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TIP OF THE DAY: Cooking With Tea

August 27, 2010 at 7:33 am · Filed under Beverages, Tip Of The Day

Flavor foods with Earl Grey and other
teas. Photo courtesy Mighty Leaf Tea.

 Pasta and rice can be elegantly flavored with tea, just by adding a tea bag or a tea ball of loose tea to the water.

Tea is an herb, after all.

  • Lapsang souchong adds a wonderful smoky taste.
  • Earl Grey gives a subtle taste of bergamot.
  • Fruit tea bags add fruity taste (try pomegranate).There are at least a dozen cookbooks that focus on cooking with tea. Take a look at Tea Cuisine: A New Approach to Flavoring Contemporary and Traditional Dishes.

    Experiment to see what you like. We’re huge fans of smoky lapsang souchong, which is also one of our favorite drinking teas and the tea used in Chinese tea-smoked duck.

  • Learn all about tea in our Gourmet Tea Section.

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PRODUCT: Novelty Food Soap

August 27, 2010 at 7:07 am · Filed under Giftable

How cute are these “Soapsicles?”

Love Lee Soaps are a food-lover’s soap paradise. Soaps imitate bacon and eggs, candy corn, chocolates, cinnamon rolls, gummi bears, ice cream cones, jelly beans, macaroons, muffins, pickles, popcorn, red licorice and more.

Made with moisturizing glycerin and shea butter, they will keep your skin soft—if you can force yourself to use them as soap instead of art.

Love Lee is Leanna “Lee” Kalka, who lives in Daytona Beach, Florida. She is one talented soap artisan! Buy her soaps at Etsy.com.

Don’t take a bite—it’s soap! Photo
courtesy Leanna Kalka.

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TIP OF THE DAY: Ice Cream Cone Tips

August 26, 2010 at 7:59 am · Filed under Ice Cream-Sorbet-Yogurt, Recipes, Tip Of The Day

A marshmallow in the tip means no drip.
Photo by Agg | Dreamstime.

 To keep an ice cream cone from dripping, stuff a miniature marshmallow or two into the bottom of the cone. It will plug up the tip so that ice cream doesn’t drip through.

Want to make fancy dipped ice cream cones, like the ones sold at ice cream shops?

DIPPED ICE CREAM CONE RECIPE

Ingredients

  • 8 old-fashioned sugar cones
  • 9 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
  • 2 tablespoons solid vegetable shortening
  • Decoration: chocolate chips, shredded coconut, sprinkles, chopped nuts, miniature candies, etc.
Preparation
1. Set out 8 glasses to hold the cones until they set. Place decorations on a small plate (you’ll be dipping the cone into them).
2. Add chocolate and shortening to a medium bowl or double boiler. Set over a saucepan of simmering water. Stir until melted and smooth.
3. Remove bowl from water pan. Let chocolate stand until cool enough to work with, about 5 minutes.
4. Dip wide end of ice cream cone into chocolate. Rotate to create a 1/4-inch chocolate rim. Hold cone upside-down until the chocolate is almost set (about 10 seconds).
5. Roll chocolate into the decoration, pressing gently as needed to adhere.
6. Place cone into glass to set.

Makes 8 cones. The cones can be prepared a week in advance; wrap each cone individually with plastic to maintain crispness. If possible, store in an airtight container.

 

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