FAVs Fruit Pouches: Low-Calorie Snacks From Tree Top

Recently we tasted a pouch of FAVs, fruit purees designed for children, packed with vitamins and fun designs on squeeze pouches. Our impression was: These are delicious, and great snacks for adults seeking low calories (just 45 calories per pack), great taste, and oh yes, nutrition. The fruit pouches are packed with vitamins A, B6,…
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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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