Did you know there are simple additions to recipes that can take your favorite dishes over the top? We've got a list of single ingredients that up the game for all sorts of foods (or even take-out fare).

We've also got a one-minute cooking tip about farm stands. And we'll tell you what's making us happy in food this week!

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Here are the segments for this episode of COOKING WITH BRUCE & MARK:

[00:43] Our one-minute cooking tip: Beware of farm stands or farmers' markets with out-of-season produce.

[03:12] What's a single ingredients than can improve a recipe? We've got a list of ingredients you can add to individual recipes to make them much better.

[14:50] What’s making us happy in food this week? Farm-stand tomatoes and Claire's Cornercopia in New Haven, Connecticut.