• Keep cool with these iced coffee tips and recipes.

This week’s prize: A healthy gift basket
from Smucker’s. Denise Austin workout video
included but not shown in photo. Retail value $80.00.

Tearful letters were received last winter when we suspended the Gourmet Giveaway because the company that sponsored the prizes was sold. But it’s back now in a new and simpler form that will please some folks, because there’s no weekly trivia quiz to take before you enter. All you have to do is go to a page on TheNibble.com related to the contest (this week it’s a reduced-calorie recipe made with Smucker’s Fruit Spread), click the link on the bottom of the page and enter your email address. It’s that simple. To those of you who loved those food trivia quizzes: they’re still available to take, over and over again, and we promise to have some new ones down the road.

And rest assured, there’s no spamming. If you aren’t selected as the winner, your address will be discarded.

If you like to take quizzes and polls, you can take a weekly poll on our new Facebook Fan Page—just a quickie, one-question poll. And, there will be special Gourmet Giveaway prizes for Facebook Fans only. These blog posts are also streamed to the Facebook Fan page, along with our Tweets, so consider it a major stop for NIBBLE social media channels.

• Check out this week’s Gourmet Giveaway, a healthy food picnic basket and Denise Austin workout video, sponsored by Smucker’s.
• Join THE NIBBLE Facebook Fan Page for extra opportunities to win food prizes—we’re saving some of the choicest morsels for our BFFs (best Facebook Fans).

The steamer is dishwasher safe and $13.00 at WmBoundsLtd.com. William Bounds also makes lovely pepper mills and salt mills (to grind sea salt).

• See more of our favorite kitchen gadgets.

The “better” vegetable steamer has a cool
silicone handle and no-scratch silicone feet.

• Read about our favorite dessert toppings.

Flexible FireWire grilling skewers are practical, efficient and fun.

Conventional steel skewers eventually rust and wooden skewers are one-time use; stainless steel Firewires last a lifetime. While you can’t hold the FireWire and nibble your food upright as you can with a conventional ten-inch skewer, the fun of flexibility more than compensates.