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I knew absolutely nothing about the glories of a good baked potato until the day I ordered one at a local restaurant in my town that was known for them. Before that, my primary “baked” potato experience involved a microwave. What I tasted was so revelatory I still remember it: ridiculously crisp on the outside and oh so fluffy ...Read more

If you’re looking for an impressive dessert that doesn’t take an entire afternoon to assemble, I have just the thing. Cream puffs are one of my ...Read more

Fall is my favorite season of the year. Hands down. Nothing can beat it. Nothing even comes close. I am loving this year’s fall – immensely.

What do I love about fall?

First off, I love the temperature...

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Pumpkin Chiffon

Just in ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- There’s one common ingredient running through the pages of Sarah Kieffer’s fifth cookbook, “100 Afternoon Sweets,” but you won’t find it in any recipes.

It simultaneously fills your soul and satisfies your appetite, whether you’re baking Blueberry Muffin Cake and Banana Bread Brownies or Scotcharoo Blondies and Peanut...Read more

When can a marketing promotion raise agricultural sales and, potentially, the birth rate?

When an association of Quebec maple syrup producers offers to buy brunch for single Americans who ask single Canadians out on a date.

To kick off “cuffing season,” our neighbors from the north are hoping that free stacks of pancakes or French toast ...Read more

Every kid, large or small, has a preferred lunch box treat.

For some of us of a certain age, there's a good chance it was Chips Ahoy! cookies, which made their debut in 1963 and have been a go-to favorite for snackers of all ages ever since.

Even though they were and are still mass-produced in a factory, Nabisco (now a subsidiary of Mondelez ...Read more

Father Dominic Garramone knows all about pizza snobs, people who loudly insist that only certain ingredients belong on a pizza. He is not a pizza snob.

“I don’t particularly care for Provel, but I don’t look down my nose at it. I don’t care for barbecue pizza or pineapple on pizza, but if you want to put that on your pizza I’m not ...Read more

Did you ever go on a trip and eat something so amazing that you became obsessed?

That's me with those utterly delicious maple leaf-shaped cookies stuffed with maple cream and sold in Canada.

Known for their delicate shape and sweet maple flavor, these whimsical cookies can be found just about everywhere once you cross the Peace Bridge from New...Read more

Restaurants play host to all classes of diners: the good, the grand, the gullible, the greedy and so on. However, as a consequence of the last three decades of chef-artistes, many of the most famous dining establishments in the world treat these diverse clients as if it they were an audience with a single palate and a single motive — to ...Read more

CHICAGO -- There isn’t a more perpetually disappointing fruit than a grocery store strawberry. And it’s truly hard not to get catfished by strawberries because even the most sour ones look beautiful on the outside.

In the U.S., where many strawberries are picked before they’re fully ripe so they can withstand transportation and are ...Read more

McDonald's had a smash hit when the double-decker Big Mac sandwich made its debut at a Uniontown, Pennsylvania, franchise in 1967.

The 45-cent burger went national a year later, and its catchy "two all-beef patties ... " jingle in 1974 only added to the sandwich's popularity. Today, an estimated 550 million Big Macs are sold each year in the U....Read more

BALTIMORE -- Fast food restaurant chain Wendy’s is launching a new collaboration that might sound to Marylanders like something it’s not. But fans of “SpongeBob SquarePants” are likely ready, ready, ready for it.

The new Krabby Patty, to mark the 25th anniversary of the animated TV series, is a quarter-pound burger with two slices of ...Read more

Lemon juice and fresh dill flavor this quick and easy salmon dinner. The salmon is baked in the oven and the rice is microwaved.

No extra pots to wash!

Helpful Hints:

A quick way to chop dill and parsley is to wash and dry the herbs and then snip the leaves right off the stem with a scissors.

Countdown:

Preheat oven to 425°F.

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I had a head of cauliflower in my fridge and decided to turn it into a cheesy, crisp, easy vegetarian dinner. I cooked the cauliflower in the microwave oven, mashed it and added the other ingredients. Then I finished the dish under the broiler and dinner was ready in 10 minutes.

A Tomato Onion Salad completes the meal.

HELPFUL HINTS:

The ...Read more

We wanted to make a creamy, complex broccoli pasta that contains an ample amount of the vegetable.

We started off by blanching the broccoli stems and florets, a convenient technique since cooking pasta also requires a pot of boiling water, and we blended the stems and some of the florets with a pesto-inspired roster of ingredients to make a ...Read more