PRODUCTS: Ice Cream Favorites For National Ice Cream Month

[1] Non-dairy Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream from Ben & Jerry’s (photo © Hannah Kaminsky | Bittersweet Blog). [2] Häagen-Dazs makes non-dairy frozen treats in both cartons and bars (photo © Häagen-Dazs | Facebook), [3] Bubbie’s uses conventional dairy ice cream in its Ice Cream Bites (photos #3 and #4 © Bubbies’s Ice Cream.…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Chowder Topped With Fish Or Seafood

If you’ve had clam chowder or fish chowder, you know that the seafood is mixed into the soup with the other ingredients. In this recipe, created by recipe developer and blogger Sylvia Fountaine for the Idaho Potato Commission, the seafood is placed atop the chowder for a delicious dinner. As you can see in the…
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BEER COCKTAIL RECIPE: Special Michelada For National Michelada Day

July 12th Is National Michelada Day. There are several variations of this beer-based Mexican cocktail. Our version of a Michelada calls for a rich tomato passata (puree). That’s what DeLallo used in this recipe. Instead of hot sauce, they heat things up with an oil from spicy Calabrian chili peppers. Top with an ice-cold beer…
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RECIPE: Blueberry Mojito For National Mojito Day (& National Blueberry Month)

July 11th is National Mojito Day (following on the heels of National Piña Colada Day, July 10th). Plus, July is National Blueberry Month. Although fresh blueberries are at their sweetest in July, here’s a recipe you can use all year round, with frozen blueberries. The official name of the recipe below is is “Bleauberry Mojito,…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Chambord Cocktails For Bastille Day

BASTILLE DAY HISTORY July 14th (“le quatorze juillet”) is Bastille Day in France, officially called the Fête Nationale (“National Celebration”). If you missed that lesson in European History class, it commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison in Paris on July 14, 1789. It was a rallying point and symbolic act of rebellion in the…
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