TIP OF THE DAY: How To Create The Best Sugar Rim

Red sanding sugar makes a sweet, colorful cocktail or mocktail rimmer. Photo courtesy El Jimador Tequila.   Here’s a fun idea for Mother’s Day or any other celebration: a custom glass rimmer for cocktails or mocktails. You can buy rimmers in tins, but it’s almost as fast to make your own. We owe this tip…
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FOOD FUN: Pig Biscuits

Take a bite of Babe! Photo courtesy Pillsbury.   Recently we wrote about animal-shaped sourdough loaves from Boudin Bakery in San Francisco and bunny rolls from Artisan Bread In Five Minutes. Then, we came across Pillsbury’s instructions for making animal rolls at home. The Pillsbury kitchens armed themselves with a container of Pillsbury refrigerated country…
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FOOD FUN: Bunny Rolls

Artisan Bread In Five Minutes A Day, a blog by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois, inspires people to make homemade bread, like these adorable brioche bunny rolls. It’s a standard roll shape; some dough has been pushed up to make ears, up and holes have been poked for eyes. Ah, such delicious creativity! We wish…
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FOOD FUN: Pineberry

Pineberries are a cultivar of strawberries that actually have a sweet pineapple taste and aroma—thus inspiring the “pine” in the name. While they are very pretty, delicious and aromatic, you may never have seen them because they are also delicate, fragile and very limited in their growing season—which is now. The small strawberries (from 1/2…
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FOOD FUN: Peeps Dunkin’ Donuts

Peeps donuts, new this year. Photo courtesy Dunkin’ Donuts.   Why did it take so long, we wondered, as we read the press release about Dunkin’ Donuts’ new Easter donut topped with a real Peeps marshmallow chick. The yeast donut, shaped like a flower, is available in two flavors: strawberry flavored icing with pastel green…
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