Two Yummy Lasagna Recipes: Spinach Lasagna & Pasta Al Forno

One of the fun things about cooking, we think, is that you can develop riffs on favorite dishes that always keep them fresh and interesting. Even if everyone loves your brownies, potato salad or whatever, try variations on it (like adding contrasting flavored baking chips or different nuts to the brownie batter, or minced jalapeño…
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Eat The Rainbow: Salad-Topped Main Course & Vegetables By Color

Here’s an easy way to get everyone to eat a few more veggies: Top main courses with a small salad. Fried, grilled, roasted and sautéed proteins are all candidates to be topped with an alluring crown of vegetables and herbs—not a dinner salad or dressed lettuce, but something that looks great. Dress the salad very…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Marzipan Cupcake Decorations

Just in time for St. Pat’s. Photo © Sprinkles Cupcakes.   Marzipan as a cake decoration goes back hundreds of years. It was so popular as a confection, it was used for centuries in Europe to cover wedding cakes, or to create the decorations that topped conventional frostings. But times change, and there’s less marzipan…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Try A Flaxseed Mill

Here’s another way to add “instant nutrition” to your foods, with no more effort than it takes to grind pepper. In this case, you’re grinding flaxseed. Why? This superfood adds noteworthy nutrition to food (see the health benefits below), so much so that a growing number of consumers have been clamoring for it. An estimated…
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TIP OF THE DAY: A Boon For Messy Eaters

Tie one on! say the father and son team behind DressTiez, and we couldn’t agree more. We fall into the category of unintentionally messy eaters. We don’t want to drip pizza, sauce and other runny foods down the front of our shirts and sweaters; but we invariably do. During our teen years, when crisp white…
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