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TOP PICK: SAVU Smoker Bags

July 9, 2008 at 2:48 pm · Filed under Meat & Poultry, Salts-Seasonings-Herbs-Spices

Love smoked food? Now you can smoke
your own in your kitchen oven, as often
as you like. The aluminum smoking
pouch goes from oven to table and is
then disposed of—no clean-up required.		   Shame on us! We discovered SAVU Smoker Bags two years ago and have just gotten around to sharing them with you. When you discover how easy it is to cook up delicious smoked foods, you’ll either thank us or be ticked off that it’s taken so long to share the news. These simple-to-use bags will have you smoking up a storm: Meat, fish or vegetables can be smoked effortlessly in the kitchen oven or on an outdoor grill—at home or at your favorite picnic- or campgrounds.

Now every day can be a smokin’ day. Beef, chicken, duck, fish, lamb, kebabs, pork and other favorite foods smoke over natural wood chips that are layered in cleverly-designed, single-use aluminum smoker bags, made in Finland. You can even make your own hot-smoked salmon or other fish for Sunday brunch! The heavier-flavored hickory chips are intended to pair better with meats, and the lighter-flavored alder chips with fish, but the bags truly are universal. The wood creates real smoked flavor in minutes. By adding potatoes and other vegetables, you can make complete meals in one bag. Just seal, cook, open and eat. And you can serve from the bag—not only is there no oven mess, there are no extra dishes to clean.
You’ll discover what a delight it is to make low-fat, low-calorie smoked dishes (and sure, you can make ribs with all that brown sugar and molasses, too). If you’ve toyed with the idea of buying a smoker, or feel deprived because you have no space or justification for one, now an inexpensive aluminum bag can let you get smokin’. Smoke out the details in the full review.

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TIP OF THE DAY: Snazzy Spinach Salad

July 9, 2008 at 2:21 pm · Filed under Tip Of The Day, Vegetables-Salads-Herbs

These basic ingredients combine magically:

  • Spinach
  • Granny Smith apples
  • Walnuts or pecans (toast them for even more deliciousness)
  • Goat cheese, blue or feta cheese
  • Fig balsamic vinegar and olive oil

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    Serve a whole fresh fig or two as a garnish.

    To make this salad a main meal, add Serrano ham or prosciutto and serve with some fine artisan bread.

    Popeye never ate so well!

    Find more salad recipes on TheNibble.com.

    		  

    Spinach Salad
    Spinach salad with apples, nuts and goat cheese. Photo courtesy Southern Living, which used curried pecans and maple vinaigrette. Here’s the recipe.
     

      

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    GOURMET GIVEAWAY: Ice Cream Trivia

    July 8, 2008 at 3:22 pm · Filed under Contest, Desserts


    Win a delicious streusel-topped fruit pie
    to top off with your own favorite ice
    cream!    		  

    Like ice cream? Enter this week’s Gourmet Giveaway: The lucky winner of our ice cream prize will get his or her choice of an apple, blueberry, cherry or peach crumb pie in a flaky homemade cookie pie crust, filled with fruit and topped with butter streusel crumbs. Enjoy it à la mode with your favorite ice cream. Serves 8-10. Certified kosher (dairy). Retail value $36.99. Enter the Gourmet Giveaway by answering a few fun trivia questions about ice cream; you don’t have to answer correctly to win. Find more of our favorite ice creams in the Ice Cream Section of THE NIBBLE online magazine. You’ll also enjoy the History Of Ice Cream.
     

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