RECIPE: Homemade Chocolate Syrup
[1] Make your own chocolate syrup for great chocolate milk. Photo courtesy Recchiuti
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TIP OF THE DAY: Drunken Fruit
As part of a dessert course, as a “palate cleanser” between a meat course and a very sweet dessert or as a finale before after-dinner drinks, serve a small glass of fruit marinated in rum. For year-round ease, we use a mix of red and green grapes soaked in Myers’s Rum, a dark, mellow rum,…
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RECIPE: Olive Oil Ice Cream
Sprinkle olive oil ice cream with sea salt or shaved Parmesan. Photo courtesy Canard Inc. Celebrate National Ice Cream Month with something new and exciting. Like olive oil ice cream. If the concept sounds strange, the flavor blew us away when we first had it in 2003, at Mario Batali’s Otto Enoteca in New York…
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RECIPE: Black Forest Cupcakes
Make these Black Forest Cupcakes as a special treat. Photo from Chocolate Bliss, courtesy Celestial Arts Publishing. Love chocolate? Love cherries? How about cupcakes? You can meld all three with this delicious recipe for Black Forest Cupcakes. While they can be made year-round with canned or frozen cherries, take advantage of the fresh ones that…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Get A Pressure Cooker
If you love dishes like braised short ribs and pulled pork, but don’t make them because they take so long to cook: You need a pressure cooker! Today’s pressure cookers are not your mother’s (or grandmother’s) chugging hunks of iron. Sleek and 100% safe in stainless steel, they’re one of the biggest time-savers in the…
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