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HALLOWEEN: Great Chocolate Eyeballs

These white chocolate eyeballs are sure to make your Halloween celebration memorable.

They’re available from Woodhouse Chocolate, a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week, on a chocolate hand ($10) or a chocolate spoon ($6), in milk or dark chocolate.

Woodhouse has a large selection of artisan Halloween chocolates, including adorable bats and spiders. See them all at WoodhouseChocolate.com.

Mmm, eyeballs. Photo courtesy Woodhouse
Chocolate.

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TIP OF THE DAY: Veggie Cocktail Garnish

Cocktail and a snack. Photo courtesy In A
Pickle.

Here’s a creative cocktail garnish idea: a “cocktail kebab.”

Instead of spearing one or two olives or cocktail onions, turn the skewer into a small bite.

For Bloody Marys, Martinis and other savory cocktails, you can use:

  • Pear (a.k.a. grape) tomatoes
  • Pickle chips, gherkins or sliced spears
  • Other pickled vegetables—carrots, cauliflower florets, sliced dilly beans (see our favorite pickled vegetables from Rick’s Picks and Tillen Farms)
  • Red or yellow bell pepper squares
  • Other favorite veggies: baby corn, pickled jalapeño, pickled okra (try Rick’s Picks fab Smokra, smoky pickled okra), water chestnuts
  • Cubes of cheese (or Mozzarella perlini), ham or turkey or a small shrimp

 

Look for 4.5-inch wood or bamboo skewers.

Find Bloody Mary recipes and other drinks in our Cocktails Section.

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RECIPES: Radicchio

We love the rich color that burgundy-and-white radicchio gives to a salad. But it can do so much more!

We’ve got recipes for Bruschetta With Radicchio di Treviso Tapenade, Mushroom Risotto In Radicchio Wrap, Radicchio Pizza and more.

Radicchio—Italian red-leaf chicory—is a healthy food: It’s very high in antioxidants and full of vitamins A and C and phosphorus (the latter needed for healthy bones and teeth, energy, mental alacrity and more).

 

Remember radicchio for your Christmas salad—the red leaves tossed with greens say “holidays.”

How ‘bout a radicchio pizza? Photo courtesy
Royal Rose Radicchio.

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GOURMET GIVEAWAY #2: Folgers Gift Basket

Wake up to coffee and coffee accessories
from Folgers! Photo courtesy Folgers.

What’s the best part of wakin’ up? To some, it’s Folgers coffee in their cup. Five lucky winners will have plenty of the popular coffee if they win this week’s Gourmet Giveaway. Folgers is giving away five of their Home for the Holidays gift baskets bursting with coffee and coffee accessories.

Each basket contains:

  • Folgers Classic Decaf – 11.3-ounce
  • Folgers Classic Roast – 11.3-ounce
  • Folgers Special Roast – 10.3-ounce ground coffee container
  • Folgers Black Silk – 10.3-ounce
  • Folgers Gourmet Selections: Vanilla Biscotti – 12-ounce
  • Folgers Gourmet Selections K-Cups Lively Colombian
  • Folgers Instant 8-ounce
  • Digital Ornament
  • Folgers Mug
  • Biscotti
  • Retail value of prize: Approximately $70.00.

  • To Enter This Gourmet Giveaway: Go to the box at the bottom of our Gourmet Coffee Section and click to enter your email address for the prize drawing.
  • After entering our giveaway, head on over to Folgers.com between now and the end of November to enter their second-annual “Home for the Holidays” Contest, where five winners will receive a seven day, six night trip for four to travel back to their hometown.
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    GOURMET GIVEAWAY: “Think Pink” Silk Scarf

    Think pink for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and drink pink, too.

    Martini & Rossi Sparkling Rosé wine, which is supporting The Pink Agenda and its breast cancer awareness efforts to raise money for research, has sponsored three lovely prizes for NIBBLE readers: a special edition “Think Pink” 100% silk scarf.

    Created specifically for The Pink Agenda’s fundraising, this limited-edition scarf has a dotted pattern that represents the bubbles in the Sparkling Rose wine. Estimated value (the scarf is not available for retail purchase): $40.00.

    A startling 1 in 8 American women develop invasive breast cancer during their lifetimes. In 2010, an estimated 207,090 new cases will be diagnosed in the U.S. alone.

    That’s reason enough to want to do something—even something small. To this end, Martini & Rossi will match your $5 donations made through the end of October. You can donate most easily via Facebook. Or, look for more information and details in local wine and liquor stores where Martini Sparkling Rose is sold.

    Show your support with a small donation and
    a stylish pink silk scarf. Photo by Leah
    Hansen | The Nibble.

  • To Enter This Gourmet Giveaway: Go to the box at the bottom of our Gourmet Wine Section and click to enter your email address for the prize drawing.
  • You and your friends can toast with Martini & Rossi Sparkling Rose for $13.99 per bottle. Visit Martini.com for more information on Martini & Rossi products.
  • Learn more about The Pink Agenda.
  • See our pink gin cocktail recipes.
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