Month: February 2016

TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Shpickles Pickled Vegetables, Shmolives Pickled Olives

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Last summer, when scouting a Brooklyn food festival, we came across Shpickles, Shmolives and Shnuts. They’re made by hand by a mom-and-son company called Brooklyn Whatever. Mom, a social worker and son, a chef, started a family business to add more flavor to pickles, olives and nuts. The result: unique, assertively spiced, better-for-you snacks, garnishes,…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Homemade Lentil Soup

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Top: Vegetarian lentil soup with mustard greens from Good Eggs. Bottom: Black beluga lentils from InHarvest.com.   Lentil soup is a winter favorite: hearty, nutritious comfort food. Why make your own? Better lentils, more nuanced flavors and the ability to control the salt. Today’s tip is an easy recipe for homemade vegetarian lentil soup, with…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make A Savory Galette

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Beet and Sweet Potato Galette from Vermont Creamery.   Shoo the winter blues away with a colorful galette. In the pastry world, a galette is a rustic, open-face pie, made without a pie pan. It is flat, with a turned-up crust that wraps around the filling to create a “dough pan.” It can be round,…
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HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY

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Valentine soup. Photo courtesy Mowie Kay.   HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY FROM THE NIBBLE     If you’d like to celebrate with this Valentine soup, the recipe is at Mowielicious.com, a fine-food blog. The website has the most beautiful professional food photography, but no “About Us” information. So we did a quick search and found that…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Soup In A Tea Cup

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It’s zero degrees here right now, with a wind chill below zero—the coldest February day since 1963. It’s a good day to focus on soup. We prefer to consume soup in a mug instead of a bowl. It can be easily sipped, and we never drip soup on ourselves. Our ability to avoid spilling some…
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