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RECIPES: Soup Garnishes

It doesn’t take much to turn a bowl of carrot
soup into something glamorous. Here, a swirl of
heavy cream, a parsley sprig and some gourmet
flatbread from Top Pick Of The Week Rustic
Bakery
do the trick.

Take a minute to garnish, and a bowl of soup will never be “just a bowl of soup” again. Just use one or more of these garnish groups, mixing and matching as appropriate for the recipe:

Bread: Artisan bread, crackers, croutons, flatbread, pita, toast

Dairy: Crème fraîche, grated/shaved cheese, heavy cream, sour cream, yogurt, quark

Herbs & Spices: Fresh herbs taste best, but dried herbs as a backup

Fruit: Apple slices, dried berries and cherries, fresh berries, grapes, lemon and lime slices, melon balls, pear slices, diced pineapple

Vegetables: Cooked or raw to match the soup, e.g. a broccoli floret or carrot slice atop broccoli or carrot soup

Read the full article, with suggestions for 21 different soups.

Find garnish ideas for other types of food in our article, Garnish Glamour.

Shirataki Noodles

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VALENTINE’S DAY GIFTS: VDay Minus 8 ~ Low-Calorie Heart-Shaped Muffins

Send your favorite dieter Vitalicious 100-calorie, heart shaped chocolate muffins; and enter for a chance to win a Tiffany diamond pendant at http://vitalicious.com/store.html. The chocolate muffins, available year-round in standard muffin shape and muffin tops, are quite tasty for diet food.

– Read our review of Vitalicious Muffins.

– Find more of our favorite diet products in the Diet Nibbles section of TheNibble.com.

Vitalicious Heart


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CONTEST: Win A Year Of Chocolate

Bridge Brands’ “Chocolate By Numbers” collection.

The San Francisco Chocolate Factory has changed its name to Bridge Brands Chocolate. To commemorate the new name and the company’s ninth anniversary, one lucky person will win a year’s supply of chocolate.

But you have to tell the company why you deserve all that chocolate, by sending in a 600-word (more or less) true account of how you have used chocolate to “bridge the gap” between friends, lovers…or anyone else. Did you give a box of chocolate to a first date? Share a slice of chocolate cake on a wedding anniversary? Made peace after an argument with a chocolate milkshake?

Entries are due by February 10th. Winners will be announced on February 14th, Valentine’s Day. Runners up will receive gift sets of Bridge Brands chocolate. Enter your story at http://bridgebrandschocolate.com.

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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Ruby et Violette Chocolate Chunk Seduction Cookies

We’ve been seduced by many of the Top Picks Of The Week, but Ruby et Violette’s “Seduction” chocolate chunk cookies at least give fair warning. After we devoured the cookies in record time, THE NIBBLE staff unanimously decided to give a box to our significant others for Valentine’s Day—just so we could have another opportunity to devour them all over again!

The brainstorm of Heather Sue Mercer, whose repertoire includes more than 100 flavors of chocolate chunk cookies, Seduction comprises nine chocolate cookies with different combinations of dark chocolate chunks and flavors: banana/toffee, caramel, cream cheese, curry, ginger, mint, sea salt, toffee and “plain” chocolate chunk. The flavors can be ordered individually or in any combination you like (we bought one of each) and are packaged in a beautiful “keeper” box.

Yet, rich as the cookies may sound, the recipes are so perfectly crafted that you can eat all nine flavors (or at least divide each one among your colleagues) without needing so much as a glass of milk. That’s great baking!

Go bananas with Primal Seduction: bananas
dipped in peanut butter and toffee with white
chocolate chunks.

With this Top Pick, Ruby et Violette takes the gold medal as the only three-peat Top Pick Of The Week winner (check out the rainbow of chocolate chunk cookies and the gorgeous brownies). And Heather’s Sue’s phenomenal ice cream is earmarked for Top Pick number four.

Read the full review, and let the seduction begin!

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VALENTINE’S DAY GIFTS: VDay Minus 9 ~ Red Velvet Heart With Artisan Chocolates

Chokola'j Chocolates

We love the fine hand of Susan Kennedy at Chokola’j. Serving a discriminating Hamptons crowd, her chocolates are a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week.

There’s even free 3-day domestic shipping on orders of $50 or more (enter code VDAYSHIP at checkout)—not just on Valentine’s gifts but on all of her delicious products, through February 28, 2009. Go to ChokolajChocolate.com or call 1-631-874-2674.

Read our review of Chokola’j, made of local and organic ingredients.

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