NEW & NOTEWORTH.Halloween decor: With a little help from Wilton and 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. , you'll be able to decorate cookies, cakes and cupcakes with ease in festive and colorful Halloween style. Wilton offers an assortment of cookie cutters - including ghosts, pumpkins and bats - along with colored sugars, sprinkles, non pareils and premade small icing decorations in pumpkin, spider and bat shapes. Also available in two-packs are black and orange icing paste food colors for tinting homemade or store-bought frostings. Look for these items ranging in price from $1.99 to $4.99 at Target stores. Easy Flow Decorating Icings with the Betty Crocker name come in cans in black, white and orange colors with assorted plastic decorator tips attached. Use them to make pumpkin faces or decorate assorted cookie and dessert treats as desired. They're available at Von's for $3.40 per can. We used several of these items to decorate the cupcakes pictured on the cover and pages 10 and 11. - Natalie Haughton Ice cream cake Ice cream cake is either ice cream in the shape of a cake or ice cream and cake layered together to make a single form. The idea of ice cream cake came from desserts composed of cream and cookies or cake called trifles, which first turned up in the Renaissance. : If there's no time to bake Halloween desserts, you can scare up a tasty ice cream cake from Baskin-Robbins for party fare. A 9-inch round jack-o'-lantern (also available with a witch, Dracula or Frankenstein decoration on top) cake will serve 12 to 16 people. Order the cake at a store near you with your favorite ice cream flavor - with either a white or chocolate cake layer - at least a day in advance. It's $24.95. - N.H. Cookbook: Guaranteed to give a seasoned cook whiplash whiplash n. a common neck and/or back injury suffered in automobile accidents (particularly from being hit from the rear) in which the head and/or upper back is snapped back and forth suddenly and violently by the impact. are the new ``Joy of Cooking'' cookbooks. Yes, they bear the classic's trademark, but they look very different from the academic volumes that have found homes in 16 million kitchens in the past seven decades. These new books ($19.95) have 100 color photos, 128 pages and tackle single subjects. The first four are: ``Vegetarian Cooking,'' ``Chicken,'' ``Pasta & Noodles'' and ``Soups & Stews.'' Ten books are planned. The next batch should be released in the spring. The recipes, 80 to 100 per volume, are printed in Joy's intermixed ingredients/directions style and include many from the 1997 revised version Revised Version n. A British and American revision of the King James Version of the Bible, completed in 1885. Revised Version Noun , plus some new ones commissioned for that book that got cut. The classic has moved into the new millennium. And it's got a Web site, too: www.joyofcooking.com. - Wire Service DINING OUT For its annual Hollywood-inspired Halloween dinner bash Tuesday, Wine Bistro at 11915 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, offers a $20 prix-fixe, two-course menu of five appetizer and seven entree options. Appetizers carry names like The Exorcist ex·or·cism n. 1. The act, practice, or ceremony of exorcising. 2. A formula used in exorcising. ex  or·cist n. (split pea split peaNoun a pea dried and split and used in soups or as a vegetable soup), Beetlejuice (sliced beets with tomato and arugula arugula or rocket Yellowish-flowered European herbaceous plant (Eruca vesicaria sativa), of the mustard family, cultivated for its foliage, which is used especially in salads. ), The Swamp Thing (froglegs provencal) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (steamed black mussels mariniere). Entrees are titled Buffy the Vampire Slayer (sauteed sand dabs in lemon and garlic), The Drowning Pool This article is about the band. For the Ross Macdonald novel, see The Drowning Pool. Drowning Pool is a four-piece Hard Rock band from Dallas, Texas, United States. They formed in 1996 and are still active. (bouillabaisse bouil·la·baisse n. 1. A highly seasoned stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish. 2. A combination of various different, often incongruous elements: a bouillabaisse of special interests. maison), The Blob (three-cheese ravioli with fresh tomato and basil), Scream (spicy Cajun chicken) and Silence of the Lambs (roasted lamb with red wine sauce). Treats and tricks are to be had, costumes are encouraged, and there are raffles and prizes, according to restaurant co-owner J.B. Torchon. Make reservations as early as possible for this almost always sold-out event. Details and information: (818) 766-6233. - Larry Lipson WEB SITE Dean & Deluca, that well-known New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of food retailer, has hooked up with Epicurious.com, one of the country's top food Web sites, to offer some 800 items. Click on a food and Epicurious will tell how to cook or serve it. A nice touch, but cooks can get similar information by going directly to deandeluca.com. (The price of 2.2 pounds Beluga caviar Noun 1. beluga caviar - roe of beluga sturgeon usually from Russia; highly valued Acipenser huso, beluga, hausen, white sturgeon - valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas is $2,350 at both sites.) - Wire Service CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1) no caption (Wilton and Betty Crocker cake decorations) Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer (2) no caption (Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream Cake) (3) no caption (``Joy of Cooking'' cookbooks) |
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