Category: Tip Of The Day

TIP OF THE DAY: Sugar Snap Peas

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Sugar snap peas (photo by Louis Hiemstra | IST).   Almost everyone loves peas, but few people serve snap peas—even though they’re available year-round. Sugar snap peas are a cross-breed of the English pea and the Asian snow pea, delivering the best traits of both. Completely edible like snow peas (but with a crunchier pod),…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Creamy Dressing

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Make creamy salad dressing by adding a bit of cream to basic vinaigrette. Photo courtesy Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board. We’re always surprised that so many folks who cook their meals buy bottled dressing for the salad. Bottled dressing is expensive, and it’s so easy to make your own. When we ask people why they just…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Bake A Pie For National Pie Day

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January 23rd is National Pie Day. We grew up in a pie-baking household; Mom is a great baker who loves to bake pies. She rolled out the dough, placed it in a Pyrex pie plate and added the filling. Then we got to pinch the edges. We savored the aroma of a baking pie; and…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Blood Oranges

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Blood oranges—also called blush oranges and Maltese oranges, among other names—are in high season now. We look forward to them all year, contenting ourselves with the excellent bottled blood orange juice from Italian Volcano (organic and kosher) when we can’t squeeze our own. Blood oranges are believed to be a mutation of the sweet orange…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Kamut Khorasan Wheat

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Say what? KAMUT® (kah-MOOT) is the manufacturer and brand name of a Khorasan wheat that is available in the US. Khorasan is an ancient wheat, the grain of which is two times larger than modern wheat. It has a rich, nutty flavor. As produced by Kamut, it’s organic and whole grain—just as it was in…
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