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October 16, 2009 at 7:42 am
· Filed under Entertaining, Tip Of The Day
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There’s a major holiday every month or two. No matter what the season, holiday-themed dishes perk up everyday meals as well as special dinners. If you don’t have the space or budget to buy several sets of holiday dishes (turkeys, bunnies etc.), mix-and-match colored glass or ceramic plates. Sets of eight dinner plates in four different colors—red, orange, green and blue—will take you through the entire year: red for Valentine’s Day, Independence Day and Christmas also mixes with orange and green for a fall foliage theme. The orange doubles for Halloween and Thanksgiving, the green for St. Patrick’s Day, spring, summer, and Christmas. Blue is beautiful for Chanukah and all Jewish holidays, for Easter, the blue skies of summer and Independence Day. Each family member can pick his or her favorite color for birthday dinners and other celebrations, too.
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October 15, 2009 at 9:03 am
· Filed under Coffee & Tea, Entertaining, Halloween & Fall
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Serve Constant Comment or other spiced tea
for Halloween. Photo courtesy SXC. |
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After a busy afternoon of shopping at Bloomingdale’s flagship store in New York City, we sought quiet refuge for afternoon tea at the Fitzpatrick Hotel, a scant two blocks away. The hotel is celebrating “Fitzoween” all month with a Halloween-themed tea: cinnamon spice tea, pumpkin scones and midnight chocolate double layer cake.
Make a date and invite your friends to celebrate Fitzoween—or Smithoween, or Schwartzoween, or whatever your name is. Get some Constant Comment, the original American spiced tea recipe invented by Ruth Bigelow (available in supermarkets and from BigelowTea.com). Decorate your midnight chocolate cake with candy corn or other favorite Halloween candy; or serve midnight chocolate cupcakes and provide different Halloween candies so guests can decorate their own. No one is too old to enjoy Halloween candy and chocolate cake!
- Read our review of Top Pick Of The Week Iveta Scones and try their moist pumpkins scones.
- There’s a bit of the devil in this flourless chocolate whiskey cake. You can color the white chocolate cream orange for Halloween.
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- Or go straight for the real devil’s food cake. Instead of using heart-shaped cookie cutters as this recipe calls for, to make individual “heart” cakes, use a large round cookie cutter for individual “pumpkin” cakes and decorate with Halloween candy.
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October 15, 2009 at 7:22 am
· Filed under Cookies-Cake-Pastry, Entertaining, Giftable, Tip Of The Day
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Instead of a birthday cake, consider a platter of cupcakes. Beloved by children and adults alike, they eliminate the need to cut a cake, have built-in portion control and can provide guests with their favorite flavors and special needs (chocolate or vanilla cake, different icings, some Splenda-based cupcakes for those who can’t have sugar, gluten-free cupcakes for those who can’t have wheat). If you don’t have a cake stand or cupcake holder, arrange highly decorated cupcakes on a round tray (try topping with chocolate medallions or marzipan figures). You can leave an unadorned cupcake in the center to hold the candle(s).
- Have allergic friends? Send delicious Divvies cupcakes—dairy-free and egg-free—as a gift.
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October 14, 2009 at 7:11 am
· Filed under Food Holidays, Snacks
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| It’s National Pretzel Month. What can you do to celebrate?
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We’d celebrate National Pretzel Month forever
with the incredible pretzel-covered salted
caramel bonbons from BespokeChocolates.com. |
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October 14, 2009 at 7:00 am
· Filed under Kosher Nibbles, Meat & Poultry, Tip Of The Day
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Treat your favorite meat lover (yourself?) to a gift of something meaty, new and interesting. Boar, bison, elk, emu and ostrich are readily available. Farmed, usually raised naturally and low in fat, what may sound exotic is actually sweet, tender and not in the least gamy. Cooking an unusual cut is a good reason to invite fellow food-lovers for dinner—and tell them to bring some good Burgundies!
- See our review of BlackWing Bison, a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week. Amazingly delicious, it’s also glatt kosher.
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