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More berries and less custard lower the calories in this delicious dessert. Photo courtesy Ruth’s Chris Steak House. Since it’s National Vanilla Custard Day, today’s tip is a way to enjoy custard with fewer calories. Just “pad out” the custard with low-calorie berries. BERRY CUSTARD COCKTAIL RECIPE Ingredients Mixed berries Vanilla custard (substitute vanilla…
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Drinking your dessert is especially delightful on a warm summer night. Start with a scoop of your favorite sorbet in a wine glass or stemmed dessert dish; top with sparkling wine and an optional garnish. You can have a higher proportion of wine to sorbet, as in the photo at right—a glass of sparkling wine…
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So simple but so delicious, the Caprese salad (insalata caprese in Italian) layers slices of tomato and mozzarella di bufala* with fresh basil. The dressing is a drizzle of olive oil and balsamic vinegar. The salad is named after the Italian island of Capri, where it was widely popularized in the 1950s following its “discovery”…
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Move over, pain au chocolat and chocolate croissant. We don’t have to go searching for you anymore. We can make the American version of a chocolate sandwich at home—in five minutes. A few days ago we suggested different uses for grilled bread. We saved the dessert version, grilled bread with chocolate, for today. As with…
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We picked up a perfectly ripe avocado this morning and made this delicious lunch: avocado stuffed with salsa bobos. It was so good, we ate both halves. Yes, avocados have their share of calories, but they are healthy calories—most are from the monounsaturated avocado oil*. Salsa bobos is our favorite salsa. Bobos means confetti in…
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