Recipes
Butternut bisque busters
Visit the Harmons grocery store in Orem and you'll likely find Sina Kunz slicing, dicing and chopping fresh fruits and vegetables. As lead produce sous chef, Sina, 29, loves the freshness offered daily at Harmons.
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Spice up meatballs
Long before the meatball rolled off of spaghetti, the plump little darling had become a globetrotter.
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Homemade au gratin potatoes aren't home free
The box of instant au gratin potatoes from the supermarket advertises a dish "made with 100 percent real cheese and potatoes." But the potatoes are dehydrated and the cheese sauce is powdered.
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Dig out food storage to try these recipes
Debbie Harman shares a couple recipes from her cookbook, "Cooking With Food Storage." She mentions, "... it is wise to practice making foods that will sustain us and taste good to us should we be faced with [challenging times] in our lives."
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Masticate Mcbrady Mostaccioli
Summer King, 25, of Orem, has been clipping coupons from the newspaper for six months. This quality assurance scientist for Spanish Fork-based Nature's Sunshine productssaid it's fun to see how much can be saved on groceries just by shopping when items are on sale.
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Sweet potatoes aren't just for marshmallows anymore
Just about everyone who has ever sat down to a Thanksgiving dinner knows about sweet potatoes. They're the orange stuff with the marshmallow topping in the casserole dish that makes at least two or three people in every family just a tiny bit suspicious.
Nov 03, 2009 | 12:40 am | Loading…
Roast pork with apples for autumn comfort food
This dish is pure fall comfort. And the most comforting thing about it is the ease of making it in a slow cooker and coming home from a long, hard day to the wonderful smells of apples and spices.
Nov 03, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Practice makes jambalaya
Nancy Horrocks, 32, of Lehi, is a born tomboy by her own admission. She was raised in a "yours, mine and ours" family that totaled 14 children. She says, "I loved it, I would not trade it."
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A few simple tricks and you'll have delicious treats
Here we are in October, which we sometimes like to think of as being the month that puts the ooooo! in food. No, not really. There's nothing spooky about good eating, after all, and we have a Halloween surprise for anyone who's got some hungry mouths to feed.
Oct 27, 2009 | 12:15 am | Loading…
Good food has them coming home
Great-grandma Lorna Ratliff, 90, will be leading her family to the Brigham Young University Homecoming football game at LaVell Edwards Stadium this Saturday. Her daughter Marlanne Hobson, 65, of Orem, will be there to help save seats for the rest of the family.
Oct 20, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Taking pumpkin beyond the pie
Pumpkins aren't just an icon of Halloween. They also are a sign of healthy eats.
Oct 20, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Apple Cake perfect for fall
It's autumn and the time of the apple harvest. Use those plentiful apples to make this very easy, moist apple cake from Marlanne Hobson's great aunt Edna Peterson.
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Dozens and dozens of cookies
JoAnn Douglass, 39, of Alpine, has a recipe that yields approximately six dozen generous cookies. She doesn't double it or triple it, that's just the recipe. Appropriately, the cookies are called "Monster Cookies."
Oct 13, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
For a speedy cherry-tomato pizza, start with prebaked crust
Cherry tomatoes are always in season at the supermarket, so why not capitalize on the bounty with a pizza? In this recipe, the tomatoes get supporting help from spinach and walnuts.
Oct 13, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Utah always has room for more
In South Carolina, it's boiled peanuts; in Georgia, it's grits; in Texas, it's chips and salsa.Here, the beloved and official state snack is Jell-O. The gelatin treat wiggled its way onto Utah's dinner tables more than a century ago and was adopted by Senate Resolution 5 as the official "…
Oct 13, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
A quick and crunchy taste of Vietnam
My friend, Binh Duong, introduced me to this Vietnamese treat -- crunchy noodles topped with fragrant stir-fried beef and vegetables.
Oct 06, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Winning toffee bar experiment
Gina Peterson, 38, of Orem, took third place in the Utah State Fair Ghirardelli chocolate recipe contest with her recipe for Milk Chocolate Toffee Bars. Gina entered the Ghirardelli contest because she and her husband, Duncan, both love chocolate. And she thinks Ghirardelli is "the best b…
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Solar ovens aren't just an emergency preparedness item
You may, at times, have heard someone describe a particularly hot day by saying, "It's a cooker out there." Perhaps you yourself have said on a sweltering summer afternoon, "I'm cooked!" Did you know, however, that you really can cook your food with nothing more than the heat generated by…
Oct 06, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
This meal is faster than take-out: Chinese Pork Puffs
Feel like Chinese tonight? This dinner is faster and less expensive than take-out. Crisp, stir-fried pork served in little lettuce puffs with scallions and cucumber takes only minutes in a wok. The meat should be crisp on the outside and tender inside. The secret is to make sure your wok …
Sep 29, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Adaptable, delicious, easy crepes
• Editor's note: This is an updated version of a March 20, 2007 column.
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