Negroni Cocktail Recipe, The World’s #2 Cocktail For National Negroni Week

Plan ahead for weekend cocktails: It’s Negroni Week, celebrated the second week of September. The cocktail, made with gin, Campari and sweet vermouth, was invented at the Bar Cassoni (now the Caffè Cavalli) in Florence, Italy, in 1919. Count Negroni asked for a stronger version of the Americano, a cocktail, dating to the 1860s, also…
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Sweet Potato Pizza For National Potato Month

[1] A sweet potato pizza with caramelized onions, copressata and balsamic glaze (photo and recipe © DeLallo). [2] Sweet sopressata, a dry salami from southern Italy (photo © Our Harvest). [3] Mascarpone, rich and creamy (photo © Vermont Creamery). [4] Provolone cheese is a close cousin of mozzarella. Both are stretched-curd cheeses, called pasta filata…
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Cookies & Cream Skillet Brownies Recipe For Brownies At Brunch Month

[1] If you don’t have a skillet, you can use a 10″ cake pan (photo © Wisconsin Cheese). [2] Oreos are the largest brand of chocolate sandwich cookies (photo © Tijtan Adrndarski | Unsplash). [3] Mascarpone originated during the Middle Ages in Lombardy, a region in northern Italy. It has a looser, more velvety texture…
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Smoked Salmon Spring Rolls Recipe

Our friends at Petrossian shared with us this delightful recipe for smoked salmon summer rolls. They are as much a treat for the eye as for the palate (photo #1). Petrossian calls them maki, the Japanese word for roll; but they are more correctly namu harumaki that are sliced in the manner of sushi maki.…
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S’mores Bark Recipe: Chocolate, Marshmallows and Graham Crackers

August 10th is National S’mores Day, celebrating a combination of graham crackers, marshmallows and melted chocolate that made famous by the Girl Scouts (the history of s’mores). This year, we offer you a recipe that can be made with conventional or vegan ingredients. The recipe is below. It’s an interpretation of chocolate bark, itself a…
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