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White Chocolate Peppermint Bark, a seasonal macaron flavor. Photo courtesy Dana’s Bakery. Dana Loia, we want you to be our new BFF. Dana is the creative force behind Dana’s Bakery, specializing in macarons. Her macarons rock—even more than other good macarons, because she’s quite the flavor artist as well as a designer, creating beautiful…
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Sugar free bridge mix, licorice and Gummi Bears (inside package) from Nuts.com. Photo by Elvira Kalviste | THE NIBBLE. Nuts.com is a third-generation purveyor of nuts, dried fruits, chocolates and other sweets. They offer some 3,000 items sold by the pound, but will also package the wares into snack packs, 3.2 ounce bags sold…
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If you like to serve fruit at Christmas parties—a much better-for-you option than trays of sweets—serve it holiday-style, in this watermelon snowman. In this recipe, a medium watermelon and two small ones create two bowls and a head for the snowman—as well as supplying plenty of melon balls for a fruit salad. You can use…
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Delicious Christmas trees. Photo courtesy Bemka.com. Sushi and sashimi fans: Delight your fellow enthusiasts with these hors d’oeuvre: RECIPE: SASHIMI TARTARE CHRISTMAS TREES Ingredients Cucumber slices Waffle potato chips (you can substitute conventional chips) Tuna tartare and/or salmon tartare (recipe below) Garnish: chives and/or wasabi tobiko caviar Optional garnish: slices of yellow grape tomato…
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A lager on tap. Photo courtesy Samuel Adams Brewery. December 10th is National Lager Day (see all the food holidays). Enjoy a cold one as you read through these lager facts, compiled by the brewers at Samuel Adams. 1. History. Alhough beer has been made for more than seven millennia, the first lager wasn’t…
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