The Perfect Potato Salad Recipe For Fall: Sweet Potato Salad

[1] Sweet potato salad with dried cranberries: delicious warm, room temperature, or chilled (photos #1 and #2 © Taste Of Home | TMB Studio). [2] The ingredients. [3] A sweet potato salad with Mexican flair: with black beans, corn, cilantro, and red bell peppers, in a honey-Dijon dressing! Here’s the recipe from Averie Cooks. [4]…
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Carve A Pineapple Jack-O’-Lantern For Halloween

The original Jack-o’-Lantern was not a pumpkin. Pumpkins are a New World crop. On All Hallows’ Eve in the Old Country, people placed candles in hollowed-out turnips in their windows to keep spirits and ghosts away from their homes. In the New World, Irish immigrants discovered that the native pumpkin made the biggest, scariest jack-o’-lantern.…
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Rosh Hashanah Recipes Including Zoodle Kugel With Zucchini

This year, the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, begins October 2nd at sundown*. A traditional part of the festival’s dinner is kugel (KOO-gull), a casserole-like (or baked pudding-like) side that is served as part of the main course. The name means, simply enough, “head (i.e. beginning) of the year.” Kugel, in Yiddish, is a baked…
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No-Bake Key Lime Bars Recipe For National Key Lime Pie Day

  [1] Key lime bars instead of pie. The recipe is below (photos #1 and #2 © Go Bold With Butter). [2] These bars work as a casual dessert or something fancier. You can garnish the tops with whipped cream. We like to add a piece of chocolate-covered orange peel. [3] Key limes, plucked from…
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Peanut Butter & Jelly + Corn Flakes Sandwich Recipe

A peanut butter and jelly sandwich made crunchy with a layer of Corn Flakes? Why not? Recipes follow (photos #5 and #6), but here’s how the idea began. First came the chip butty. A chip butty, chip barm* or chip bun (photo #5) is a British working class recipe, a sandwich filled with chips (British…
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