| Mother's Day Unique Gift Idea Features Lobster Feast For Mom
"Mom's Magnificent Lobster Feast" gift package makes a unique gift just in time for Mother's Day. New gift idea features sweet lobster tails, crab cakes and chocolate cake. Chicago, IL (PRWEB) April 24, 2007 -- Mother's Day just got a little tastier with a great new gift idea from Lobster Gram - "Mom's Magnificent Lobster Feast". Featuring sweet, cold water South African lobster tails , luscious Premium Crab cakes, and even a Chocolate Heart cake for dessert, "Mom's Magnificent Lobster Feast" is a unique and delicious gift for your Mom, special someone or seafood lover. Sales of this very limited-time offer are expected to be high for Mother's Day, especially with the extra coverage it is getting as a feature on the Lobster Gram website. "Lobster Gram is continually striving to achieve fun and unique gift ideas of a variety of gourmet baskets for its customers, to ensure we have something to offer for every occasion, and our "Mom's Magnificent Lobster Feast" is a great example.
Artichokes: Artfully Yours and In Season Now
I must ask the question - what is not to love about artichokes? They look totally prehistoric. When left alone they bloom into a beautiful pale purple thistle. Their hearts are truly divine. Ahhh....but there are even more reasons to love this veggie and these I will share too. The timeliest reason is artichoke season is peaking - right NOW!!! Although they are available throughout the year, March though May is when they are at their best. Artichokes are low in calories and high in vitamins and minerals. One globe artichoke provides not only 6.5 grams of fiber (that's 26% of your daily recommended intake - DRI), but it also supplies 61 mcg of folate (about 15% of your DRI). It also contains 4 grams of protein that seems like a lot for a little plant trying to disguise itself as an armadillo.
What's cookin' in the kitchen
Were not sure why anyone needs a BraBall or pizza scissors, but we can at least give you a review of the trends we noticed: Tea is the new coffee, silicone is the new plastic, and retro is the new new.
Hot drinks are hot
Since Starbucks became a household name, coffee has been popular. Now consumers are warming up to tea, prompting such companies as Bodum to offer items like the Bistro Iced Tea Jug, cast-iron tea presses and glasses with built-in filters.
A childhood favorite may be next in line.
Tea is the new coffee, and you know whats the new tea? Hot chocolate, said Marie Cacciato, a Bodum spokeswoman.
Implants aside, silicone is in
When it comes to top materials in housewares, we have one word for you: silicone.
Eating on campus: Because gaining the frosh 15 should be delicious
Stanford has an array of places to eat outside of the dining halls. Here is a carefully selected list with a few of the more well-known options that will likely satisfy any ProFro craving without involving a police search. Olives Olives, a Mediterranean-themed eatery in the basement of Building 160, has a nice range of options. From gyros and souvlakis to Mediterranean-styled burgers and pizza, Olives is a safe choice for lunch. For the early birds, Olives sells fruit cups and orange juice that are bound to satisfy a morning craving. Most dishes come with a choice of olive rice or couscous; rice is the more savory of the two. For the student on the run, Olives carries ready-made sandwiches and salads. Prices vary, and pizza is the least expensive meal item. The Alumni Café Located at the Arrillaga Alumni Building — where Admit Weekend check-in took place — this eatery is among the best on campus.
Happy Hour: PomIranian
Some nights I stay up too late catching up on email, work and my shows. One of my shows is Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie on PBS. The other night I caught an episode entitled "Raising the Bar" where they featured Bartender extraordinaire Scott Beattie. As bartender of one of Sonoma County's finest restaurants, Cyrus, Beattie is constantly pushing the envelope for mixed drinks - he even visits local farms to pick his own herbs and produce. His drinks are amazing looking (I only wish I could say I've tasted one personally) and contain things like candied lemongrass, thai basil, simmered fruit purees and essential oils. They also have ridiculously whimsical (actually they're terribly punny, but I love them) like PomIranian, Olallie Go Lightly and Grapes of Roth. Since most of us won't be able to head out to Sonoma to have one for ourselves, I thought I'd hunt down one of his recipes.
Classic Chinese
I'm so glad that Tenley Moy, owner of China Gourmet in Hyde Park, decided to do some remodeling. Not only because the restaurant looks nicer, but because it got me to go down a few steps from Erie Avenue to eat at the Gourmet for the first time in years. Recently, I've been more excited about the adventure of finding grassroots Chinese restaurants in strip malls where no one speaks English than I have in the 30-year-old Hyde Park standard. But I'd forgotten how well China Gourmet delivers its own kind of pleasures. The Chinese-American food is carefully done along traditional lines, and the service creates a very special experience. There's a sense of ceremony and attention to detail that you don't find very often in any kind of restaurant. Plus it all comes at moderate prices, too: all but one of the entres is under $20.
Promising signs
LOOK around compact Rosalie Village and you may begin to think the locals are obsessed by their stomachs. Almost every business there is food-related. There is a gelateria, a pizzeria, a fish and chip shop, a sushi cafe, two bottle shops, a Chinese takeaway, an Indian restaurant, a bar, a Thai restaurant, an Asian restaurant, an Italian restaurant, a dessert cafe, a deli and a gourmet butcher. Sandwiched between the Blu Grotto and the Indian Taj Restaurant, Indigo Bar and Bistro has been operating unintentionally undercover since before Christmas, awaiting their new signage since taking over from the former Lucid Juice Bar. I mistakenly believed it was a spanking new place when the new logos went up just before Easter. It's modern and fresh-looking, with most of the seating in a well-protected area outside.
Beauty and the feast
ACCORDING to a new wave of 'beautritionists', it takes more than a miracle cream to prevent wrinkles. Many experts say the key to a great complexion starts in the kitchen, not the bathroom - and the food and drinks industry is catching on fast to the big business in vanity fare. Image-conscious consumers everywhere are buying jams, yoghurts and sweets enhanced with "anti-ageing" enzymes in their pursuit for perfect skin. However, tucking in to expensive foodie gimmicks isn't the only way to improve your looks from the inside out. Most of us recognise the health benefits of choosing the right foods and reducing the wrong ones. But did you know the same rule applies to help turn around the fate of your face? "You can't go wrong with a healthy balanced diet, washed down with plenty of fluids.
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