COOL STUFF DU JOUR.LOADED FROZEN TREAT Dreyer's recently introduced Loaded, a frozen dairy dessert with a soft and creamy texture, less fat and fewer calories. The Loaded Cookie Dough Cookie dough refers to a blend of cookie ingredients which has been mixed into a solid yet malleable form but has not yet been hardened by heat. The dough is often then separated and the portions baked to individual cookies, or eaten as is. , for instance, has 130 calories and 4.5 grams fat per serving, compared to Dreyer's Grand Cookie Dough with 180 calories and 9 grams fat. Loaded flavors include Butterfinger; Toll House 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. Cookie Dough; Cookies and Cream Cookies and Cream (or Cookies 'n Cream) is a popular flavoring in foods, including ice creams, milkshakes, and confectionery. It is typically a flavor infused into desserts using crushed chocolate cookies sandwiching a cream filling. ; Chocolate Fudge Brownie; and Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup. Priced at $5.99 per 56-ounce/1.75-quart cartons. Go to www.dreyers.com to find stores. >NATALIE HAUGHTON GET KIDS COOKING Trying to turn some of your kids' energy into creative cooking this summer? It's easy with the new "Sesame Street Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series for preschoolers and is a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment. C Is for Cooking: Recipes From the Street," by Susan McQuillan, a registered dietitian registered dietitian, n See dietitian, registered. (Wiley; $16.95). Elmo, Grover, Big Bird, Ernie and Bert show how much fun cooking can be with 50 healthy (no nutritional info is included, however), kid-friendly recipes. Among the creations -- Ernie's Breakfast Banana Split, Big Bird's Spaghetti Pie and Rosita's Tortilla Soup. >N.H. TASTY BUT LITE COOKIES More help for calorie counters who want to indulge in snacks. Pepperidge Farm has introduced 100-calorie cookie pouches in a trio of flavors -- Chessman Chocolate Cookies, Chessman Butter Cookies and Chocolate Chunk Dark Chocolate Cookies. All are bite-size and have good crunchy texture. The Chessman Chocolate were the most flavorful. The chocolate chunk were very tiny -- and flavorless. Each 3.7-ounce box, with a suggested price of $2.99, contains five single-serving pouches with 100 calories, 3.5 grams fat (no trans fat) and 15 grams total carbohydrate. >N.H. FOR ICE-CREAM ICE-CREAM Interactive Consumption of Entertainment in Consumer Responsive, Engaging & Active Media LOVERS Celebrate ice cream month with "Ice Cream and Frozen Desserts," by Peggy Fallon (DK Publishing; $20). It's filled with 125 recipes, many of them with delicious-looking color photos. Besides ideas for regular and light ice creams, frozen custards, frozen yogurts, gelati, ice milks and soy ice milks, sherbets, sorbets, granitas and ices, there are lots of other enticing creations such as ice cream cakes, pies and molded desserts. Baked Potato Sundaes (made out of homemade ice cream and ground chocolate to look like potatoes) are whimsical and fun, as are the Ice Cream Spaghetti and Chocolate Chip Birthday Pizza With Scoops du Jour. >N.H. ULTIMATE UTILITY KNIFE Slicing foods just got easier. The new Shun U2 Ultimate Utility Knife, made in Japan, is giving the Santoku a run for its money. "There's nothing like it on the market -- the wavy scalloped scal·lop also scol·lop or es·cal·lop n. 1. a. Any of various free-swimming marine mollusks of the family Pectinidae, having fan-shaped bivalve shells with a radiating fluted pattern. b. edge is a combination of a straight and serrated serrated /ser·rat·ed/ (ser´at-ed) having a sawlike edge. serrated (ser´āted), adj having a jagged or notched edge; saw-toothed. edge so it works beautifully with foods with a hard outside and soft inside, notes Sur La Table Sur La Table, Inc. is a privately held American retail company based in Seattle, Washington, that sells gourmet cooking utensils and related merchandise, such as appliances, food, and cookbooks. cutlery buyer Jacob Maurer. Six inches long, it's basically three knives in one -- slicer, bread knife and spreader spreader, n See condenser. . The VG-10 steel blade reduces sticking, and the ebony-black ergonomic D-shaped handle is designed for maximum comfort and efficiency. Hand wash. Available for $99.95 at www.surlatable.com or Sur La Table stores (various Southland locations). >N.H. CAPTION(S): 6 photos Photo: (1 -- 2) no caption (Dreyer's Loaded ice cream) (3) no caption (book: "Sesame Street C Is for Cooking: Recipes From the Street") (4) no caption (Pepperidge Farm 100-calorie cookies) (5) no caption (book: "Ice Cream and Frozen Desserts") (6) no caption (Shun U2 Ultimate Utility Knife) |
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