Pumpkin food and flavors are a sure sign of fall. In the kitchen of Verona-based Cardie Cooks, Maureen Kelleher Rosin is in full swing of fall flavors with her Spiced Pumpkin Banana muffins. This recipe has been in her family for years and she describes them like this, “these are moist and honey colored, exploding...
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Calling all new and experienced bakers and decorators! Help provide food to Newark’s hungry during the holidays while experiencing the joy of using your pastry skills to create an edible holiday fantasy. Hobcaw Cafe is sponsoring a gingerbread house competition to raise funds for Operation Cheer, a Newark soup kitchen. Houses will be displayed...
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Ariane Duarte is going to be bringing in two of her celebrity chef buddies on November 15 for a dinner and auction that will aid in the fight against childhood obesity. The dinner at CulinAriane restaurant is to introduce Louie’s Kids, a national nonprofit fighting childhood obesity, and its latest initiative, Run Buddies. Joining...
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Fall is a great time to showcase foods that we really don’t get to see or use much of throughout the year. Butternut squash, and many of its winter squash relatives, provide interchangeable uses and unique flavors. I look forward to these vegetables every year and this year was no exception. I do, however,...
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There’s a piece of ground up in Mount Olive that has been growing potatoes as a very unique fundraiser: The spuds from School Lunch Farm are being sold to benefit a school garden program started by Slow Food Northern New Jersey, a group that advocates for sustainable farming. Some 1,200 pounds of potatoes have...
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Horseradish is not a vegetable I was expecting to write about (or try) any time in the recent past or near future. However, when MyVeronaNJ’s own Virginia Citrano told me that her horseradish was ready to be harvested, I’m sure my eyes lit up. At least it felt like they did. I was up...
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This season, when you go to South Mountain to cheer on the Verona-Glen Ridge hockey team, you’ve got a new place to hang out pre- and post-game. The past weekend was the opening of McLoone’s Boathouse, the latest piece in Essex County’s redevelopment of South Mountain Reservation. In just a little over five months,...
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It only happens twice a year, Verona, so get ready: The fall Family Night is tomorrow, Thursday, October 20. There will be no meetings, practices or homework so you will have plenty of time to hang out with your family. And once again, thanks to the Verona Municipal Alliance Committee, there are discounts for...
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I have never made my own dipping sauce before. Typically I’m happy with what already comes in a jar. While this is not my first Preserve It! recipe for the season, it was my first adventure into preserving this year. I wanted to get started earlier, but it was just too hot in my...
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Before you leave the house this morning, set the DVR: Avenue Bistro Pub‘s Michael DiIonno is going to be on the Food Network’s cooking competition “Chopped” tonight. DiIonno had a long string of successful restaurants to his credit before he created Avenue Bistro in Verona two years ago. He opened the Huddle Inn near...
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