TIP: Apple Pie With Salted Caramel Ice Cream

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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PRODUCT: Jolie’s Kronies, Cousin Of The Cronut

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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FOOD FUN: Lemon Reindeer

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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