RECIPE: Sweet Tea Cocktail

Here’s a summer refreshment for tea lovers over the age of 21: sweet tea vodka. Created by Chris Cason, co-founder of Tavalon Tea, it combines two summer favorites: sweet iced tea and a vodka cocktail. The tea-infused vodka is delicious straight up or on the rocks, but it’s also a good mixer. For example, a…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Chocolate Curls

We have lots of chocolate bars and pieces of chocolate that have been nibbled on for reviews, as well as blocks of couverture chocolate (used for baking). When life gives you extra chocolate bars, make chocolate curls. Also known as shaved chocolate, the curls can be used to garnish cake, ice cream, pudding, hot chocolate…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Serve Ice Cream Or Sorbet “Demitasse”

An easy and impressive ice cream dessert. Photo courtesy Talenti Gelato.   Here’s an ice cream recipe idea for a sweet yet light ending to a big dinner: ice cream demitasse. Use your demitasse (espresso) cups to serve small portions of ice cream or sorbet. They will be just enough to qualify as dessert, but…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Sugar Free Sorbet

There’s a lot of good no-sugar-added ice cream out there, but it’s tough to find a no-sugar-added sorbet. Even our sugar-free and lactose-free Top Pick Of The Week, Clemmy’s ice cream, offers only an Orange Creme flavor, a combination of vanilla ice cream and orange sorbet. But if you’re on a sugar-free diet and miss…
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FOOD HOLIDAY & RECIPE: National Corn Fritter Day

Corn fritters are a delicious side or first course. Photo © Monkey Business | Fotolia.   July 16th is National Corn Fritter Day. What better reason to pick up some fresh corn and make corn fritters as a side or a first course? (When corn isn’t in season, use canned or frozen kernels, drained.) December…
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