Recipe: Homemade Banana Split Ice CreamWhat a better time to share a sweet dessert recipe than for Independence Day? This quintessential American holiday began 236 years ago. And while our food supply has changed a lot since then, ice cream was available in early America. How do we know? Our founding father Thomas Jefferson…
Recipe: Very Berry Banana MuffinsWhy do I love overly ripe bananas? That's easy. They always beg to be baked into breads, muffins, cookies ... basically anything extremely delicious. This morning, as I was preparing our coffee and filling my cereal bowl, I noticed that our once very yellow bananas turned ripe…
Dessert Recipe: Blueberry-Banana BatidoSince it’s still National Nutrition Month, here’s a way to Get Your Plate in Shape—shake up dessert. Instead of serving a time-intensive sweet, add something different to a non-dessert treat. For younger kids, this blueberry-banana smoothie is perfect as is. You can even make it more fun by…
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Comfort Food—My grandma is my favorite person in the universe, so you can imagine how devastating it was to learn that she had suddenly died of a heart attack at the age of 76 when she was otherwise in perfect health. When I got the news, I immediately…
