Ice cream slides off the scoop. Available at Amazon.com.
Just as with any kitchen tool, the right ice cream scoop makes your life easier.
We had five different ice cream scoops acquired over the years. Our challenge was getting the ball of ice cream to release from the scoop.
The ice cream scoops with the triggers and spring actions didn’t work for us. The classic style used in ice cream parlors, favored by Mom, wasn’t effective either (she’s a lot stronger than we are).
Apparently, quite a few other people have the sticking problem. So Norpro created its Nonstick Anti-Freeze Ice Cream Scoop. Plastic instead of metal, it cuts through hard ice cream and just as easily releases the balls into the dish. It costs less than metal scoops—just $6.55 at Amazon.com.
Invite friends over for ice cream to try your new scoop. Have everyone bring their scoops and call it “research.”
Find our favorite ice cream brands, ice cream glossary and recipes in our Gourmet Ice Cream Section.
August 21, 2010 at 7:32 am
· Filed under Beverages
We celebrated National Lemonade yesterday by trying the flavors of New Leaf Lemonade.
The company makes bottled tea, lemonade and a lemonade-tea mix with an emphasis on all-natural flavors. The sweetener is organic cane sugar rather than high fructose corn syrup.
The 17 New Leaf options include four lemonades: Black Cherry, Homemade (Original), Strawberry and Tiger, a half lemonade/half tea blend (also known as an Arnold Palmer, after the golf great who popularized it).
People who do not enjoy the tartness of traditional lemonade will be pleased by the smooth lemoniness of New Leaf. It’s made to be as gentle as a soft drink, with almost no hint of ascorbic acid—even though the products are made with lemon juice concentrate.
It’s easy to tell which of the New Leaf bottles is lemonade: Look for the stripes on the bottle!
If you’re looking for a bottled tea, New Leaf will oblige with:
Black Tea in Lime and Mint, Sweet Tea and Unsweetened
Green Tea in Ginseng and Honey, Mango and Plum
White Tea in Honeydew and Strawberry
Lemonade turns over a new leaf. Photo
by Katharine Pollak | THE NIBBLE.
Blue Tea (oolong) in Lemon, Peach, Raspberry, Diet Lemon and Diet Peach
Celebrate National Lemonade Day. Photo and recipe courtesy Smirnoff.com.
Celebrate National Lemonade Day, August 20th, with adult lemonade. You’ll love this recipe from Smirnoff Vodka; we made it even more blueberry by adding fresh blueberry purée.
In addition to Smirnoff Blueberry Flavored Vodka, you can find Stoli Blueberi, Pinnacle Blueberry and other brands.
BLUEBERRY LEMONADE COCKTAIL
Ingredients For 1 Drink
3 ounces lemonade
1.5 ounces blueberry flavored vodka
Optional: 1-2 ounces blueberry purée
3 blueberries for garnish
Ice
Preparation
1. FILL a tall glass with ice. Add vodka, lemonade and optional blueberry purée. Stir well.
2. Garnish with fresh blueberries.
Find more of our favorite cocktails by clicking the Cocktails & Spirits link in the column at right; and also check Cocktails & Spirits Section on TheNibble.com.
Le Caramel is a new company with a line of caramel products based on recipes from Normandy. There are currently four products:
Caramel sauce (called Caramel Cream) in salted vanilla or chocolate
Caramel candies made with salted butter or chocolateThe candies and creams (sauces) are made in California in the traditional French method, slowly cooked in small batches in a copper kettle.
Our favorite in the line is the Chocolate Caramel Cream. It isn’t easy to find chocolate caramel sauce.
You can learn more and purchase products at Le-Caramel.com.
Our favorite mixing bowls are available
at Amazon.com.
Some of the mixing bowls on the market are so good-looking, they can go straight to table. There’s no need to use (and wash) a separate “serving dish.”
We use these stacked melamine bowls in THE NIBBLE kitchen. Who cares that they have a spout: They add bright color to the table when filled with salad, pasta, soup, sides and especially, chips, popcorn and other snacks.
Stainless steel, glass and ceramic (pottery) mixing bowls also do handsome double duty at the table.
If you need to give a house gift to new homeowners, give them something they’ll really use. Consider a set of good-looking mixing bowls. Check out:
