TIP OF THE DAY: “Zig-Zag” Baked Potatoes

Do you like to get creative with food design? Bring fun to the dining table? Next time you bake a potato, zig-zag the cut edges. We baked the potato, then sliced it across the top and used a kitchen scissors to create the zigzag effect. There’s no wasted food: We added the cut-out portion, along…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Eliminate Microwave Spatter & An Excellent Gourmet Pasta Sauce

No need to spatter sauce all over the microwave. Photo by Elvira Kalviste | THE NIBBLE.   To save cleaning a saucepan, we often microwave sauces in the bottle or jar. Dessert sauces are thick and don’t spatter. But pasta sauces can create microwave spatters that take more time to clean than the saucepan. Here’s…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Colorful Halloween Cheese

Basirion Rosso, a Gouda flavored with tomato pesto. Photo courtesy iGourmet.com.   Basiron Pesto Rosso. Cahill’s Farm Flavored Irish Cheddar. English Cheddar With Harissa. Extra Triple Aged Gouda. Huntsman Cheese. Mimolette. Pecorino With Chile Flakes. Saxonshire Cheese: What do these cheeses have in common? They all are visually on point for a Halloween cheese plate.…
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