[1] It’s a beauty, and you can assemble it in 15 minutes (both photos © The Baker Chick). [2] Even the slices are beautiful! You can serve it with riesling, champagne or other sparkling wine. Need a last-minute dessert solution for July 4th (or any summer day)? You can’t do better than this red-white-and-blue-tiful […]
[1] A better-for-you July 4th dessert: berries with a bit of cake (photo © Driscoll’s). [2] Buy enough berries for breakfast yogurt or red, white and blue ice cream (photo © Green Giant Fresh). [3] Angel food cake. Here are a recipe and video to bake one from scratch, from Martha Stewart (photo © Martha […]
[1] The easiest July 4th waffles (photo © Amoretti). [2] The easiest July 4th charcuterie plate (photo © Di Bruno Bros). If you didn’t get enough July 4th recipes from our post last week, here are two more. Both couldn’t be easier. Breakfast Waffles Just drop blueberries and raspberries into the honeycomb […]
For dessert or snacking over July 4th weekend, it couldn’t be easier to make these frozen yogurt pops. You need only 4 ingredients—plus an ice pop mold or paper cups and sticks—to make these scrumptious frozen yogurt pops. We have them in the freezer all the time during the warm weather; each week, a different […]
How easy is this for patriotic eating on July 4th (photo #1) For breakfast with yogurt or cottage cheese. For lunch with burrata, goat cheese or ricotta. For dessert with vanilla frozen yogurt. As a topping for white-iced cakes and cupcakes. With half-and-half or light cream. Or make the recipe below. Thanks to Wisconsin […]
A patriotic cheese ball: our national bird, the bald eagle (photo © Di Bruno Bros | Philadelphia). O.K., we’re impressed! The cheese professionals at Di Bruno Bros in Philadelphia created this bald eagle cheese ball. Why not salute our national bird on July 4th? The garlic-herb cheese ball is great with beer and wine. […]
July 4th is the one holiday where you can make everything (except meat) red, white and blue. Our collection of recipes follows, starting with a new one: RECIPE: RED, WHITE & BLUE STRIPED (LAYERED) COCKTAIL Ingredients For 1 Drink 1½ parts vodka 1 part watermelon schnapps ½ part cranberry juice ½ part fresh […]
We’ve made a lot of red, white and blue recipes for July 4th, and have cut out cake and pie decorations, cheese and cookies and with a star-shaped cookie cutter. But this recipe, from Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin, raises the bar: Using that cookie cutter to make star-shaped tortilla chips. It’s paired with a red, […]
Today’s tip comes via one of our favorite artisan tea blenders, Tay Tea. It’s blue tea, an herbal tea from Thailand that made its way here a few years ago. It still remains largely under the radar, except at artisan tea shops and some spas. The blue tea is steeped from the butterfly pea flower […]
Before taking off for the holiday weekend, we share this delicious recipe for red, white and blue blondies from King Arthur Flour. Well, they’re sort of red white and blue, if you count the beige blondie as the white color. Otherwise, we have an addition to suggest: White chocolate chips Mini marshmallows RECIPE: […]