GOOD TASTES.PORTO'S BURBANK COMING SOON Porto's Bakery and Cafe in Glendale, is expanding. It's the establishment that made the desserts for the wedding of Prisila Villar (daughter of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio (Tony) Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) is the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He is the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since Cristobal Aguilar in 1872. ) Saturday. The Porto family plans a November opening for a new location of the bakery and cafe at 3614 Magnolia Blvd. in Burbank (corner of Magnolia Boulevard and Hollywood Way - they bought a building that formerly housed a Thrifty thrifty said of livestock that put on body weight or produce in other ways with a minimum of feed. The opposite of illthrift. drugstore). Items will be baked on the premises, and the cafe will be open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Maybe this will alleviate the wait time to purchase their baked goods - it's 15 minutes or more on the weekends in Glendale. - Natalie Haughton BUNNY GRAHAMS Annie's Homegrown Annie's Homegrown is a Napa, California-based maker of natural and/or organic pastas, meals and snacks. The company is perhaps best known for its macaroni and cheese product line. External links
Unfortunately, they're not low in calories - seven small bunny-shaped cookies contain 130 calories, 4 grams fat and 20 grams of carbohydrates. The bright yellow and blue 7.5-ounce boxes feature an illustration of a bunny on the front. Suggested retail is $2.99 per box. Look for the product at major grocery and natural food stores. - N.H. WARM DELIGHTS DEBUT Betty Crocker Betty Crocker, an invented persona and mascot, is a brand name and trademark of American food company General Mills. The name was first developed by the Washburn Crosby Company in 1921 as a way to give a personalized response to consumer product questions. has introduced Warm Delights, single-serve microwaveable desserts that are ready in just over a minute. Tasters sampled all five flavors five flavors, n in the dietary component of Chinese medicine, the five basic tastes into which foods are divided, each of which has different physiologic actions. - Hot Fudge Hot Fudge, a.k.a. The Hot Fudge Show, was an American children's television series that aired in syndication from 1976 to 1980. The series was produced in Detroit at WXYZ-TV. Brownie, Molten Chocolate Cake Molten chocolate cake is a popular dessert that combines the elements of a flourless chocolate cake (sometimes called a "chocolate decadence cake") and a soufflé. History The U.S. , Molten Caramel Cake, Fudgy 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 and Cinnamon Swirl Cake. The chocolate flavors were definitely the best-tasting, with the Hot Fudge Brownie the favorite. The Molten Chocolate Cake doesn't taste like any of the molten cakes in restaurants or homemade scratch versions, but rather like a chocolate pudding cake. We'd suggest the company change the name, which we found misleading. The cookie didn't taste - or even appear - cookie-like, and the cinnamon swirl was less than satisfactory. These aren't for great dessert cooks, or those who favor homebaked sweets. They are aimed at singles, college kids and others who have a sweet craving and want to keep something on the pantry shelf to whip up fast without any prep time or cleanup. These are really easy and quick to prepare, and suggested retail is $1.99 per individual package. Each comes with a black plastic bowl for mixing and microwaving. All you add are varying amounts of water to the mix and then a sweet topping packet. - N.H. FREE PASTA BOOKLET A new survey has found that more than half of adults who cook pasta don't prepare it properly. Many rinse it (don't) and add olive oil olive oil, pale yellow to greenish oil obtained from the pulp of olives by separating the liquids from solids. Olive oil was used in the ancient world for lighting, in the preparation of food, and as an anointing oil for both ritual and cosmetic purposes. to the water prior to cooking (don't). To dispel some of the myths associated with cooking pasta and share the best way to fix it, Barilla barilla see halogeton glomeratus. , a family-owned Italian company, is offering a booklet, ``Pasta 101: A Guide to Identifying and Cooking Quality Pasta.'' To download a free copy, go to www.barillaus.com, or order by calling (800) 924-9272. - N.H. CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1) no caption (desserts from Porto's) (2) no caption (Betty Crocker's Warm Delights) (3) no caption (``Pasta 101: A Guide to Identifying and Cooking Quality Pasta'') (4) no caption (Bunny Grahams) |
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