TIP OF THE DAY: Make Mini Ice Cream Bombes

An easy ice cream mini bombe. Photo courtesy Starbucks.   The earliest known recipe for a frozen dessert bombe comes from the great Italian confectioner, G.A. Jarrin. In the first Italian cookbook published in English—The Italian Confectioner or Complete Economy of Desserts according to the Most Modern and Approved Practices (London: 1820—today, you can get…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Hatch Chiles From New Mexico

This tip is for chile lovers: The window is briefly open for Hatch chiles, the most prized chile of New Mexico, with a meaty flesh and mild-medium heat. The season is August through early September, but depending on weather conditions, the harvest can begin as early as July and finish in early October. If you…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Things To Do With Lemon Juice

What’s your favorite way to use lemon juice? Photo courtesy Wikimedia.   August 29th was National Lemon Juice Day. We had a basket full of lemons on the kitchen counter, so we turned on the electric juicer and set out to see how many different things—edible things—we could do with lemon juice. There are many…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Garden Lites Vegetable Soufflés

It’s always exciting to discover a new “favorite food” that’s good for you. When we received a generous shipment of Garden Lites frozen vegetable soufflés from the manufacturer, we liked them. But as we ate soufflé after veggie soufflé, we grew to really like them. We became so accustomed to eating one a day as…
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