RECIPES: Five Course Strawberry Dinner Party

This “strawberry napoleon” is the perfect end to an all-strawberry menu at your strawberry dinner party. Photos courtesy California Strawberry Commission. When most people think of strawberries they think of jams, ice cream, and shortcake. But, strawberry recipes span much more than confections; you can create an entire dinner from them. We’ve done just that…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: National Asparagus Month

We lunched with one of our locavore friends yesterday. She lives in the country and benefits from the bounty of  neighboring farmers. We envied her. Don’t, she said—we’re eating asparagus daily and are about to scream! We can’t imagine that—to us, asparagus is a luxury that we can afford it. We wait impatiently all year…
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RECIPES: A Time to Grill

Turns out there is no such thing as Grill Season. Serious grillers and so-called barbecue-tionists use their grills all year round, according to a recent survey by The Hearth, Patio and Barbecue Association. Still, when the rains pass and the weather gets warm, we find ourselves drawn out of doors…into the streets…and, inevitably, toward the…
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FOOD HOLIDAYS: Florida Tomato Month

Those beefsteaks won’t be rolling off the vine for another couple of months, but you can celebrate Florida Tomato Month with us: – Make swordfish steak with fresh tomato sauce. – Serve it with a first course of angel hair pasta with cherry tomatoes. – And a side of cherry tomato and seaweed salad with…
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RECIPE: Smokra Deviled Eggs

What’s Smokra? It’s smoked okra, one of our favorite pickled vegetables from NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week Rick’s Picks. We love all of Rick Fields’ pickles and pickled vegetables, but Smokra has been a passion since first bite. Now, Rick sends us a recipe for Smokra Deviled Eggs. How can we resist? – Smokra…
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