Category: Great Food

TIP OF THE DAY: Boozy Cupcakes, For National Vanilla Cupcake Day & Parties

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[1] Insert booze into cupcakes (photos #1 and #5 Abacus Photo). [2] Crown Royal Vanilla: blended Canadian whiskeys infused with the Madagascar Bourbon vanilla (photo © Crown Royal). [3] It’s easy to add liquor with cupcake pipettes. Here’s the recipe for these yummy cupcakes (photo © Homebody Eats). [4] Cupcake pipettes are also made in…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Sugar Plums

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“Visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.” So goes a line from the immortal poem, “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” more commonly known as “The Night Before Christmas.”* Yet how many of us have recited or sung that line without knowing exactly what a sugar plum was? No matter what today’s confectioners sell as sugar…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: Cappuccino History For National Cappuccino Day

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[1] Pouring the hot, foamed milk into the espresso (photo © Olesyk | Pinterest). [2] A standard cappuccino (photo courtesy Truvia | Erika Dodge). [3] Nespresso Aeroccino Milk Frother, an electric frother (photo courtesy Williams-Sonoma). [4] Aerolatte milk frother wand, a battery-operated frother (photo courtesy Williams-Sonoma). [5] Latte doesn’t have the added foam of cappuccino,…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Try A Servings Planner

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If you’re like us, you never know exactly how much food to make, so you make—much too much. In our family, one of the greatest social sins is to run out of food. This year, we’re using this servings planner from Whole Foods Markets. Just enter the number of guests, and the tool will calculate…
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Make Chocolate-Covered Nuts & Nut Clusters: Easy Recipes!

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[1] Chocolate-covered almonds with sea salt (photo © Paleo Leap). [2] For a bigger bite (and they’re even easier to make): chocolate-covered nut clusters (photo © Lindt USA). [3] Nuts setting on parchment paper (photo © Paleo Leap). caption id=”attachment_158135″ align=”alignnone” width=”230″] [4] Get fancy with cashew bark. This one also contains cranberries and dried…
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