TIP OF THE DAY: Strawberries For The Holidays

Holiday season is high-calorie season. But you can help your calorie-stressed guests. In addition to serving crudités as an option to the seductive Brie Torte, provide fresh fruit for guests who are watching calories or carbs, don’t eat refined sugar or are doing their best to avoid plunging into your brownies and butter cookies. Fresh…
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RECIPE: Cherry Martini, a “Healthy” Cherry Cocktail

There are cocktails that are not good for you—ones that include heavy cream, simple syrup and other syrups, carbonated soft drinks and even butter. Now, we’re promised a good-for-you solution: a cherry cocktail not only packed with antioxidants, but with anti-hangover properties. According to nutritionist Dr. Christine Greene, tart cherry juice “contains a special class…
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GIFT OF THE DAY: Chocolate Snowmen

White chocolate snowmen filled with dark chocolate ganache. Photo courtesy L.A. Burdick. There is simply no better combination of adorable and delicious this Christmas, than this nonet (that’s a group of nine) of chocolate snowmen from L.A. Burdick. We’ve been in love with Larry Burdick’s handmade chocolate mice and penguins for years. With centers of…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Christmas Coffee

Christmas blend coffee, for home and gifting. Photo courtesy Starbucks. You make holiday recipes, decorate the house and play holiday music. Why not serve holiday coffee? To add something special to your daily routine, switch your regular coffee for Christmas Blend or other seasonal coffee (Pumpkin Spice, for example). Barnie’s has Santa’s White Christmas in…
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GOURMET GIVEAWAY #1 ~ Designer Christmas Tree

This year, deck your halls differently with a Christmas tree from Treetopia, manufacturer of synthetic Christmas trees with attitude. The stylish trees come in a variety of types, sizes and colors, including the “Candy Cane” tree, this week’s prize. And it‘s not just for Christmas: Put blue ornaments on the tree and can use it…
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