RECIPE: Green Bean Salad With Bacon Vinaigrette & Bacon Garnish

If your salads have the winter blahs, you can revive them with bright red vegetables, fruits (apples, pears, dried cranberries, pomegranate arils), other colorful produce, and nuts. Another idea: Make this snappy salad with green beans instead of lettuce. You can make it with cooked green beans, but we like the beans to be raw…
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The Flavor Of The Year For 2024 Is Ube. What Is Ube?

Experts at one of the world’s top food and beverage flavor companies have officially identified the official 2024 Flavor of the Year. It’s Ube (OO-beh). The “Flavor of the Year” was recently introduced in the 2024 Food and Beverage Flavor Trends Report, an annual publication by California-based T. Hasegawa USA, one of the world’s top…
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French Fries With Kimchi Sour Cream For National Kimchi Day

[1] Fries with kimchi sour cream. The recipe is below (photo © Roy Choi | Idaho Potato Commission). [3] You can serve a variety of fries with different dips (photo © Stonewall Kitchen | Facebook). [3] Classic kimchi showing two different cuts (photo license CC-BY-SA-2.0 KR). [4] Napa cabbage, the most commonly-used vegetable for kimchi…
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Recipe: Mashed Potato, Pumpkin & Pepita Patties

This potato-pumpkin side dish is easy to make because it uses instant potatoes: There’s no peeling or slicing. Thanks to the Idaho Potato Commission for the recipe. You can plop these tasty patties atop a salad or serve them as a side with a main course. > The history of pumpkins. > The history of…
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Pumpkin Sage Mashed Potatoes Recipe For National Pumpkin Day

[1] Mashed potatoes x pumpkin puree (photo © Potato Goodness). [2] Pumpkin puree (photo © Jessica Gavin | Libby’s). [3] Fresh sage, fragrant and herbal, with a flavor that is earthy and slightly peppery, with hints of mint, eucalyptus, and lemon (photo © Good Eggs). [4] A bit of cinnamon gives a fall touch to…
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