Hudsonville Ice Cream is introducing one new flavor and bringing back two longtime favorites for fall. Seaside Caramel is a new flavor, featuring chocolate-covered salted caramels in vanilla ice cream with a salted caramel ribbon. Returning are holiday favorites Pumpkin and Country Apple Pie as Limited Edition flavors this fall.
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Rediscovering the kitchen — and healthy habits
When Becky Cain’s son Liam and a friend recently headed back to college in Oklahoma, they took a batch of her beloved oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with them.
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Americans are eating more smoked seafood
There’s no smoke and mirrors about it — Americans are eating a lot more smoked seafood than they used to.
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A kebab as happy on the grill as under the broiler
The trouble with spring is that we get eager to grill, but we can't always count on the weather to cooperate.
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Recipe of the Week: Black Bean & Avocado Salad
Whitney Zachritz, formerly of Traverse City and now a pediatric nurse practitioner in Philadelphia, is both a vegan and an avid cook.
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Food in Brief: 05/23/2013
Berry facts; Cafe in works; Green cuisine.
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Intentional Minimalist: Local ingredients make fresh recipe
This recipe features local produce from 9 Bean Rows, Spring Hollow Farms, Birch Point Farm and locally produced products from Food for Thought.
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Summer rolls help squeeze veggies into the picnic
When it comes to packing a picnic basket, sandwiches are almost always the stars of the menu. And why not?
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Restaurant learns online reviews can make or break
It was the customer service disaster heard around the Internet.
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Asparagus stars at Empire fest
There will be asparagus in the beer and the bratwursts and the soups and the sandwiches at the 10th annual Empire Asparagus Festival Friday and Saturday, May 17 and 18.
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Morels bring three generations together
If you’re one of those people who couldn’t spot a morel if it walked up and tapped you on the shoulder, this will make you eat your heart out.
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Recipe of the Week: Easy Pepperoni Pizza
I am an unabashed fan of Tiseo’s frozen pizza dough. It’s made right here in Michigan and available for around $1.49 to $1.79 in many grocery stores.
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Food in Brief: 05/16/2013
New cookbook; Berry facts.
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Intentional Minimalist: Quinoa with white wine and herbs
This recipe features local produce from 9 Bean Rows Farm, Spring Hollow Farm and locally produced products from Black Star Farms and Eden Foods.
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Pasta carbonara remade as delicious summer salad
We borrowed the key ingredients from pasta carbonara, but remade them as a picnic-worthy pasta salad.
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Full-fat cheese secret to healthy quesadilla
I discovered that it doesn’t take a ton of cheese to flavor — and glue together — the fillings of a quesadilla. as long as you use full-fat cheese.
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Meeting of cuisines: Team effort results in ethnic fusion
Opa Uptown owners Paul and Brigette Barbas, head chef Brian Maloney and pastry chef Renee Myers have put their heads together to create a fusion of European flavors from Italy, Greece, France, Poland and more.
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A tapas-style take on brunch
A tapas-style meal made up of a variety of small, appetizer-like bites is something we tend to associate with evenings and cocktails.
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Recipe of the Week: Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Yvonne Haywood, who works in the Record-Eagle circulation department and is a great cook, was passing these treats around the office the other day and noting how easy they were to make.
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Food in Brief: 05/09/2013
Mushroom forays; Herbs and spices.
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Program on 'Juicing for Health'
Shoreline Center for Healing will hold a program on “Juicing for Health.”
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Intentional Minimalist: Asparagus makes great breakfast
This recipe features local produce from 9 Bean Rows Farm and locally produced products from Leelanau Cheese.
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A scientific, perfect mac and cheese
Imagine your favorite cheese: perhaps an aged, sharp cheddar, or maybe a blue Gorgonzola or a gentle Monterey Jack. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to use those really good cheeses you love on nachos or as a sauce on macaroni or steamed vegetables?
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Easy mousse for mom kids can help make
It doesn’t matter how skilled — or not — your kids are in the kitchen. This easy, fruity mousse parfait is a great Mother’s Day project they can help with.
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Demystify Mother's Day quiche
Quiche has a reputation as a complicated dish. And I’m not sure why.
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Local chef-educator debuts culinary textbook
“World cuisine” wasn’t a term when Nancy Krcek Allen went to culinary school in the 1980s.
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Rediscovering the kitchen — and healthy habits



