Baltimore Restaurant Week runs Sunday, February 16 through Sunday, February 23, 2014, featuring a variety of restaurants and offering two-course lunch for $15 and three-course dinner for $20 or $30. For additional information, click here.
For wine snobs and newbies alike, soireehome offers you the Opus gift pack with three wine accessories — the soiree, tempour and stopair. The soiree accessory instantly aerates the wine. The tempour — pictured here — contains four gadgets in one. There's a pourer (no more drips on table cloths), a filter (no more grit in the bottom of your glass), chiller (keeping your wine at optimal temperature), and a bottle stopper. The stopair bottle stopper is like having a built-in vacuum pump to keep your wine as tasty as the first time you opened it. Although the items are sold separately, the three-piece set sells for $60.
The micro-roaster Booskerdoo roasts beans from all over the world, including their two newest varieties" Mexico Chiapas Fair Trade Organic and the Papua New Guinea West Highlands Kimel Estate.
Ritz-Carlton’s Wine Director, Marika Vida-Arnold has paired wine from wineries lead by iconic women in wine, with pralinés, orange sticks and ganache created by Pastry Chef Stephanie Grajales. Some sample pairings of "Chocolate takes Flight" with a feminine touch include: Dark Chocolate Ganache Infused with Fresh Mint, Lauverjat Sancerre Winemaker: Karine Lauverjat Dark Chocolate Orange Peel, Dobogó Tokaji Aszu Winery Owner: Izabella Swack Belle Femme Praliné, Veuve Clicquot Demi Sec Homage to Madame Clicquot Ponsardin These pairing are offered in flights of three for $45 per person beginning on February 9th through February 15th in the Star Lounge at The Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park. For more information, call 212-521-6125. [...]
BenRiach recently introduced four new whiskys to the US market, including Horizons 12 Year Old Triple Distilled; Solstice 2nd Edition 17 Year Old; Septendecim 17 Year Old Peated Single Malt; and Authenticus 25 Year Old Peated Single Malt. Horizons is distilled three times before it is aged for 12 years. It has huge nutty characteristics balanced by a slice of sweet, creamy oak and honey. Solstice is distilled from both styles of malted barley – peated and non-peated. – and thereby capture the defining taste and aroma of peat reek. It has dry roasted nut notes with heavy peat and subtle hints of dried fruit. Septendecim has a peaty aromas [...]
Lundberg Family Farms Multigrain Chips — made with organic brown rice, quinoa, amaranth, corn, millet, garbanzo beans and chia and flax seeds — are available in four varieties: Mendocino Tomato & Herb, Mojave Jalapeño, Redwood Smoky BBQ and Shasta Chipotle Lime. Each 9-chip (about 1-ounce) serving has 130 calories, 0.5 grams saturated fat (of 6 grams total) and 150-170 milligrams sodium.
While wandering on the Lower East Side shopping, be sure to stop in at the Whynot Coffee Shop and Art Gallery on Orchard Street for a rich cups of Blue Bottle coffee, delicious pastries from Mille-feuille Bakery (552 LaGuardia Place), free WiFi and friendly personnel. The gallery will rotate the work shown on the walls, beginning with artist, Jeremy Penn. If you're a West Village person, you're already familiar with the growing coffee shop, as their first location is at 14 Christopher St. Invited to sample their goodies, I indulged in both coffee and baked goods. They make both regular coffee ($2.5 per cup) and single estate pour over ($4.5) [...]
Have a small kitchen? Consider the space-saving Dexas Turbo Fan Collapsible Salad Spinner that not only is easy to use, but it collapses to 4.5" in height making it easier to store.
Crazy Steve's Bloody Mary Mix is now available in two varieties — Ghostship and Badass Barnacle. The Ghostship mix contains garlic, onion, cucumber, celery, jalapeno, sweet pepper and ghost pepper; the Badass Barnacle mix contains celery, onion, cucumber, peppers, garlic, jalapeno and tomatoes and a variety of spices. Each 4 fluid-ounce serving has 30 calories, 310 milligrams sodium, 3 grams sugar and 2 grams protein.
The Powell & Mahoney Bloody Mary Mixes are available in two spicy varieties — chipotle and sriracha. Each 2.5 fluid-ounce serving has 20 calories, 220-310 milligrams sodium and 4-5 grams sugar.
Pompeian Grapeseed Oil Spray contains oil from grape seeds, high in essential polyunsaturated fatty acids and rich in vitamin E and antioxidants. It's a light cooking spray with a high smoke point to use when stir-frying, sauteing, grilling and baking. The bottle has a triple action nozzle to drip, stream or spray. Like most fats, grapeseed oil contains 14 grams of fat per tablespoon. It is high in unsaturated fats (monounsaturated and polyunsaturated) and low in saturated fat with 1.3 grams per tablespoon compared 1.5 grams in olive oil and 7 grams in butter. Each 1 second spray has 15 calories. Kelly Sloan, Bite of the Best intern: This spray is quick and easy [...]
I stopped in for lunch at the newly opened Mambo Cocina Latina, on State Street in New Haven — a collaboration of Chef Alex Morales with the owners of Goodfellas and Bin 100. I inadvertently was handed the dinner menu and had decided on the grilled octopus. Ted, our waiter, graciously agreed to see if the kitchen would prepare that for me. I was go glad they did and recommend it. Their tender octopus ($15) comes served a top a chilled fingerling potato and roasted pepper salad all drizzled with aioli (garlic mayo). We also sampled their fish tacos ($13), with tempura fish over avocado, lettuce pico de gallo and [...]
Triangle Restaurant Week runs Monday, January 20 through Sunday, January 26, 2014, featuring a variety of restaurants and offering three-course prix fixe meals for $20 or $30. For additional information, click here.
Clayton Restaurant Week runs Monday, January 20 through Sunday, January 26, 2014, featuring 19 participating restaurants and offering three-course dinner menus for $25. For additional information, click here.
San Diego Restaurant Week runs Sunday, January 19 through Friday, January 24, 2014, featuring over 180 participating restaurants and offering two-course lunches for $10, $15 or $20 and three-course dinners for $25, $35 or $45. For additional information, click here.
The Organic Finger Limes are specialty limes that have a similar taste to lemon and lime. The cylinder shaped limes have an inner flesh that is bubble-like. Each teaspoon serving has 20 calories. bonnie: Cut in half and squeeze to find lime juice pearls that pop with flavor in this citrus, originally from Australia. I used the the caviar-like bubbles recently to add an unexpected crunch of tart, lemony-lime flavor to the Moscow Mules cocktail that I served. Follow @BonnieBOTB
Pyure Organic Stevia Sweetener is a calorie-free and sugar-free sweetener. It contains organic agave inulin fiber, a probiotic, and provides 1 gram fiber (4% of what's recommended) in each packet.
Tetley Black & Green blend is a of both black tea and green teas, giving tea drinkers a full flavored black tea with the goodness of green tea.
Kansas City Restaurant Week runs Friday, January 17 through Sunday, January 26, 2014, featuring a variety of restaurants and offering multi-course lunches for $15 and dinners for $33. For additional information, click here.
Alexandria Restaurant Week runs Friday, January 17 through Sunday, January 26, 2014, featuring 50 participating restaurants and offering dinner for two or three-course prix fixe menus for $35. For additional information, click here.
