TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: The Best Ice Cream

Jeni’s uses fresh, local ingredients such as ripe summer strawberries in its Strawberry Buttermilk Ice Cream. July is National Ice Cream Month. We began the month with Ruby et Violette’s cookie dough ice creams; we’re ending it with two more all-stars: Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams in Columbus, Ohio and Silver Moon Desserts in Los Gatos,…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Curdelicious Fruit Curd

Tartlets with four different flavors of Curdelicious fruit curd: An easy and very satisfying dessert. Guests will clamor for more! Photo by Hannah Kaminsky | THE NIBBLE. Do you use fruit curd? Lemon curd is perhaps the most familiar variety, a creamy spread made with sugar, eggs and butter (in the richer recipes), flavored with…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Summer Sorbet

If you eat a lot of ice cream, try moving to lighter sorbets for the summer. The pure flavors are more in keeping with the spirit of the summer, especially if you buy artisan flavors bursting with seasonal fresh fruit. Sorbet has fewer calories, and the absence of milk or cream makes it fat-free and…
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