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You can simplify this fancy Cherries & Bourbon dessert and still enjoy the delicious combination of flavors. Photo courtesy Trace Restaurant | Austin. Adding spirits to baked goods—Bourbon, Grand Marnier, liqueur, rum—adds a subtle nuance. We serve spiked desserts with a shot or liqueur glass of the featured spirit. It‘s a lovely end to…
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Drink your dessert. Photo courtesy DiSaronno. Dessert is an American tradition—sone sweetness to end the meal. But if you’re serving adults, before planning for cake, ice cream or other favorite, consider if you might rather have a dessert cocktail. Recipes often include ice cream and a liqueur. This recipe, courtesy of DiSaronno, makers of…
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Here’s a tribute to aspic: a savory, gelatin-like food made from meat or fish stock. A classic French dish created centuries before the day of commercial gelatin* it was very difficult to prepare. In the beginning, cooks relied on the natural gelatin found in the meat to make the aspic set. In modern times,…
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No, this isn’t the cake, but one of the creative appetizers at E&E Grill House: smoky grilled bacon slabs on a salad of Savoy cabbage dressed with aïoli and cider vinegar. The cake is below. Photo courtesy E&E Grill House. We recently were a guest at a relatively new steakhouse in New York City’s…
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When we think of the good old scouting days, making S’mores in the woods by toasting marshmallows on a peeled branch over a crackling campfire, we think: Why didn’t Mom let us make S’mores in the backyard on the grill, sparing us the poison ivy and mosquito bites? The answer, most likely, is that she…
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