CHECK OUT : NEWS AND TIPS.FREEBIE free·bie also free·bee n. Slang An article or service given free: "such freebies as subway and bus maps" New York. LEAFLET: For bakers, butter and the holidays go hand in hand. To help you out with baking this festive season, the American Dairy Association is offering a full-color brochure, ``Butter Brings the World to Your Holiday Table,'' containing seven recipes, including Spiced Butter Thumbprint Cookies, Santa's Chocolate Truffles, Holiday Butter Biscotti Biscotti (plural of Italian biscotto, roughly meaning "twice baked") are crisp Italian cookies often containing nuts or flavored with anise. Traditionally, biscotti are made by baking cookie dough in two long slabs, cutting these into slices, and reheating them to dry and Classic Lemon Shortbread. For a free copy, send a self-addressed, stamped, business-sized envelope to: Butter Brings the World to Your Holiday Table, c/o American Dairy Association, P.O. Box 760, Rosemont, Ill. 60018-7760. MONASTERY FRUITCAKE fruit·cake n. 1. A heavy spiced cake containing nuts and candied or dried fruits. 2. Slang A crazy or an eccentric person: "a fruitcake under the delusion that he was Saint Nicholas" AND MORE: The Trappist Abbey Our Lady of Guadalupe
Our Lady of Guadalupe, also called the Virgin of Guadalupe (Spanish: Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe or Virgen de Guadalupe) is a 16th century Roman Catholic Mexican icon depicting in Lafayette, Ore., is offering its dark, old-style fruitcake filled with fruits (pineapples and cherries; no citron citron (sĭt`rən), name for a tree (Citrus medica) of the family Rutaceae (orange family), and for its fruit, the earliest of the citrus fruits to be introduced to Europe from Asia. ) and nuts (walnuts and pecans) soaked in brandy and aged along a Ginger Date Nut Cake (made from dates, walnuts, pecans, cashews ginger and brandy) and Honey Almond and Hazelnut 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. Biscotti. A box of two (1-pound) cakes (you can get one of each kind, if desired) is $18; a 3-pound cake $23.50; two (10-ounce) biscotti loaves are $15.50. Shipping and handling is $3.75 per destination in the U.S. To order, call (800) 294-0105. SEE'S CANDIES See's Candies is a manufacturer and distributor of high quality candy, particularly chocolate, in the western United States. It was founded by Charles See and his mother Mary See in Los Angeles, California in 1921. The company is now headquartered in South San Francisco, California. BY MAIL: Save yourself the trouble of standing in line (although you'll miss the free chocolate sample that we love) and order favorite chocolates and specialty candy gifts including baskets over the phone. Call (800) 347-7337. See's takes credit cards for mail orders - and, finally, in the stores, too. BORGNINE'S COFFEE SODA: Coffee and soda fanciers take note of an innovative new drink. Ernest Borgnine's daughter, Nancee, has created an excellent-tasting coffee soda that is made with Italian roast coffee. Each 12-ounce bottle contains 115 calories and the same amount of caffeine as in an 8-ounce cup of coffee. The drink is best served well-chilled. If desired, make a coffee float by adding a big scoop of vanilla or chocolate ice cream. Another interesting way to drink it is topped with a pouff of whipped cream. Pick up a 4-pack for $2.99 at Trader Joe's or Hughes markets. PEPPERED SMOKED SALMON: For a holiday appetizer or party starter, try the delicious peppered smoked salmon from BBQ BBQ barbecue Shack, 7615 Reseda Blvd., Reseda. We sampled two flavors - Lemon Pepper and Pepper Medley and liked the milder Lemon Pepper version best. The salmon is moist and flavorful - and we found it a wonderful flavor delicacy with crackers. It also made a delicious sandwich and was great atop a tossed green salad filled with tomatoes and other assorted chopped fresh veggies Veggies of Nottingham, also known as Veggies Catering Campaign, is a campaigning group based in Nottingham, England, promoting ethicalbum alternatives to mainstream fast food. . It's $11.99 per pound and must be ordered 48 hours in advance of pickup. The BBQ Shack also has a host of other delicious smoked items including turkey, ham and beef that would be great for holiday feasting. GINGERBREAD gingerbread In architecture and design, elaborately detailed embellishment, either lavish or superfluous. Though the term is occasionally applied to such highly detailed and decorative styles as the Rococo, it usually refers to the hand-carved and -sawn wood ornamentation of SEASON: ``Great Gingerbread,'' by Sara Perry (Chronicle; $14.95), broadens the possibilities of a holiday favorite. The cookie recipes are here, as well as a variety of other dishes such as gingerbread pancakes with golden pear compote and maple cream; carrot-ginger cake with burnt sugar icing and caramel wisps; and recipes, charts and directions for making two kinds of gingerbread houses. CULINARY QUARTET: The late James Beard's longtime editor, John Ferrone, brings to light a host of out-of-print and never-before-published recipes from the files of the legendary American chef and author. Each of the 64-page ``James Beard's'' books (Thames and Hudson; $7.95 each) focuses on a different menu item: salads, soup, shellfish or poultry. Among the recipes: cannellini bean and tuna salad, scotched crab soup, curried crab meat cakes and turkey souffle souffle /souf·fle/ (soo´f'l) a soft, blowing auscultatory sound. cardiac souffle any cardiac or vascular murmur of a blowing quality. . CAPTION(S): 3 Photos Photo: (1--Color) no caption (Cookies) (2--Color) no caption (Fruitcake) (3--Color) no caption (Borgnine's Coffee Soda) |
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