Entries tagged with 'food holidays'
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A whole day devoted to peanut butter? It's true. After celebrating National Pie Day yesterday, we're not wasting any time with another food holiday. Here are 20 recipes to inspire you today, from homemade Nutter Butters to peanut butter whoopie pies and an assortment of cookies. Have you celebrated yet today (read: have you eaten peanut butter today)?
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In addition to being Martin Luther King Jr. Day, today happens to be "Hot and Spicy Food Day" according to the arbitrary food holiday gods. Why not celebrate with one of these fiery recipes? Spicy soups, spicy sauces, spicy chocolate pie, and plenty more on this list of our 20 favorites.
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Peanuts! Get your peanuts here! That's right, it's National Peanut Day according to the SE food holiday calendar and what better way to pay homage to the nut (well,
technically a legume) than with these 14 recipes. Or, here's a'nutter (lower-effort) idea—just grab a bag of salted peanuts for a snack tonight.
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It may sound nutty, but according to our food holiday calendar, today is Grab Some Nuts Day. Everyone, at least everyone who's not allergic, loves a fistful of roasted peanuts at a summer baseball game or a plastic tub full of boiled peanuts to shell on the dock (even if peanuts aren't
technically nuts). Or when you're at the bar, some salted cashews and almonds to go with a cold beer, or a bag of GORP (good ol' raisins and peanuts) while on a long hike. Here are some of our favorite ways to enjoy nuts.
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Maybe every day is Junk Food Day for ya, but according to our
food holiday calendar, July 21 is the official holiday. We're not saying you
should consume more salts, fats, and sugars today, but if you decide to, here are 16 recipes for homemade twists on the junky classics, like tater tots, Kit Kat bars, and beef jerky.
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July's biggest holiday might be the Fourth, but that doesn't mean that it's not worth celebrating every holiday July has to offer—like July 7th, or
National Macaroni Day. Here's a roundup of seven of our favorite mac and cheeses to make at home.
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How could we miss National Doughnut Day? Of course we wouldn't. The holiday is celebrated on the first Friday of June, a tradition created by the Salvation Army in 1938 to honor women who served doughnuts to soldiers returning home from World War I. While we've been known to celebrate doughnuts on many other days of the year, we have an extra special excuse today to channel our inner Homer Simpsons today. Here's a collection of our favorites:
New Orleans beignets, cider doughnuts, and more.
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April is Grilled Cheese month, and since we're already more than halfway through the month, there's really no time to waste. Grab that loaf and block of cheese, and start melting! Not that you can't celebrate every other day of the year. Here are ten of our favorite takes on the cheese-plus-bread glory.
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Today is
the most official day to celebrate the Animal Cracker, those somewhere-between-cookies-and-crackers shaped like lions, tigers, and bears (oh my!) and of course, hippos. We want to know:
which part do you eat first? The head? Legs? Tail? Elephant trunk or camel hump when applicable?
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Today is a special day for stick-food lovers. Thanks to SE:Talk, we learned that it's
Something on a Stick Day. What qualifies as a stick-food? Corn dogs,
yakitori, kebabs, pie pops, fondue, and really anything else that's stabbable with a stick.
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