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HOLIDAYS: Have A Gourmet Halloween

October 8, 2008 at 9:00 am · Filed under Cookies-Cake-Pastry, Desserts, Holidays & Occasions

  There are Halloween cookies everywhere, but if you need to please a discriminating palate, head over to CRRichDesign.com, a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week (read our review). Her seasonal collection includes Enjoy our Halloween Treats, which includes a more delicious rendition of the usual Halloween creatures: a dark chocolate cookie cat with black sugar coating, a gingerbread cookie jack-o-lantern topped with royal icing and sugar and a rich butter cookie ghost with vanilla icing. But for something a bit different, our favorite is this bat sandwich, a mocha cookie with dark chocolate espresso liqueur ganache filling.
 

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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Mari’s New York Brownies

October 7, 2008 at 9:00 am · Filed under Cookies-Cake-Pastry, Giftable, Top Pick Of The Week

Mari gives you the go-ahead to indulge your brownie cravings in a refined and sensible manner. By making individually-wrapped brownies that are 1-1/2” square, you can have your cake and eat it, too. Mari offers happy restraint: Have one compact, deliciously satisfying piece. If you insist on eating the whole box, it’s of your own free will.

These are brownies as they should be: portioned in a manner that doesn’t break the calorie bank. How can you feel guilty eating something so petite? Yet you’ll definitely be satiated, because those few bites are all that one could ask for: rich, chocolatey, complex—and varied. Mari makes brownies in seven flavors, plus three seasonal varieties. You can have it your way with an assorted box or your favorite flavor.

All of the flavors are charmers. Jewel-like in their little cello wraps with colorfully beckoning labels, the brownies tuck into briefcases, pockets, gym bags (yes, you deserve it!) and lunch boxes. Use them as place settings and party favors. For a simple dessert, serve them with coffee. For a gourmet dessert, add a scoop of matching or contrasting ice cream.
Mari’s New York classic chocolate
brownies are available with or without
walnuts. Or try one of the other eight
flavors. Shown in photo, clockwise from
bottom: Blonde Bombshell, Coconut,
Sugar & Spice, Cranberry Cognac and
Thai Coffee.
In these days of financial uncertainty, Mari’s is a bright light in the gloom of holiday gift obligations. Give six brownie “jewels” in a beautiful box. It’s less than $20, but to a food lover, it dazzles as much as a Tiffany trinket. In fact, we repurposed the stunning coral and white boxes to hold jewelry. Read the full review and see more photos, as we describe each delicious bite.

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NEWS: Haagen-Dazs Downsizes Pints

October 6, 2008 at 3:00 pm · Filed under Cheese-Yogurt-Dairy, Desserts, Food Holidays & More


The 16-ounce Haagen-Daz pint: soon to
be history. 		Maybe no one noticed when yogurt when from 8 ounces to 6 ounces. But will Haagen-Dazs lovers take note when the iconic pint downsizes to 14 ounces, beginning in March, 2009? Faced with increasing cost of ingredients, many manufacturers must choose to raise prices or put less in the package. The superpremium ice cream brand has chosen to do the latter. The good news: Now when you eat that entire “pint” of Haagen-Daz, there will be fewer calories. The puzzlement: Next year, when you go to the store to buy a “pint” of Haagen-Daz, what do you properly call it? “Small container” could be confusing, as the company sells quarts, “pints” and dixie cups.Read our review of Haagen-Daz Reserve flavors, a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week.

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CONTEST: Win 4 Dozen Oysters

October 6, 2008 at 11:16 am · Filed under Contest, Fish-Seafood-Caviar

If you had four dozen live oysters would you return them to the sea? Make a Thanksgiving stuffing? Write a poem? Those are a just a few of the ideas submitted to the MarxFoods.com oyster contest. Marx Foods is an online specialty high-end food distributor of the finest epicurean products. Its location in Seattle puts it a mere shell’s throw away from Puget Sound, with access to Kumamoto, Olympia, Pacific and Virginica oysters (see THE NIBBLE’s Oyster Glossary for the difference).

There are two ways to win: 1) Leave the best oyster-related comment at MarxFoods.com or 2) Refer the most contestants. Once the contest closes, the polls will be open October 21st through the 24th for the foodie community to vote on the finalists to determine a winner, who will be announced on Monday, October 27th. All ideas submitted can be viewed at the MarxFoods.com Blog.
Live Virginica Oysters from Marx Foods.

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PRODUCT REVIEW: Reveo Gourmet “Virtuoso” Marinator Electric Vacuum Tumbler

October 5, 2008 at 9:00 am · Filed under Giftable, Kitchenware-Tabletop, Meat & Poultry


No time to marinate before grilling? Pity:
Food would taste so much better.
Solution: A Reveo Gourmet Marinator. It
marinates in just 10 minutes.		 The original Reveo Gourmet Marivac was very popular. It was hand-operated with a pumping action, needing no electricity, so it could be used outdoors. It reduced marinating time from overnight (or days) to 10 minutes! Now, the effortless electric Virtuoso model eliminates the elbow grease. Food writer and cooking teacher Alissa Dicker Schreiber found the Virtuosoto be much more than a “marinating gadget.” It makes meats exceptionally juicy and “among the best” she’s ever eaten. It also uses less marinade, is easy to clean and is dishwasher-safe. It can hold a five-pound chicken or a family’s worth of steaks, cutlets or seafood. At $199.95, this is not a casual purchase—but is well worth it if you marinate frequently.
Let’s face it: A lot of us marinate our food at the last minute. We’re busy and hurried and forget to do it the night before—or simply don’t think about our next meal that far in advance. So we quickly sauce up our chicken, meat, fish or what-have-you mere minutes before cooking. Sure, the food usually emerges from the grill or pan with some marinade flavor cooked around its edges. But as a recent whirl with Virtuoso by Eastman’s Reveo Gourmet showed us, that doesn’t do marinating justice.

You see, a long marinating period, in a mixture consisting of some fat, some acid and some seasoning, infuses meat with flavor, tenderizes it and helps keep it juicy (like the brine for a Thanksgiving turkey). With its vacuum technology, the Reveo Gourmet makes achieving these results fast and easy, usually requiring no more than 20 minutes instead of hours or overnight.

Read the full review on TheNibble.com.

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