TIP OF THE DAY: Save Calories With Cakelets

We love cake but it doesn’t love us. With a whole cake in front of us, we can’t resist slicing another “little piece”…then another. That’s why we’ve looked for ways to serve smaller portions. Cakelet or mini-cake pans have saved the day. Instead of baking a standard cake, we make cakelets. In addition to looking…
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PRODUCT: MYdrap Napkins & Placemats

Rolls of colorful cloth napkins and place- mats create instant table décor. Photo courtesy MYdrap. Here’s something new: Elegant cloth cocktail napkins and dinner napkins, placemats and table runners that are manufactured in a roll and separated like paper towels. When you need to set the table, tear off what you need. No one but…
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Tip Of The Day: Mise En Place

What’s mise en place (MEEZ on PLAHS)? It’s French for “everything in its place,” and it’s how cooks are trained from the outset to prepare recipes. It simply means that before starting to cook or bake, everything needed to prepare the recipe is gathered, pre-prepped (chopping onions or measuring flour, for example) and set on…
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