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Posts from the ‘Food’ Category

30
Jul

Maya Kaimal Simmer Sauces

The aroma of fresh curry leaves cracking in hot oil with mustard seeds and dried chilies led Maya Kaimal, a graduate of Pomona College to become an award-winning cookbook author and a leading authority on Indian cuisine. Taking her passion one step further, Maya decided to take those recipes and cook her homemade sauces using wholesome and all natural ingredients and traditional techniques like caramelizing onions and toasting spices to build deep layered flavors in the sauces that most of us only know from restaurants. Bottling up those sauces and selling them through grocery stores and on-line retailers was the next logical step to bring Indian cuisine into our own kitchens. Read more »

28
Jul

Cacao Sweets and Treats on a “Sundae”

Sunday evenings usually signify the end of the weekend so what better way to end the day then with a sundae topped with Dark Chocolate Hot Fudge or Salted Caramel Sauce by Cacao Sweets & Treats? Two luscious and decadent sauces poured over ice cream are hard to beat with the most difficult decision being which sauce to choose:  the rich, dark chocolate hot fudge sauce or the creamy, silky caramel sauce with a hint of Himalayan pink salt? Both sauces will turn an ordinary Sunday into a scrumptious sundae. Read more »

22
Jul

Sukhi’s Potato Samosa

Samosas – flaky pastries with savory fillings – are a popular finger food in the Middle East and Asia, especially India and Pakistan where the fillings are often made of potatoes, onions, peas, lentils, and sometimes poultry or meat. In the United States, samosas are widely available at Indian restaurants, supermarkets, and most recently, at grocery stores in the frozen food section under the name of Sukhi’s Gourmet Indian Foods: Indian Bites. Read more »

20
Jul

How To Showcase A Cake

Seattle may be well-known for corporate giants (Microsoft, Amazon), Pike Place Market, innovative food companies (Theo Chocolate, CB’s Peanut Butter) but the Pacific northwest city is also home to Rosanna, a top home design company known for making beautiful tableware: plates and platters, bowls, teapots, mugs, flatware and especially cake pedestals to showcase that fabulous chocolate, coconut, or red velvet cake. Made of porcelain or stoneware in white, pink, blue and black, Rosanna Cake Pedestals are exquisite and make an elegant presentation on any table.  Read more »

18
Jul

The Vermont Common Cracker

When it comes to flavor, common does not mean ordinary.

Nearly two hundred years ago in 1828, the Cross brothers of Montpelier, Vermont created the Montpelier Cracker which became known as the Vermont Common Cracker: a mild flavored, crunchy cracker often served with cheese, dips, and spreads but equally delicious with nut butters, jam, or served with soups and chowders. Although the recipe has been slightly modified to eliminate unhealthy oils and fats, the Vermont Common Cracker is essentially the same cracker first enjoyed by Vermonters and now savored by many. Read more »

16
Jul

LoAdebar

LoAdebar (pronounced “Load Bar”) is one of the best tasting certified organic energy bars on the market. Never heard of it? You will. Loaded with all natural organic ingredients including dates, almonds, walnuts, oats, cashews, chia seeds, sunflower seeds, cranberries, pumpkin seeds, raisins, flax seeds, sesame seeds, cinnamon, brown rice syrup, puffs, and protein, the LoAdebar is one super delicious energy bar. Read more »

12
Jul

What’s In That Sugar or Waffle Cone/Cup?

Nearly 100 years ago, a Lebanese immigrant named Albert George purchased second-hand cone baking machines and founded the George and Thomas Cone Company. Today, that company is now named the Joy Ice Cream Cone Company and is the largest ice cream cone producer in the world, manufacturing more than 1.5 billion cones a year for retail consumers and food service companies. Based in Hermitage, Pennsylvania, the company is still owned and operated by the George family along with the employees. Read more »

2
Jul

Coop’s MicroCreamery Hot Fudge

Always serve too much hot fudge on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.

                                                                 Judith Olney

2009 is not a year that most people thought about opening a business but after 30 years in the ice cream industry, Marc Cooper who frequently answers to “Coop” decided to strike out on his own making super premium ice cream and dessert toppings. His company – Coops MicroCreamery based in Watertown, Massachusetts – makes ice cream (both dairy based and coconut milk based) sold throughout Massachusetts in premium ice cream shops and grocery stores while Coop’s Handmade Hot Fudge (Original and the Vegan version) are available nationwide at fine grocery and gourmet stores. Read more »

28
Jun

PowerBlend Omega 3 Seed Blends

When a well-educated professional pilot needed food with serious nutritional density to carry her through the fatigue of flying cross country and didn’t find it in the airports, food courts, or restaurants, Anne-elise Stern decided to create her own. Learning about the abundant nutrients in seeds, Stern started experimenting and came up with the Original PowerBlend Omega 3 Seed Blend: a combination of hemp, chia, pumpkin and flax combined with spices. Read more »

24
Jun

Napa Cakes Panforte

The original power bar dates back to the Romans when the Italians combined fruits and nuts to make a moist, dense round cake called Panforte which literally means “strong cake” owing to the slightly spicy flavor. Some people would call Panforte a fruitcake but with the negative connotation that fruitcake conjures up – especially among young people – classifying this Italian creation with the often ridiculed candied fruit concoction does not do this cake justice. A slice of Panforte is truly heavenly owing to the concentration of dried fruit, nuts, honey, and spices. Read more »