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From the entire Well Fed Network family, we wish you a wonderful holiday season with your friends and family. We are on vacation until January 2nd, but will return then with a bounty of food and drink coverage. Best wishes to you and yours.

Posted by Joanna Miller on Sugar Savvy.
Sweetriot chocolate covered nibs come in 3 flavors: 50, 65 and 70, relating to the percentage of cacao content, respectively. “Flavor 50,” the one I sampled, was (pleasantly) darker than I would have expected, and the nuggets are much smoother and shinier than other chocolate-covered cacao nibs that I’ve […]

Posted by Andrew Barrow on Paper Palate.
So far from this issue I have made - quite successfully I should add - Rigatoni Milano (which was really superb and knocked my old beef and tomato pasta standby into a cocked hat), Sausage, Onion and Bean Hotpot, Pork Loin with Sautéed Kale, Apples and Chestnuts plus Chargrilled […]

Posted by Anita Crotty on The Spirit World.
It seems like ages ago that we chose Benedictine as the theme for the second edition of Raiders of the Lost Cocktail. As November wound down, tasty-sounding cocktails popped up in the comments section, and we all held our breath waiting for the judges to pronounce a winner. The […]

Posted by Mandy Pan on Just Baking.
Are you done with your Christmas cookies yet? I hope your answer is no. Because I’m not either. Although I have baked some cookies earlier to send to a special friend, and test baked a few batches of various recipes to see if they were good, I haven’t really […]

Posted by Susan Russo on Fit Fare.
You’ve seen them in the market. You’ve admired their brilliantly colored orange skin. You’ve picked them up, perhaps even sniffed them, then put them back and purchased some pears instead.
Poor persimmons. They are winter gems but just aren’t as well known apples and pears. That might be about to […]

Posted by Kati Chevaux on Kids Cuisine.
I tried it, I really did. I made some food look funny to see if my kids would eat without complaining. The idea is that they would be so tickled they would forget to think about the actual food and just eat it.
I had read Brian Wansink’s article earlier […]

Posted by Kelby Carr on Well Fed on the Town.
I am a bit of a soup aficionado, and I like to feed my passion when it starts to get chilly outside. I love soups of all types, and there are lots of great soup options where I live in Asheville, NC.
The great thing is you […]

Posted by Rebecca Molanphy on Paper Palate.

…and I couldn’t agree more! I’m a total advocate for “the real thing.” I love what Christopher Kimball recently said on the taping of a live show for America’s Test Kitchen. Of course, this was said as he was adding 3 sticks of butter to a cake, “If you […]

Posted by Michelle Stern on Kids Cuisine.

Admit it – you have, at one time or another, made a New Year’s Resolution that you didn’t keep. We are all guilty. In order to solve this problem, we make one of these promises to ourselves:

I won’t ever make a New Year’s Resolution again!
Next year will be different!

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