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If you love to make French fries, you need a fry basket. Photo courtesy Calphalon. Today is National French Fry Day, the perfect day to explore how to make the best French fries. We contacted our friends at the Idaho Potato Commission, a website with tons of tips and recipes. They start by advising…
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When leftover beer goes flat, there’s no need to toss it. With respect to all of the household and personal care uses, we prefer to consume it. When you add it to recipes, the flatness doesn’t matter at all; it becomes analogous to adding still wine. The beer is substituted for all or some of…
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[1] Turn yesterday’s croissants into today’s ice cream sundae. Toast them first. Yummy! (photo © California Cherry Board). [2] Croissants just out of the over (photo © Le Marais Bakery | San Francisco). We just came back from the bakery with a bag of warm, fragrant croissants for breakfast. We know we’ll have leftovers…
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A few days ago we featured the lattice pie crust, a beautiful top crust for fruit pies (and optionally, to decorate tarts, which typically don’t have top crusts). Some home bakers may be wary, not knowing if they have the patience to evenly cut and weave the strips of dough (fear not—it’s really easy). But…
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Celebrate National Ice Cream Month with a cookie crumble sundae. Photo courtesy James Beard Foundation. July is National Ice Cream Month, an enticement to explore new ways to enjoy ice cream sundaes. There are ice cream sundaes with fudge or butterscotch sauce; sundaes atop brownies, blondies and pound cake; and the less common but…
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