Spicy Chocolate Fondue Recipe With Churros & The History Of Churrros
Spicy chocolate fondue recipe with churros, plus the history of churros.
Category: Food Holidays
HOLIDAY: National Chocolate Day
Harvest Truffles. Photo courtesy Recchiuti Confections. It’s National Chocolate Day, an excuse for anyone to run to the newsstand to pick up a Hershey Bar or some M&Ms. But the chocolate connoisseur deserves something better, and we’ve found it in these delicious Harvest Truffles from Recchiuti Confections of San Francisco, which we received as…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: barkTHINS Chocolate Bark
barkTHINS: thin and rich. Photo courtesy Ripple Brands. There are several reasons to love barkTHINS: The delicious varieties, crammed with inclusions* (see the list below). The thin pieces that, unlike conventional bark, let you have half as much. The Fair Trade certification (FairTradeUSA.org) that helps poor farmers. The everyday affordability (yet it’s great for…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: Easy Gumbo Recipe With Swanson’s
Gumbo is a Creole soup from Louisiana, thickened with okra pods. “Gumbo” is an African word for okra. Okra came to America with the slave trade and was introduced to the Southern white population by African cooks. As with all recipes, there are regional variations and different styles of gumbo. You can toil for many…
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TIP OF THE DAY: 50+ Ways To Eat Pierogi
October 8th is National Pierogi Day. Pierogi* are dumplings of Central and Eastern European origin, traditionally stuffed with cheese, fruit, ground meat, mashed potato or sauerkraut. They can be served boiled baked or fried/sautéed, usually in butter with sautéed onions. Pierogi is the Polish word. In Russian the term is pelmeni (don’t confuse pierogi with…
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