TIP OF THE DAY: Make Regular Or Sugar-Free Sorbet

It’s easy to make sugar-free sorbet. Photo by Dusan Zidar | BSP. There’s a lot of good “No Sugar Added” ice cream out there, but it’s tough to find a sugar-free sorbet. If you’re on a sugar-free diet and miss sorbet, you can make it with unsweetened fruit juice or puréed fruit. Sugar or no…
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PRODUCT: Chili Chocolate Sauce & Caramel Sauce

Our new favorite chocolate sauce is Three Chilies Chocolate Sauce from The King’s Cupboard. The excellent Three Chilies Caramel Sauce is the runner up, only because we prefer chocolate to caramel. Imagine ice cream that is both hot and cold. That’s what you get when you pour Three Chilies Chocolate Sauce on it. The cayenne,…
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PRODUCT: Sugar-Free Barbecue Sauce

Barbecue sauce can have as much refined sugar as dessert (we call the super-sweet ones “meat sugar”). People on sugar-free diets have limited choices if they want some BBQ. One manufacturer offering help is Chef Hymie Grande. The company has created a line of all-natural barbecue “glazes” flavored with low-glycemic agave nectar instead of other…
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PRODUCT: Sugar-Free Margarita Mix

Have a Margarita for just 5 calories on top of the liquor calories. Photo by Katharine Pollak | THE NIBBLE. A few weeks ago we wrote about Skinnygirl Margarita, a 100-calorie Margarita-in-a-bottle sweetened with low-glycemic agave nectar. There’s a new contender on the market: The Original Skinny Margarita, made by Jordan’s Skinny Mixes. It’s joined…
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RECIPE: Have A Cow—A Black Cow (a.k.a. Root Beer Float)

[1] How now, Black Cow? Make one and find out (photo by ShagPhoto | IST). [2] Prefer a Brown Cow? Here’s the recipe from Smucker’s.   June 10th is National Black Cow Day. National Root Beer Float Day is August 6th. Two holidays for the same sweet treat: A Black Cow is another name for…
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