TIP OF THE DAY: The Best Thanksgiving Dessert Could Be Bites

TOP PHOTO: Cut up the brownies, cheesecake and pumpkin, insert toothpicks, and everyone will enjoy dessert more by eating less. BOTTOM PHOTO: The photographers also cook. Take a look at their fruit and veggie-centric cookbook. Photos © WhiteOnRiceCouple.com.   You know how you feel at the end of the turkey course at Thanksgiving dinner: stuffed…
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RECIPES: Alternative Holiday Potato Recipes

If you don’t have sacrosanct holiday potato recipes, here are two outside-the-box ideas, one for mashed potatoes, one for sweet potatoes. Of course, they work on non-holidays, too. Both are from GoBoldWithButter.com, one of our go-to sites for delicious recipes. RECIPE: BLUE CHEESE MASHED POTATOES Butter, buttermilk and blue cheese give these mashed potatoes a…
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FOOD FUN: Angry Turkey Cheesecake

For years, we’ve loved the designs of Elegant Cheesecakes, Since 1988, Elegant Cheese Cakes has designed memorable wedding cakes, birthday cakes, and other special occasion delights. It was one of our Top Picks Of The Week ten years ago. We’ve been evangelists ever since. Working in cheesecake, chocolate cake and other popular flavors, owner and…
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HOLIDAY GIFTS: Gourmet Chocolate

TOP PHOTO: Edible chocolate box with bonbons from Charles Chocolates. SECOND PHOTO: Coco Puro’s chocolate-coated cacao beans. THIRD PHOTO: Ganache-filled bonbons from John & Kira’s. BOTTOM PHOTO: Calabacita figs filled with chocolate whiskey ganache from John & Kira’s.   We love putting together holiday gift lists, sharing our must-have favorites. The chocolate items here begin…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Chicken Or Turkey Stock

Enjoy your feast, but don’t toss the carcass. Use it to make stock! Photo courtesy Sur La Table.   Plan ahead: Don’t throw away that turkey carcass. Or the roast chicken* carcass. Or those tops, root ends and stems from trimming vegetables. Save the vegetable trimmings from the week’s meals: carrot tops, celery ends, fennel…
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