to the right sparkling wine: delicious! (photo © Domaine Chandon).   September is California Wine Month. The first sustained California vineyard was planted in 1779 by Franciscan missionaries, at Mission San Juan Capistrano (in southern California, halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego). The first documented imported vines (from Europe)…
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COOKING VIDEO: Apple Pie With Cheddar Crust

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  Not long ago, we overheard a conversation among a group that was seated next to us at a New York City restaurant. One person was recounting a dinner he had had at a colleague’s home. He had been served a slice of apple pie with a wedge of Cheddar cheese, and was “flabbergasted” by…
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