 While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday. Toss your hands in the air. May is National Salad Month! Salads often get a bad rap for being too healthy or boring. While they might be the former, they definitely do not need to be the latter. Salads are actually a great way to use up leftovers and can make a balanced meal that will leave you feeling full and satisfied. Like any meal, salads should be balanced. There should be different flavors, textures and colors. Nuts, berries, cheeses, and herbs can all help turn ‘rabbit food’ into a meal you’ll actually enjoy. Here are some tips for shaking up the common salad:  While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday. How shell we celebrate? May 16 is National Coquilles St. Jacques Day! For those who need to brush off the ol' French translation books, today we’re celebrating scallops. Coquilles St. Jacques, or scallops St. James, is a classic French preparation of the soft, mildly sweet mollusks. It’s named for - you guessed it - St. James, who is reputedly buried in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain.  While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday. Chips ahoy! May 15 is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. These tiny teardrop-shaped morsels will melt away your Wednesday woes. Celebrate today's holiday with this scrumptious recipe from iReporter Cynthia Falardeau's grandmother.  While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday. Bust out the butter, scoop up the lard – May 14 is National Buttermilk Biscuit! We've had a thing or two to say about this sumptous Southern treat in the past, so we'll pretty much let that do the talking.  While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday. Grab some fresh fruit of the sea – May 10 is National Shrimp Day! Whether you bake, boil, fry, grill, put 'em in a stew, serve 'em Southern-style with grits, stir into a scampi or stick on top of a cocktail, shrimp can be served so many ways, you'll run out daylight first. At the base of soups or used for flavoring, shrimp is at the heart of Asian cooking. In Spain, folks like to toss them in with paella while Italians include shrimp in their pasta dishes. Coconut shrimp is a favorite in Caribbean cuisine, and curried shrimp is alive and well in Southeast Asia. And of course, fried shrimp is king here in the U.S.  While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday. "It's a celebration, clap clap bravo, Those are the eloquent first lines of "Do It Now," a song by hip-hop artist Drake. Instead of popping bottles of Cristal, these days, rappers and hip hop moguls prefer their bubbles sweet. Moscato is made from Muscat grapes, which are grown in many places around the world and can vary in color from green to red to black. As a result, there are a few different uses for Muscat grapes, and they can make a variety of different types of wines.  While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday. We're fired up about May 6, which is National Crêpes Suzette Day! Folded pancakes sit in a pool of caramelized orange sauce, and bonus – there’s fire involved. What’s not to love? Crêpes are essentially a thinner, wider version of a pancake. There’s no leavening agent in crêpe batter, and they cook much faster.  While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday. A parfait way to begin May, May 1 is National Chocolate Parfait Day! Depending on how you parfait, you can spend this perfect day celebrating one or two wonderful ways. Because parfait literally means "perfect" in French, you'll be sure to enjoy this dessert in at least one of its forms.  While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday. We heard it through the grapevine - April 30 is National Raisin Day! When grapes spend a little too much time in the sun, they cross the border into dried fruit and become raisins. But these little beauties are chewy, sweet and a great snack to have on hand. Because there is already so much naturally occurring fructose and glucose in grapes, the flavor amps up even more after the grapes are dried. Largely, the sugar remains - so much so that if you keep raisins for a while, the sugar begins to crystallize.  While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday. Twist and shout! April 26 is National Pretzel Day. No matter which way you twist them (or don’t), pretzels are a popular snack. Their origin however, might surprise you. Seventh century French and Italian monks rewarded children who’d learned their Bible verses with pretzels. It’s been said that the way pretzels are twisted to represent someone with their arms crossed in prayer, and that the three holes made by the twists represent the father, son and holy spirit. To back this all up, the word pretzel derives from the Latin word for "little reward" and the Italian word for "little arms." |
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