TIP OF THE DAY: Make Radish Eyeballs For Adult Halloween Food

How about some “eyeball” nibbles with your Halloween cocktails? This healthy hors d’oeuvre or snack uses a radish base for the white and “veins” of the eyeball. The pupil and iris are a pimento-stuffed olive. All you have to do is peel the radishes and insert the olives (buy large radishes and small olives). Fun…
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PRODUCT: Tabasco Reserve Pepper Sauce (Grab It While You Can)

Tabasco has been a table staple since 1868, when the McIlhenny Company first produced it (read the story). Over the past few years, the company has expanded its line beyond Original Red Tabasco to Green, Garlic, Habanero and Chipotle Tabasco and Sweet & Spicy Sauce. Few people know of a seventh product that the company…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Halloween Brownie Gifts

Harvest Pumpkin is like a pumpkin pie crossed with a blondie. Photo courtesy Sugardaddy’s.   Last week we presented our favorite Halloween candy. This week, it’s Halloween brownies. They’re not decorated with ghosts or tombstones, and only one brownie—Pumpkin Harvest Blondie—has a related Halloween theme. But all 15 flavors of these delectable round brownies and…
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Red Candy Apples History & Recipe

[1] Candy apples are a Halloween favorite (photo © Sevenmarie Creative Commons CC-BY-2.0). [2] Add some protein and decoration with chopped nuts or seeds (photo © M. Studio | Fotolia). [3] Instead of hobby store sticks, gather twigs (photo © Foodie Crush | Go Bold With Butter).   Yesterday we published a recipe for caramel…
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Homemade Caramel Apple Recipe & All The Apple Holidays

Here’s a different approach to caramel apples (also called toffee apples*): Use pretty twigs instead of the same old predictable wood popsicle/craft sticks. The recipe comes from the book Sugar, Sugar: Every Recipe Has a Story, by Kimberly “Momma” Reiner and Jenna Sanz-Agero. The book will be published on October 25th, but you can order…
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