TIP OF THE DAY: Ice Cream Cupcakes

Create a fun and easy party dessert, a variation on the ice cream cupcake. All you need are cupcake liners, a muffin tin, chocolate wafer cookies, a quart of your favorite ice cream (we like a pint each of chocolate chip or mint chocolate chip, but any flavor is delicious) plus the chocolate whipped cream…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Best Sweet Gourmet Foods Of 2010 (PART II)

Our favorite sweet treats of 2010 are luxurious but very affordable—most under $10.00. The honors go to: Chocomize Customized Chocolate Bars, Belgian Callebaut chocolate (one of our favorites) and the most food fun you can have when you create your own bars eCreamery Customized Ice Cream, where you create the ice cream, gelato or sorbet…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Salted And Unsalted Butter

[1] The only salted butter we buy (photo © Vermont Creamery). [2] A modern salt cellar. Today you can find them in wood as well. Older styles were ceramic, crystal or glass. You can find it and other styles on Amazon and elsewhere (photo © KooK | Amazon).   Some people prefer salted butter, others…
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RECIPE: Deviled Eggs For New Year’s Eve

Why do deviled eggs endure as a party favorite? Of all the retro hors d’oeuvre—including stuffed celery and rumaki, a skewered chicken liver and water chestnut invented by “Trader Vic” Bergeron—deviled eggs keep holding their own. Even people who rarely, if ever, eat a boiled egg can’t help plucking a stuffed egg off the tray.…
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