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August 20, 2009 at 6:59 am
· Filed under Cocktails & Spirits, Entertaining, Tip Of The Day
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Balmy August nights call for refreshing cocktails, and this passionfruit cocktail is just the ticket. For two cocktails, you’ll need one cup of chilled passion fruit purée or nectar (if you can’t find the nectar at your regular market, try a natural food or specialty food store) and a bottle of chilled sparkling wine or Champagne. Immediately before serving, fill two Champagne flutes half full with the passionfruit purée and add a few dashes of bitters. Then add the sparkling wine. Garnish with a strawberry (slice a notch halfway up from the tip and perch it on the rim of the flute) or some raspberries on a cocktail pick or stirrer.
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August 20, 2009 at 6:30 am
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| This week’s Gourmet Giveaway prize is Scarpetta pasta sauce from Sauces ‘n Love. One winner will receive four varieties of this delectable, shelf-stable pasta sauce, which is a pasta lover’s dream (shelf stable means that you don’t need to refrigerate it until you open the jar)!
A NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week, Scarpetta sauce flavors provide quick, easy and healthy gourmet meal solutions for pasta, chicken, tofu and anything you like to serve with a good tomato or pesto sauce. Like all of the small-batch, artisan products from Sauces ’n Love, these sauces are gluten free and vegetarian, and made from authentic Italian recipes you are sure to love. Buon appetito to the winner!
Check out our review of Sauces ‘n Love and enter this week’s Gourmet Giveaway. |
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These sauces require no refrigeration until the jar is opened. |
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August 19, 2009 at 6:59 am
· Filed under Beverages, Desserts, Tip Of The Day, Top Pick Of The Week, Wine
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Some of the most refreshing desserts are the simplest. Put fresh fruit salad in a wine goblet and cover it with a fizzy Moscato d’Asti, a sweet sparkling wine from Italy (our favorite is La Spinetta from Rivetti, with an amazingly low alcohol level of around 6%, similar to beer). The sparkling wine elevates the fruit salad to elegance, and is the perfect ending to a light or heavy dinner. After guests finish the fruit, they can drink the remaining wine from the goblet: It’s a dessert and a dessert wine in one (though have an extra bottle on hand for guests who want more of this intensely fruity, exuberant wine). If you don’t drink alcohol, you can use Fizzy Lizzy Fuji Apple sparkling juice.
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