Birthday food for kids: Restaurant foods to avoid at your son’s or daughter’s birthday party.
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If you feel like whipping up a delicious apple dessert to honor Johnny Appleseed–or just to treat family and friends–check out our fabulous apple desserts.
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Here’s some healthy party food–a great pasta recipe to serve at any dinner party–and especially if you’re entertaining friends who are vegetarians.
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Combine a fun activity with a delicious and inexpensive dinner that everyone will enjoy.
Here’s an easy party idea: make-your-own-pizzas.
First, decide if you want ready-to-serve crusts or crusts that may need pre-baking. (Individual ready-to-serve pizza crusts are 8” in diameter.)
Next, select the toppings you’ll serve. According to FoodTec Solutions, a restaurant consulting firm in Needham, Massachusetts, […]
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For many moms, decorating for Easter begins with one kitchen technique: How to hard boil an egg.
Interestingly, while 80% of us think we know how to hard boil an egg, it turns out that many of us (including me!) haven’t been doing it right. Here’s step-by-step advice from the American Egg Board. I can’t wait […]
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To most of us, take-out or delivered pizza is one of life’s great treats and great party food for casual entertaining.
For many of us, it’s also a Super Bowl tradition.
“Turns out this is one of the five big pizza days of the year,” reported the Associated Press. “The other four? Halloween, the day before Thanksgiving, […]
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Most retail stores are already decorated for the Christmas holidays.
But Fall is upon us for another six weeks, and entertaining as the weather gets cooler is one of the great delights of the year.
Take advantage of the seasonal fruits and vegetables that are grown near you make your Fall dinner parties more distinctive, delicious, and […]
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Fruit crisps are among our favorite recipes for entertaining. Sure, they contain butter and sugar. But even a small serving of luscious, warm apples, blueberries, plums, pears, or nectarines under a crunchy blanket…
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Yesterday, the Seattle Times ran a feature about fancy new versions of burgers now served at area bars. As in many other locations, the bar burgers in Seattle have gone haute.
Here, taken from reporter Tan Vinh’s round-up, are some of the area’s gourmet bar burgers.
We think they offer great suggestions on more items to include […]
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The Spice Depot, a company that sells spices, runs a lovely Web site that has lots of good information, including helpful, in-depth details about pairing hot spicy foods– great for summer entertaining–with white and red wines.
Here are some excerpts from the company’s excellent section Ethnic Food & Wine.
Caribbean Jerk Dishes
“With over ten percent of the […]
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