COOKING VIDEO: Cornmeal Battered Onion Rings Recipe

  Many people are not neutral on the subject of battered, fried onion rings. There are two main camps: people who don’t like onions and people who’d choose onion rings over fries any day. We’re in the latter camp. We could make a meal of onion rings, ketchup and beer. Burgers or other protein only…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Dessert Tortilla Wraps

Novel dessert: cream cheese, marshmallowcreme and kiwi in a mango wrap. Photocourtesy New Gem Foods.   It’s a wrap—a dessert wrap, that is. Sandwich wraps have swept the country by storm. Instead of two slices of bread, many people prefer to roll their favorite sandwich fixings in a large tortilla. You can roll dessert fillings…
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RECIPE: Coconut Cream Pie

Today is National Coconut Cream Pie Day, and we’re going to bake one. A cream pie, or creme pie, is plain pastry or crumb pastry shell with a pudding filling. Banana, butterscotch, chocolate, and vanilla pudding are the most common fillings. A coconut cream pie mixes flaked coconut into a vanilla pudding base. Our recipe…
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RECIPE: Colorful Spinach & Grapefruit Salad

A terrific combination of flavors. Photocourtesy Melissas.com.   Before citrus gives way to summer fruits, here’s a quick, colorful spring salad from Andrew Faulkner for Melissas.com, purveyor of exotic and hard-to-find fruits and vegetables. Sweet-tart grapefruit, tasty fennel, and tangy olive flavors come together with super healthy spinach leaves and grapefruit segments.   RECIPE: SPINACH…
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COOKING VIDEO: Wild Ramps, A Great Spring Vegetable

  May is the month for delicious ramps. Their season is fleeting: late April to early June. They are worth seeking out. Ramps (Allium tricoccum) are wild leeks—also known as spring onion, ramson and wild garlic. In French, they are called ail sauvage, wild garlic, and ail des bois, garlic of the woods, because of…
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