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SHARE COOKIE AND CANDY RECIPES: Holiday gift-giving, celebrations and get-togethers with family and friends call for a variety of wonderful, memorable foods including cookies and candies. If you have a special holiday recipe for BAR cookies or QUICK candies, get in the spirit and share it with us. We are looking for Looking for

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 favorites that you have relied on over the years. We'll choose the best submissions to use in a cookie and candy story in the food section in December. Tell us the source of the recipe, why it's appealing for holiday feasting and how long it has been a favorite. Type or print your recipe legibly on an 8 1/2-by-11-inch sheet of paper, including your name, address and a daytime phone number.

Send recipes no later than Nov. 10 to: Daily News Food Department, Cookie and Candy Recipes, P.O. Box 4200, Woodland Hills, Calif. 91365-4200. Remember we're only looking for BAR cookies and QUICK candy recipes.

KITCHEN HOME TOUR: This year's Showcase of Kitchens and Interiors - a self-guided tour A self-guided tour is where one navigates a route themselves as opposed to an escorted tours where a tour guide person directs the route, times, information, and places toured. Many self-guided tours come with suggestions, maps, instructions, directions, and items to see or do.  of four homes in San Marino San Marino, city, United States
San Marino (săn mərē`nō), residential city (1990 pop. 12,959), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1913. Of interest is the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
, Arcadia, Pasadena and La Canada Flintridge - sponsored by the Pasadena/Glendale chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) is the oldest and largest professional association for interior designers. Through education, knowledge sharing, advocacy, community building and outreach, the Society strives to advance the interior design profession and, in the  will be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $20 per person and can be purchased the day of the event at Anthony's Corner on Art, 127 S. Rosemead Blvd., Pasadena; or Designed With Joy, 542 1/2 Foothill Blvd., La Canada Flintridge. To purchase tickets in advance, call (626) 793-5991.

NEW ON THE SHELF: What store-bought products will the cookie monsters think of next? Pillsbury has introduced a ready-to-bake pizza cookie in a 9-inch foil pan. No measuring, mixing or clean-up is required. Available in the refrigerated re·frig·er·ate  
tr.v. re·frig·er·at·ed, re·frig·er·at·ing, re·frig·er·ates
1. To cool or chill (a substance).

2. To preserve (food) by chilling.
 section of supermarkets, the One Step Cookie, which makes eight servings, comes in 8.6-ounce plastic wrapped packages in two flavors - chocolate chip Chocolate chips are small chunks of chocolate. They are often sold in a round, flat-bottomed teardrop shape (similar to a Hershey's Kiss). They are available in numerous sizes, from large to miniature, but are usually around 1 cm in diameter.  or M&M's (the dough has some mini chips and is topped with M&M's). Although suggested retail price is $2.39, we saw them for $2.99 at one local supermarket.

We tried the chocolate chip flavor - it bakes 10-14 minutes in a preheated 375-degree oven, and then you let it stand 5 minutes before cutting into triangles. Compared to homemade cookie pizzas that we have baked over the years, this one is thin and very sweet. Most tasters said it was passable pass·a·ble  
adj.
1. That can be passed, traversed, or crossed; navigable: a passable road.

2. Acceptable for general circulation: passable currency.

3.
, but no great shakes. It's novel, but that's about it. We thought the dough amount was skimpy skimp·y  
adj. skimp·i·er, skimp·i·est
1. Inadequate, as in size or fullness, especially through economizing or stinting: a skimpy meal.

2. Unduly thrifty; niggardly.
 and the mini chips too few (regular-size chips would have fared better). This product gets a thumbs down - it's not something we'd buy or make again.

HALLOWEEN PARTY HOT LINE: If you've been invited to a Halloween party but are drawing a blank on costume ideas, call the Kraft Foods Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) is the largest food and beverage company headquartered in North America and the second largest in the world after Nestlé SA.

The Philip Morris Company (now known as Altria Group), a company that produces tobacco products, acquired Kraft for
 Halloween Party Hot Line at (888) 572-3875 now through Oct. 31 for some cool ideas. The line also has tips for spooky-themed foods.

HALLOWEEN FUN: For those looking for some spooktacular Halloween ideas, write for a copy of Hershey's leaflet, Gobblin' Up the Fun. It includes ideas for making creepy critters using chocolates and cookies as well for decorations, games, costumes and more. For a free copy, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope with two stamps/64 cents to: Hershey's Halloween Booklet Offer, 704 Metro Drive, Lebanon, Penn. 17042.

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