Rotate Rolling Beautiful Embossed Rollling Pins For Pies & More

February is National Pie Month. What do you need to make a pie? A rolling pin*, pie plate, and ingredients. But how about an embossed rolling pin that adds a design to your crust? Designed by Rotate Rolling, these beautiful rolling pins create a perfectly textured crust for the top of a double-crust pie (including…
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Heat Things Up With Ghost Pepper Sea Salt

  [1] Heat things up with this sea salt and ghost pepper blend (photos #1 and #2 © FreshJax).   [2] What’s inside the bottle. [3] Ghost peppers, a.k.a. bhut jolokia (photo © Sid Wainer & Sons).     Looking for a hot gift to give your friends on Valentine’s Day? If they like hot…
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A Lady M Red Bean Mille Crepes Cake With Azuki Beans

January 9th is National Bean Day, so we’re featuring a bean that Asian cultures use in sweet recipes: The azuki bean (also spelled adzuki, and also called red beans and red mung beans). The Lady M Red Bean Mille Crêpes Cake, filled with azuki beans, is a luxurious cake for today, the Lunar New Year,…
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Savory Mini Cheesecake Recipe For Valentine’s Day

[1] Savory mini cheesecake hors d’oeuvre with an Italian cracker (taralli) base, cream cheese or goat cheese filling, and a topping of Mortadella. The recipe is below (photo © Veroni). [2] Mortadella (photo © DeLallo). [3] Taralli, used for the base of the cheesecake, is a popular snacking cracker (photo © Evegniy Alekseyev | Pexels).…
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Heart-Shaped Latkes With Red Caviar For Valentine’s Day

A special treat for Valentine’s Day: heart-shaped mini latkes, just write to enjoy with caviar and crème fraîche. Linda’s Heart Shaped Gourmet Latkes are currently available out-of-state through California Caviar (they are sold at retail and delivery in California). Linda’s ships the rest of the line (not heart-shape) out of state through Goldbelly. Head to…
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