Category: Rice-Beans-Grains-Seeds

TIP OF THE DAY: Substitute Tofu For Cream & Try This Dairy Free Chocolate Pudding Recipe

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Soft tofu can be turned into a substitute for heavy cream. Photo courtesy House Foods.   We learned from Japanese and Asian-influenced restaurants that you can have lush, creamy tofu-based desserts and not even notice there’s no cream. Substituting tofu for heavy cream helps to save calories and avoid cholesterol. It produces recipes that support…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Things To Do With Polenta Slices

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Stack slices of grilled polenta with your favorite fillings; here, crab salad and guacamole (photo © Costanero Cocoino Peruana).   Polenta—which is both the Italian word for cornmeal and a cooked dish made from it—has become popular in America through Italian and Continental restaurants. But it’s not new to America. For the first two centuries…
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RECIPE: Tofu Fries

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A spin on fries: tofu and coconut. Photo courtesy House Foods.   Most people have had french fries in some or all of their variations*, sweet potato fries, zucchini fries, even yucca fries. But how about tofu fries? House Foods created this tasty recipe, which evokes coconut-battered shrimp: CRISPY COCONUT TOFU FRIES WITH SPICY APRICOT…
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TIP OF THE DAY: 5 More Uses For Rice

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We overdid it recently, purchasing a jumbo bag of white rice that we’re not likely to make a dent in anytime soon (we try to eat whole grains like brown rice, which we especially enjoy in rice salads). So we searched for other ways to use the rice, and found five more ways to employ…
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RECIPE: Cheese Grits

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Hot and hearty cheese grits. Photo courtesy Tillamook.com.   It’s so cold in the Northeast today, we’re warming up with a bowl of steaming cheese grits. If you’re not from the South, you might not totally “get” grits, a thick, creamy porridge. They can be bland in their traditional recipe, with salt and a pat…
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