Category: Great Food

VALENTINE’S DAY: Sparkling Wines For Gifting & Drinking

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Banfi Rosa Regale Brachetto d’Acqui: a wine that says “Be My Valentine.”   If you’ve taken a look at Champagne prices, you’d like a recommendation on which way to go. Our recommendation: Steer away from Champagne and look at other sparkling wines. Here are two of our favorite affordable bubblies for Valentine’s Day. Both are…
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TIP: Hot Chocolate From Chocolate Chips & Other Hard Chocolate

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It’s snow and ice today on the East Coast; when we look out the window we see…white. So we’re deferring our scheduled tip to tomorrow, to publish something more comforting: Hot chocolate from chocolate chips, chocolate bars, even Hershey’s Kisses. Even if you have no cocoa powder at home, you’re still in the chips if…
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VALENTINE’S DAY: Sweets We’d Like To Receive

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If you’re on the hunt for Valentine chocolate, you probably don’t have to hunt too hard. Even our drugstore looks like a chocolate shop. But here are some yummy items we enjoy, year after year. CHOCOLATE CHERRIES FROM CHOCLATIQUE Most of us grew up hoping to get the chocolate covered cherry in the box of…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Bibimbap, A Korean Classic For The Lunar New Year

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We love bibimbap (bee-bim-BOP), a signature Korean dish. It’s a variation of our currently trending rice bowl. The word literally means “mixed rice”—rice mixed with several other ingredients. We’ve written about bibimbap previously, but for the eve of the lunar new year (this year, it’s Sunday, February 7th), it’s especially appropriate. It’s what Koreans traditionally…
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FOOD FUN: Football Fries (French Fry Footballs)

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If you have kids and like to make special treats for them, head to HungryHappenings.com and sign up for the emails. Even if you don’t make them, you’ll enjoy the creative ideas. Here’s one that adults can enjoy, too: French fries shaped like footballs. The Football Fries recipe is on the Hungry Happenings website. If…
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