TIP OF THE DAY: Christmas Salad Recipe

Make a beautiful red-and-green Christmas salad by adding “red” greens to your vegetable mix. If you can’t find the more exotic red lettuces—red leaf lettuce, red oak lettuce and red romaine—most stores carry the naturally red-veined chard, baby kale and radicchio. You can mix them with regular green leaf lettuces, if you like. You also…
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PRODUCT: Purista Cocktail Mixers

Get some mojo with these Mojito mixes. The drink is named after the Gullah word for magic spell. Photo courtesy of Purista. ‘Tis the season to mix cocktails…but Purista’s tropical cocktail mixers are popular year-round. Developed by a bartender for bartenders, the mixers are made from pure (hence the name ingredients): fresh fruit juices, organic…
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RECIPES: Holiday Cookies

Have you baked Christmas cookies yet? Take a look at our eight luscious cookie recipes, including: Apple Cider Buttons Almond Butter Buckeyes Pistachio Biscochitos Wintermint Wafers Bananas Foster Bars Gold Rush Bars Chocolate Butter Pecans Mount Rainier Macaroons It’s a great time of the year to teach children how to bake. They can give the…
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GIFTS: For The Chocolate Connoisseur (Or Chocoholic)

Still shopping for the right gift? Almost anyone would welcome a box of artisan chocolates. They’d be thrilled to get something fabulous from a chocolatier they’ve never heard of, whom you’ve hunted down. So hunt down something on our list of favorite chocolatiers of the year: Antoine Amrani Chocolates, a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Gadget Gifts

We’re stuck on these magnetized, nesting cups and measuring spoons from Pyrex. Photo by Evan Dempsey | THE NIBBLE. If you have a favorite kitchen gadget, give it as a gift. It may seem small, but if it does a big job, the recipient will be grateful to have it (our friends were thrilled to…
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