CONTEST: Can Your Recipe Win The 1,2,3 Puff! Challenge?

If you’re a home cook with an original recipe that uses Pepperidge Farm puff pastry, it could win you and a guest an all-expenses paid trip to New York City, to tour the Big Apple’s finest pastry shops. That’s a sweet trip! Just enter your recipe in Pepperidge Farm’s 1,2,3 Puff! recipe contest. You may…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Take A Brownie Break

    These dense, moist and fudgy treats are Geoff & Drew’s Brownies, a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week (photo by Claire Freierman | © THE NIBBLE)./span>.     December 8th is National Chocolate Brownie Day. If you have the time, bake your own favorite recipe—or try a new one. We’ll start you out…
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GIFTS: Bacon-Flavored Envelopes

Lick the envelope—it tastes like bacon. Photo by Hannah Kaminsky | THE NIBBLE. Here’s a stocking stuffer that qualifies as unique: envelopes that look and taste like bacon. From J&D’s, the folks who brought you Bacon Salt, here are envelopes that anyone will want to lick. J&D’s Bacon-Flavored Mmmvelopes not only taste like bacon, they…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Foie Gras Variées

[1] A slice of foie gras, known as a “scallop,” is briefly sautéed and served with peaches, marmalade and marigold salad (photo © Restaurant Daniel| NYC). [2] Foie gras-stuffed prunes (photo © Caviar Russe.   On festive occasions we serve “Foie Gras Variées,” a dinner plate comprising small amounts of different foie gras* preparations that…
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FOOD HOLIDAYS: National Lager Week For Beer Lovers

Love your lager? This is the week to celebrate: It’s National Lager Beer Week. Lager (the German word for storage) refers to any beer made by bottom fermentation. It is usually golden in color but sometimes can be dark. Lager requires a longer, colder fermentation than ale (which is a top-fermenting beer), and uses a…
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