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TIP OF THE DAY: The Right Fluff

Today is National Fluffernutter Day, which honors the classic peanut butter and marshmallow creme sandwich. The original Marshmallow Fluff was introduced more than 75 years ago and is still made by Durkee-Mower Inc. But gourmet marshmallow cremes can be had. Our favorite, Tiny Trapeze Marshmallow Creme from Whole Foods Markets, is a must! For a special fluffernutter sandwich, cut thick slices of challah, spread with crunchy peanut butter and marshmallow creme and toast in a panini press. For a fancier fluffernutter, use slices of banana bread, or plain bread with P.B. Loco’s Jungle Banana peanut butter. For sheer opulence, use chocolate pound cake as the bread.

 

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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Crazy For Condiments

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xciting mayonnaises and mustards turn
everyday ingredients into delicious canapés.
Photo by KS Chin | IST.

We’ve fallen in love with a few products that have become part of our permanent pantry. In this Top Pick Of The Week, you’ll meet:

Marvelous Mayos

  • Baconnaise: Enjoy your BLT without the fatty bacon. This mayonnaise not only tastes like bacon, it’s certified kosher!
  • Spicy Lemonaise: Three sizzling new siblings from a prior Top Pick Of The Week, The Ojai Cook Lemonaise line. Pick your heat: Cha Cha Chipotle, Fire & Spice (cayenne and cumin) and Green Dragon (wasabi). The line is certified kosher.

Mighty Mustards

  • Boar’s Head Pepperhouse Gourmaise: The entire NIBBLE staff is addicted to this peppery deli mustard, mayonnaise and horseradish blend.
  • FungusAmongUs Truffle Mustard. There’s 6% black truffle in this gourmet delight. It’s a wee bit of luxury.
Swell Sweeties

  • Mount Cabot Maple Syrup: This organic, unblended maple syrup from New Hampshire may start a demand for single-origin maple syrups.
  • Shootflying Hill Salty Butterscotch Dessert Sauce: Like salted caramel candy? Now you can have it in a dessert sauce.

All make great small gifts and stocking stuffers. Read more in the full review.

 

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TIP OF THE DAY: White Truffle Pizza

It’s National Pizza Month. There’s no reason not to have your own pizza festival at home—it’s easy to make gourmet pizzas! Start with a flat pizza crust like Boboli and top it with fresh sliced mozzarella and truffle cheese (available at fine cheese stores). Add fresh mushrooms: Pass by the white button mushrooms and go for the more flavorful wild varieties (see our Mushroom Glossary). Bake until golden brown and slightly bubbling. Sprinkle with chopped fresh basil, and for more truffle flavor, drizzle with white truffle oil prior to serving.

 

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PRODUCT: More Gluten-Free Whole Grain Chex

Look at two of the hottest food trends—whole grain and gluten-free. Every one of us needs more whole grain in our diet, and one out of 133 people have celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder that requires a gluten-free diet. (Still more have simple wheat allergies.)

Corn and rice, among other grains, are naturally gluten free. Chex cereals is the first mainstream, gluten-free cereal line, with Rice Chex, Corn Chex and new gluten-free Honey Nut Chex, Chocolate Chex and Cinnamon Chex.

We recently sat down with a box of “Simply Nutritious Honey Nut Chex With A Touch Of Honey.” WIth 8g or more of whole grain per serving, it is a healthier sweet treat than almost any other processed sweet treat (doughnut, breakfast pastry, raisin bagel), and nicely crunchy, eaten on the go from a plastic snack-size bag. We enjoy it.

But as we spend out days scrutinizing words and labels, we have two questions:

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The new version of Honey Nut Chex is gluten-free and made of corn.

  • “Honey Nut Chex With A Touch Of Honey?” (Italics ours.) Let’s send that one to the Department of Redundancy Department.
  • Honey Nut?Where are the nuts? (Competitors, note: This could become the next “Where’s the beef?”) There are no nuts in this cereal. So we looked at the package ingredients. Last on the list: natural almond flavor. You can’t taste any almond flavor.

This recalled our favorite Abraham Lincoln quote: “You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” We don’t know if there were ever nuts in Honey Nut Chex, but has anyone else noticed they’re missing?

 

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Gourmet Giveaway: Cheese & Burger Society T-Shirts

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Ten winners will be “inducted” into the Cheese & Burger Society as winners of these handsome shirts. Photo courtesy of the Cheese & Burger Society.

What could be better than a hamburger? A cheeseburger, of course! In this week’s Gourmet Giveaway, The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board’s Cheese & Burger Society is giving away a T-shirt that lets you proudly proclaim your love of cheeseburgers as a member of the Cheese & Burger Society (you don’t have to do anything to be a member except EAT THOSE CHEESEBURGERS).

Take a look at some of the Society’s fabulous cheeseburger recipes to get some great ideas for serving an American classic in a more sizzling way. Read the bullet below to find out how to enter to win this week’s prize. There will be 10 winners; the T-shirts come in two sizes: men’s large and women’s large.

  • To enter this week’s Gourmet Giveaway: Visit THE NIBBLE’S Gourmet Beef Section and click on the link at the bottom of the page. Enter your email address for the Gourmet Giveaway prize drawing by noon Eastern Time on Monday, October 12. Good luck!
  • Check out some of our favorite Wisconsin cheeses.

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