New Day Café: Strawberries

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Friday May 03, 2024 · 7:30 AM PDT

2024/05/03 · 07:30

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Time is galloping toward peak strawberry season. Today, some facts about the glorious non-berry — and some recipes, of course!

Botanists call the strawberry a "false fruit," a pseudocarp. A strawberry is actually a multiple fruit which consists of many tiny individual fruits embedded in a fleshy receptacle. The brownish or whitish specks, which are commonly considered seeds, are the true fruits, called achenes, and each of them surrounds a tiny seed.

These achenes also make strawberries relatively high in fiber. According to the Wellness Encyclopedia of Food and Nutrition, one-half cup of strawberries supplies more fiber than a slice of whole wheat bread, and more than 70 percent of the recommended daily allowance of vitamin C.

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The Story of Strawberries

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Spinach and Strawberry Salad

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Rack of Lamb with Strawberry Mint Sauce

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Cold Strawberry Soup

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Southern Strawberry Cobbler

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Strawberry Semifreddo

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Super-Easy Strawberry Cream Cheese Pie

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Strawberry Lemonade

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Morning Open Thread: Cute Critters

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Wednesday May 01, 2024 · 3:30 AM PDT

2024/05/01 · 03:30

I don’t know about you, but in these anxious times, I find it refreshing to relax with cute animal videos and LOLs. So that’s what I’m offering for your breakfast enjoyment.

Xanti Learns a New Game

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Sunday April 28, 2024 · 9:55 PM PDT

2024/04/28 · 21:55

Some standup comedy for a Monday...

Sarah Millican’s Wardrobe Malfunction

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Friday April 26, 2024 · 7:30 AM PDT

2024/04/26 · 07:30

Good morning! Today’s theme is Parody on Parade, and the orange butt of the joke is...well, you know. Enjoy!

Trumper on the Roof

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Wednesday April 24, 2024 · 3:30 AM PDT

2024/04/24 · 03:30

🎵 Good morning! 🎵 How about a few numbers from a few current and classic musicals? Starting with a song from Sondheim’s flop-turned-hit:

“Franklin Shepard, Inc.,” Merrily We Roll Along

Daniel Radcliffe

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Sunday April 21, 2024 · 9:55 PM PDT

2024/04/21 · 21:55

Western lore was everywhere in the middle of the 20th century, most of it invented. The History Guy at YouTube has a whole series about some legendary — and some forgotten — rogues of the “wild west.”

Here’s a selection of videos — I hope you’ll enjoy a look back...

Dick Fellows, The Outlaw Who Couldn’t Ride a Horse

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Friday April 19, 2024 · 7:30 AM PDT

2024/04/19 · 07:30

No theme today, just some stuff I enjoyed. Hope you will, too.

A Brief Introduction to the Science Fiction Rock Star

Octavia E. Butler

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Wednesday April 17, 2024 · 3:30 AM PDT

2024/04/17 · 03:30

We’ve got a three-fer today. Not only is it National Cheese Ball Day, it is also National Banana Day and National Crawfish Day. Let’s dig right in.

Pineapple Cheese Ball

Cheese balls are the perfect party food. Chances are these days, when I'm invited to a cocktail party, I show up with a cheese ball in hand. They're sort of retro, they're easy to make, and let's face it: They're fun.

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[W]riter and comedian Amy Sedaris....may be singlehandedly responsible for the cheese ball's revival. She and her brother David wrote a play about them, she has included them in her books, developed numerous recipes and even made them with Martha Stewart on Stewart's TV show.

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Bacon Ranch Cheese Ball

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Baked Banana Pudding

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Banana Foster French Toast

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Crawfish Étoufée

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IAN: Have You Met Philomena Cunk?

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Sunday April 14, 2024 · 9:55 PM PDT

2024/04/14 · 21:55

Philomena Cunk is the posh idiot played by comedian Diane Morgan. A master of deadpan humor, Morgan goes around ~~sparring with~~ interviewing experts as Philomena for Cunk’s eponymous TV shows.

I don’t know how those experts manage to keep a straight face. Watch:

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Friday April 12, 2024 · 7:30 AM PDT

2024/04/12 · 07:30

They’re cheap. They’re versatile. And they’ll grow practically anywhere. So it’s no wonder that they’re one of the world’s most-used vegetables.

In fact, onions are almost certainly among the earliest cultivated crops.

Many archaeologists, botanists and food historians believe onions originated in central Asia. Other research suggests that onions were first grown in Iran and West Pakistan.

It is presumed that our predecessors discovered and started eating wild onions very early long before farming [...] was invented.

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Baked Onions with Cheese

The [ancient] Egyptians saw eternal life in the anatomy of the onion because of its circle-within-a-circle structure.

www.onions-usa.org/...

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Baked Onions with Cheese

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Tarte Flambée (Alsatian Bacon & Onion Tart)

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Sausage Stuffed Onions

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Red Onion Confit

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Pickled Red Onions

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The Great Onion Scandal

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Morning Open Thread: Breakfast with the Blues ☕

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Wednesday April 10, 2024 · 3:30 AM PDT

2024/04/10 · 03:30

A musical soundtrack of sweet, sweet blues for your early morning enjoyment.

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

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