TIP OF THE DAY: Steaming Vegetables

Most of us don’t eat our recommended daily portions of fruit and vegetables (use this calculator to see how much you need). You can serve a side of vegetables with breakfast eggs, with lunch and of course, with dinner. At the end of the day, if we haven’t eaten our share, we steam vegetables as…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Scouting The Produce Aisle

Part of the joy of eating is discovering new ingredients. They don’t have to be exotic (like fiddlehead ferns), just different. We always walk down the produce aisle looking for something we haven’t tried before. Then, we look at all the ways we can use it to add fun and flair to our dishes. We…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Farmers Markets

This tip comes from Alissa Dicker Schrieber, The Kitchenista: We love shopping in farmers markets. The pleasant environment, the food and the ability to buy directly from the grower can’t be beat. Everything is super fresh, often picked (or caught) just the day before. The food is locally produced: It doesn’t travel across the country…
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RECIPE: Award-Winning Baked Potato Salad

The latest wave in potato salads is baked potato salad, made with baked instead of boiled potatoes (it’s a great repurposing of leftover baked potatoes). At the recent 2011 South Beach Wine & Food Festival, Baked Idaho Potato Salad took top honors in the Idaho Potato Side Dish Challenge. The recipe was created by Chef…
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ST. PATRICK’S DAY: Leafy Greens Recipes

Lacinato kale is also called dinosaur kale because of the bumpy texture of its leaves, which some saw as reminiscent of reptile skin. In Italy lacinto kale called cavolo nero, meaning black cabbage, and other names* (photo © Good Eggs).   On St. Patrick’s Day, many of us will be wearin’ the green. But how…
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