HOLIDAY: Cereal Donuts For National Cereal Day

[1] and [2] Cereal-topped donuts and milk from Show Me The Yummy. [3] and [4] Lactaid for everyone! (photo courtesy Lactaid).   March 7th is National Cereal Day, and here’s the big question: Do you drink the leftover milk in your cereal bowl? According to a survey by Wakefield Research*, 74% of Americans frequently drink…
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RECIPE: Corned Beef Hash Patties With Eggs

Our mom loved corned beef and cabbage, and made it year-round in addition to St. Patrick’s Day. There were corned beef sandwiches for lunch the next day, and corned beef hash for Saturday breakfasts (Sunday was always bagels and lox). But our younger brother, a fussy eater, refused to try it, claiming it looked like…
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Seafood Gravy With Biscuits Or Toast: Biscuits & Gravy

[1] Elevate your biscuits, like these kabocha sage biscuits. Here’s the recipe from Betty S. Liu (photo © Betty S. Liu). [2] Simple oyster gravy. Here’s the recipe from Anson Mills (photo © Anson Mills). [3] Put an egg on it (photo © Pillsbury). [4] Surf and turf: oyster gravy over ham and biscuits (photo…
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RECIPE: Chocolate Sea Salt Almonds

February 25th is National Chocolate Covered Nuts Day. While you can easily head to the nearest store to pick up some chocolate-covered nuts, nut clusters or turtles, chocolate-covered nuts are something that you can easily make at home. Prefer to buy them? Our favorites are the Triple Chocolate Almonds from Charles Chocolates, coated in milk…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Olive Oil Polenta Cake

We have advocated olive oil cake before. But this is a variation with polenta (cornmeal) instead of white flour. Olive oil cake is a standard in some parts of Italy, substituting olive oil for butter as the fat. So is polenta cake, with a hearty crumb. Both are rustic, uniced cakes. When we first tried…
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