Category: Tip Of The Day

TIP OF THE DAY: Cheese Flag For July 4th

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Cheese flag photo courtesy Vermont Farmstead Cheese Co.   You can fly the flag on July 4th, and you can eat it too. This tasty flag was created by Vermont Farmstead Cheese Co., an award-winning creamery in Woodstock, Vermont. The creamery specializes in Cheddar, Edam, Tilsit and WindsorDale (based on a 1800 farmhouse Wensleydale recipe).…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Sorbet Cocktail For Dessert

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How can you make a sophisticated dessert in less than five minutes? Cleanse the palate after a rich dinner? Serve something cool and refreshing? Combine dessert with an “after dinner drink?” Serve a sorbet “cocktail” or mocktail, which in its simplest version combines a scoop of sorbet with sparkling wine or ginger ale.   You…
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TIP OF THE DAY: A Red, White & Blue Drink With Iced Tea

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Green iced tea with berries (photo by Eugene Bochkarev | Dreamstime).   To quench thirsts over July 4th weekend, brew up a special batch of red, white and blue iced tea. Use red and blue berries and a white fruit to garnish: Green iced tea Hibiscus iced tea Rooibos (red) iced tea   White fruits…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Things To Do With Overripe Bananas

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Dolce de bananas becomes a banana toffee pie. Here’s the recipe. Photo courtesy OurBestBites.com.   We went overboard at Trader Joe’s, buying too many bananas with the thought that we’d eat one or two each day. You can guess the outcome: a lot of overripe bananas. So we headed to our mental archive of delicious…
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TIP OF THE DAY: How To Use Sundried Tomatoes

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Sundried_tomatoes. Photo by Andrew Deacon | Wilimedia.   Luscious, local vine-ripened tomatoes won’t be in our farmers markets for another month. So until their joyous arrival, we’re still making do with cherry tomatoes and sundried tomatoes. One of our interns asked if sundried tomatoes had to be rinsed before eating, inspiring today’s tip. First, the…
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