Category: Vegetables-Salads-Herbs

TIP OF THE DAY: Tree & Wreath Christmas Crudités

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Give the crudités some Christmas spirit. Top photo courtesy Superhealthykids.com; bottom photo courtesy MomEndeavors.com.   Recently we showed how to Christmas-ize your breakfast, lunch and dinner. But we saved the crudites for last. At any holiday gathering, it’s a good idea to have a raw vegetable platter (the French term, crudités, pronounced crew-dee-TAY, sounds much…
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RECIPES: Alternative Holiday Potato Recipes

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If you don’t have sacrosanct holiday potato recipes, here are two outside-the-box ideas, one for mashed potatoes, one for sweet potatoes. Of course, they work on non-holidays, too. Both are from GoBoldWithButter.com, one of our go-to sites for delicious recipes. RECIPE: BLUE CHEESE MASHED POTATOES Butter, buttermilk and blue cheese give these mashed potatoes a…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Chicken Or Turkey Stock

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Enjoy your feast, but don’t toss the carcass. Use it to make stock! Photo courtesy Sur La Table.   Plan ahead: Don’t throw away that turkey carcass. Or the roast chicken* carcass. Or those tops, root ends and stems from trimming vegetables. Save the vegetable trimmings from the week’s meals: carrot tops, celery ends, fennel…
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RECIPE: Mojito Mashed Sweet Potatoes

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Mashed sweet potatoes with a “Mojito” touch. Photo courtesy Chef Ingrid Hoffmann | Facebook.   Chef Ingrid Hoffmann calls these “Mojito” mashed sweet potatoes because they have fresh mint and lime juice. Find more dellicious recipes on her website, IngridHoffmann.com. Ingredients For 4 Servings 2 large sweet potatoes, washed but unpeeled (about 1½ pounds) 1…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Leaf-Shaped Veggies For Thanksgiving

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You can be very artistic with vegetables. It just takes a bit of planning. While it takes some dexterity to make this “rose tart”, here is a simple alternative. It comes from one of our favorite creative cooks, Vicky of Stasty.com. She cuts up vegetables with a leaf cookie cutter before roasting them. She then…
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