TIP OF THE DAY: How To Buy Peaches

Summerset peaches. Photo courtesy Frog Hollow Farm.   This tip is from Pearl Driver, the marketing director at Frog Hollow Farm in Brentwood, California (in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area) and Farmer Al Courchesne, a co-owner and farmer-in-chief. “Before I started working with Frog Hollow Farm,” says Pearl, I would…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Caramelized Onion Dip

We grew up making Lipton’s California Dip: a package of Lipton Onion Soup Mix combined with a pint of sour cream. It was simple and soul-satisfying, a party standard with potato chips and pretzels (and later, crudités, pita chips and other chips). The recipe appeared in 1954, two years after the Lipton soup mix hit…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Cheese Plate With Bacon

A cheese course with bacon. Photo courtesy Castello.   Thanks to Castello, a Danish producer of classic cheeses, for this cheese plate inspiration. The cheese is sliced into thin, carpaccio*-like slivers. For the cheese course, Castello used its Castello Alps Selection Classic, an Alpine-style cheese (the category of semifirm cheeses that includes Appenzeller, Gruyère, Raclette…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Homemade Flavored Seltzer

[1] Homemade raspberry seltzer (photo © Spoonful Of Flour). If you like flavored seltzer, here’s how to make an even more flavorful version of it, courtesy of the North American Raspberry and Blackberry Commission. The inspiration came from fruit grower Cheryl Ferguson of Plum Granny Farm in King, North Carolina. You can use fresh or…
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No Bake Blueberry Cheesecake Recipe

[1] Way cool: a no-bake blueberry cheesecake (photo © Bake Or Break | Colorful Harvest). [2] When you see blueberries on sale, grab them and make this recipe (photo © Balducci’s). [3] The crust is made from vanilla wafers (photo © Nabisco). [4] An entire summer’s worth of desserts. Check out the book (photo ©…
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