PRODUCT: Lindt Wasabi Chocolate Bar

Imagine being the master chocolatier for the world’s largest prestige chocolate company. Management is always looking for something new and different. You already have chocolate bars in Blackcurrant, Chili, Coconut, Cranberry, Orange, Passionfruit, Sea Salt, plus traditional flavors like Almond, Mint and Toffee and plain chocolate bars in a range of cacao intensities. What do…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Asian Peanut Sauce

For both Asian- and Western-style salads, peanut sauce is a delicious dressing. Photo courtesy National Almond Board.   If you enjoy a plate of Asian sesame noodles, that yummy, peanut butter-based sauce is equally versatile as a: Dip for raw vegetables (crudités) Grilled chicken, fish or tofu sauce or dip for skewers Pasta sauce Rice…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Ways To Use Peanuts, Especially Flavored Peanuts

Indian chicken salad with roasted peanuts. Here’s the recipe. Photo courtesy MyRecipes.com.   Peanuts are a New World crop. They are believed to have been domesticated in Bolivia or Paraguay, where the wildest strains still grow. The oldest specimens in Peruvian archeological sites date back some 7,600 years. While American colonists enjoyed a hearty, rich…
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PRODUCT: UV Candy Bar Vodka & Candy Bar Cocktails

UV candy bar-flavored vodka. Photo courtesy Phillips Distilling Company.   Sip your candy bar, drink your dessert: Phillips Distilling Company has launched UV Candy Bar, a chocolate- and caramel-flavored vodka. It’s 17th vodka flavor in the UV Vodka line, that also includes UV Cake, UV Chocolate Cake and UV Whipped. And the bottles are flying…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Crunchy, Savory Yogurt Parfait

Pretzel nuggets add crunch to yogurt. Photo by Elvira Kalviste | THE NIBBLE.   One of our favorite kitchen activities involves playing with ingredients: What can we do with them that hasn’t been done before? That’s how we developed our Pretzel Yogurt Parfait. We were inspired by a bag of pretzel nuggets (alternatively, crush regular…
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