Marzipan pumpkins. Photo: Monika Bartyzel
Thanksgiving Treats - Marzipan Bites
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Thanksgiving Treats: Hard Maple Syrup Candy
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Maple syrup is the perfect ingredient for Thanksgiving. The turning maple leaves are a staple of fall decorating, the flavor of the syrup is sweet, natural and divine, and the dark and rich brown hue is perfect for the holiday table.
Yet most recipes out there insist on turning that syrup into a crystallized Maple Sugar Candy. Of course, those are great nibbles, but simplifying the recipe and letting that syrup harden offers an equally sinful snack that melts on the tongue and is as decorative as it is tasty.
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Halloween Treats - Witch Fingers
Photo: Monika Bartyzel.
These crunchy Halloween cookies have run their way back and forth across the Web, but we've come up with twists and style updates that are sure to please. Hit the jump and visit the gallery for inspiration.
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Halloween Cupcake Ideas - Graveyard Cupcakes
Cupcake graveyard. Photo: Monika Bartyzel.
The type of pastry you choose to make is secondary to what you put on top, and there's no end to the possibilities.
After the jump, find everything you need to make your own graveyard cupcake extravaganza.
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Pumpkins, Praline and Pinot Noir - The Portland Press Herald in 60 Seconds
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- Damariscotta holds a pumpkin parade and contest that gives the orange gourd center stage. Plus recipes for: Pumpkin Carrot Cake, Pumpkin Praline Cheesecake, Brown Sugar Spiced Pepitas, Maple Mushroom Pumpkin Creme Brulee and Pumpkin Praline Trifle.
- A reminder that healthy doesn't mean piled with nonfat, processed foods.
- Portland's Harvest on the Harbor will offer all "the delicious flavors of this foodie state" this weekend.
- Andy and Jaime Berhanu offer Maine its first taste of locally created tempeh.
- A visit to Etude elicits musings about pinot noir and a list of their best wine picks.
- Recipe: Oatmeal Cake with Coconut Icing.
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Best Bites of YumSugar
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Between vampire TV shows and movies and Halloween, now is the perfect time for a vampy shindig.
The basics of making the versatile and classic creamy béchamel.
Catfish becomes a Fast & Easy dinner with a quick cornmeal crust.
Floral arrangements can go veggie without a lot of carving talent.
Hmmm ... would you want to push that iconic wedge of lime into a Corona can?
Whiskey Sours get mixed in honor of San Francisco's Whiskey Week.
Do you read while you eat?
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Calas, Cooks and Chefs - The Houston Chronicle in 60 Seconds
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- An ode to fresh sausage, plus recipes to get you started.
- Golfer Greg Norman brings his daughter Morgan-Leigh into the world of winemaking.
- Digging into dumplings from across the world, with tips for making them at home.
- The Creole rice fritter also known as calas gives cooks another way to prep that pantry staple.
- Alexandra Guarnaschelli -- judge on "Chopped" and "Iron Chef" -- gets her own Food Network cooking show.
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Blanching Almonds - Tip of the Day
Blanched almonds are a staple in lots of recipes, and surprisingly easy to make at home.
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Wine, Wild Salmon and Worcestershire - The New York Times in 60 Seconds
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- A guide to beer additive hops, and the differences between what's fresh and dried.
- The Minimalist makes Bok Choy with Shiitakes and Oyster Sauce.
- Why do San Francisco residents eat local so fervently, yet drink European wines? Plus: A look at the primo vino locales in the Bay Area.
- Room for Debate peeks into bento-box culture, wondering what aesthetically pleasing food says about Japan.
- Michael Bao Huynh may think he's just a businessman, but he's building an empire of Vietnamese-inspired restaurants.
- Avenue C's Summit Bar serves up classy cocktails with a side of laidback conversation.
- Free and clear of "Gourmet," Ruth Reichl partakes in a Q&A with the Times.
- A Good Appetite amps up wild salmon with brown butter cucumbers.
- Recipe Redux takes a recipe for homemade Worcestershire sauce from 1876 and compares it to modern concoctions.
- Food and Travel: Restaurateur Terence Conran starts new establishments in London, exploring the food of Charlevoix, Quebec farm country and Singapore's culinary melting pot.
- Central Park South's Marea offers pricey seafood and atmosphere that's "unfussy, as welcoming as a luxe clubhouse."
- $25 and Under finds a bunch of notable and classic Manhattan food carts.
- Food Stuff finds: Kobe-style beef, fresh meats at Chelsea Market and crab apples.
- New York's openings and closings and food calendar.
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Cooking, Cheese and Cakes - The Detroit News in 60 Seconds
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- Would you reinvent your French onion soup with ... apples?
- Only in the wine world could evaluate a bottle that's covered in fungus to be a hot, high-priced commodity. This time around: bottles of Armagnac Vieux and Clos du Griffier cognac from the 1700s and 1800s.
- The perfect perks of fall: drinking, cooking and delighting in fresh apple cider straight from the mill.
- Product pick: Dr. McDougall's Chunky Soup.
- Recipes: Maple Pepper Bacon Strips With Boston Lager Glaze, Garlic Cheese Popovers, Salmon-Potato Cakes, Provence Fresh Herb Sauce for Dipping and Saucing
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Grading Maple Syrup - Tip of the Day
Having trouble deciphering maple-syrup grades? Click here for a quick guide.
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Starbucks, Simon and Sushi - The Seattle Times in 60 Seconds
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- How to select rice from your local market.
- A toxic "red tide" has shut down Northern Puget Sound's shellfish industry.
- Elemental Next Door offers the refined Elemental@Gasworks food -- think hazelnut-studded wild boar pâté -- without "the attitude."
- Coffee City: With falling traffic at Starbucks, Safeway looks toward a better latte future; Dilettante opens a second Mocha Cafe location; pour-over coffee is big at Port Townsend; a Stumptown producer's panel; Clover machines start disappearing from Starbucks and Carly Simon sues the chain.
- Georgetown's Daimonji offers good food and massive bento boxes in a strip-mall setting.
- All You Can Eat finds another Blue C Sushi location, Town Hall Seattle's Food Summit and a recipe for rice calas.
- Recipes: Flip-Over Apple Cake, Pulled Pork on Soft Polenta, Grilled Zucchini Pasta, Two Pepper Chicken Chili, Crisp-Crust Cinnamon Apple Pie, Chickpeas in Coconut Sauce, a Trio of Dips, Angelina's Restaurant Crab Cakes.
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Halloween Treats - Malted Milk Eyeballs
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Unfortunately, these aren't 100-percent true malted milk balls with that Whoppers-like crunch -- rumor has it those are made in a vacuum to achieve the right texture. We don't have a vacuum, nor are we interested in mass experimentation with sponge toffee to concoct something similar, so we're relying on taste. And that classic flavor is easy to recreate at home. You can buy malted milk powder in most supermarkets.
Just a bit of that powder and some chocolate (white chocolate in this case, to get the eyeball color), and soon you'll be surrounded by eerie rolling eyeballs just waiting to be devoured.
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Canada, Cheese and Crosariol - The Globe and Mail in 60 Seconds
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- Mark McEwan goes against the grain with his new, huge luxury food market in North Toronto, reorganizing classic layouts and ignoring economic concerns.
- Le Migneron Charlevoix cheese is a classic Quebec fromage that offers "a creamy, umami fullness."
- The Globe and Mail's Chris Johns and Alexandra Gill write about the pros and cons of now defunct Gourmet magazine.
- Okanagan Valley was busy with vino harvest time over Canadian Thanksgiving, and wine writer Beppi Crosariol joined in on the action.
- Sisters Julie Albert and Lisa Gnat didn't let a no from the publishing house stop them: They self-published their new book "Bite Me" and got the attention of book giant Indigo.
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Many Munches of YumSugar
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Cheap, ripe, red tomatoes are prime for a homemade bowl of Cream of Tomato Soup.
Wolfgang Puck is getting into the iced coffee biz.
Come Party With Me whips up a pumpkin carving menu, featuring cheddar cheese balls, jalapeno corn muffins and more.
Quiz time: Can you look at a collection of root vegetable pictures and name them all?
Slime Rickey mixes grapes, lime, club soda and gin for a boozy beverage.
Applejack is a concentrated hard cider.
Guy Fieri: Love him or leave him?
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