Enter to win this grab bag of goodies! Photo courtesy Stonyfield.
If you have yet to taste Greek yogurt, you don’t know what you’re missing. Greek yogurt is thicker, richer and creamier than European-style yogurt. Not only does it have twice the protein of regular yogurt, fewer carbs and less lactose, but it’s easier to cook with because it’s less likely to curdle when heated.
This week’s Gourmet Giveaway winner will have 20 chances to try Greek yogurt either right out of the cup or in recipes. Stonyfield is giving away 20 vouchers good for their line of Oikos Organic Greek Yogurt along with other yogurt-related goodies. (Read our review of Oikos Yogurt, which has 0% fat and is certified organic and kosher.)
The prize allows our winner to either enjoy the Oikos line of flavors—which includes plain, blueberry, honey, strawberry and vanilla—right out of the cup, or incorporate them into recipes using Stonyfield’s cookbook and recipe collection. Plus, he or she will look good doing it if they also don the Oikos T-shirt while cooking!
THE PRIZE: One winner will receive vouchers good for 20 5.3-ounce cups of Oikos Organic Greek Yogurt; an Oikos cooking spatula, recipe collection and T-shirt made with 100% organic cotton; and a Stonyfield yogurt cookbook—all inside a Stonyfield reusable shopping bag. Approximate retail value: Nearly $100.00.
To Enter This Gourmet Giveaway: Go to the box at the bottom of our Yogurt Section and enter your email address for the prize drawing. This contest closes on Monday, January 25th at noon, Eastern Time. Good luck!
From the name, blood oranges should be in season at Halloween. But these wonders are in stores right now. Even our local supermarket has them!
They look exactly like regular oranges on the outside, but their inside flesh is a deep rosy red color; and the flavor is a cross between orange and raspberry—some people call them “raspberry oranges.”
Whatever you call them, be sure you buy some before the season is over. Eat them for breakfast instead of grapefruit (or squeeze them for heavenly juice); add them to fruit salads, green salads, and seafood and chicken salads for beautiful color and flavor; use sections to garnish grilled fish or create a concasse; enjoy them for dessert and snacks; and make a memorable blood orange sorbet (Ciao Bella has one available year-round).
Blood Orange Sorbetto from Ciao Bella is available year-round. It can be purchased online at IceCreamSource.com. For your nearest retailer, call 1.800.GELATO.3.
Raspberry-colored flesh and raspberry flavor nuances make blood oranges a very special fruit. Photo by Josiah Gordon.
Thick water buffalo yogurt from The Woodstock
Water Buffalo Company is richer and sweeter than
yogurt from cow, sheep or goat milk. Photo by Katrina Brown | IST.
If you’re lactose-intolerant, or have guests who are, it’s generally due to the larger protein molecules in cow’s milk.
Goat’s milk and sheep’s milk have smaller, more easily digestible molecules. Offer those cheeses along with mozzarella di bufala, from water buffalo’s milk.
The same principle applies to yogurt. Redwood Farms (goat), Old Chatham Sheepherding Company (sheep) and FAGE Total (sheep) make delicious yogurts, as does Spoondance Creamery (formerly Woodstock Water Buffalo Yogurt).
See all of our favorite cheeses, including a cheese glossary, the history of cheese and cheese recipes.
If you have an unopened bottle of spirits, it can last for years.
But except for collector wines that need bottle age, most wines are meant to be drunk within a year: otherwise, they deteriorate. If you’re not sure about a wine you own, ask at your local wine store.
You don’t need a special occasion to open a nice bottle of wine. If you don’t have enough participation to finish the bottle in an evening, use a wine preservative and enjoy it over a week.
If you have no one to share that fine wine with,
enjoy it yourself. Use a preservative spray to
keep the remainder fresh for a few days or a week until you can finish the bottle.
We’re Fig-Sated on this healthy dried fruit
and nut snack: apricots, dates, figs, almond
and pistachios. Photo by Naheed Choudhry.
It’s easy to keep healthy, tasty foods at work to snack on. The temptation to grab for fat- and sugar-loaded foods can be offset with a little planning.
Pack a drawer with palate-pleasers like delicious teas, fine low-sugar or sugar-free spreads and peanut butters, and 35-calorie crispbreads like Wasa.
Peeled Snacks dried fruit and nut mixes are a nutritious snack that hits the spot any time of the day.
