Category: Recipes

TIP OF THE DAY: Lamb Burgers Instead Of Hamburgers

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Make your Labor Day cookout different this year: Serve lamb burgers instead of hamburgers. (O.K., serve them in addition to hamburgers). If you love lamb and don’t eat it often enough, you can get as much enjoyment from a lamb burger as from pricier lamb chops and legs of lamb. The same wonderful lamb flavor…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Microwave Ears Of Corn

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Cook it, then husk it. Photo by Zeeshan Qureshi | SXC   We remember frequent trips to farm stands with our mom each summer, for a dozen ears of fresh-picked corn. Back home, we’d watch her husk the ears of corn and pop them into a large stock pot filled with salted boiling water. Why…
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Chilled Cucumber Soup Recipe

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[1] Chilled cucumber soup. A little garnish turns it into food art (photo © Love And Lemons). [2] Still on the vine, in a home garden with a wooden support for the heavy fruit—yes, cucumbers are a fruit (photo © Bernard Hermant | Unsplash).   We love elegant, chilled cucumber soup. Unfortunately, the provider of…
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TIP OF THE DAY: How To Roast Chiles

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Whether bell peppers or hot chiles, roasted fresh peppers are delicious and easy to make at home under the broiler or atop the grill. First the chiles are charred, then sweated to loosen the skin. If you’re roasting hot chiles, you’ll need protective latex gloves—the skin-tight ones that doctors wear. This prevents the capsaicin—the chemical…
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RECIPE: Cottage Cheese Pancakes

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Cottage cheese makes pancakes soufflé-like (photo © Friendship Dairies).   Whether or not you’re a cottage cheese lover, give these cottage cheese pancakes a chance. They’re a favorite brunch food at THE NIBBLE. It may seem counter-intuitive, but when cottage cheese is used in pancake batter, it lends a soufflé-like fluffiness that is truly special…
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