How to Use This Liquor in Cooking: National Applejack Month
It’s National Applejack Month, and do you know what it is? Applejack is a made-in-America apple brandy. The brandy is distilled from apples & produces a result of light liquor. Of course, the longer the brandy is aged prior to bottling, the smoother it becomes. We pretty much adhere to the idea that brandies should be sipped on their own. Apple Jack is also nicely served drizzled over ice cream in a brandy snifter. Beautiful...
April Food Holidays & Events
Here are April Food Holidays & Events. Most of these holidays are based out of the USA, with others sprinkled in here & there. Find other months on The Year in Food Holidays & Events page. Month Holidays: National BLT Sandwich Month: How to Make Club Sandwiches Browse Sandwich recipes, Sandwich & Burger shows Browse Bacon recipes, Bacon shows Playlist: Bacon Recipes + Reviews Playlist: Lettuce Recipes + Reviews...
Catch Father’s Day Recipes with Web Chef Kimberly on ‘Tim Denis in the Morning’
Tune in to Newstalk 610 CKTB to Tim Denis in the Morning on Friday, June 19th at 7:50 am to catch Father’s Day Menu Ideas with web chef Kimberly Turner. When Father’s Day rolls around in the middle of June, grilling seems to be in the front of our minds. That charred, smokey flavor that is unattainable any other way than some open flames. Father’s appreciate these salt-of-the-earth tidbits hot off the BBQ for their...
Holiday Turkey Ideas: Thanksgiving Twists on the Traditional
If you’re looking for Holiday Turkey Ideas, then I have some Thanksgiving Twists on the Traditional for you. Let’s face it, most of us keep to and enjoy certain traditional dishes for the Holiday season, and we associate the very enjoyment of the holidays with the foods we most commonly prefer to eat. These foods warm us and seem to create comfort. The most obvious food is Thanksgiving and Christmas roasted turkey....
How to Make Napa Jack’s Peach Bourbon BBQ Vinaigrette + Video
You’re going to absolutely love this recipe for How to Make Napa Jack’s Peach Bourbon BBQ Vinaigrette on so many different salads. This new experience with a dressing that has it all will quickly become one of your go-to vinaigrettes. The sweetness of the peach with the richness of bourbon, and combined with BBQ sauciness, this is a winning salad dressing that will surely make you smile. Napa Jack’s Peach Bourbon BBQ...
Carbonated Beverage with Caffeine Day: Moderation is Key
Carbonated Beverage with Caffeine Day is November 19th, and who doesn’t enjoy a cold, fizzy pop? What is it about caffeine & carbonated beverages that makes us want more & often? Soda pop contains a delightful combination of both caffeine & carbonation, as well as huge amounts of sugar, in most soda pop. The sugars give us an almost immediate high & energy, and the caffeine completes this energy boost, which...
How to Bake Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake: National Chocolate Day
National Chocolate Day is here and I’m sharing with you a Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake recipe below… But first, a few chocolate facts. Chocolate Facts: What is more decadent than chocolate & very few wouldn’t welcome such a tasty treat at any time. Chocolate & cocoa come from an evergreen tree genus, theobroma, “Food of the Gods.” Cocoa beans grow in a pod of a cocoa tree. They are both identically...
Ever Tried These Black Licorice Candies?: Good & Plenty Day
Good & Plenty Day is here, and if you don’t know what they are, well, it’s a box of deliciously flavored, candy coated licorice. Once you’ve tasted them, you’ll look forward to the next box. Inside each candy is a small piece of soft, black liquorice. The only way I will eat black licorice is if it’s in a Good & Plenty, which is chewy & softer than the long Twizzlers of black licorice, sold...
Quick Pickling Facts & Guidelines: Pickled Peppers Week
Pickled Peppers Week starts today, marking the 3rd week in October, and we’re talkin’ about perfect pickling. This requires a few pickling guidelines you should follow, but first, some quick pickling facts. Quick Pickling Facts: Most dill pickles, sauerkraut, olives & pickled peppers get their special flavors from undergoing fermentation. Liquor or spirits (alcoholic beverages), as with vinegar, keep food edible by...
October Food Holidays & Events
Here are October Food Holidays & Events. Most of these holidays are based out of the USA, with others sprinkled in here and there. Find other months on The Year in Food Holidays & Events page. Eat Better, Eat Healthier Month: Eat Better, Eat Healthier Month: Easy Nutrition & Health Guidelines Browse Healthy shows, Healthy recipes Browse Organic shows, Organic recipes Browse Vegetarian + Vegan shows, Vegetarian recipes,...
National Cherries Jubilee Day Deserves a Flambéed Recipe
Cherries Jubilee is one of the most beautiful & decadent desserts that I know of… Juicy cherries flambéed with Kirsch, a cherry liqueur, this tempting dessert is then scooped over ice cream of the vanilla variety. However, variations on this recipe change the fruit, the liqueur and what it goes on top of, but the premise is simple. A tasty liquor with some gorgeous fruit. Flambé it all and pour it over something else...
Tempting Pudding Recipe for National Chocolate Day
It’s National Chocolate Day, and we must celebrate! Chocolate, as we know it, comes from the pod of the cocoa tree. Chocolate syrup is extracted from the hulled cocoa beans & solid cakes are molded from it. The hulled beans contain cocoa butter, which is a natural vegetable fat, and this melts in the grinding process and a lovely dark brown fluid or chocolate liquor is reserved from the cakes, and ground into powder. The...
National White Chocolate Day: Decadent Mousse Recipe
It’s a sweet one because it’s National White Chocolate Day! Now, it doesn’t have to be Easter time to enjoy some white chocolate, and no, white chocolate doesn’t just come in bunny form… 😉 White chocolate is very much like milk chocolate, except it doesn’t contain the chocolate liquor. This is why it is off white in color, instead of brown. Being high in cocoa butter, it has a very mild milk...