TIP OF THE DAY: Make Your Own Peanut Butter

Last month we wrote about Planter’s Peanut Butter, “the creamiest peanut butter ever.” But what if you don’t like a creamy, homogenized PB paste, writes a reader? Or the amounts of salt and sugar in your PB? Your dilemma can be solved in minutes, with a bag of peanuts and a food processor. You can…
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PRODUCT: Hellfire Pepper Jelly, Cream Cheese & More

We love a good pepper jelly—and not all of them are good. Many are just too sugary, throwing the sweet/heat balance way over to the sweet side. In eight years of reviewing specialty foods, the only pepper jelly lines we’ve liked enough to review are Aloha From Oregon, Cherith Valley and Diane’s Sweet Heat. And…
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COOKING VIDEO: Fun Halloween Food

  Eyeball food is fun Halloween food. These Halloween Eyeball Bites will have everyone eating more veggies, too—a counterbalance to all the candy. Using favorite veggie slices—cucumbers, carrots and cherry tomatoes, for example—you only need to add cream cheese and olive slices. For a more sophisticated flavor, substitute fresh goat cheese for cream cheese. The…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Gourmet Popcorn At Home

For better flavor, pop your corn from scratch! Photo by Katharine Pollak | THE NIBBLE.   Everybody loves popcorn. It’s great for watching movies, you can fill a ziplock bag of it for an on-the-go snack and it’s a much healthier alternative to potato chips and other high-calorie snack foods. (Popcorn is a whole grain…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Savory Pumpkin Recipes

Add pumpkin to your pasta. This delicious baked ziti recipe uses sausage and spinach as well. Photo courtesy Libby’s.   Last year, America’s pumpkin growers produced almost 1.5 billion pounds of the colorful winter squash. Pumpkin production peaks in October, with the demand for jack o’lanterns and pumpkin pie. Not to mention pumpkin brownies, pumpkin…
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