TIP OF THE DAY: Cinnamon Coffee

It’s easy to brew delicious cinnamon coffee with any coffee maker. Photo courtesy McCormick.   If you enjoy cinnamon coffee, here’s a recipe from McCormick, that adds real cinnamon to your ground coffee for a far more exciting flavor. (Commercial cinnamon-flavored coffee uses an extract to flavor the beans.) The coffee is brewed with brown…
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April Fool—It Isn’t Tomato Soup & Grilled Cheese (Orange Pound Cake Recipe)

We’re cooking up some food fun for tomorrow, April Fool’s Day. This year, it’s trompe-l’oeil food. Trompe-l’oeil (pronounced trump LOY), French for “deceive the eye”, is an art technique that creates the optical illusion that a piece of two-dimensional art exists in three dimensions. You may have seen some amazing sidewalk art that fools you…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Frisée Salad With Lardons (Salade Frisée Aux Lardons)

One of our favorite salad greens, not served often enough in the U.S., is frisée (free-ZAY), curly endive that’s a member of the chicory family. In France, it is formally known as chicorée frisée. (See the different types of endive.) There are many ways to serve a salade frisée, but a universal favorite is frisée…
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