TIP OF THE DAY: One-Pan Main & Side (Lamb & Zucchini)

Our pots and pans don’t go into the dishwasher: They need to be hand-washed. While hot sudsy water and a Scrub Daddy do the job, we wouldn’t overlook the opportunity to save our manicure. So we were all ears when Good Eggs sent us this recipe to cook the main and the side in one…
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Overnight Breakfast & Brunch Casseroles: Cinnamon Buns & Blueberry Muffins

February 21st is National Sticky Bun Day. Sticky buns and cinnamon rolls were the biggest treat of our childhood breakfasts: Better than waffles or pancakes. The Horn & Hardart Automat, Americas’s first fast food chain, had such popular items that customers clamored to take them home. They set up a retail arm to package and…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Easter Eggs Filled With Cake!

Steph of The Cupcake Project created a recipe called How to Make Cupcakes in Egg Shells. But, if you decorate the eggs before serving, you have Easter Egg Surprise: an egg with cake inside. It’s fun and memorable: Most people won’t have seen anything like it. Here’s the recipe. We took it one step further,…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Gourmet Burritos & Burrito History

The first Thursday of April National Burrito Day. You don’t have to twist most arms to enjoy one. THE NIBBLE is having a lunch of gourmet burritos. We share the ingredients below, but first, a bit of…     BURRITO HISTORY A step back in history: In 1519 the Spanish conquistadors arrived in what today…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Easier Soft Boiled Eggs & Ways To Serve Them

Some people have never had a hot, runny, seductive soft-boiled egg. That’s because they’re such a pain to peel when hot, that even most restaurants don’t offer them. Soft-boiled eggs were popular in our family. Nana had a set of vintage silver-plated egg cups; Mom had ceramic cups. The eggs were served with “toast soldiers”…
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