Socially distanced cookie exchange tips in San Diego
Pam Kragen profiles Maya Madsen founder of Maya's Cookies as she shares safe terms for a pandemic era cookie exchange. She suggests drop off and a virtual Zoom party while detailing CDC food safety, a drive and drop plan, and a pan demic safe approach. A San Diego charity tie in supports animal refuge and under served communities via her $50 holiday cookie box.
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Maya E Madsen
Scripps Ranch
Madsen
Maya
Grantville
San Diego
Niel
Salt Lake City
Georganne Bell
LilaLoa.com
Llaloa.com
Bell
Mayascookies.com
Animal Refuge
Parisian and Claridge style hot chocolates compared
The piece explores making premium hot chocolate from Parisian and Claridge's methods, detailing caramelized sugar milk, bittersweet chocolate, and chantilly cream. It covers batch tweaks for texture, salt addition, ganache mixing, and serving with whipped cream or marshmallows, plus two tested recipes and yields.
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Chantilly
Madagascar
Abbott
Costello
Claridge’s
London
Small-batched cocktails to set a holiday mood
A compact guide presents scalable holiday cocktails for intimate or larger gatherings. Recipes include a grape orange liqueur vermouth white wine rose punch, a cognac port creme de cacao cream drink, and a gin pomegranate lime shaker with frozen martini glasses. Servings range from 1 to 8.
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Startribune.com
Butternut Squash Soup with Pecans and Apples
A two serving soup using butternut squash, vegetable broth, and apples. The method roasts and blends the squash with shallots and ginger, then finishes with cream and a garnish of pecans and apples on toasted baguette. Calorie and nutrition details follow.
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Pam Kragen
San Diego Union-Tribune
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Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
CDC
Paris
Clotilde Dusoulier
Claridge
Hillary Levin
ST. Louis Post-Dispatch Claridge
Fireside
Sangria
Linda C
Iassenheimer