Make that everyday chocolate brownie sparkle with Somebody’s Mother’s White Chocolate Sauce.

Often we are asked why one chocolate sauce, jam, et cetera is so much better than another. The answer starts with “better ingredients” and ends with the finesse with which one puts them together—the recipe proportions. Somebody’s Mother’s has achieved perfection here. Even if you think your own homemade chocolate sauce or caramel sauce is better, you probably won’t deny that these should be on the awards podium.

– Read reviews of more of our favorite dessert sauces and toppings.

– Get inspired by the different types of dessert sauces in our Dessert Sauce Glossary.

– Best Barbecue Sauces (we taste so many each year—these have sass and class)

– Grandville’s Barbecue Sauce (a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week, so good we eat it from the jar)

– Chocolate Barbecue Sauce Recipe (savory, made with Scharffenberger chocolate, and something guests will talk about for years)

– Barbecue Chicken Pizza Recipe (kids love it)

– Barbecue Cookbook Reviews

Celebrate Barbecue Month!

Enjoy the holiday weekend!

Friendly’s Mint Chocolate Chip Cookie Crunch and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup ice cream.

The only thing better than ice cream is FREE ice cream. Friendly Ice Cream Corp. is bringing back its Free Ice Cream Day on June 6. Customers can score a free one-scoop dish or cone of any of Friendly’s 26 ice cream flavors between noon and 5 p.m., at participating restaurants.

Friendly‘s free ice cream promotion debuted last year, when the 505-unit chain gave away more than 300,000 cones. This year, the chain plans to promote the giveaway on the Facebook and Twitter to increase its amount of exposure.

“We want to give away as much ice cream as possible,” said Ned Lidvall, Friendly’s chief executive. “We hope that by getting the word out online, a record-breaking number of people will come in.” Thanks, Friendly’s, for doing your best to be friendly during these recessionary times.

– See reviews of our favorite gourmet ice cream brands.
– What’s the difference between ice cream, French ice cream, gelato, frozen custard, etc.? See our Ice Cream Glossary.
– Enjoy the History Of Ice Cream.
– Take our Ice Cream Trivia Quiz.

Morton’s shares its wealth of information on how to cook your steak to perfection in enticing recipes such as New York Strip Roast with Three Peppercorn Sauce and Bone-in Ribeye with Rancher’s Rub. There are appetizers and classic steakhouse sides, such as Five-Onion Soup, Maine Lobster and Avocado Salad and Blue Cheese French Fries. And yes, there are recipes for those sumptuous desserts that one amazingly finds room for.

Create your own Morton’s steakhouse experience at home.

Beautifully illustrated throughout, Morton’s The Cookbook might be the Father’s Day gift you’ve been looking for, for that steak-loving dad who loves to commandeer the kitchen. You can buy it now on Amazon.com.

Rejuvenator, one of the numerous varieties of HE-BREW.

The company, Shmaltz Brewing of San Francisco, is celebrating its 13th year of beer and shtick with a special release called Jewbelation Bar Mitzvah, their 13th “Chosen Beer” in 13 years of Shmaltz. Brewed with 13 malts, 13 hops and soaring to 13% ABV, Jewbelation Bar Mitzvah will be nationally available in 22 oz. bottles and a very limited amount of draft for select bars.

While the concept may seem schmaltzy, Shmaltz’s Jewbelation series, launched in 2004, has receiving top accolades from critics, including “5 Stars” from Celebrator Beer News, “Best Holiday Beer“ from Pacific Brew News, and 97 out of 100 points for 2007’s Jewbelation Eleven from Ratebeer.com. A recent issue of Beer Advocate (Volume II, Issue VIII) commented, “Today, Jeremy Cowan of Shmaltz Brewing Company is arguably making some of the best contract-brewed beers in America.”

The beer is certified kosher, of course, by KSA. It just may be the perfect beer to serve at bar mitzvahs—to the grown-ups, of course. While Jewish law may deem the 13-year-old a man (or woman), there’s still the state liquor law to contend with.

TO ENTER:

Bar/bat mitzvah men and women (age 21+ only): Submit photos of you in your braces, awkward suits, frizzy hair, ’80s-tastic family portraits with Aunt Linda and Uncle Dan… and celebrate the day you became an adult. The “winning” photos in each of these categories will receive a HE’BREW Bar Mitzvah Gift Set and will be featured on Shmaltz’s website: “Best Hair,” “Best Family Photo,” “Most Awkward Moment,” “Youngest-Looking Adult,” “Funniest Shot,” “Best-Dressed,” “Best Braces,” and “Best Dance Moves.”