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How red and green and Christmassy! Consider this festive avocado as the first course of a holiday dinner. Fresh lingonberries and their leaves have been used to garnish this stuffed avocado, but they are hard to come by. Instead, if you want to use the garnish, substitute pink peppercorns (look for the reddest ones). Note:…
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Apple crisp with Salted Caramel Gelato. Photo courtesy Talenti Gelato & Sorbetto. Most people serve their apple pie or pecan pie à la mode with vanilla ice cream. That’s the classic, but we’ve always preferred Rum Raisin, a festive holiday flavor. Yet some people like neither rum nor raisins. The emergence of Salt Caramel…
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If you’ve been hankering for one of Dominique Ansel’s famous Cronuts but are neither willing nor able to wait in line at 5 a.m., we can recommend an excellent subsitute: Jolie’s Kronies, made by a Bronx baker. You don’t have to wait for them. You can order them by phone and send a messenger. The…
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Christmas craft reindeer. Photo courtesy Happy Girl Kitchen. Happy Girl Kitchen is an artisan food producer in the San Francisco Bay area, making preserves and other condiments with organic farm fresh produce. The chutneys, jams, honeys, pickles and preserved tomatoes make delicious holliday gifts. Next to their Mandarin Lemon Marmalade in the photo is…
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Good nougat is hard to find. It can be a jawbreaker or cloyingly sweet. But is a Christmas tradition in numerous countries, and good nougat is worth hunting down. For at least six generations, Maria Walley’s family has made torrone for Christmas and Easter (torrone, pronounced toe-ROE-nay, is Italian for nougat). Her ancestors brought the…
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