Easy Recipes for Stylish Entertaining | Culinary Thymes
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Have fun with your nuts. Lord Nut Levington does. He’s the saucy, fictional mascot behind Lord Nut Levington Peanuts. And this isn’t your everyday dry roasted peanut. These nuts come in exotic flavors like Rebel Mary (spicy bloody Mary), Cinnapplooza (cinnamon, apple and vanilla) and Mammma Mia, an Italian blend of tomato, garlic and cheese. [...]
Must have been my lucky day! Recently I received a sampler package of GoodPop All-Natural Frozen Pops. Good Pops are creatively flavored paletas made with fresh fruit and organic, locally sourced, all natural ingredients. I loved the flavor profile of the Hibiscus Mint and Banana Cinnamon popsicles. They reminded me of the innovative ice cream flavor [...]
Attention American craft food producers! Entry is now open to the second annual Good Food Awards, a national contest honoring “craft food producers who excel in superior taste and sustainability.” If you are an artisan producer of beer, charcuterie, cheese, chocolate, coffee, pickles and preserves, or spirits, then you have until September 1 to enter. Winners must [...]
Tired of that same old diet soda? Here’s a fun, healthy and flavorful alternative. IZZE esque is a low-calorie carbonated beverage made of 25% fruit juice and sparkling water. At 50 calories per 12 ounces it is light and fruity, sans the cloying sweetness of some sodas and juices. The IZZE Beverage Company is debuting a new watermelon flavor [...]
I think mercury was in retrograde recently as I awaited a package from Central Market. I thought I’d never received it, when actually it was hiding out in my husband’s office. For a month. But the stars lined up. The package was found and what emerged was a lovely basket of Central Market Organics products [...]
In January I posted a recipe for Bahn Mi, as an example of an influential flavor pairing, specifically pickling spice and rice vinegar, from McCormick’s Flavor Forecast 2011. Each year, the spice company develops a list of emerging taste and trends with input from chefs, food writers, and cookbook authors. Well here’s another glimpse at the list and [...]
Whether homemade by you or handmade by someone else, food stuffs make great gifts because they are consumable, rather than, and I don’t mean to sound ungrateful here, another bad gift destined for the storage closet! I commend those cooks who make time to gift their handmade nuts, chutney, cookies or bread because it is not easy to find time [...]
Summer’s the perfect time for a field trip, so I rounded up my fifth grade foodie and we headed to Phoenicia Specialty Foods way out Westheimer. Our goal was to get some rose water for the recipe that follows, Mixed Fruit Salad in Rose Syrup, but we found so much more and had a ball browsing past the [...]
I recently checked out the new Araya Artisan Chocolate boutique in River Oaks Shopping Center. Araya sells embellished chocolates and truffles made with Venezuelan chocolate (El Rey) sans preservatives, additives or artificial flavors. I selected Passion Fruit, Pink Salt, Venezuela 70%, Margarita, Chipotle and a Cafe Cafe truffle as well as a pretty box to hold them, and [...]
(Yum. A Chocolate Oblivion Shot. Photo courtesy eatZi’s.) I miss eatZi’s. I miss browsing the aisles, checking out the wine, bread, cheese and chocolates. I like eatZi’s for their delicious, reliable desserts, my favorite take-out lasagne and for grabbing a sandwich pre-road trip. More gourmet boutique than foodie mega-mart, the quaint atmosphere is reflected in tasty, high-quality meals to-go. Dallasites are getting a new location, a stone’s [...]
