RECIPE: Easy Roasted Spiced Carrots

Love roasted root vegetables? Who doesn’t! Turn a humble bag of carrots into delicious roasted carrots, spiced and fragrant with cinnamon, cumin and ginger. RECIPE: CUMIN-SPICED ROASTED CARROTS Ingredients 1 pound carrots 1 tablespoon olive oil 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 pinch ground ginger Salt and pepper to taste   Preparation…
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RECIPE: Happy Salad For Sad Weather

Pick up these bright ingredients and make a happy salad. Photo courtesy Evolution Fresh.   Weather: Cold. Sky: Gray. Snowstorm: Heading this way. Cheer: This bright, happy salad.   We saw the photo and recipe on Evolution Fresh’s Pinterest page, where it was featured as a summer recipe. But all of the ingredients are just…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Ingredients For Exciting Winter Salads

Top: Mixed greens with apples and pecans. Second: Shaved Brussels sprouts, watermelon radishes on greens, topped with feta from Good Eggs. Third: Edamame, diced red bell pepper and black beans top greens at Betty Crocker. Bottom: Thai celery salad with sliced hot chiles and peanuts. Photo courtesy Bon Appetit.   Over the weekend we had…
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TIP OF THE DAY: How To Chop Herbs

Top: Be sure that herbs are absolutely dry before you chop them. Photo courtesy Williams-Sonoma. Bottom: Remove the woody stems but keep the green portions. Photo of cilantro courtesy Good Eggs | San Francisco.   Fresh herbs are the avenue to adding a big punch of flavor with few calories to most dishes. The emphasis…
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RECIPE: Pickled Fennel (Fennel Pickles)

A head of fennel. The white portion is the bulb, the feathery green tops/stems are the fronds. Photo courtesy Valerie Confections.   We’ve always loved fennel in a salad (like cucumber salad or this Orange-Fennel Salad) or on a crudité plate. But we never thought to pickle it until we saw this recipe from Quinciple,…
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