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Trinigourmet’s Amazon Hotlist for January 2010

TriniGourmet’s Amazon Hotlist is a compilation of -your- most clicked (and purchased) items on TriniGourmet.com
*note: Hover your mouse over each title for more details!

1. Caribbean Cookbook: A Lifetime of Recipes
Description: Rita Springer is a culinary icon in the Caribbean. Her original “Caribbean Cookbook”, first published in 1968, is a paperback classic and continues to be widely used throughout the Caribbean.This new edition’s elegant format, with her recipes accompanied by high quality photographs for the very first time, is a fitting tribute to her lifetime’s work. Rita’s comprehensive repertorie of …

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Is Your Oven Correct? (Why It’s Important To Calibrate)

Do you trust your oven? A lot of times I get questions from readers criticizing how a recipe came out and demanding that I change the instructions or details It always somewhat amuses me that clearly -I’m- the one to blame if -their- attempt comes out wrong One simple suggestion that I make, and I make it from my own experience, is to always keep a thermometer in your oven.
“But what I need a thermometer for? The recipe says x degrees and I put the …

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TriniGourmet’s Amazon Hotlist for September 2009

TriniGourmet’s Amazon Hotlist is a compilation of -your- most clicked (and purchased) items on TriniGourmet.com
*note: Hover your mouse over each title for more details!

1. Baking: From My Home to Yours
Description: Dorie Greenspan has written recipes for the most eminent chefs in the world: Pierre Hermé, Daniel Boulud, and arguably the greatest of them all, Julia Child, who once told Dorie, “You write recipes just the way I do.” Her recipe writing has won widespread praise for its literate curiosity and “patient but exuberant style.” (One hard-boiled critic called …

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TriniGourmet’s Amazon HotList for February 2009

It’s been dormant for over a year, but now it’s back!
TriniGourmet’s Amazon Hotlist is a compilation of -your- most clicked (and purchased) items on TriniGourmet.com
*note: Hover your mouse over each title for more details!

1. Caribbean Cookbook
Description: First published more than thirty years ago, Rita Springer’s Caribbean Cookbook is a West Indian classic.

2. Clay Pot Meyer Lemon Tree
Description: Amazon.com has this great lemon variety planted in a terra cotta clay pot ready to ship. Excellent for gift giving! Fragrant flowers produce thin skinned, juicy lemons year round. Different …

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TriniGourmet’s Amazon Hotlist is a compilation of -your- most clicked (and purchased) items on TriniGourmet.com
*note: Hover your mouse over each title for more details!

1. Clay Pot Meyer Lemon Tree
Description: Amazon.com has this great lemon variety planted in a terra cotta clay pot ready to ship. Excellent for gift giving! Fragrant flowers produce thin skinned, juicy lemons year round. Different than conventional lemons in that the taste is more sweeter, and less acid. Rind is thinner and more orangish in color than typical lemons. Evergreen. Full sun. Growing to about …

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I love seeing what kitchen gadgets are hot on the market. I freely confess that if I had the budget I would buy and try every single one of them!
This month the Food Network featured a product called Kyocera Perfect Ceramic Peeler that really caught my eye. You see peeling vegetables is one of the most boring and annoying tasks that I have to do in the kitchen. Grating cheese and carrots is up there as well. Not only do I long for the day when I …

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Wowee, my Gourmet Father’s Day post helped to bring about a MAJOR shakeup in this month’s hotlist. Many old faithfuls have dropped off, and many new entries (mostly kitchen appliances and plants!). Who knew? It also looks like the popularity of my Fudgy Chocolate Brownie post has helped Rachael Ray to make her debut on the hotlist. Hehehe, it’s OK, your secrets are safe with me
As always, this list is a monthly compilation of what you all have been clicking on and buying, here on …

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Yet another find that I thought I’d share, it’s been getting some good reviews!
The Back to Basics PCNR Nut Roaster gives you the ability to quickly and easily create a favorite snack in your own kitchen. Intended for glazing a variety of hard nuts, the stove-top Nut Roaster’s unique and durable design enables the glazed nuts to mix evenly by a simple turn of the top-mixing handle. Ready in only 10 minutes, glazed nuts make a tasty treat, are ideal as salad toppers, are great …

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TriniGourmet’s Amazon Hotlist is a compilation of -your- most clicked (and purchased) items on TriniGourmet.com
*note: Hover your mouse over each title for more details!

1. The Sephardic Table: The Vibrant Cooking of the Mediterranean Jews
Description: A collection of 175 recipes from Morocco, Libya, Algeria, and Tunisia in North Africa; from the Ottoman communities of Turkey, Rhodes, and Greece; from Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, and Iran in the Middle East.

2. Dough: Simple Contemporary Breads
Description: All the breads take less than one hour, with advice on how to make bread in advance, …

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Is there anything more dreamy and indulgent than having one’s own chocolate fountain? Whenever I see one on television I oooh and aaah Right now ChefsCatalog is having a sale on chocolate fountains, with the cheapest model being $39.99!!!