What’s the all-time best summer food combination? Tomatoes and basil, of course. Juicy, ripe summer tomatoes…sometimes still warm from the sun…served with fresh basil…you simply can’t get better than that. This helps explain why one of our favorite summer salads is panzanella, an Italian bread salad, made with summer vegetables and day-old bread. For kids, […]
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Purple German Potato Salad
There is nothing quite like the little thrill you get when you slice open a sweet potato and see…purple. These Stokes Purple Sweet Potatoes from Frieda’s are brilliant in color (the color intensifies when they are cooked) and they are not quite as sweet as a regular sweet potato so they’re versatile for both sweet […]

Cashel Blue Cornbread
There’s blue cheese and then there’s blue cheese. If you’ve tried Cashel Blue Cheese from Kerrygold, you know that it is different from the ordinary. It’s so smooth, creamy, and fragrant, you just want to put it in everything. So when Kerrygold gave us an opportunity to sample some Cashel Blue and design a recipe […]

Peach-Plum Kuchen
Peaches or plums? In summertime, fortunately, you don’t have to choose. One of our favorite ways to eat peaches and plums is combined together in a homemade küchen. Küchen is a German word for cake, and in this case it refers to a fruit dessert that is sort of like a pie, but with a […]

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