Category: Tip Of The Day

TIP OF THE DAY: Homemade Tortilla Bowls (Fill With Grilled Chicken Salad!)

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Make your own tortilla baskets. They’re tastier than the commercial variety served at many Tex-Mex restaurants. Photo courtesy Chef Ingrid Hoffmann.   For many years of our youth, one of our favorite restaurant lunches was Mexican-style chicken salad in a tortilla bowl. As our palate evolved, we realized that a lot of those tortilla bowls…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Rich, Creamy Almond Milk

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Some people never touch a glass of milk, but we love it. We can drink two eight-ounce glasses a day. That’s in addition to cereal milk, yogurt and other milk-based products. Our brother is the same. So we were surprised recently when he asked if we’d like a few quarts of almond milk; he had…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Gyros At Home—It’s Easy!

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September 1st is National Gyro Day, and the first thing you need to know is that gyro is pronounced YEE-ro, not JY-ro. A gyro (pronounced YEE-ro) is a Greek lamb sandwich on pita bread, roasted on a vertical spit and served with tomato, onion, and tzatziki, a yogurt-cucumber sauce (recipe). Other condiments and sauces can…
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TIP: The Right Beer Glass Makes A Big Difference

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We’re one of the many people who likes to drink beer straight from the bottle. We believed, as with sparkling wine, that the narrower the opening, the more the carbonation stays in. A cold bottle from the fridge keeps the beer colder than a room-temperature glass. And, we don’t particularly care for a foamy head.…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Pozole (Posole) ~ Not Just For Special Occasions

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Much of what we know about Aztec customs is thanks to Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590), a Franciscan friar, missionary priest, scholar and ethnographer who traveled to New Spain* (current-day Mexico) after its conquest. Arriving in 1529, he learned the Nahuatl language of the Aztecs and spent more 61 years documenting their beliefs, culture and history.…
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