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Healthy recipes for kids from the White House

Michelle Obama dishes out recipes: Sweet and Zesty Popcorn, Baked Sliced Apples and Baked Eggs.

Swiss seek to settle debate over the true fondue

Swiss cookbook settles debate over the authentic cheese fondue, offers many other recipes.

Recipe for Fresh Spinach Salad with Pomegranate

Sephardic Jews traditionally serve Swiss chard and spinach for Rosh Hashanah, as the greens symbolize renewal, according to Gil Marks, author of the forthcoming "Encyclopedia of Jewish Food."

Recipe for Pomegranate-apricot Brown Rice

This side dish is a great accompaniment to poultry, from a simple roasted turkey or chicken to more elaborate Middle Eastern Jewish favorites such as fesenjan (an Iranian stew made with pomegranates).

For many, Rosh Hashanah means pomegranates

Long before pomegranates became the darling of the cocktail and smoothie scenes, the ruby red fruit enjoyed near sacred status in Jewish tradition.

The Healthy Plate: A simple and sweet baked apple

In this recipe, apples are combined with nutritious nuts and the flavors of orange and cinnamon to create warm and comforting baked apples filled with dates and pecans, to make a lovely addition to a Rosh Hashanah celebrations.

Pomegranate molasses an easy way to get the flavour

The thick, garnet purple syrup made by boiling down the fruit's bright red kernels packs all the pomegranate's punch but none of its hassles. Sometimes called pomegranate concentrate, it's a tart go-to item for glazes, marinades and salad dressings.

Start With: Recipe ideas that use what you have

So you've made sauce and pies and muffins and quick breads. You've done plenty of snacking and packing them into lunch boxes. Maybe you've even offered them up as fodder for fondue. Yet a few spare apples still linger from your picking excursion.

Intense sauce, thin cut, keep beef fast, flavourful

Aside from overcooking, it's hard to mess up a steak. Which means the trick to taking it over the top mostly is a matter of finding the flavours that best play up its savory, somewhat salty notes.

Meryl Streep uses salt to keep her fingers smelling nice

Meryl Streep uses salt to keep her fingers smelling nice

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