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PRODUCT: Chocolate Yogurt & Caramel Yogurt From Oikos

Dessert yogurt with zero fat? Sure, we’ll try that!

Oikos, one of our favorite brands of yogurt (made by Stonyfield), has another winner. Its Pure Pleasure yogurts in Caramel and Chocolate will change your perception of yogurt.

Both are absolutely delicious, 0% fat, certified organic, gluten free, and even OU kosher! The chocolate and caramel flavors ring true. It one could ask for anything more, it would be that others browsing the refrigerator would stop eating it and leave more for us.

The four-ounce cups provide just enough satisfaction for a quick snack or for dessert. Each cup has 10g protein, 17g total carbs, 110 calories and live and active cultures.

Unlike most Greek yogurt, the consistency isn’t super-thick. This enables the caramel and chocolate yogurts to be used as a dessert sauce—on pound cake or angel food cake, for example. It’s also a great dipper for fruit.

You can print out a 50¢ coupon at Stonyfield.com (registration required).

Caramel yogurt and chocolate yogurt are
delicious dessert and snack options. Photo
by Katharine Pollak | THE NIBBLE.

Ten percent of Stonyfield’s profits go to environmental causes. Feel good yet? You’ll feel even better with your first taste of Pure Pleasure yogurt.

 

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TIP OF THE DAY: A More Cooperative Ice Cream Scoop

Ice cream slides off the scoop. Available at
Amazon.com.

Just as with any kitchen tool, the right ice cream scoop makes your life easier.

We had five different ice cream scoops acquired over the years. Our challenge was getting the ball of ice cream to release from the scoop.

The ice cream scoops with the triggers and spring actions didn’t work for us. The classic style used in ice cream parlors, favored by Mom, wasn’t effective either (she’s a lot stronger than we are).

Apparently, quite a few other people have the sticking problem. So Norpro created its Nonstick Anti-Freeze Ice Cream Scoop. Plastic instead of metal, it cuts through hard ice cream and just as easily releases the balls into the dish. It costs less than metal scoops—just $6.55 at Amazon.com.

Invite friends over for ice cream to try your new scoop. Have everyone bring their scoops and call it “research.”

 

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PRODUCT: New Leaf Bottled Lemonade

We celebrated National Lemonade yesterday by trying the flavors of New Leaf Lemonade.

The company makes bottled tea, lemonade and a lemonade-tea mix with an emphasis on all-natural flavors. The sweetener is organic cane sugar rather than high fructose corn syrup.

The 17 New Leaf options include four lemonades: Black Cherry, Homemade (Original), Strawberry and Tiger, a half lemonade/half tea blend (also known as an Arnold Palmer, after the golf great who popularized it).

People who do not enjoy the tartness of traditional lemonade will be pleased by the smooth lemoniness of New Leaf. It’s made to be as gentle as a soft drink, with almost no hint of ascorbic acid—even though the products are made with lemon juice concentrate.

It’s easy to tell which of the New Leaf bottles is lemonade: Look for the stripes on the bottle!

If you’re looking for a bottled tea, New Leaf will oblige with:

  • Black Tea in Lime and Mint, Sweet Tea and Unsweetened
  • Green Tea in Ginseng and Honey, Mango and Plum
  • White Tea in Honeydew and Strawberry

Lemonade turns over a new leaf. Photo
by Katharine Pollak | THE NIBBLE.

  • Blue Tea (oolong) in Lemon, Peach, Raspberry, Diet Lemon and Diet Peach

 

Learn more at NewLeafBrands.com.

Find our favorite soft drinks in our Soft Drinks Section.

Find reviews of juices and ades in our Juice Section.

 

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RECIPE: Blueberry Lemonade Cocktail

Celebrate National Lemonade Day. Photo
and recipe courtesy Smirnoff.com.

 

Celebrate National Lemonade Day, August 20th, with adult lemonade. You’ll love this recipe from Smirnoff Vodka; we made it even more blueberry by adding fresh blueberry purée.

In addition to Smirnoff Blueberry Flavored Vodka, you can find Stoli Blueberi, Pinnacle Blueberry and other brands.

BLUEBERRY LEMONADE COCKTAIL

Ingredients For 1 Drink

  • 3 ounces lemonade
  • 1.5 ounces blueberry flavored vodka
  • Optional: 1-2 ounces blueberry purée
  • 3 blueberries for garnish
  • Ice
  •  
    Preparation

    1. FILL a tall glass with ice. Add vodka, lemonade and optional blueberry purée. Stir well.

    2. Garnish with fresh blueberries.

     
    Find more of our favorite cocktails by clicking the Cocktails & Spirits link in the column at right; and also check Cocktails & Spirits Section on TheNibble.com.
     
      

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    PRODUCT: Caramel

    Le Caramel is a new company with a line of caramel products based on recipes from Normandy. There are currently four products:

    • Caramel sauce (called Caramel Cream) in salted vanilla or chocolate
    • Caramel candies made with salted butter or chocolateThe candies and creams (sauces) are made in California in the traditional French method, slowly cooked in small batches in a copper kettle.

      Our favorite in the line is the Chocolate Caramel Cream. It isn’t easy to find chocolate caramel sauce.

      You can learn more and purchase products at Le-Caramel.com.

    • Find more of our favorite dessert sauces.
    • Check out the different types of dessert sauce in our Dessert Sauce Glossary.

    Chocolate caramel sauce is delicious on
    desserts or right from the jar. Photo by
    Katharine Pollak | THE NIBBLE.

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