Black truffle butter and white truffle
butter on bread: a heavenly snack! Photo by
Melody Lan | THE NIBBLE.
Another way to enjoy truffles for the holidays—and every day of the year—is with truffle butter.
D’Artagnan’s truffle butter is our favorite little indulgence. For the price of a cocktail, you can have a three-ounce tub of precious, sweet butter, chock-full of black or white truffle pieces. It’s as satisfying as a truffle dish.
We spread it on French rolls or a fresh baguette and are ecstatic. Try it as an hors d’oeuvre with wine.
Or, toss truffle butter with angel hair pasta, add it to a baked potato and butter your vegetables. Put a tablespoon in sauces and create masterpieces. You’ll be in truffle heaven for about $10.
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Truffle season is upon us, and black winter truffles will be coming into the market soon. If you’re jonesing for the heady aroma and taste of black truffles, but going out for a plate of truffled pasta isn’t an affordable fix, look for a jar of truffle peelings and make your own special dinner entrée or first course.
The peelings are the shaved outer layer of the whole truffle. They’re easy to find online; MarxFoods.com sells them. They may seem costly, but compare $85.00 or so for 8 ounces compared to more than $100 for one ounce of fresh black winter truffles.
1. Toss angel hair pasta with fine unsalted butter or truffle butter and the peelings—and use one of your nicest plates. A hearty red wine is a perfect companion.
2. You also can use the peelings in sauces, scrambled eggs and mashed potatoes or as garnishes.
Be careful—it could become a habit!
Discover our favorite truffle butter, a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week, from D’Artagnan.
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kitchen this year? Check ‘em out! No, not
these! Photo by Luca Baroncini | SXC.
Here’s the first of our kitchen gift lists: Kitchen Gifts Under $35. In fact, some are as inexpensive as under-$10 stocking stuffers!
These gifts aren’t necessarily glamorous, but they’re the most useful items we tested this year. In fact, 90% of the products we test are donated to good causes. We liked these on our “gift list” so much that we kept them as part of THE NIBBLE’s test kitchen.
Take a look to see what we “gave ourselves” as gifts this year.
