MEMORIAL DAY: Toast With Red, White & Blue Cocktails

Beyond planning barbecues and celebrating the three-day weekend, many of us have forgotten the meaning of Memorial Day. There are fewer parades of marching veterans, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts; fewer veterans sell paper poppies to raise money for the families of fallen soldiers. Memorial Day grew from the Civil War: Before the end of…
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RECIPE: The Easiest Strawberry Shortcake

May 21st is National Strawberries And Cream Day. Take advantage of the beautiful strawberries in season to make these easy yet elegant individual strawberry shortcakes in silver cupcake wrappers. People will think you worked for hours on this recipe. But all you do is buy the strawberries and pound cake, whip the cream and assemble.…
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RECIPE: Graduation Cookies

These cookies are too cool for school! Photo © Land O Lakes. Who wouldn’t want to take a bite of these diploma cookies—perfect to serve at a graduation party or to bring as a gift for the new graduate. What’s especially nifty about these cookies is that they double as fortune cookies. You can use…
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MOTHER’S DAY: Chocolate Shoes

With chocolate shoes, one size fits all. Photo courtesy WoodhouseChocolate.com. OMG, we just discovered these adorable chocolate shoes from Woodhouse Chocolate, a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week. The solid handmade chocolate shoes are skillfully hand-decorated. Chanel would approve. And at $20/pair, they’re a lot more affordable than her shoes. The shoes are available in…
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RECIPE: Corn Muffins With Chocolate Butter

What’s better than fresh corn muffins, warm from the oven? It’s easy to bake a batch for Mother’s Day (or any day!). If Mom is a chocolate lover, serve them with chocolate butter. Take a look at the recipe for corn muffins and chocolate butter, from Woodhouse Chocolate. Go all-chocolate with this recipe for chocolate…
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