Category: Recipes

RECIPE: Pineapple Chipotle Ice Pops

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Treat yourself, your family and your friends to a refreshing gourmet ice pop. Our friends at Eagle Brand make it easy with a simple recipe for Pineapple Chipotle Ice Pops: cold and creamy with a bit of heat. If you don’t have ice pop molds, 3-ounce waxed paper cups and wooden sticks or plastic spoons…
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JULY 4th FOOD: Red, White & Blue Cocktails

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  Want a celebratory drink for July 4th? How about a red, white and blue layered shooter? A drink with several layers of different colored liqueurs is called a pousse café (pronounced POOSE-caff-fay). A classic pousse café is a liqueur-based drink served with after-dinner coffee. In French, the name translates to “pushes coffee,” or coffee…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Fresh Cherries

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Rainer cherries are now in stores. We got ours at Trader Joe’s. Photo courtesy Washington State Fruit Commission.   You can enjoy dried cherries year-round, but fresh cherries are a special event. They’re only available from mid-May through August, so don’t miss out: Put cherries on your shopping list. Cherries are a healthy snack food…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Homemade Grenadine

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First, what is grenadine? A deep red syrup used for hundreds of years to flavor and give a reddish/pink tinge to drinks and other recipes, true grenadine is made from pomegranate juice and sugar syrup. The name comes from the French grenade and the Spanish grenada, words for pomegranate. Alas, today’s mass-marketed “grenadine” is faux…
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JULY 4TH FOOD: Goat Cheese Stuffed Celery

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Updated retro: goat cheese-stuffed celery with pomegranate arils. Blueberries not shown. Photo and recipe courtesy Pom Wonderful.   An update of the 1950s classic, this stuffed celery recipe replaces the old school cream cheese and pimento-stuffed olives with goat cheese and capers. For July 4th, the white goat cheese is accented with red pomegranate arils…
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