December 20, 2008 at 9:31 am
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If you have time on your hands over the holidays, you might want to pit your skills against other avocado lovers and create a short video that demonstrates your favorite way to enjoy the luscious green fruit (yes, avocados are a stone fruit—they grow on a tree, like peaches, plums and nectarines). You can create a half-time show, demonstrate your recipe, sing an avocado song or do “Romeo and Juliette” as avocados. The deadline to enter is January 8—so you can enjoy a lot of guacamole between now and then (and many other recipes that use avocado at AvocadoFiesta.com). If you have no creative talents, you can JUDGE and potentially win a cash prize.
Will your avocado video score a touchdown…and $5,000?
– The grand prize winner takes home $5,000.
– Four finalists win $1,000.
– All eligible entrants get a contest tee shirt.
– The VOTERS who vote for the winners are entered in a daily random drawing for $100. It’s about time the voters are eligible for something!
It may be a bleak holiday season with a lot of space in the stocking and under the tree, but if thoughts of a kitchen makeover would warm your hearth, you have until December 31, 2008 to enter the Pillsbury Make America Sweeter contest. Pillsbury invites you to share how you can make things a little sweeter with Pillsbury cake, brownies, quickbread, frostings or flours. You don’t have to submit a recipe—just share a story of 100 words or less and a photo or video that illustrates your story. The winner will receive a $5,000 kitchen makeover; runners-up will receive products from KitchenAid and Pillsbury. Perhaps best of all, a $5,000 donation will be made to Feeding America, to help feed Americans whose lives are truly bleak.
Wondering what to serve your guests for dessert on Christmas? Here, we have two holiday-themed cake recipes sure to impress. You can serve one on Christmas Eve and one Christmas Day.
The Black Forest Cake is a chocolate layer cake, with added layers of whipped cream and Kirsch-soaked morello cherries. The cake is then decorated with more whipped cream, morello or maraschino cherries, and chocolate curls or shavings. The cake layers are also soaked in a Kirsch syrup (although brandy or rum can be used). The spirits can also be omitted to make the cake more family-friendly.
The Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Cake is sure to make ‘em smile when you bring it out. Each slice of this fun cake looks like Rudolph. In fact, don’t be surprised if everyone breaks into a chorus of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer.
If you’re doing holiday shopping this weekend in the vicinity of a Morton’s steakhouse—there are 80 worldwide—take a break from 5 to 6 p.m. for a complimentary mini-cheeseburger at the bar. You’ll be celebrating the 30th birthday of Morton’s The Steakhouse.
It’s the burger that started Morton’s. Co-founders Klaus Fritsch and Arnie Morton first worked together at the Playboy Club in Chicago. Klaus made his signature hamburger and sent it out for Arnie to taste. Morton proclaimed it the best hamburger he’d ever eaten. From that day, they started the business partnership that has become Morton’s The Steakhouse.
No, it’s not a joke—although the late night comics will probably have their way with it. This past weekend, fast food chain Burger King rolled out “Flame,” a new men’s body spray billed as “the scent of seduction with a hint of flame-broiled meat.” The fragrance, which you can see at http://www.firemeetsdesire.com, does not invite you to “have it your way.” Instead, it tells you that “Now you can set the mood no matter what mood you’re in the mood for.” (Umm…is that lost in translation from the language of whatever bizarre land the Burger King hails from?)
The site further goes on to explain that “The Whopper sandwich is America’s favorite burger. FLAME by BK captures the essence of that love and gives it to you. Behold the scent of seduction, with a hint of flame-broiled meat.”
Is this a gag? Big companies like Burger King tend not to have a sense of humor…although the film clip of the naked (discretely draped) Burger King lying on the lion skin in front of the roaring fire is pretty funny (just don’t look at it on a full stomach).
Who is the target market for this fragrance? Judging from the mood music and the visual of the bathtub surrounded by flowers and many flickering candles—and the fact that the New York City retail outlet is Ricky’s, a bastion of makeup and other beauty products—we think BK is betting that women will buy it for their men.
But what kind of women? We cheddar to think.
And now, because we need a stiff drink to clear our minds, join us for a visit to the Cocktails Section of THE NIBBLE.
