Prunes, Delicious At Every Meal: Prunes Uses & History

National Prunes Day is June 17th. October 17th is Four Prunes Day. It may sound like a funny name for a food holiday. Some people say “meh” to prunes, but for centuries it was based on medical advice that four to nine prunes a day would help with “digestive regularity.” We love the flavor prunes…
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Mix & Match Fall Salad Recipes

What’s in your salad? If it’s the same group of ingredients that you’ve used throughout the spring and summer, it’s time to expand your choices to cool weather ingredients. Good Eggs, purveyor of premium produce in the San Francisco Bay area, created the chart below to make it easy for you to mix and match.…
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Pasta With Pesto Recipes: Pistachio Pesto & Pesto Variations

[1] Pasta with broccoli rabe and pistachio pesto. The recipe is below (photo © DeLallo). [2] Homemade casarecce (photo © The Pasta Project). [3] Pistachio nuts (photo © The Guilded Nut, a specialist in pistachios, with numerous seasonings). [4] Broccoli rabe (photo © Imraw). [5] Parmigiano Reggiano cheese (photo © Murray’s Cheese). [6] Toasted (roasted)…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Apple Cider Sangria Recipe

Fall means apple cider, a drink that’s refreshing served cold or hot (mulled cider). Here’s a festive drink that adds wine, to make it a sangria. Here’s how to set up an apple cider bar for a party. If you need a pitcher, take a look at Pampered Chef’s Quick-Stir Pitcher. It has a plunger…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Pasta & Fish & Instagram

Everyone has heard of linguine with clam sauce, and pasta with mixed shellfish: clams, mussels, scallops, shrimp. But how about fish? This appealing dish of spaghetti with red snapper (photo #1) was created by Rickie Perez, Executive Chef/Founder of Logan Oyster Socials, a traveling oyster bar in Chicago.     RECIPE: SPAGHETTI WITH RED SNAPPER…
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