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An Appetite for Easy: Sweet Ice Cream Sliders

November 18, 2013/0 Comments/in Easy + Quick = Delicious, FOOD, Food & Drink, Recipes, Tools & Techniques, View All Food Stories /by Editor

Could there be anything easier than making tiny ice cream sandwiches for dessert?

EASY & DELISH | Most of us have snacked on hamburger sliders before, those meat filled mini burgers on tiny buns that are gone in two bites flat, but have you ever had an ice cream slider? I have. At a dinner party recently, our hostess brought out bowls filled with different flavours of ice cream and a sampler of cookies and invited us to build our own ice cream sliders for dessert. What a great idea! Read more

How To Make Perfect Caramels In The Microwave

November 1, 2013/0 Comments/in Easy + Quick = Delicious, FOOD, Food & Drink, Recipes, Tools & Techniques, View All Food Stories /by Editor

Yes, it really is possible to make super yummy sea salt caramels in the microwave.

EASY & DELISH | When my daughter got married last May, she asked her aunt and me to make chocolate bark and fleur de sel caramels for the wedding reception. The bark was no problem; I’d made it before, and nothing could be easier (CLICK HERE for our recipes). The caramels made me nervous. There’s kitchen science involved in producing caramels that are both soft and chewy.

So we put off making these paper-wrapped sweets until a few days before the wedding—then muddled through using a recipe we found on Epicurious.com (CLICK HERE to get it). Only after the big day did I learn that we could have saved ourselves both time and concern by making our candy in the microwave. Read more

October 17, 2013/0 Comments/in Easy + Quick = Delicious, FOOD, Food & Drink, Recipes, Tools & Techniques, View All Food Stories /by Editor

TECHNIQUE: Deseed A Pomegranate Lightening Quick

SAVE TIME | Pomegranates are everywhere in supermarkets right now, and maybe you’ve been eyeing them with reluctance because you hate the thought of picking and plucking at the hundreds of juice-wrapped kernels (anywhere from 200 to 1,400 per pomegranate) nestled inside the fruit’s fleshy membrane housed in a rosy-red case.

Fret not. Here’s a little tip on how to deseed a pomegranate in fewer than two minutes. We picked up it from a friend who picked it up from a chef at Rambagh Palace, “the jewel of Jaipur,” in western India—how exotic is that! Read more

Bake The Best Gluten Free Chocolate Cake

October 15, 2013/9 Comments/in Easy + Quick = Delicious, FOOD, Food & Drink, Recipes, View All Food Stories /by Editor

This simple-to-make chocolate dessert topped with whipped cream is so rich you’ll be shocked to learn it’s gluten free.

EASY & ICONIC | Just when I’d thought there couldn’t possibly be another dessert recipe out there that was both dead easy—as in taking no time to make—and iconic—as in representing the absolute apex of a particular type of sweet—I run into Richard Sax’s indulgent chocolate cloud cake, a flourless treat so rich and satisfying that serious chocoholics will have little trouble choosing between it and sex. Read more

Frugalbits Faves: Baggu & Nutribullet

September 19, 2013/0 Comments/in Classics & Trends, FASHION, FOOD, Food & Drink, Shops & Shopping, View All Fashion Stories, View All Food Stories /by Editor

It’s never too early to be thinking about Christmas. Here are two of our favourite, inexpensive products to put under wraps for December.

PRODUCTS WE LOVE | Of course we stand behind every one of the hundreds of stories we’ve produced for this website since we launched in April 2010—we wouldn’t have done any one of them if we hadn’t thought that the information would be of value to Frugalbits readers. But some of these posts have had more impact on our own lives than others—the following two, for example. —Team Frugalbits

Infused & Enthused: Zing Water Bottles!

September 17, 2013/0 Comments/in Diet, FITNESS, Fitness & Health, FOOD, HEALTH, Nutrition, View All Fitness Stories, View All Food Stories, View All Health Stories /by Editor

Zing Anything beverage infusers make the freshest fruit waters to go.

GOTTA GET THIS | While it has finally been proven once and for all that drinking multiple glasses of water daily truly does a body good (CLICK HERE and HERE for the evidence), staying sufficiently hydrated can be challenging. If, like me, you struggle to down even a few glassfuls every day, fruit-infused liquids are a godsend, particularly when they can be made in an instant and transported handily the way they can be with Zing Anything beverage infusers. Read more

This Cookbook Is All About Pretty & Sweet

September 9, 2013/2 Comments/in FOOD, Food & Drink, View All Food Stories /by Editor

Rosie Daykin’s new cookbook, Butter Baked Goods, offers treat lovers 100 sweet ways to say yum. (SNEAK PEEK)

NEW NOW NEXT | It maybe be a little early to be thinking about what to get your foodie friends for Christmas, but I’m pretty sure mine will be receiving copies of Rosie Daykin’s Butter Baked Goods: Nostalgic Recipes from a Little Neighborhood Bakery. Not that I’ve thumbed through an actual copy of the cookbook yet—it won’t be available to purchase until mid October. What I have had is a sneak peek at a few of the pages, and I can tell you that they’re every bit as visually enticing as everything else this talented Vancouver interior designer/ successful baker turns her hand to. Read more

Make A Great Kraft Paper Tablecloth

August 6, 2013/0 Comments/in DECOR & DESIGN, FOOD, HOME, Home & Garden, HOW-TO KNOW-HOW, View All Food Stories, View All How-To Stories /by Editor

In the right hands, cheap Kraft paper can be the thing that turns a dinner table from plain to poetic.

DO IT YOURSELF | If you want to host a long table dinner this summer but don’t have enough matching tablecloths (or matching tables for that matter) to create an attractive, cohesive setting, Kraft paper can be a lifesaver. Read more

Great Sources For Perfect Paper Lanterns

July 10, 2013/0 Comments/in DECOR & DESIGN, Entertaining, FOOD, HOME, Home & Garden, View All Food Stories, View All Home Stories /by Editor

Light up your summer party with paper lanterns. Here’s where to find the best ones.

SIMPLE & PERFECT | Yes, they’re only paper moons sailing over a concrete sea (my patio), but summer parties automatically feel more fun when I hang a few of these. Read more

Why You Need To Use Cloth Napkins Daily

June 26, 2013/12 Comments/in BUY THIS. MAKE THAT., DECOR & DESIGN, FOOD, HOME, Home & Garden, View All Food Stories, View All Home Stories /by Editor

Here’s why you should use cloth napkins every day—and how (and where) to sew beautiful mitered-corner ones for yourself. (VIDEO)

MONEY WELL SPENT | You should be using cloth napkins every day not only because doing so will save you money by cutting down on paper waste but also because you deserve nice things, and cloth napkins are nice all around: better next to the skin than paper ones, generally larger and more absorbent. Read more