It’s not spaghetti, but you could try to fool
your friends! Photo by Katharine Pollak |
THE NIBBLE.

It took us a minute to realize that it’s a spaghetti cookbook, which contains more than 130 ways to prepare a plain box of spaghetti.

The recipes are creative and generally easy; the photos are tempting. The pasta is varied—not just spaghetti but bucatini, linguine and ziti. The gimmick is cuter-than-cute and sure to delight any home cook.

• THE PRIZE: Two winners could cook spaghetti a different way every day for more than four months with this cookbook. While we’re a few days late for April Fool’s Day, you can still keep it in your kitchen cupboard next to actual spaghetti boxes to fool someone rooting around for pasta. Plus, it’ll be right where you need it when you’re wondering what type of pasta dish to make for dinner. Approximate Retail Value: $14.99.

• To Enter This Gourmet Giveaway: Go to the box at the bottom of our Best Reads Section and enter your email address for the prize drawing. This contest closes on Monday, April 12th at noon, Eastern Time. Good luck! 

Fresh, light and fragrant with butter, these cookies melt in your mouth. They are all natural with no preservatives or additives—just flour, butter, sugar, pure vanilla extract and salt. They hit a home run with us!

This Gourmet Giveaway prize is packaged in two tins along with tricky baseball trivia questions to try to stump baseball nuts. Perhaps a cookie is their reward?

• THE PRIZE: One winner will enjoy a Cooperstown Cookie Company gift tower and a National Baseball Hall of Fame Collectible Tin, each containing 12 bite-sized, vanilla-flavored shortbread cookies. Take them to your next ball game or munch on them anytime you need a cookie fix. Approximate Retail Value: $31.98.

Forget playing ball. Let’s eat some cookies!
Photo courtesy Cooperstown Cookie Company.

• To Enter This Gourmet Giveaway: Go to the box at the bottom of our Gourmet Cookies, Brownies & Bars Section and enter your email address for the prize drawing. This contest closes on Monday, April 12th at noon, Eastern Time. Good luck!
• Learn more about Cooperstown Cookie Company, and find out how to enter to win the ultimate Cooperstown baseball weekend at CooperstownCookie.com.

You were great, but it’s time to go!
Photo courtesy iGourmet.com.

Good as they were, do you want to consume those calories?

Our solution: Bring the Easter candy to your workplace, school or anywhere else you hang out. Share the wealth: People will appreciate your largesse, and you’ll save thousands of calories.

You can leave the goodies next to the coffee machine, distribute them to colleagues or set them in a common place (the reception desk or lunch room?).

You’ll feel good that you didn’t succumb to polishing it off, had fun passing the candy along and that you made others happy.

If you’re a skinny chocoholic you can ignore this tip.