TIP OF THE DAY: Vegetables On A Stick

The easiest way to make vegetables attractive to veggie non-enthusiasts is to put them on skewers. Serve them as snacks or with lunch or dinner. Bamboo skewers are very inexpensive: six-inch skewers are $1.00 for 50, and you can wash and reuse them. (Make sure you get skewers with pointy ends, not flat popsicle sticks.)…
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VALENTINE’S DAY: A Gourmet Tea Gift With Passion

Any tea lover would adore these love-ly Tay Teas. Photo courtesy Tay Tea.   If you want to give your Valentine some Love Potion No. 9, mix up this Love Potion Martini. If he or she would prefer some fine tea, one of our favorite tea purveyors, Tay Tea, offers these options in bright red…
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NEWS: The Nibble Celebrates 8th Birthday

Happy birthday to us! THE NIBBLE celebrates its eighth birthday this month. Eight years, some 20,000 pages of content and about one million monthly visitors. Whew! Instead of a cake, we’ve given ourselves a new home page design. Check it out! Thanks to Andrew, Leah, Luisa and Sue for making it happen. If you have…
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TIP OF THE DAY: 10 Chef’s Tricks To Change Up Your Foods (Part 2)

Cook your cucumbers: They’re even better than when raw. Photo by Monika Szczygiel | SXC.   This is the continuation of “Going Against The Grain: Raw Foods You Should Try Cooking And (Typically) Cooked Foods You Should Try Raw” (here’s Part 1.) 6. Cucumbers… don’t have to be cool! Cucumbers are a terrific, healthy snack,…
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Marcus Samuelsson’s Jalapeño Cornbread Recipe & More Chile Holidays

  [1] Jalapeño cornbread, cut into squares (photo © Bhofack2 | Panther Media). [2] Jalapeño cornbread muffins with Cheddar cheese. Here’s the recipe (photo © Vivacious Gourmet). [3] The best way to de-seed and dice the chile is to first make a vertical cut and remove the seeds and pith (photo © Good Eggs). [4]…
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