Pumpkin Fritters Recipe For Thanksgiving & National Fritters Day

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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TREND: The Next Thing In A Fresh Cookie?

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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FOOD HOLIDAY: Indian Pudding Day

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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FOOD TRENDS: Trade Cupcakes For Pie?

Will pie be the cupcake of 2011? Photo courtesy WildBlueberries.com. Move over cupcakes: pies are on the way. Pies, both sweet and savory, will be the top restaurant trend in 2011, predicts restaurant consultant Andrew Freeman & Co. “If I had one trend—one trend—of the year that I could predict, [it] would be the trend…
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GOURMET GIVEAWAY: Byron Bay Cookies

Bite-size cookies in a keepsake tin. Photo courtesy Byron Bay. This week’s sweet prize from Byron Bay Cookie Company comes in a festive keepsake tin, perfect for holiday entertaining. The tin is filled with Shortbread, Triple Chocolate Fudge and White Chocolate Chunk & Macadamia Nut cookies. Three lucky winners will enjoy a box. Made in…
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