Food
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Lions Club to host first blueberry festivalAug 02, 2016 11:00 pm - The Mount Prospect Lions Club is holding its first blueberry festival - featuring a pie-eating contest - this Sunday, Aug. 7, as part of its weekly farmers market downto...
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Enjoy seasonal berries and their sweet health benefitsAug 02, 2016 11:00 pm - Next time you are at the grocery store or farmers market, keep an eye out for berries. These bite-size, nutrition-packed morsels are in-season during the summer in Illin...
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On the Fridge: Fruity SalmonAug 02, 2016 6:00 am - ½ medium sweet onion, such as Vidalia or Walla Walla 2 tablespoons liquefied coconut oil or grapeseed oil 4 ounces fresh, ripe strawberries 3½ ounces fresh blueberries (...
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Marinated Corn, Tomato and Halloumi SaladAug 02, 2016 6:00 am - • For the salad 2 small sweet chili peppers in various colors, seeded and thinly sliced ½ poblano pepper, seeded and cut into thin, bite-size pieces ½ pint (¾ cup) cherr...
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Edible balloons, frozen treats: New Ice Cream Museum is coolestAug 02, 2016 6:00 am - NEW YORK - Move over Willy Wonka. A temporary museum dedicated to all things ice cream is treating visitors to edible balloons, a Chocolate Chamber, a "swim" in a pool o...
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Lean, light fruity salmon appeals to the sensesAug 02, 2016 6:00 am - Even though this meal is lean and light, it appeals to the senses with color and contrast; the salmon and onion taste almost sweet set against the melange of berries. Th...
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Make the salad everybody actually wants to eatAug 02, 2016 6:00 am - There was a time when the word “salad” referred to little more than a pile of iceberg lettuce. It was ornamentation, sometimes doused in a sickly-sweet, carrot-colored d...
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New Butera grocery store in Des Plaines to open in JanuaryJul 30, 2016 7:00 am - Owner couldn't keep Caputo & Sons open nearby until market's January opening
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'Seas' the oyster varieties at Oyster Bah in ChicagoJul 27, 2016 6:00 am - “American oysters differ as much as American people,” wrote M.F.K. Fisher in Consider the Oyster (1941). There's the plump Pickering Pass from Washington's State, the pe...
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Candied Lavender PecansJul 27, 2016 6:00 am - For the lavender sugar 1 to 2 tablespoons dried culinary lavender buds (see note) 2 cups granulated sugar For the candied pecans ¼ teaspoon fine sea salt, plus more as n...