Divine Truffle Brownies for Valentine's Day Gifts
A chocolate loving recipe suggests Divine Truffle Brownies as a romantic homemade gift. A rich semisweet brownie base is topped with a creamy truffle layer and decorated with candy hearts or icing heart shapes for a festive finish.
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Kraft Foods
Easy Mini Kisses Choco Cherry Pie Recipe
A Valentine dessert features cherries and chocolate in a quick simple bake. Quaker Oats presents a heart smart treat with cherry lovers in mind. Crimson filling blends dried cranberries cranberry juice and canned pie cherries. Bake in individual heart shaped dishes.
Mercy Iowa City hosts heart healthy cooking talk and lunch
Mercy Iowa City presents Food for Thought with Executive Chef Ron Hall preparing healthful recipes at the noon lecture and luncheon. Dietitian Nancy Prins will discuss reducing fat and cholesterol and substitutions. Lunch is $3 or bring your own. reservations by calling Mercy On Call at 358 2767.
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Heart Healthy
Food For Thought
Mercy Iowa City
Mercy
Ron Hall
Nancy Prins
Cooking Art for Young Children by Kohl and Potter
MaryAnn Kohl and Jean Potter publish Cooking Art Easy Edible Art for Young Children from Gryphon House. The book offers 89 no bake activities 64 five-ingredient or fewer ideas and 12 theme chapters including Shapes Numbers Transportation Building and Animals.
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MaryAnn Kohl
Jean Potter
Gryphon House
Slow-Cooker Ready & Waiting Cookbook Highlights
Rick Rodgers adapts meals for on the go cooks with over 160 recipes from around the world. The book covers soups and stews like Black Bean Smoked Turkey Soup, sides such as Baby Carrots with Port Wine Glaze, and desserts including Steamed Chocolate Pecan Pudding.
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Rick Rodgers
William Morrow & Co
TNT to Air Winter Olympics Coverage With Cooking Segments
The TNT network outlines 50 hours of Winter Olympics coverage including Japanese cooking segments. Cooking With Chef Soto will appear regularly as viewers are drawn to Nagano event related cuisine.
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TNT
Soto
Valentines Day Candy Market Totals $725 Million
The Chocolate Manufacturers Association and National Confectioners Association estimate Valentine s Day spending at 725 million. Over 35 million heart shaped boxes and 10 billion conversation hearts will be bought for the holiday.
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Chocolate Manufacturers Association
National Confectioners Association
Bagels as quick energy boost for athletes study says
Researchers at Ball State University report bagels provide equal carbohydrate content to energy bars and may be easier to digest for athletes. The study compares bagels with the latest athletic snack and suggests bagels offer a practical on the go energy option.
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Ball State University
Muncie
Ind
Low fat dessert and chicken nuggets in Healthy for Life series
Registered dietitian Judy Fitzgibbons presents low fat recipes for brownies and cheesecake alongside baked chicken nuggets and fries. The segment runs on KCRG-TV’s Healthy for Life weekday schedule in February during 6 am 5 pm and 10 pm news broadcasts. recipes include potato fries 100 calories 3 g fat per serving and baked chicken nuggets 265 calories 3 g fat per serving from the Dole Kids Cookbook.
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Judy Fitzgibbons
St. Luke’s Nutrition Center
Kcrg-Tv
Healthy For Life
Fitzgibbons
Dole Kids
Chocolate Cherry Pie with Mini Hershey Pieces
A nine inch pie crust is filled with a melted mixture of mini Hershey's Kisses marshmallows and milk, folded with whipped cream, then chilled four hours. The top is garnished with cherry pie filling whipped topping and remaining baking pieces before serving.
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Hershey's Kisses
Foolproof chocolate baking tips from Nick Malgieri
Master pastry chef Nick Malgieri shares practical guidance for melting chocolate without scorching, selecting preferred bittersweet or semisweet brands, and achieving polished decorations. He advises pieces 1/4 to 1/2 inch, heating over indirect steam, cooling melted chocolate to lukewarm, and using squeeze bottles or bags for decorations. He also describes methods for chocolate shavings and large curls.
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Nick Maigieri
Maigieri
Nick Malgieri
Divine Truffic Brownies and Cherry Cranberry Cups
Mixed recipe excerpt detailing truffle topping brownies with chocolate butter batter and a cherry cranberry oat crumb topping. Includes precise ingredients, stepwise microwave and bake instructions, pan prep, cooling, serving yields, and nutrition notes.
Weather clouds push February fruit prices and surveys
Chilean fruit production drops due to southern water shortages risking a one month supply gap in stone fruits. Eagle Country Markets cites high prices from 89 cents to 3 dollars per pound for grapes and stone fruits from 1.29 to 3 dollars. March to April end may gap until California crops arrive. Randall Foods echoes limited price declines.
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Stone
Mike Toohey
Eagle Country Markets
Milan
Iowa City
Quad Cities
Dubuque
Clinton
Burlington
Chile
Toohey
Mike Gehring
Randall Foods
Edgewood Rd
California
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