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July 30, 2009 at 7:22 am
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| Do you have happy ketchup memories….great cookouts, playing vampire with ketchup “blood,” the first time you made dinner for your parents? Share your memories, and maybe you’ll be one of the 57 who win a Growing Wholesome Memories Kit, with a digital camera to capture new family memories. The kit includes actress Josie Bissett’s book, Making Memories, Heinz Ketchup, kitchenware, recipes, HeinzSeeds, garden tools and more. Estimated value: $250. Entries are due by 8/31/09.
Visit the Heinz website for contest rules and to enter your memory. For each memory received, Heinz will make a donation to the National Gardening Association, a nonprofit organization that works to sustain the connection between people, plants and the environment through gardening.
- Check out THE NIBBLE’s reviews of 42 different ketchups. Some are so wonderful, we recommend them as gifts.
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If you’ve got the memories, you could
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Heinz Ketchup Trivia:
- Once advertised as the “slowest ketchup in the West,” Heinz Ketchup exits the glass bottle at 0.028 miles per hour.
- The secret to releasing the ketchup more quickly from the glass bottle: Apply a firm tap to the “57” on the neck of the bottle.
- The company no longer makes green ketchup—only red.
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July 30, 2009 at 6:59 am
· Filed under Tip Of The Day
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If you buy store-made salads—tuna, chicken, egg, potato and macaroni salad, cole slaw and others— there’s generally room for improvement.
Add little bits of one or more accents, and you’ll have a vastly improved product.
Select two or three seasonings to layer flavor. Examples:
Cheese: blue cheese or feta crumbles or a garnish of shredded cheese of choice.
Chopped nuts: almonds, peanuts, pecans, pistachios.
Diced onion for flavor.
Diced celery for crunch.
Dried celery seed or toasted sesame seed for nuance.
Fresh tarragon, chives, basil or parsley for fresh herb flavor.
Heat: chili flakes, minced chiles.
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Turn store-bought cole slaw into something more flavorful (here’s the recipe for this slaw from Epicurious). |
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Fruit: diced apple, dried cherries or blueberries, raisins, sliced grapes, mango or pineapple.
Lemon or lime zest or a squeeze of lemon or lime for spark.
Shredded carrots or diced red bell pepper for color.
Tablespoon of capers, Dijon mustard, vinegar or wasabi for spice or tang.
It’s that easy!
Read more about seasonings and spices.
Get inspired to make your own salads. Find some new salad recipes.
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July 29, 2009 at 7:02 am
· Filed under Fish-Seafood-Caviar, Recipes
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From the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to your lunch
box: the Waldorf tuna salad. Photo courtesy of StarKist. |
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Waldorf Salad was created in 1896 by Oscar Tschirky, the maître d’hôtel (dining room manager) of New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Containing only apples, celery and mayonnaise on a bed of lettuce, it was an instant hit. Chopped walnuts were later added to the recipe, and subsequent variations included grapes. You can update this old-fashioned favorite of the “ladies who lunch” by adding tuna, which gives it universal appeal. Here’s a quick recipe from StarKist. Prep Time: 10 Minutes. Serves 2.
Ingredients
– 2 cans (4 ounces) tuna, drained and chunked (or one 6.4-ounce pouch or two 2.6-ounce pouches)
– 2 tablespoon lemon juice
– 1/3 cup raisins
– 1/2 cup mayonnaise
– 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
– 3 apples, medium, cored and cubed
– 1 cup celery, chopped
– 1/3 cup walnuts or pecans, chopped
– 1/4 cup milk
– Lettuce leaves |
Directions
1. In a large bowl, toss together apples and lemon juice. Add celery, raisins, walnuts and tuna; toss gently.
2. In a medium bowl, combine mayonnaise, milk, and cinnamon; blend well. Pour dressing over apple-tuna mixture; toss gently to coat.
3. Serve over greens.
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July 29, 2009 at 7:01 am
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| If you’ve got an original, very tasty and easy-to-make recipe that uses mustard, hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce or another French’s product, French’s Foods invites you to submit it to the 2009 Cook-Off for your shot at the grand prize of $25,000 and a 6-month supply of French’s products. Five finalists, determined by online voters and a panel of judges, will compete in a live cook-off to be held in New York City.
The four runners-up will each receive a new 7-quart Cuisinart Stand Mixer (we’re dying for one—the SRP is $725) and a 6-month supply of French’s products. Alas, food writers and other food professionals (chefs, restaurateurs and recipe developers) are not eligible to enter.
All submissions must be entered by October 31, 2009, so click over to Frenchs.com for details. |
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Will your recipe take home the 2009 $25,000 grand prize? |
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July 29, 2009 at 7:00 am
· Filed under Ice Cream-Sorbet-Yogurt, Top Pick Of The Week
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Jeni’s uses fresh, local ingredients such as ripe summer strawberries in its Strawberry Buttermilk
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July is National Ice Cream Month. We began the month with Ruby et Violette’s cookie dough ice creams; we’re ending it with two more all-stars: Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams in Columbus, Ohio and Silver Moon Desserts in Los Gatos, California (Silicon Valley, south of San Francisco). Each is very distinctive and worth the treat of having it shipped to wherever you happen to be. Jeni’s focuses on local and organic seasonal ingredients, Silver Moon on liqueur-flavored ice cream and sorbet.
If sending away for ice cream sounds unusual to you, it’s no different from mail ordering Riviera pears from Harry & David in Oregon, chocolate from Larry Burdick in New Hampshire or USDA prime beef from Allen Brothers in Chicago. Sure, you can get a decent pear, box of chocolate or steak in your town, but when you want a special treat, get it from the best source possible. |
So if you adore, luxuriate in, relish, revel in and savor ice cream as we do—or know someone who would rather get a gift of ice cream than, say, that box of pears or steak—read about two very special ice cream artisans—individuals or duos whose passion for the best ice cream led them to set up shop and make it themselves.
- Read more about Jeni’s and Silver Moon ice cream and their wonderful, creative flavors in the full review.
- See another of our favorite artisan ice cream makers, Ciao Bella (also a Top Pick Of The Week).
- This week’s Top Pick ice creams may come in interesting varieties, but take a look at these extreme ice cream flavors.
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