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TIP OF THE DAY: Mascarpone For Dessert

Earlier this year we wrote about a rich and elegant dessert that couldn’t be easier: biscotti served with mascarpone.

With lush summer fruit abounding, switch it up. Serve berries or sliced fruit with mascarpone.

You can serve the fruit simply on a plate, topped with mascarpone and a mint leaf for garnish. Or, get festive with a parfait or sundae dish, layered with pistachio nuts, chocolate chips or other favorite garnishes.

A side of biscotti, tuiles or rolled wafer cookies (flutes) are always welcome.

  • Learn about mascarpone—called “Italian cream cheese” but so much better! You’ll also discover other fresh cheeses.
  • Find more of our favorite desserts in our Gourmet Desserts Section.

A mascarpone sundae: mascarpone with
fresh fruit. Photo courtesy WisDairy.com.

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FOOD TRAVEL: Seattle Culinary Arts Show

Pick up tips from some 20 chef demos.
Photo courtesy Seattle Food & Culinary Arts
Show.

Planning a visit to Seattle? You might want to consider the weekend of November 20-21. You’ll be able to take in the Seattle Food and Culinary Arts Show, highlighting the best of Northwest cuisine.

  • Held at the Key Arena, 100+ exhibitors will provide tastings and sell products just in time for holiday shopping.
  • The area’s top chefs will conduct cooking demonstrations and share recipes.
  • You can take a break in the Wine, Beer and Spirits Lounge and stroll through the Hall of Cakes.

 

For more information, visit the show‘s website.

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GOURMET GIVEAWAY: Van Harden Cheese Crust Pizza

Cheese lovers: this Gourmet Giveaway prize is for you, even if you’re not counting carbs or steering clear of gluten.

Van Harden offers frozen pizzas in three varieties with no bread crust whatsoever. The crust is made from cheese that’s thin and soft with a delightfully slightly burnt-cheesy taste. Choose any five pies from among:

  • Cheese Pizza
  • Pepperoni Pizza
  • Sausage Pizza (the best seller)

Although the great benefit of Van Harden’s Pizza is a crust made of cheese instead of wheat, just about anyone will enjoy these gluten-free treats. Read our review.

  • THE PRIZE: One winner will receive five of Van Harden’s pizzas. Invite friends on the Atkins diet or those who avoid gluten to join you, or keep them all for yourself—no one will blame you! Retail value: Approximately $50.00.
  • To Enter This Gourmet Giveaway: Go to the box at the bottom of our Gourmet Pasta, Pizza & Pasta Sauce Section and click to enter your email address for the prize drawing. This contest closes on Monday, August 23rd at noon, Eastern Time. Good luck!

Van Harden’s pizza comes in three varieties:
pepperoni, sausage and cheese. Photo by Erika Meller | THE NIBBLE.

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FOOD HOLIDAY: Celebrate National Rum Day

Celebrate with a Mojito. Photo by Paul
Johnson | IST.

Quick: Name a cocktail with rum.

Did you say rum and coke, a.k.a. a Cuba Libre? If so, we’d like to recommend our favorite way to enjoy rum: in a Mojito!

The mojito, another Cuban cocktail, dates to 300 years before the advent of carbonated cola drinks (which happened in May, 1886).

According to Bacardi Rum, the drink can be traced to 1586, when Sir Francis Drake and his pirates unsuccessfully attempted to sack Havana for its gold. His associate, Richard Drake, was said to have invented a mojito-like cocktail known as El Draque that was made with aguardiente, a crude forerunner of rum, sugar, lime and mint. Around the mid-1800s, when the Bacardi Company was established, rum was substituted and the cocktail became known as a Mojito. The name comes from the African voodoo term mojo, to cast a small spell.

Celebrate August 16, National Rum Day, with a Mojito. Here’s the recipe.

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TIP OF THE DAY: Don’t Forget The Peaches

August is National Peach Month: Through the end of the month fresh peaches are at their juiciest.

If you haven’t been enjoying the seasonal bounty, grab ‘em before they’re gone.

Our favorite summer joy is peach ice cream. It’s dropped off the radar of most commercial manufacturers, but well worth the trouble to make from scratch.

Fragrant, juicy, delicious peaches. Photo
by Alaina Cherup | SXC.

Find more of our favorite fruits, tips and recipes in our Gourmet Fruits Section.

Shopping note: Don’t buy more than you can use: Peaches ripen very quickly.

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