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RECIPE: Tuna, Egg & Chicken Salad Almondine

Add 4 ounces of slivered almonds to tuna, egg and chicken salads for a crunchy gourmet twist. Use fresh herbs: Snip basil, chives, cilantro, dill or parsley into your salad for more great flavor with no added calories. Another tip—use a great mayonnaise like those from The Ojai Cook, a Top Pick Of The Week. Its delicious Lemonaise is redolent of lemon and gentle spice, which layers more flavor into the salad. Lemonaise Light has half the calories, but you can use half mayonnaise, half fat-free yogurt to cut down on the calories, too.

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Lemonaise is a mainstay dressing in THE NIBBLE kitchen.

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TIP OF THE DAY: Just Peachy—It’s National Peach Month

August is National Peach Month. If you normally enjoy a Mimosa (Champagne and orange juice), try a Bellini instead. It’s white peach purée and Prosecco, a sparkling Italian wine. Many specialty stores sell white peach purée, or you can order it online from Perfect Purée of Napa Valley, a a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week. If you can’t get your hands on the peach purée quickly enough, you can make it. Boil 3/4 pound ripe peaches (preferably white) with 1/2 cup water, 1/2 cup lemon juice and 2 teaspoons sugar. Peaches are delicious now!

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PRODUCT: Award Winning Olive Oil, 20% Discount

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Go for the gold: Try this year’s gold medal
winner in the Tuscan olive oil category.

Lovers of Tuscan olive oil: Cafaggio Extra Virgin Olive Oil was just awarded the Gold Medal at the 2009 Los Angeles County Fair. We haven’t tasted it, but Cafaggio has been described by its importer, Gustiamo (which sources the most delicious specialty items from Italy) as full-on-the-tongue, pleasantly pungent, clean and smooth. It’s pleasantly spicy with a touch of artichoke flavor and grassiness. They suggest that it is excellent on salads and grilled meats.

Tenuta Cafaggio is located in Impruneta, the Tuscan hill town between the valleys of the Greve and Ema Rivers that is famous for its terracotta. The local clay is imbued with valuable minerals necessary to create the highest-quality terracotta products. During the Renaissance, the rich and powerful Medici family used Impruneta terracotta to decorate their palace gardens.

The earth evidently creates some magic in olives as well. Hand-picked Frantoio, Moraiolo and Leccino olives are blended by Tenuta Cafaggio to create an extra virgin olive oil of low acidity. A .500 liter/16.9 ounce bottle of the Cafaggio Extra Virgin Olive Oil New Harvest 2008/2009 is $42.00, and would make a nice gift for an olive oil connoisseur.

You can get a 20% discount until August 15th, or until supplies last, at Gustiamo.com. Type the words “Los Angeles” in the Special Instructions box of the shopping cart to get the discount. Gustiamo advises, “We have a stupid shopping cart and the discount is not reflected in your automatic order confirmation. Do not worry: it will be reflected on your bill and credit card charge!”

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TIP OF THE DAY: Super Shellfish

Today is National Oyster Day, so feast on a few. Oysters are chock full of protein and are low in calories. Oysters on the half shell make a great first course with Champagne or Chablis. Buy the largest, freshest oysters you can find and shuck them right before serving. Serve them with fresh lemon wedges. Very fresh oysters need nothing more (in fact, we don’t even use the lemon wedges!), but you can make mignonette sauce (there’s a recipe in our Oyster Glossary) or cocktail sauce by mixing ketchup with prepared (bottled) grated horseradish like Gold’s (find it in the grocer’s refrigerator case).

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GOURMET GIVEAWAY: Enter To Win GoPicnic Meals & Tree Top Trim Gift Baskets

This week’s Gourmet Giveaway is great for two particular groups:

PRIZE #1: Parents, people on the go or people who deal with groups. You’ll want to enter to win GoPicnic meals. These attractive and convenient boxed meals are made of individual fun snacks such as tortilla chips and salsa, hummus and pita chips, tuna and crackers, edamame (soy bean snacks), almonds and a sweet treat (such as dried apricots, Mrs. Mays Nut Crunch or a Larabar)—all totally portable. More than 20 choices including gluten free, vegetarian, kosher and halal. Great for travel, keeping a healthy food stash at work, meetings and general grab & go.

PRIZES #2, 3 & 4: Calorie counters. You’ll want to enter to win one of 3 gift baskets from Tree Top Trim. Each 60-calorie, 8-ounce can contains one whole fruit serving plus nutrients that naturally help curb the appetite and promote a healthy metabolism. Flavors of this functional beverage include Kiwi Strawberry, Mango Peach, Pomegranate Blackberry and Tangerine Pineapple. Find out more about Tree Top Trim.

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Three winners will receive gift baskets of
Tree Top Trim: low calorie energy in three fruit flavors. Photo by Corey Lugg | THE NIBBLE.

As the saying goes, you’ve got to be in it to win it.

  • Enter the Gourmet Giveaway! Simply give us your email (for the purpose of prize drawing only—privacy guaranteed) by 6 a.m. ET, Monday, August 10, 2009.

 

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