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Chocolate Mint

Modifying Your Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Recipe Just like the traditional New York cheesecake, the chocolate chip cheesecake recipe is ripe for modification. It basically involves just one modification to the traditional recipe: adding chocolate chips. Once you’ve broken that “addition barrier,” the dam can break. Think about the first time you added applesauce to pancakes [...]

Cocoa Butter

Cocoa Or Shea Butter? What’s The Difference? Cocoa and Shea butter are two of the best emollients around.  If you suffer from dry skin, like so many seem to do, you can’t go wrong with either one!  Moisture is moisture, I say, so how do you choose?  To make an educated decision, you have to [...]

Sugar Fig

Sweet legacy: Zellwood Corn Fest Today’s section is jam-packed with great menu ideas, and at orlandosentinel.com/food, search for “Divas of Dish” to find more sensational recipes from our favorite kitchen duo Anne-Marie Denicole and Pam Brandon. In the meantime, let’s dish: Holiday Cooking: Sicilian Fig Cookies – Part I Large Enamelware Mug with Lid brown [...]

Lavender Oatmeal

This week at the farmers markets Young visitors to the Sierra Vista Farmers Market last Thursday were delighted to get close to three recently shorn young alpacas brought by Lisa Camberos, left, from Cochise County’s newest Thunder Mountain Alpaca Ranch in Palominas. (Photos by Valerie McCaffrey) By Valerie McCaffrey For the Herald/Review Solar Chefs invited to [...]

Sugar Fig

Tastes that define our state If you could boil the essence of North Carolina down to its essential flavors, what would you get? Holiday Cooking: Sicilian Fig Cookies – Part II Large Enamelware Mug with Lid brown sugar & fig(brown) $48.39 … Medium, Enamelware Mug with Lid brown sugar & fig(brown) $30.48 … Primitive Pint [...]