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TIP OF THE DAY: A Glamorous Beverage Dispenser Jar


The easy and impressive way to serve party
beverages. Photo courtesy Sur La Table.

  If you entertain regularly, consider treating yourself to one or more beverage dispensing jars. They’re perfect for dispensing cocktails, iced tea and coffee, juice, lemonade, punch, sangria, even water.

  • Holds more. Not only do they look great on the table; they hold far more than a pitcher (up to two gallons) so you won’t have to refill as often.
  • No heavy lifting. The dispenser makes it easy for guests of all ages to fill their glasses: no heavy lifting.
  • Great in the kitchen. If you have a large crew at home, it looks handsome on the kitchen counter, filled with filtered water, iced tea, etc.
  • Elegant And Impressive. The optional wrought iron stands look impressive and help contain spills (place a shallow bowl underneath the spigot).
  • Find beverage recipes in our Specialty Beverages and Cocktails sections.

     
    We love the fun beehive shape beverage dispenser jar from Sur La Table, which holds two gallons. There’s also a handsome apothecary shape beverage dispenser jar that holds 1.4 gallons.

    Get one of each, and quench thirsts in style.

      

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    RECIPE: Red, White & Blue Potato Salad

    Potato salad is almost imperative at a Memorial Day or Independence Day celebration. With this recipe from Frieda’s Produce, you can make yours red, white and blue.

    If you can, prepare the potato salad a day in advance, the flavors will have more time to blend.
     
     
    RECIPE: POTATO SALAD FOR MEMORIAL DAY & INDEPENDENCE DAY

    Ingredients For 6 To 8 Cups

  • 2 pounds mixed potatoes: red jacket, yellow jacket and purple; leave skins on
  • 3/4 cup chopped green onions (scallions), divided
  • 1 pint red grape tomatoes, whole or halved
  • 2/3 cup sour cream
  • 1/3 cup mayonnaise
  • 3 tablespoons white wine vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
  • 1-1/2 teaspoons salt
  • 1 teaspoon celery seed (optional)
  • 1/2 teaspoon fresh-ground pepper
  • 3 ounces crumbled blue cheese
  • Garnish: 2-3 ounces crumbled blue cheese
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    Preparation

    1. PLACE the potatoes in a large pot and add enough salted water to cover. Bring to a boil and simmer until fork tender, about 15 minutes. Drain the potatoes and cool. While the potatoes cool…

    2. PREPARE the dressing. In a medium bowl, blend half of the green onions with the sour cream, mayonnaise, white wine vinegar, Dijon mustard, salt and pepper. Cover and chill.

     
    [1] Add red-jacket potatoes for a red, white and blue potato salad (photo © Svetlana Kolpakova | Dreamstime).

    Grape Tomatoes
    [2] Grape and pear tomatoes. Grape tomatoes are oval like grapes, pear tomatoes are curved like pears. Both are smaller than cherry tomatoes (photo © Lucky Tomatoes).

     
    3. SLICE the cooled potatoes into chunky quarters and place them in a large bowl, along with the grape tomatoes. Add the chilled dressing, blue cheese and remaining green onions; toss gently to coat pieces. Cover and chill for at least two hours, or up to one day. The flavors will continue to blend as the salad chills. When ready to serve…

    4. GARNISH the bowl with additional blue cheese, as desired.
     
     
    FIND MORE POTATO SALAD RECIPES.
     
     
      

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    PRODUCT: Kozy Shack’s Cinnamon Raisin Bread Pudding Rocks


    We love it: Kozy Shack Apple Cinnamon bread pudding. Photo courtesy Kozy Shack.

      We are despondent when we should be happy. Why?

    We’ve just finished our last four-pack of Kozy Shack Apple Cinnamon Bread Pudding, and our two closest markets don’t carry it. (Supermarkets in New York City are on the small side, owing to high rents).

    We must go without. But everyone who lives near a “normal” supermarket and likes bread pudding or flan should pick some up and enjoy it on our behalf.

    Kozy Shack has recently added bread pudding to its line of puddings. The three varieties are Apple Cinnamon, Cinnamon Raisin and Peach.

    In individual four-ounce servings, each flavor has an appropriate sauce on the bottom of the cup. You can invert the puddings onto a plate for a pretty dessert (see photo). Or enjoy them as a snack, consumed right out of the cup.

    The Scoop

  • Cold Is Better. While there are instructions for warming the puddings, to us they taste far better cold. As satisfying as ice cream, in fact.
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  • Cinnamon Raisin Bread Pudding Rocks. A favorite. The rich blend of cinnamon, plump raisins and bread chunks enveloped by custard, has a light caramel sauce (like flan). Yummmm.
  • Apple Cinnamon Bread Pudding Also Rocks. We grew to be big fans of this flavor. It’s a combination of custard and crustless apple pie.
  • Peach Bread Pudding. Not a favorite. It’s a matter of personal preference, of course. But we didn’t like the combination of peach and custard.
  • It’s More Like Flan. Some of THE NIBBLE tasters felt that there was too little bread and too high a percentage of custard to be “bread pudding”; that it’s “flan with a few pieces of bread.” Note taken, but we could care less: We could eat a truckload Apple Cinnamon Bread Pudding.
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    Head out to your supermarket, and tell us how you like it.
    BREAD PUDDING RECIPES ON THENIBBLE.COM

  • Chocolate Bread Pudding
  • Pannetone Bread Pudding
  • Apple Cheddar Bread Pudding
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