September 2014

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Smoky Butternut Squash and Cacao Soup Closeup
Soups & Stews Vegetables

Smoky Butternut Squash and Cacao Soup

It’s funny – it seems that the instant that summer ends and fall begins, we immediately begin to crave the comfort of warm, rich, homemade soup. It could be just about any kind of soup, from old-fashioned chicken noodle to a steaming bowl of fiery chili, as long as it’s hot and it’s good. This intriging recipe for Smoky Butternut Squash and Cacao Soup, adapted from author, scholar and restaurateur Maricel E. Presilla’s encyclopedic cookbook of Latin American recipes, Gran …

Carrots ready for the grill
Tips and Techniques Vegetables

Fire-Roasted Carrots with Mint & Balsamic Cream

While summer is quickly coming to an end, our garden is still producing a bumper crop of fresh, tender fingerling carrots.  What better way to complement their sweetly herbaceous flavor than to pair them with fresh mint – and a generous drizzle of Earthy Delights Balsamic Cream. Is it just our imagination, or did the fresh mint somehow tease out even more of the complex notes from the balsamic cream?  There’s only one way to find out.  Make this simple, yet enormously …

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Honey Truffle Arborio Rice Pudding

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been enjoying the newest truffle on the scene, the Hungarian Honey Truffle (Mattirolomyces terfezioides). Of course, it’s not a “new” truffle – it’s been around forever, but it’s new to most American truffle-lovers. So far, we haven’t been able to find many (actually, ANY) recipes using honey truffles, either online or in our extensive cookbook library. What’s the solution? We create our own recipes, of course! We started by thoughtfully tasting a paper-thin slice …