TIP OF THE DAY: Ham Sandwich Recipes With New & Novel Variations

October is National Country Ham Month, which inspired us to contemplate a good ham sandwich—the kind you only get by baking a ham and slicing it yourself. Country ham is one made by rubbing the raw meat with salt and hang-drying it in a controlled environment of 75°-80°F or higher. The results are a firm…
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Prunes, Delicious At Every Meal: Prunes Uses & History

National Prunes Day is June 17th and October 17th is Four Prunes Day. The latter may sound like a funny name for a food holiday, but it’s named after a medical study on digestive regularity: that eating four to six prunes daily will aid digestion*. Some people say “meh” to prunes, but we love the…
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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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