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The bunnies, carrots and chicks are almost too cute to eat. Photo courtesy Fancypants Bakery. The Easter Bunny will be hopping down the bunny trail in less than three weeks. To prepare for his arrival, enter to win a gift box of gourmet cookies from this week’s Gourmet Giveaway sponsor: Fancypants Bakery. Their “Great Big…
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Speaking of sauce, as we did in our previous post about Pears Hélène (chocolate sauce), March is National Sauce Month. Do you know the different types of dessert sauces? Take a look at our Dessert Sauce Glossary and see how easy it is to glam up your desserts. The most ordinary brownie or slice of…
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Poires Belle Hélène, shown without the ice cream. Photo by Teresa Kasprzycka | Dreamstime. If you’ve never had Pears Hélène (more properly called Poire Belle Hélène), today’s the day: National Pears Helene Day. The dessert owes its origin to the opera La belle Hélène by composer Jacques Offenbach. It’s a comedic take on the…
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Lavender is a genus of 39 species of flowering plants in the mint family. It’s not only lovely and fragrant, but a charming culinary herb. It enhances sweet and savory foods with a floral and slightly sweet flavor. Bees love lavender nectar—hence lavender honey. And you can drizzle some of that honey over lavender-coated goat’s…
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Tender jerky with a jolt. Photo by Jerry Deutsch | THE NIBBLE. Here’s one of the niftiest products to come down the pike in a while. We give it an A for originality and another A for execution. Perky Jerky is “the world’s first all-natural performance enhancing meat snack.” In other words, protein- and sugar-laden…
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