TIP OF THE DAY: Frozen Lemonade

August 20th is National Lemonade Day. When life gives you a lemonade holiday, make frozen lemonade! We were inspired by the photo from Earl of Sandwich to make our own frozen lemonade. The ingredients are simple, but you need an ice cream machine to make a frozen slurry, as if you were making lemon sorbet.…
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FOOD FUN: “Who” Made This Owl?

We found this owl on the Facebook page of Euforia Cake, but there was no attribution. If you know who should be credited, let us know! If only we had the talent to sculpt fruit and vegetables into fantastic creatures! Instead, we’ll take pleasure in sharing the ones we find. We’ve counted up the ingredients:…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Berry-Custard Dessert Cocktail

More berries and less custard lower the calories in this delicious dessert. Photo courtesy Ruth’s Chris Steak House.   Since it’s National Vanilla Custard Day, today’s tip is a way to enjoy custard with fewer calories. Just “pad out” the custard with low-calorie berries. BERRY CUSTARD COCKTAIL RECIPE Ingredients Mixed berries Vanilla custard (substitute vanilla…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Sip Some Aged Rum & The Different Types Of Rum

The Caribbean is home to rum, a distilled alcoholic beverage made from sugar cane. The clear distillate is then aged in oak barrels for various lengths of time, the process that creates the different types of rum. Your acquaintance with rum may be via a Daiquiri, Hurricane, Mojito, Piña Colada or Rum and Coke (a.k.a.…
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PRODUCT: Bombay Sapphire Gin & Bombay Sapphire East

Gin and tonic is the world’s favorite gin drink and a classic summer cocktail. After all, it was invented in the heat of India, for soldiers and civilians of the British Raj. (Raj is the Hindi word for reign, and is the term often used to describe the period between 1858 and 1947 before Indian…
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