FOOD FUN: Chocolate Covered Licorice

Here’s a fun idea we found on the Red Vines Facebook page: red licorice enrobed in white chocolate, drizzled with dark chocolate. You can make them for Halloween. Simply melt white chocolate, dip licorice and dry on wax paper. When white chocolate has dried, drizzle with milk chocolate (use a squeeze bottle). Licorice is a…
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TIP OF THE DAY: How To Cook Beans

Beans are delicious, beans are healthful, beans are inexpensive protein, and we should all eat more beans. That’s beans made from scratch, not canned beans, which have a lot of sodium and a mushier texture. (But, let us hastily add: It’s better to eat canned beans than no beans). Beans can be added to green…
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FOOD FUN: Guacamole Stuffed Eggs & Uses For Leftover Egg Yolks

Here’s a fun way to present stuffed eggs: as boats filled with guacamole and a tortilla chip or Wheat Thin “sail.” But what to do with all those leftover cooked egg yolks? Add to tuna salad, potato salad, pasta salads and other salads. Add to a layered salad. Crumble or grate atop green salads (especially…
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