TIP OF THE DAY: Cinnamon Pecan Topping

For holiday season, it’s good to have a trick up your sleeve that quickly turns everyday food into festive food. We nominate homemade cinnamon pecan topping, which can be used to garnish both sweet and savory foods. See our list of uses below. You can use any nut, but pecan goes particularly well in this…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Bark From Leftover Halloween Candy

Chop up those miniatures, add whatever else you have and make bark. See the recipe above at CompletelyDelicious.com.   Many American households woke up today to lots of Halloween candy. You can eat some of it as is, but we especially like this solution from BrownEyedBaker.com, who adapted it from this Bon Appetit recipe: Turn…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Pudding Parfaits

If your crowd is elegant, use finer ingredients than crushed Oreos and M&Ms. Photo courtesy Gather By Damico | Minneapolis.   Add a special element to any small party, or even a quiet evening with the family, by putting together a mix and match pudding parfait bar. It’s a popular annual event at our place;…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Breadcrumb Topping On Pasta

TOP PHOTO: Mac & cheese, crumbed for crunch and glamour. Photo courtesy Morgans Hotel | NYC. BOTTOM PHOTO: Linguine tossed in olive oil, Parmesan and herbs, topped with bread crumbs. Photo courtesy All’onda | NYC.   If you peruse recipes for mac and cheese, you’ve likely noticed that the better recipes—certainly those by name chefs—regularly…
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TIP OF THE DAY: How To Make A Slab Pie & Slab Pie Recipes

[1] You can use a standard top crust or exercise your creativity. Apple Cherry Slab Pie with a lattice top. Here’s the recipe from Taste of Home. [2] Raspberry Pecan Crumble Slab Pie (here’s the recipe) from Driscoll’s. [3] An Apple Slab Pie. Here’s the recipe (photo © Vermont Creamery). [4] How about a Blueberry…
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