How to Make Beef Burritos: Cinco de Mayo Fiesta
This delicious recipe for How to Make Beef Burritos will be a hit whether you serve it for dinner, at a party as an appetizer or main course. Healthy, hearty and ever-so-tasty, you will be making it a weekly event. How to Make Beef Burritos: Please the young & old with these beef burritos topped with cheese, and served with salsa, pico de gallo, chimichurri and/or guacamole. Type: Main Course Recipe Prep Time: 30 min Cook Time: 25...
For the Love of Celery
We don’t often think of Celery as a versatile food, but the tender leaves are lovely used in nearly all savory foods – either fresh or dried. Celery salt is actually powdered, tender celery leaves combined with salt. Celery seeds used for flavor are the seeds of wild celery, which is grown specially for the seeds, which are intense in flavor, and should be sparingly used in bouillon, stocks, pickles, seafood dishes &...
How to Cook Huevos Rancheros
Huevos Rancheros is a gorgeous breakfast, different than what you’re probably used to on a daily basis. Full of flavor, adding chorizo or refried beans makes this morning meal even more hearty. How to Cook Huevos Rancheros: Any salsa can be served with this classic Mexican dish, along with chorizo & refried beans. Heat & keep warm 2 cups salsa. Type: Breakfast Recipe Serve with: warm salsa, hot sauce, chopped cilantro...
How to Bake Chiles Rellenos
Chiles Rellenos is a marvelous Mexican dish that’s great for dinner, but even better for breakfast! When I lived in California, I enjoyed this delicious treat with eggs for breakfast with my friends before we were off to work. They are so tasty – unforgettable! Chiles Rellenos originated in the city of Puebla, Mexico. How to Bake Chiles Rellenos: Type: Breakfast Recipe Serve with: cilantro & warm salsa Prep Time: 30 –...
How to Roast Sweet Mini-Peppers in a Roasting Tray + Video
Roasted Sweet Mini-Peppers are a fabulous addition to other recipes, or used as a side dish all on it’s own. When roasted, these sweet, little peppers develop even more flavor, becoming even sweeter, and often taking on a smokey flavor, more so when using a grill, but still when charring the skin in the oven. You can top burgers & sandwiches, add to pastas, soups, salads, omelets, rice dishes, sauces. Now, you can roast...
Eating with Your Senses: Good Nutrition Month
November is Good Nutrition Month, and maintaining a healthy diet & lifestyle is essential to being in good health. We hear so much about nutrition and how important good nutrition is to the state of our health. We are organisms, which require large amounts of a variety of vitamins, minerals, fats, vegetables, fruits, grain, etc. to feed and maintain our bodies in a healthy condition. We eat to meet those needs, but also because we...
November Food Holidays & Events
Here are November 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. Georgia Pecan Month: How to Bake Pecan Pie: Georgia Pecan Month Browse Pecan recipes, Nut shows, Nut recipes Vegan Banana Pecan Muffins How to Bake Rose’s Pecan Cookies Cooking Shows: Nuts Recipes + Reviews Good Nutrition Month:...
Are You a Little Nutty? It’s National Nut Day
National Nut Day is here, and we have yet another reason to be “nutty.” Seeds, like pecans & walnuts, fruit like lychee nuts or legumes like peanuts, they all contain fats & protein. Chestnuts & cashews do not fall into this category. Nuts contain very little starch. Their oils carry flavor and nutrition, and nut texture is so appealing, we enjoy the contrast when added to recipes. Most nuts are eaten ripe...
How to Bake Black Bottom Cupcakes for National Chocolate Cupcake Day
It’s National Chocolate Cupcake Day, and did you know that almost any cake batter can be transformed into cupcakes? Just pour the batter into muffin tins lined with paper cupcake holders. How to Bake Black Bottom Cupcakes: You could bake cupcakes in flat bottomed ice cream cones. Cupcakes can take any kind of decorative & embellished frostings. These are generally baked at 350 degrees F for 18-20 min. It’s best to...
‘Tis National Fluffernutter Day: What are Fluffernutters?
What is a Fluffernutter? Good question! I wasn’t too sure myself, but once I tried one, I’ll never forget it. On this National Fluffernutter Day, let’s clear that right up for everyone… It’s a sandwich using peanut butter as the spread & enhanced with marshmallow creme on white bread. It is absolutely delicious! Sometimes, marshmallow creme is called Fluff or marshmallow fluff too. Every now and...
Fresh Ideas for Brown Bagging: National School Lunch Week
National School Lunch Week has arrived, and new inspiration has come to help you make lunches for your kids. School lunches for the children of our country are a very important aspect of feeding our young healthy & nutritious foods to keep them alert, strong & willing to learn. It is a good idea to provide each lunch with a few raw vegetables, which can be paired with a dip that is appealing to children. This can also serve as...
National Taco Day: How to Cook Ground Beef Tacos
National Taco Day is full of fun and flavor! Crunchy or soft, spicy, tasty and a bit messy too, this Mexican dish is a favorite in the States, to the point that it’s considered Tex-Mex cuisine, and eaten on a grand scale in North America. The base for tacos, fajitas and tostadas is flour or corn tortillas. The corn tortillas are generally folded and fried for tacos, but the ones purchased from your supermarket are good too. How...
How to Make Caramel Corn: National Popcorn Poppin’ Month
October is National Popcorn Poppin’ Month, and I suppose we should be watching movies, cuddled up inside from the cold, rainy weather. Isn’t it a wonderful aroma when corn is being popped and suddenly, it feels like you just have to have some? Corn has been popped in the Central American Region for nearly 7000 years. Sweetened popcorn is a fairly new treat, such as caramel corn. I remember the days when people would make...
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