Fresh dried fruit and popcorn bars for after school snacking
A quick snack idea by Joseph DeVita for after school meals features popcorn held together with a sugar butter fruit mixture. Dried apricots cherries and cranberries provide chew and sweetness with nine bars yielding about 193 calories each.
Vegetable Chips and Popcorn S'mores Snack Pair
A light vegetable chip bake uses sweet potato zucchini summer squash carrot and jicama with a paprika cayenne oil for crisp chips. The popcorn treat mixes popcorn chocolate chips marshmallows and graham crackers into bite sized balls.
Wine tasting party tips and hosting advice
Hosts can explain each wine with information cards or live notes. Plan for about two drinks in the first hour and one each subsequent hour, for a four hour eight person party needing nearly 10 bottles. Use new glasses, rent if needed, and set a tasting order from white to red with light wines first.
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Bell
MacNeil
Sweet and sour the authentic way and home cookie tips
Letter writers share a preferred sweet and sour chicken recipe and tips for peanut butter cookies that resist spreading. Readers discuss a tangy sauce, dough consistency, chilling dough, and adjusting flour to prevent flat cookies. A restaurant salad and flavor add ins are proposed for variety.
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New York
E.P
North Miami
Fla
Toledo
Gail Betzel
North Ridgeville
Ohio
Corner Recipes Cantonese Sweet and Sour Shrimp
Steps outline a stir fry method for shrimp chicken or pork with cashews vegetables and a sweet sour sauce. Sauce uses chicken stock vinegar honey soy tomato sauce and cornstarch. Stir fry heats then returns meat with sauce while adding peppers water chestnuts onions and mangoes for a fruit accented finish.
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