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I served these at a party and could not keep the platter full. Zucchini sliced paper-thin on a mandoline, grilled until browned on each side, spread with a mixture of soft goat cheese, harissa paste, fresh mint, lime juice, lime zest, and olive oil, then …

Ceviche is the one dish where cooking is optional and acid does the work instead. Shrimp and mixed seafood cured in citrus juice with red onion, cilantro, jalapeño, and tomato. The lime juice denatures the proteins over about twenty minutes — you end up with …

Here at Honest Cooking, we are ice cream lovers of the highest caliber, and we assume you are too. After all, you made it here. So let’s talk homemade ice cream. Homemade ice cream recipes split into two real camps, churned and no-churn, and the …

Every summer somebody asks me what the biggest foodborne illness outbreak in American history was, and every summer I have to answer the question with a question: biggest how? Because “largest” is doing at least four different jobs. There is the outbreak that made the …

Quick bites from around the food safety arena this week  A cyclosporiasis outbreak that has affected more than 5,000 people has been traced to iceberg lettuce served at some Taco Bell locations in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia. The lettuce was supplied by Taylor Farms, …

What happens when you put two kinds of blue cheese on a grilled vegetable flatbread? You get a pizza that tastes like a cheese course and a vegetable platter served together. Store-bought flatbreads grilled until charred, then spread with blue cheese spread and topped with …

The owners of Taylor Farms have confirmed that their lettuce is behind a multistate outbreak of infections from the Cyclospora parasite. Additionally, federal officials say the lettuce has been used by Taco Bell restaurants and is the cause of the outbreak. Taco Bell has removed …

Most fruit bars use butter. These use coconut oil, and the difference is real. The oat crust is crunchier and lighter, and there is a faint coconut flavour underneath the raspberry and rhubarb filling. Rolled oats, flour, coconut sugar, baking soda, salt, and melted coconut …

Most salsas try to do too much. Fifteen ingredients, three types of pepper, a paragraph of instructions. This one uses five things: ripe peaches split and grilled flesh-side down until they have grill marks, then diced and mixed with finely chopped red onion, jalapeno, fresh …

Not everything needs a recipe. Strawberries macerated with a little sugar and torn fresh mint is one of those things that becomes more than its parts without requiring any actual cooking. Thirty minutes of sitting is all it takes. The sugar draws out the juice, …