Liven Up Holiday Entertaining With a ...

For the winter holidays, warm up your home with a Southern-style buffet for relaxed, informal entertaining.

Consider having two buffets, one for appetizers and one for the main meal. Greet guests with a colorful, refreshing glass of champagne with a splash of pomegranate juice and...

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Lighten Up Your Menu With Healthful Wild ...

For many Americans, some of their fondest memories include outdoor gatherings with family and friends and al fresco meals featuring the rich flavors and aromas of fresh local produce and seasonal ingredients.

While shopping for the freshest ingredients, remember to look for local...

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Lift Your Soul With A Good Bowl of Chili

“Next to music there is nothing that lifts the spirits and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili.” Harry James. Source: http://whatscookingamerica.net

When your day has been hard and your soul is longing for the comforts of home, what better to come home to but...

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Lemon Thyme Pita Chips

These zesty pita chips are a wonderful change from the same old chips and dip everyone usually serves. Your friends and guests will love this appetizer them and make them want the recipe immediately!

You can make the chips ahead of time, or make them and serve warm. Either way, the flavor...

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Learn the Correct Way To Control Carb Intake

For Americans who want to control their carbs, learning how to consume “good” carbohydrates in balance with a variety of proteins and “good” fats can be confusing.

To help people understand the science underlying this nutritional approach, “Atkins for...

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Laura Bush’s vegetable soup recipe

Here’s Laura Bush’s secret vegetable soup recipe.

Here’s the ingredients you will need for this vegetable soup recipe:

1-1/4 cups pinto beans, soaked overnight and drained
1 tsp. salt
1 bay leaf
1 tsp. dried oregano
1 lb. tomatoes, fresh or...

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Lagniappe Recipe: Crab & Corn Bisque

This is most likely the best gourmet Crab & Corn Bisque you will ever serve. It’s rich, it’s delicious and it’s unbelievably easy to prepare.

Ingredients:
1 pint lump crabmeat
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter (do not substitute margarine)
1-1/2 cups...

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Keeping Food Safe During Cookout Season

Summer is the ideal time to enjoy cookouts and backyard feasts. Unfortunately, hot weather combined with eating outdoors can be a breeding ground for food-borne illness. Every year, an estimated 76 million cases of food-borne illness and 5,000 associated deaths occur in the United States....

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Keep the Children Happy At Your Next Picnic

Planning a backyard party? If kids are involved, parents can do more than dust off the picnic tables and fire up the barbecue.

For a “kid-friendly” experience, and to encourage good eating, consider using creative foods and activities to keep children happy and at the table....

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Kabobs-Another Word For Dinner On A Stick

Cookout season is just around the corner and everyone is anxiously awaiting the smoky aroma that wafts throughout the neighborhood when families fire up their barbeque grills. Hamburgers, hot dogs, steaks and chicken we all enjoy the traditional favorites of grilling, but how about spicing up...

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Juicy Campari Tomatoes Available Year-Round. ...

Juicy Campari Tomatoes Available Year-Round. The vine-ripened flavor of Campari tomatoes make it just right for snacking or use in salad sor salsa.

Any way you slice it, nothing tastes as fresh as a juicy, ripe tomato. Now fresh-from-the-vine flavor is available year-round in Campari...

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Juicing Beets Recipes

This is my article dedicated to juicing beets recipes.
Frankly, I love the things, and I really find, I dont know if its just me, but every time I feel tired or I feel a cold coming on, juicing beets really helps me. Maybe its a placebo thing. I dont care. Im making an article especially...

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