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  Pinecrest

  Taste of Pinecrest gets foodies to support new YMCA

  Visitors can sample foods at Taste of Pinecrest while checking out the new Y.
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  Memories of baby-boomer childhood inspire Easter menu

  A leg of lamb comes out of the oven aromatic with garlic. Tender-crisp, oh-so-green asparagus stalks sweat in a cloud of steam. They are truly the first of the season and a real treat after the frozen peas and brussels sprouts of winter.
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  Family favorite

  Vegetables do double duty in stuffed shells

  Home-style Italian American dishes such as lasagna and stuffed shells endure for good reason: They are filling family favorites. A little tinkering and some added vegetables make these dishes more healthful without ruining the qualities that make them so popular.
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  Easter treat

  A simple, stunning tart

  Easter dinner isn’t generally the sort of meal we try to rush. The whole point is to savor the meal, not sprint through it the way we do most weeknights.
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  Glazed ham, Peppers rev up an Easter classic

  Glazed ham is an Easter dinner classic, and I’ve made this one effortlessly delicious to.
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  Rethinking a classic: carrot-raisin salad

  I never was a fan of carrot-raisin salads. Why mix those ingredients with a mayonnaise-based dressing? This recipe rethinks that approach. Out with the creamy dressing and in with a fresh, citrusy version. A generous portion of golden raisins boosts the sweetness naturally. If possible, use a box grater for the carrots. The food processor won’t grate as evenly.
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  Easter treat

  Homemade ‘peeps’? These chicks rule

  For most of us, an Easter basket simply isn’t complete without a box of Peeps. The colorful marshmallow candy brand is celebrating its 60th anniversary, and the popular chicks are to Easter what candy corn is to Halloween.

• Kitchen Q&A

  Soaking beans helps them cook faster

  Soaking dried beans isn’t all that elaborate, but it does take remembering to cover them with water the night before. The reason we do it is because beans are dried for storage. If you don’t soak them, you’re looking at a longer cooking time.

• Asparagus

  Great taste is just tip of asparagus’ story

  The start of spring is just the time to incorporate seasonal ingredients into your diet.
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  Mom’s matzo balls

  David Bracha may be chef-owner of two Miami restaurants, but like Jewish sons everywhere, he lets his mother do the cooking at Passover
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  Miami Gardens Jazz in the Gardens

  ‘The conch man’ is a crowd favorite at Jazz in the Gardens

  Opa-locka chef Keith Reed’s ‘the one’ at the Miami Gardens Jazz in the Gardens. His conch salad in a pineapple shell draws thousands.

• Miami Gardens Jazz in the Gardens

  ‘The conch man’ is a crowd favorite at Jazz in the Gardens

  Opa-locka chef Keith Reed’s ‘the one’ at the Miami Gardens Jazz in the Gardens. His conch salad in a pineapple shell draws thousands.
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  Redland

  Knaus Berry Farm now shipping its famous cinnamon rolls

  After Miami-Dade native Sean McGirt moved to Texas in 2004, he found himself often making requests to his grandma, who still lived in South Florida at the time, to make a 30-minute drive to Redland to buy his favorite sweet treat and ship him Knaus Berry Farm’s cinnamon rolls.
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  cookbook

  Bobby Deen’s cookbook takes aim at mom’s waist-busting recipes

  Paula Deen is probably used to being pummeled by the food police about her cooking, but you’ve got to wonder what she really feels about son Bobby Deen’s new book, From Mama’s Table to Mine (Ballantine, $22), written with Melissa Clark.
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  Bacon, mustard and maple syrup turn chicken breasts into taste sensation

  When the question, “What’s for dinner?” comes up, having a few go-to one-skillet recipes makes it easy. Today’s recipe is one to have tucked away. It makes use of key ingredients to have on hand — boneless, skinless chicken breasts, bacon, Dijon mustard and maple syrup.
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  Television

  Mo Rocca likes to stir things up

  Just how smart is Mo Rocca, the Zeliglike humorist who provides such a positive role model for geekdom at large?
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  3 months elbow-deep in flour and butter conquers fear of pastry dough

  3 months elbow-deep in flour and butter conquers fear of pastry dough
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  Beer festival

  Sprung brings spring brews to Coconut Grove Saturday

  In two years of putting on Grovetoberfest, beer-festival organizer Tony Albelo said he often fields the same question: Why not throw one with spring and summer brews?
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  Shrimp bowls

  Fresh ginger brightens a light soup

  Here you have a tradeoff that comes with time-saving shortcuts: The broth of this clean-tasting slurp of a light dinner soup lacks deep flavor, yet it is brightened by a few minutes’ infusion of fresh ginger and dashes of fish sauce and sesame oil.
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  Pinecrest

  Pinecrest Gardens to become a mecca of fine chocolate

  Do you love chocolate? The fancier the better, you say? It’s time to make plans for a pilgrimage to Pinecrest Gardens.
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  Agriculture

  South Florida farmers cash in on farm-to-table movement

  The food-to-table movement has led family farms in South Miami-Dade to expand into farmers markets and U-pick places.
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  Salad

  Edamame are easy to find, easier to cook

  Edamame (eh-dah-MAH-meh) are young, sweet, green soybeans harvested while still tender. Sometimes you will see them referred to as Japanese soybeans because “eda” means branch or twig and “mame” is bean in Japanese.
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  On the shelf

  New kitchen products include bread mix, handy bowls, sprouted chips

  Never baked bread? Fleischmann’s Simply Homemade No Knead Bread Mix is a good first step. Mix water into the box’s contents (packets of yeast, sugar, bread mix), shape dough into a loaf, let rise, then bake. I’ve been baking bread from scratch since I was a kid, and this dough was easy to handle, produced an artisan-sturdy loaf and took less than an hour (57 minutes to be exact) from start to finish. In Country White, Stoneground Wheat, Multi-Grain and Italian Herb, its suggested retail price: $2.99 for a 14-ounce box. A store locater is at simplyhomemadebread.com.
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  Cookbook review

  A wake-up call for your dinner menus

  Of all the niche-subject cookbooks that have crossed our desks recently — on kinky cookies, miracle berries and seaweeds, and we are not making those up — the breakfast-for-dinner category seems most promising. Who hasn’t tucked into a stack of hotcakes or a silky omelet after dark?
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  fish

  Olives, capers give tilapia a flavor boost

  Fish becomes a menu mainstay for many Christians during Lent, the six-week season of penance preceding Easter.

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