RECIPE & GADGET: Make Jalapeño Poppers

Treat family and friends to jalapeñopoppers. Photo courtesy SurLaTable.com.   Did you know you had the need for a Chile Pepper Grill Rack and Corer? We didn’t, until we saw it at SurLaTable.com. Last month there were 49,000 Google searches for the term “jalapeño poppers.” Evidently, the cheese-stuffed chiles have become so popular, there’s a…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Mustard Mash-Up

There will be a lot of mustard served this weekend at barbecues across America. It’s your opportunity to try something new and exciting in this low-calorie-condiment category. Even though you think the crowd likes yellow ballpark mustard, delve into the more exciting types of mustard. Bring out the Dijon, the flavored mustards and the old-style…
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Sex And The City 2: “Rock The Casbah” Cosmo Cocktail

Enjoy a Cosmo with a Middle Eastern twist. Photo courtesy The London NYC Hotel. Just about every spirits manufacturer we know developed a line of cocktails to celebrate the premiere of the film, Sex And The City 2. The typical suggestions we received had a cocktail named for each character—some just for the girls, others…
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PRODUCT: The Wonderful World Of Oolong Tea

Oolong means “black dragon” in Chinese, a reference to the appearance of the tea after it has been processed. The long, twisted, blackish-green leaves reminded the poetic Chinese person who named it, of a dragon. But the “black dragon” leaves produce a tea that is graceful, alluring and a world favorite. Oolong is a relative…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Peachy News

Let peaches ripen to perfection. Overripe peaches can be puréed for sauce, turned into peach ice cream or peach smoothie. Photo by Gerhard Taatgen, Jr. | SXC. May is the beginning of peach season. Fuzzy clingstone peaches are in the market for your nibbling pleasure, with freestone peaches arriving in July through September. While the…
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