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Surprise your Valentine with a beribboned box of homemade red velvet chocolate truffles with luscious raspberry flavor. The insides are the color of red velvet cake. McCormick, which contributed this recipe, specifies baking chocolate; but these will taste so much better if you use couverture—higher quality chocolate that chocolatiers and pastry chefs use. Look for…
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February is National Fondue Month, February 5th is National Chocolate Fondue Day, November is National Fun with Fondue Month, and April 11th is National Cheese Fondue Day. You’ve got multiple opportunities to celebrate with luscious fondue—as a family dinner, at a dinner party, or even on a party buffet. THE HISTORY OF FONDUE…
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If you know someone who would gladly eat chocolate for breakfast, [s]he may be able to justify it with these new chocolate bars from Chuao Chocolatier: Cinnamon Cereal Smooch, milk chocolate mixed with bits of cinnamon toast cereal. Strawberry Waffle Wild, milk chocolate mixed with tart dried strawberries and crispy waffle pieces. They join…
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Tonja’s Toffee. Photo by Hannah Kaminsky | THE NIBBLE. Not everyone wants a box of bonbons or chocolate hearts for Valentine’s Day. Some of us would love the buttery crunch of toffee. When we received samples of Tonja’s Toffee, we were happy, happy, happy. The style is very buttery, which is how we like…
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If you’re thinking of potato salad for game day, how about upping the flavor, color, texture and nutrition with green beans, a.k.a. string beans and snap beans (more about that below). Fresh green bean crops are harvested year-round, but are best in early winter, early summer and early fall. Beans picked early in the season…
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