Serving Better Beer And Wine At Your Party

If you plan to serve both beer and wine to your guests at the party, then you must also know what to look for when tasting beer. If you are going to taste beers at your home then you must serve at least 12 different beers. This way you can choose from a wide range, though you should include at least two sweet beers, with two or three darker beers.

Pale and light beers should also be a part of your tasting, and drinking with a fruity undertone could go well with desserts you prepare. You should also include at least one or two reduced alcohol light beers, as they are becoming rather popular.

Apart from traditional beer and wine varieties at your dinner party, you may look to prepare drinks like cider, you can season with apple and cinnamon flavors. It will be a great addition to the food you serve at a fall or winter party.

If you need to learn how to taste wine, then one of the first things you want to check, is the color of the wine. Tilt your glass when you pour the wine, it will give you an idea of how rich the flavor will be. If you are testing a red wine, the color of the drink should be ruby, maroon, or brown in color.

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Low Calorie Dishes With Nouvelle Cuisine

There are specific concepts and ideas that differentiate nouvelle cuisine from haute cuisine. In nouvelle cuisine, there is an emphasis on color, texture and freshness.

Cooking in the nouvelle cuisine style tends to produce food lower in calories than food prepared in the haute cuisine fashion. So if you are looking to try out this cooking style, one of your rewards may be to help you lose weight.

Preparation and cooking is less complicated than the haute cuisine. In nouvelle cuisine, the cooking time for most dishes has been reduced. One of the more common cooking methods with nouvelle cuisine is steaming to maintain the natural taste of foods, and avoid strong meat marinades used in haute cuisine.

Moreover, nouvelle cuisine does not use heavy sauces (eg espagnole and béchamel) popular in haute cuisine. The sauces used in haute cuisine are prepared with a mixture of fat (roux) and flour.

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Delight Yourself With Chocolate Truffles

If you are looking to make your own chocolate truffles, then you will need to create a soft center and an outer coating. Inside the truffle is traditionally a mixture of cream and melted chocolate, and this is known as a ganache.

The outer layer is made of tempered chocolate, and once it sets, it creates a crunchy shell. Even if this is the more traditional method, you can experiment with more creative and modern recipes methods, once you get more comfortable with the process.

You can taste many flavors, when it comes to truffles, so once you feel comfortable with your recipes, you can create gift baskets to give to friends and relatives. For more ideas for creating your own truffles go to Make Chocolate Truffles.

One online supplier of chocolate truffles is Chocolate Perfection. They also have a wide selection of truffles made from the finest chocolate and ingredients. You can find fruit-flavored varieties, which allows you to experience the sweetness of raspberries with dark cocoa, and white chocolate truffles with berries or cinnamon fillings.

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Storing Your Better Wines With Wine Cabinets

You can store wines at room temperature in the wine cabinets offered by the Beverage Factory. One of the better brands available is Vinotemp, which has a redwood cabinet to store up to 400 bottles of wine, complete with grape motifs on the doors. There is aluminum on the interior of the cabinet, that helps to keep the wine at the right temperature until the wine is needed.

When preparing for a dinner party, you may need a bottle or two stored in a wine cooler in your kitchen, until your guests arrive. There is a range of wine cooling units that can be purchased in addition to the main wine storage cabinet, that you can keep in the kitchen while you entertain or prepare meals for your family and guests.

One option is a countertop wine cooling unit from Danby or Avanti. They are both elegant and compact, so they will not get in the way and provide a temporary storage solution for your ready to drink wine.

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Choosing Your Barbecue Grill

One of the better ideas, is to look for a barbecue grill with a well known brand, a long warranty and better customer support. With a good quality, sturdy grill, you can entertain your guests with some great barbecues.

Choose a grill with at least four hundred square inches of space for cooking. This is enough room to cook steak, chicken and vegetables at the same time. Cooking for five or more guests will be much easier, with a large enough grill.

Look at the features carefully and do not pay for unnecessary additions that you will not use. Some of the better features you may need, include stay cool knobs and space for your grilling accessories.

Finally, better built grills require minimal assembly and their instructions are easy to follow and if you are stuck, there should be easy to contact details at the cost of a local call.

When talking to barbecue aficionados, you will find out, many would rather use charcoal than gas, because the meat will lose some of its flavor when flames and charcoal are not used.

Gas grills are easy to store, but not so easy to put on the back of your car for a day at the beach. Gas grills are often more expensive and may cost up to $10,000.

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Time For A Coffee Break

Once coffee houses were established in Turkey, Egypt, and eventually in Europe, people actually stopped for short or long coffee breaks. Some of these breaks lasted for the whole day.

These days, the coffee break is a 20th century phenomenon. Although the concept was not invented by union organizers, the advantage of such a break for workers, became apparent over a period of time.

The standard benefits you see these days, were non-existent in the US in the late 19th century. This was especially true in factories or companies that had large numbers of employees, often working closely together, doing heavy work or strenuous rote work.

These were the times when employees were not even allowed to take a bathroom break on company time. The only standard benefit, was to have a job, and they could lose it and have their pay cut at any time.

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