RECIPE: Breakfast Fruit Salad

If you haven’t been getting your recommended portions of fruits and vegetables*, how about starting your day with a breakfast salad? You can have one of these fruit-based salads with your regular breakfast foods—cereal, eggs, a bagel—or with a side of cottage cheese, ricotta and/or yogurt. This recipe comes from Lynn’s Paradise Café, Louisville, Kentucky…
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TIP OF THE DAY: How To Grill The Perfect Steak

Ready for the grill: a beautiful porterhouse steak from AllenBros.com.   Chef Jan Birnbaum of EPIC Roasthouse in San Francisco enjoys a good steak on the grill. In fact, he designs his cookout menus so that he can cook everything outside! Here are Chef Jan’s tips for grilling the perfect steak. 1. Don’t cook cold…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Celery Salad

Celery doesn’t get a lot of respect. In most recipes, it’s an also-ran. But great American cheese maker Paula Lambert shows how it can be a main ingredient, in her Shaved Fennel and Celery Heart Salad. You can eat this salad as an appetizer or side, as a base for a poached chicken breast or…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Do A Pantry Makeover

Looking for better eating tips? Most households can use a pantry makeover, substituting less good-for-you ingredients to better-for-you ones. Today’s tips are from Mindy Kobrin, who teaches families how to shop smart, cook with joy and celebrate food seasonally. She calls her food philosophy Don’t Worry, Eat Happy. Her top pantry makeover tips: Pretty produce.…
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RECIPE: Raw Kale Salad

Something different: kale salad. Photo courtesy Galli Restaurant | New York City.   You may have enjoyed a plate of sautéed kale, but how about a raw kale salad? It’s new, different and full of antioxidants and fiber. And there are different varieties beyond the curly kale found in supermarkets. See the different types of…
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