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Calling all truffle lovers: Registration is now open for the Oregon Truffle Festival, January 28-30, 2011—a fantasy for fans of the fabulous fungus. Activities include: Truffle and wine dinners Cooking classes and seminars Winery luncheons Truffle hunt Farm tours A fresh truffle marketplace to bring home a truffle “souvenir” or two The sixth anniversary…
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Classic French toast. Photo courtesy MackenzieLtd.com. November 28th is National French Toast Day, celebrating one of our favorite foods (we prefer it to pancakes and waffles). French toast isn’t French; it was actually invented in ancient Roman times. In early French recipes it is called pain à la romaine, or Roman bread. This eggy fried…
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THE NIBBLE’s Kids & Family Editor, Cricket Azima, says that if you haven’t settled on a pumpkin dish for your Thanksgiving dinner, these South African Pumpkin Fritters are a snap. You can also serve them for dessert with ice cream or whipped cream, or make them for brunch over Thanksgiving weekend. And they’re delicious any…
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The Sweet Flour Bake Shop in Toronto is at the vanguard of something we haven’t seen before: cookies and muffins custom-baked with your choice of mix-ins, prepared while you wait—in as little as two minutes. You can create just one cookie or take home a dozen. Do the math, and you get 15,000 different combinations—a…
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Indian pudding. Photo courtesy Tammy Donroe, FoodOnTheFood.com. Today is National Indian Pudding Day. Indian pudding, a New England specialty, is a pudding served hot or warm, made of cornmeal, milk, molasses and spices. It’s a richer, sweetened form of hasty pudding, a porridge of cornmeal cooked in milk or water. (Remember the song, Yankee…
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