TIP OF THE DAY: Serve Ice Cream Or Sorbet “Demitasse”

An easy and impressive ice cream dessert. Photo courtesy Talenti Gelato.   Here’s an ice cream recipe idea for a sweet yet light ending to a big dinner: ice cream demitasse. Use your demitasse (espresso) cups to serve small portions of ice cream or sorbet. They will be just enough to qualify as dessert, but…
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TIP OF THE DAY: 5 Other Uses For Coffee Filters

We recently retired several coffee makers, from cup-tops to oldies that no longer make the coffee as hot as we’d like. We found ourselves left with several boxes of filters that don’t fit our remaining machine. Fortunately, as we were searching through old emails, we found one from our friends at the Coffee And Tea…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Sugar Free Sorbet

There’s a lot of good no-sugar-added ice cream out there, but it’s tough to find a no-sugar-added sorbet. Even our sugar-free and lactose-free Top Pick Of The Week, Clemmy’s ice cream, offers only an Orange Creme flavor, a combination of vanilla ice cream and orange sorbet. But if you’re on a sugar-free diet and miss…
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Olive Oil Ice Cream Recipe: How To Pair Olive Oil & Ice Cream

Some 10 years ago, we had our first taste of olive oil gelato. It was the creation of Meredith Kurtzman, pastry chef at Mario Battali’s Otto restaurant in New York City. It was a revelation—so creamy and luscious. We kept going back for more. The following year, Mario Battali kindly published The Babbo Cookbook, providing…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Pickled Vegetables Or Fruits

[1] Serve a beautiful pickled vegetable tray or use the veggies as plate garnishes (photo © The National | NYC). [2] You can make quick pickles in an hour (photo © Typhoon Housewares). [3] Pickled apples: sweet and tangy (photo © Best Apples). [4] Pickled radishes: zingy and tangy. Here’s the recipe (photo © Simply…
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