Ellen’s Brownies is a motherlode, with not one, but three options:

• White chocolate brownie with dark and milk chocolate chips
• White chocolate brownie with crushed Oreos and dark and milk chocolate chips
• White chocolate brownie with crushed white chocolate-covered pretzels and dark and milk chocolate chips

The company also makes traditional chocolate chip brownies along with the not-so-traditional Oreo and pretzel versions.

Read the review, and send some to your favorite white-chocolate lover.

Find more of our favorite brownies, plus brownie recipes, in our Gourmet Cookies & Brownies Section.

A find for white chocolate brownie lovers.
Photo by Katharine Pollak | THE NIBBLE.

Toss blueberries into a green salad. Add
shrimp or chicken for a main course. Photo
courtesy BlueberryCouncil.org.

Most berries pair well with a balsamic vinaigrette. Red berries look particularly fetching against the greens.

The berries also pair well with cheese; add blue cheese, feta or goat cheese to the salad as an extra treat.

Surprise your family and guests with a berry new approach to salad.

• Here’s a beautiful salad recipe: mache with strawberries, kumquats and pine nuts.
• Find more salad recipes.

There are currently four varieties of meatball mix: Spicy Calabrese, Traditional Calabrese, Turkey Calabrese and Gluten-Free Traditional Calabrese, which uses potato flakes instead of breadcrumbs.

The directions call for baking, but you can also pan-fry the meatballs, which is how we prepared them (who wants to turn the oven on in this heat?).

The results were crisp and light. The boxes are not inexpensive ($5.99, $6.99 for gluten-free), given that you have to add a pound of ground meat, six ounces of grated cheese and two eggs to get 15 medium-size meatballs. But even if you won’t spring for it every day, the attractive canister packages make welcome gifts and stocking stuffers. Read the full review.

• Find more meatball recipes, plus pasta, in our Pasta Section.
• Discover the history of spaghetti and meatballs.

The Traditional meatball mix resulted in crisp
and light meatballs. Photo by Katharine Pollak | THE NIBBLE.