Category: Tip Of The Day

TIP OF THE DAY: Creative Icebox Cakes & Homemade Chocolate Wafers Recipes

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[1] The original ice box cake was made by Nabisco. Wafers and whipped cream were assembled and then frozen, to make cutting easy. After the taller cake became popular, the original version was named Refrigerator Roll (photo courtesy Nabisco). [2] The cake evolved into the classic Nabisco Famous Chocolate Wafer Ice Box Cake, a tall…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Home Cocktail Tips From Professional Bartenders

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[1] Make better cocktails at home, and order better at bars. Get the book at Amazon.com. [2] A Bourbon Flip, made with the contents of Nana’s Fridge. Here’s a recipe from Epicurious. [3] Hawthorne strainer: You’ve seen it, now you know its name (available at Golden Age Bartending). [4] A channel knife makes peel and…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Have A Shandy Party

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[1] A shandy made with spicy ale (photo © Whole Foods Market). [2] A ginger beer shandy leaves out most of the alcohol (it’s less than .5% ABV) and adds the flavor of ginger. Here’s the recipe from Homemade Hooplah. [3] This Island Shandy from Tommy Bahama uses passion fruit juice instead of lemonade. [4]…
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RECIPES: Healthy Potato Salad Reveries

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The summers of our youth meant that on the three holiday weekends—Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day—Mom was going to put out a major spread. You could have held a wedding reception with the diversity and quantity of food she set out. Aside from the fruit pies and trays of brownies, what we most…
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RECIPE: Faloodeh or Faludeh, It’s Delicious Rosewater Sorbet

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[1] Faludeh with a sour cherry topping at The Persian Fusion. [2] A squeeze of fresh lime juice blances the sweetness of the sobet (photo courtesy Tishineh, a site for Irani tourism). [3] A “sundae” of faludeh combined with saffron ice cream (bastani in Arabic; photo courtesy Fun Love And Cooking). The combination of flavors…
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