ABasketSupply is One Stop Shop for Gourmet Gift Baskets Business
By Sydney | April 1, 2009
Gourmet Foods are one of life’s greatest indulgences. There is nothing more rewarding or pleasurable than biting into food that is both savory and delicious. Unfortunately, it’s almost impossible to find time to prepare truly delicious food. People’s taxing schedules render them hopeless in the kitchen and between working and taking care of the children; mothers rarely devote time to food preparation. www.ABasketSupply.Com wants to make it easier for all working mothers and busy cooks to serve and enjoy gourmet foods. As a gourmet food distributor and gift basket supplies co., ABasketSupply.com offers every food and accessory needed to make dinner parties, gift baskets, and nights of indulgence easy and successful. This includes everything from baskets and accessories to gourmet chocolates and salmon. ABasketSupply.com supplies everything , making it easy to accommodate the last minute dinner party or unwind after a hard day at work. Whether wanting to impress yourself or your friends, this gourmet food wholesaler and gift basket supplies company offers everything for extravagant nights of luxury and decadence.
And the offerings keep increasing over time. At ABasketSupply.com you will find the highest number of Chocolate bars and Chocolates. All the world famous and favorite chocolate brands are lined for your enjoyment. Not to mention, 100s of candies and cookies and everything in between.
Very soon spring and summer will be here and the time for BBQ will be upon us. Al the finest and best sauces and marinades are here with ABasketSupply that you will ever need. If you are planning to start a home based business, then starting a gift basket business is the most easy and affordable business one can think of. And for starting a gourmet gift basket business there is no better place to start than ABasketSupply.
We shall continue our discussion with Gourmet Gift Basket Business and gourmet foods in future. But for now, we invite you to browse our huge selection of gourmet foods and baskets and give us your feedback as to how we can improve our service to you.
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Top Guide - Bostons Best Restaurants Information
By Sydney | January 22, 2009
Aujourd’hui
Four Seasons Hotel Boston
200 Boylston St.
617-695-9463
www.fourseasons.com
Boston’s long tradition of hotel fine dining is refreshingly updated at the Four Seasons, where Aujourd’hui has been reinvented to attract younger patrons. There’s no more jacket-and-tie dress code and the menu has been developed by 31-year-old chef William Kovel, whose r?sum? includes stints at Jardini?re in San Francisco and Radius in Boston. Kovel’s cuisine is deft, delicious, and not at all stuffy. Good-bye beef Wellington. Hello seared Thai snapper in Asian-spiced lobster consomm?, grilled rib eye with roasted poblanos and chimichurri, and veal chop with creamed leeks and gnocchi. Every Tuesday, there’s a reasonable $45 prix-fixe wine-tasting dinner. The only thing that hasn’t changed is the interior: With its yellow-and-blue carpeting, mirrored shutters, and window view of the public garden, the room remains gorgeous.
Courtesy of Clio Clio
370 Commonwealth Ave.
617-536-7200
www.cliorestaurant.com
Ken Oringer is one of Boston’s busiest chefs, with Toro tapas bar, La Verdad taqueria, and KO Prime steakhouse. Oringer’s empire began at Clio, a contemporary French-American restaurant, and it remains closest to his heart. Oringer is still in the kitchen making dishes like butter-basted lobster, allspice-crusted venison, and caramelized swordfish au poivre—food that’s uncommonly pretty and delectable. The 65-seat restaurant with its taupe banquettes, faux-leopard carpet, and dramatic flower arrangements is a chic setting for such luxurious fare. Walk downstairs to Uni sashimi bar and you can try the highly recommended fish tacos and grilled Kobe beef.
o ya
9 East St.
617-654-9900
You might not expect a guy named Tim Cushman to make world-class sushi, but—after working with Nobu Matsuhisa and Roy Yamaguchi—he is now a master. As a result, there’s often a wait at his 40-seat contemporary Japanese restaurant, located in a cozy, quiet converted firehouse. Cushman’s small plates of sushi, sashimi, Kurobuta pork, poulet rouge chicken, and Wagyu beef are as delicious as they are beautiful (and expensive). Cushman serves raw sea urchin on sea-urchin mousse, tops foie gras with chocolate and raisin jam, and dishes up a robiola-stuffed omelet in a pool of truffled dashi. Wife Nancy is the sake sommelier. O ya means “gee whiz” in Japanese. That’s an understatement.
Courtesy of Salts Salts
798 Main St.
Cambridge
617-876-8444
www.saltsrestaurant.com
Gabriel Bremer and Analia Verolo have captured the city’s hearts and stomachs—he with his French-inspired modern American menu and she with her sweet, front-of-the-house management style. You’ll feast on dishes like truffle-poached sturgeon, black trumpet-dusted lamb loin, or diver scallops and braised pork belly. The tiny dining room—filled with flowers and baskets of fruit—feels like the couple’s home and you’ll feel like a welcome guest. Be forewarned: Brioche-stuffed, boneless roasted duck for two, carved tableside is so popular you must reserve it in advance.
Note: All restaurant information subject to change without notice. Please contact the restaurant for the most current information.
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Food - Low Fat Vegetarian Recipes, Copycat Restaurant Recipes And Chicken Crock Pot Recipes
By Sydney | January 4, 2009
It seems that no matter how much we advance in terms of technology and medicine, our social lives will always be centred around food. Depending on where we come from in the world the types of food that we will want to eat will vary of course. For some they will always be looking to be eating based upon vegetarian recipes and people have various reasons for using this type of diet for various reasons many of which comes down to making a healthy of what we eat as we want to stay fit and healthy in order to maintain our lives by dealing with simple vegetarian recipes. The fact that most of us eat dead flesh is something that is not desired by those who really feel that we should be living off of the fresh fruit and vegetables which is living and this is why we see that people will continue to be interested in simple vegetarian recipes.
Dealing with simple vegetarian recipes & simple vegetarian recipes is one choice and one of the others that many people find very appealing is that of being able to have gourmet recipe in the comfort of their own homes without having to fork out for all the expense associated with going out to dine. With some time and dedication this is something that certainly can be done when one takes the time out to learn what is necessary to make gourmet magazine recipe that they prepare at home up to the quality of that which is served in a restaurant. Many people are actually becoming more and more money aware (bearing in mind that we are living in the midst of a global financial crisis) of the amount of monies that is spent on food and recipes when we add up the amount of times that we end up going out to restaurants to dine.
With all the talk about gourmet magazine recipe & simple vegetarian recipes for some they will never be without their good old fashioned best crock pot recipes. Cooking in the free crock pot recipes way has become somewhat of a specialty for some and as we move on in the technologically advanced world, when it comes to gourmet magazine recipe, simple vegetarian recipes & free crock pot recipes we can see that some people just want to get back to good old fashioned cooking and eating and socializing. Dealing with free crock pot recipes will ensure that they will fulfill this desire with their loves ones enjoying food and drink the way it should be enjoyed. Whatever ones particular like is in terms of the types of food we like to eat – we may like to consider what gourmet magazine recipe, & free crock pot recipes, simple vegetarian recipes has to offer us.
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Where to Find Raw Food Recipes For Every Occasion
By Dave | November 7, 2008
This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni’s Renegade Roundtable, which can be found at http://www.RenegadeRoundtable.com. In this excerpt, Nomi Shannon shares on The Raw Gourmet, Raw Food Celebrations and great raw food recipes.
Renegade Water Secrets with Nomi Shannon, raw food chef and author of The Raw Gourmet and a new book, Raw Food Celebrations.
Kevin: We could talk for hours. I wanted you to talk a little bit more about “The Raw Gourmet” and your new book and what someone can find in there, because it’s a great book. It’s great for people who want to do parties, who want to do themes and all that sort of stuff. And I think it’s really missing in the palate of raw food cookbooks that are out there. This one is kind of needed. It kind of fits a pretty nice niche. So why don’t you talk about that a little bit.
Nomi: All right, thanks. Well, you know, I think that the “Raw Food Celebrations” is the first book out that is specifically for celebrating. And what we did, Sheryl and I broke it down, so that if you wanted to have a theme, it doesn’t have to you can pick a recipe from here or from there, it’s broken down into I forget how many themes, seven or eight — Italian, Thai…she did the Thai because she and her husband have been to Thailand many times and the food is incredible. She did stuff I never heard of, like [indecipherable] and stuff like that. And delicious coconut soup and stuff. Brunch, buffet, cocktail, if you just want to have a bunch of people over, and just sort of have hors dousers and drinks. You know, we have a few nice drinks in there. They don’t have alcohol in them, but you could put alcohol in them, if you wanted to.
And what we did is we did a timeline, so it’s like three weeks before the party dehydrate, cut up the red peppers and dehydrate them, because they’ll keep forever, and then you toss them in or throw them on top of the soup. Five days before, four days before, three days before, the day of. And we tried and succeeded in most of the categories to have the amount of work you do on the actual day of your event, if you choose to make, there’s probably seven to nine recipes in each grouping, and if you choose to do the whole thing like that, and have the event as we structured it, then we really made it so that you can plan a week ahead and on a Saturday or a Sunday have a nice event. Or you can just
pull out one recipe at a time.
And we worked very hard to make it. Like my lasagna recipe I showed a few of the sauces last, whatever day I did the food prep in Fort Bragg, I think it was Saturday, and I made three or four sauces in less than 45 minutes. And turned out they were all the sauces that go into the lasagna. But we start making them four days before. And then really what takes the time is assembling the lasagna, and you do that the day before. So it’s a fun book for that, and it’s a book for someone who is starting but they don’t want to have like an energy soup concept, or for someone who’s been making food for a while and would like to make a nice family meal or entertain their friends. It’s absolutely structured so that you don’t have to be raw to enjoy the food.
Kevin: That’s great.
Nomi: And then “The Raw Gourmet” is your basic, this is the best first book to get, or one of the first books, and if you really, literally read it from cover to cover, you will know everything you need to know to have a raw food kitchen. I don’t get into things like, you know, it’s a food book, I do not get into deep things like healing and cleansing and all that because it’s a food book. But it’s everything you need to know about a raw food kitchen. We’re actually going to reprint it, and someone asked a question about I used Braggs in the book. Well, I do use Braggs in that book because I didn’t know it was a bad product at the time I wrote the book. I would substitute Braggs now for Nama Shoyu, which is a supposedly raw soy sauce, or maybe a little sea salt, or something salty like that.
And I’m thinking well maybe those people at my publisher can change every Braggs in the book to Nama Shoyu, but that’s a big undertaking, so maybe that won’t happen.
Kevin: Yeah. And where can someone go to get that book?
Nomi: The best place to get the book, I mean, yeah, you can get them at places like Barnes and Noble, or health food stores and stuff like that, but the best place is to get them from my site, rawgourmet.com, and the reason for that is I give a free booklet with each book. With the purchase of “The Raw Gourmet” you get a soup booklet, which is thirteen to fifteen raw soup recipes, and with “Raw Food Celebrations” you get a book called Raw But Not Naked, and it’s a book of salad dressings.
Kevin: Wow, cool.
Nomi: And actually there’s no other way to get those booklets. And they are, each booklet is worth seven dollars. I did that purposely because you have to pay for shipping and so it’s a free gift, and it mitigates the cost of shipping plus. So, and then of course you’re supporting the author, so that’s always nice, too.
Kevin: That’s great. And that’s at www.rawgourmet.com.
Nomi: Right.
Kevin: Where is that on the site, right on the front page?
Nomi: The first thing you’ll see is on the left, when you look at the products, there will be a picture of “The Raw Gourmet” and “Raw Food Celebrations.” There’s also lots of recipe at my site, Kevin, and there’s articles. I’ve been writing a newsletter for about ten years and I’m gradually posting them it the archives. So there’s probably eight or ten up there now. There’s a lot of information at my website. There’s also, when you sign up there’s a free newsletter. It’s one of the first things you’ll see. If you haven’t been to my site, sign up for my free newsletter. That comes out sometimes once a week, sometimes less. The one I sent out today was “how to deal with your doctor,” your medical doctor. How to get the responses you need from him, or her.
Kevin: Cool.
Nomi: Last week I put out a bunch of recipes called “Summertime Recipes.” Sometimes I put specials out, I always have really good specials. But when you sign up for my newsletter you also receive a free seven-part course which is called The Raw Truth. And that gets emailed to you every other day or so until seven have arrived and it stops. It’s just little snippets of information about fat and other things like that, and each one will have a recipe with it.
Kevin: Oh, each one has a recipe! Oh that’s great. So where you can find that is when you go to Nomi’s site www.rawgourmet.com , you can go there right now and on the left-hand side, as of this recording it’s an orange box and it says “newsletter.” You can get seven recipes seven days in a row that you can prepare for your family or for your friends or for yourself.
Nomi: And if you want to see the most recent picture of me and my little grandson Seth go to, I think it’s just “The Raw Gourmet.” Because I never, I’m just the most un- photogenic person, and the picture of me is like ten years old, so my daughter sent me a picture and it wasn’t too horrible so I posted it last month and it’s a picture of me and the baby, who is almost a year old now.
Kevin: That’s great. Well, I want to thank you for time, I really appreciate it. For those of you who are listening you can go to www.rawgourmet.com and I would recommend getting the seven recipes and Nomi’s newsletter and definitely checking out the book. Ann Marie loves it and she’s going to be preparing some of those recipes. So you’re going to be hearing a lot about it on the Renegade Health Show. So Nomi I want to thank you for your time.
Nomi: My pleasure.
Baldwin
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Any opinions on Everyday Gourmet in Wilmington, NC?
By Dave | November 7, 2008
They say they have the best deli food, catering, wine & pastry in the area. Any opinions about it?
Culver
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Can I make my cat understand my dilemma?
By Dave | November 4, 2008
I feed her gourmet cat food, give her a wonderful cozy place to live, show her plenty of love and affection, let her watch her favorite TV show even when mine is on, encourage her innate independence, have warned the dog to leave her alone, have never raised my voice at her, ………. But not once has she EVER sat down to listen to my problems in life, like my dog does sometimes (e.g. every time the dog knows I’ve got the blues he goes and gets his tennis ball so we can play and I feel better in the process)! The kitty, on the other hand, maybe cute and adorable, but she is too darn selfish and busy to listen to MY problems!
:-)Landon
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Who has less in common with the average American, McCain/Palin or Obama/Biden?
By Dave | November 3, 2008
“Earlier this evening, Barack Obama was in Hollywood at a big fundraiser, a sold-out fundraiser featuring Barbra Streisand singing. $28,500 a ticket. Barbra Streisand was singing. All the big Hollywood stars were there. It featured dinner prepared by the finest Hollywood chefs serving an array of gourmet food. I believe the topic tonight was how John McCain is out of touch with the common people.” –Jay Leno
Thomas
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Mission Grounds Gourmet Coffee
By Dave | November 2, 2008
Mission Grounds Where Your Dollars Make a Difference
Mission Grounds Gourmet Coffee is a non-profit corporation dedicated to making a significant difference in the lives of children here in Atlanta & around the globe. We’re accomplishing that goal by selling our GREAT-TASTING, gourmet coffee & donating 100% of the profits to carefully selected charitable projects such as group homes, shelters, orphanages & schools.
The Company
The company was started by Boake and Carol Moore, as an extension of their mission work in Costa Rica. He got the idea from another friend who brought back bags of the local coffee to sell through his church. They joined the Café CoopeTarrazu Farmer’s Co-Op which enabled them to make purchases from a local group of 2500 farmers. Then they began importing the coffee that is now sold as Mission Grounds.
There are no administrative overhead costs at Mission Grounds. We rely on a team of volunteers led by successful business executives such as Thomas Loach and Rick Sample. No one involved in the effort accepts a salary. Overhead is limited to shipping, packaging and labeling the coffee, and comprises less than 5% of re¬ceipts. Every penny of profit goes toward child-centered projects in the U.S. and countries around the world. We use personal contacts to transfer funds and ensure the entire amount reaches its intended destination.
The Coffee
Mission Grounds Coffee is made from the finest Arabica beans grown in the rich volcanic soil of the Tarrazu region of Costa Rica. Known for its intense aroma and depth of flavor, coffee from this region is fre¬quently used to improve the flavor of big-name blends.
Tarrazu coffee is graded at five levels. The highest quality (#1) is also the least abundant, because it is grown at the highest altitudes and takes the longest to grow and ripen. Large coffee chains, which must purchase their beans in huge quantities, routinely pass over grades 1 and 2, even for their finest coffees.
Mission Grounds buys only the #1 grade beans. We offer two roasting options: Dark Roast, which is slow roasted for a smooth, rich taste, slightly spicy and full-bodied, and Mission Grounds Light Roast which offers a more delicate flavor that is crisp and bright.
The Opportunity
There are several ways you can show your support for the work of Mission Grounds:
BUY MISSION GROUNDS COFFEE. Whether you purchase one pound for your personal enjoyment, or several pounds a week to serve in your corporate break room, every donation helps our causes.
SELL MISSION GROUNDS COFFEE. If you have a restaurant or coffee shop, we’d love to be your house brew.
DONATE DIRECTLY TO A PROJECT. We’ll be happy to discuss the efforts we have underway and how your donations can make a difference. Our current projects are listed on the back panel of this brochure. Corporations can know 100% of their donations go to helping children and not to a salary or overhead. Donate where giving makes the biggest difference.
VOLUNTEER TO HELP HOMELESS CHILDREN: Please give me a call at (678) 480-1067, and let’s talk.
The Projects:
Mission Grounds is currently supporting projects in several areas:
Atlanta, Georgia: Sales from Mission Grounds Coffee support The Children’s Restoration Network (CRN) and Jars of Clay. These two organizations provide food, clothing, housing, education and job training for children in need in the Atlanta area. Jars of Clay works specifically with the inner-city poor, CRN works with shelters and group homes throughout Metro Atlanta.
China: Mission Grounds has recently completed a third school near Kunming in the Yunnan province. We have identified 12 more sites for future school construction. Our goal is to complete at least 2 or 3 schools per year.
Venezuela: Mission Grounds is constructing and supporting an orphanage housing 160 children that is under construction in the town of Barquisimeto. It is scheduled for completion in the summer of 2008. At least one other site has been identified for a similar facility.
Russia: Mission Grounds supports several orphanages in St. Petersburg, including an HIV home, through an organization called Relational Bridges International.
Other Projects: Mission Grounds partnered with Family Circle magazine to help families displaced by Hurricane Katrina. We also sponsored Back to School festivals to distribute backpacks and school supplies to children in Buffalo, NY and New Orleans, LA. We currently are exploring similar opportunities with children’s charities in Pittsburgh, PA, Charlotte, NC and other U.S. cities
Derwin
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Why is it whenever you watch iron Chef or any other cooking show, virtually every dish they make?
By Dave | November 1, 2008
Contains something disgusting like “chicken eyebrows” or “lobster scrotum” or “vietnamese pig nipples”??? They stand there in front of the camera making whats supposed to be gourmet food, but they add 6 ozs of moose butthole chutney to it. Can’t these people make normal food?
Art
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Gourmet Coffee Gifts for Mother’s Day
By Dave | October 31, 2008
It is that time of year again when we pay tribute to the single, most important lady in our lives–our mom. Mother’s day is often a day filled with gifts and activities as we try to make it as special for her as possible. And because mother knows best, she probably does not even want you to go out for your way just to get her something extraordinary or expensive. This may be a good opportunity to introduce her to something simple yet novel–gourmet coffee.
Even if your mother stays at home and does not work, keep in mind that she is kept busy by numerous household chores. Giving her something complicated like electronic items may just end up with the gift being neglected because she simply does not have the time to use it. Food and beverage items are most likely closer to her heart especially if she spends a lot of time in the kitchen.
Most reputable coffee vendors pack their products in shiny, well-designed foil bags that make them elegant gifts. Bundling different types in a basket makes the gift even more classy. Aside from being simple and elegant, here are a few more reasons why gourmet coffee makes a wonderful gift for mom:
Different flavors to choose from. There is always a coffee flavor to delight anybody’s palate–from premium, exotic Hawaiin Kona coffee and Blue Mountain coffee to flavored coffee types to the regular house blends. The choices are many. Some vendors even offer a sampler package where you get a little bit of this and that.
Brings out the scientist in mom. Some of the greatest discoveries were made in the kitchen. We will not even attempt to expound on this reason. Just leave it to mom to mix, match, blend, or shake the coffee and come up with one of her amazing kitchen creations.
Make her learn something new. Notice how some of those fancy packs of coffee have an entire short story printed at the back? It should make good reading for mom especially when her favorite magazine subscription does not arrive on time.
Leaves no mess in her kitchen. All she has to do is open up the bag, scoop out the appropriate amount, pour it in the coffee maker and that is pretty much it.
Gives mom something to brag to her friends about. When mom goes out with her group or chats with her friends on the phone, she is sure to tell them about the great new coffee she just discovered, thanks to you.
Something handy to serve her visitors. And you can be sure she will let her visitors know who gave her the wonderful coffee.
A gift that keeps giving. Mom does not have to think too hard next time she has to give a gift to relatives or friends. She will just give the same kind of coffee you have given her, her relatives and friends will love her for it, and she will be the star.
So as you can see, nothing makes a more versatile gift than gourmet coffee. The challenge for you now is to find out what kind of coffee maker she has, whether she can grind the coffee herself and maybe whether she needs a new coffee mug. Once you have all that information, shopping is the easy part especially if you choose to do it online. Your knowledge and expertise in gourmet coffee will guide you along the way because this time around, you know best.
Sterling
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