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The Best Petite Ice Cream Treats

Summer is here, and ice cream season is upon us. This year ice cream treats have downsized - in a good way. While caloric traps still exist - like the recently-exposed Cold Stone milkshake with an appalling 2010 calories, equal to 68 strips of bacon! - a number of manufacturers are recognizing that consumers often just want to eat a little frozen something something, and not their entire daily allowance of calories in a few gulps.

Here's a slideshow of 6 favorite treats - a few old and a handful

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The Debate over Chocolate Milk: Good Or Evil?

Is chocolate milk making our kids obese? Could chocolate milk help adults lose weight? Could the answer to both of these questions be yes? In a word, yes.

Two recent stories on the Interwebs are focused on chocolate milk. In story #1, the Florida Board of Education has been debating a ban on soda and flavored milk in state public schools, in an effort to decrease the number of overweight and obese young 'uns. One figure says that 32% of the children in the Sunshine State aged 10 to 17 are overweight!...

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Recipe: Strawberry & White Chocolate Cheesecake Bites

There are few things - right now, I can't think of ANY things - that are more delicious than freshly-picked, ripe strawberries. And if you don't believe me, you will after you make and taste these Fresh Strawberry & White Chocolate Cheesecake Bites, my recipe for the week.

Over Memorial Day weekend, I went strawberry picking in Long Island with my B.O.S. (Bossy.Older.Sister) and our father. We went to Wading River's Lewin Farms during their first weekend of berry picking.

It was THE BEST TIME EVER. My last strawberry-picking experience...

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Free Fro-yo for Dads on Sunday - for Fathers Day!

This Sunday, June 20th, the generous people at TCBY are offering a FREE cup or cone to fathers in recognition of Father's Day! The offer is only available at participating TCBY locations, so check yours in advance if you don't want to end up with a sad dad. It is unclear how store employees will confirm whether someone is indeed a father, aside from whether you look old enough to father children, you are a man, and you have a child in hand. (Question: So would the "pregnant man" be eligible for a freebie? ...

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The Little Black Dress of Cookie Recipes

Today I present to you my never-fail, go-to, tried-and-true cookie recipe, the Little Black Dress of cookie recipes. Actually, it's the eminent superchef Thomas Keller's recipe for chocolate chip cookies.

Up until the Chocolate Gravy test kitchen became occupied with other projects, I was making a batch of these cookies every week. Even my B.O.S.(Bossy.Older.Sister; I'm removing the word Scrawny for now on a probationary basis), who confesses that her one cooking-related weakness is in the baking department,...

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Free Haagen-Dazs Ice Cream Tonite!

Today, May 18, from 4 pm to 8 pm, you can go to participating Haagen-Dazs locations and get a free scoop of chocolate, vanilla, or coffee ice cream in recognition of the brand's 50th birthday. That's right - TOTALLY FREE ICE CREAM. THAT'S RIGHT.

Back in 1960 when the brand launched, it carried only those three flavors. In 1976, the first Haagen-Dazs ice cream shop opened - it was in Brooklyn Heights, N.Y., where it's still in business today. (Beautiful Brooklyn Heights is also home to the Chocolate Gravy...

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Recipe Test: Killer Cornflake Cookies

Today I am posting a recipe for Marshmallow-Cornflake-Chocolate Chip Cookies. It is my own tweaked and re-mastered version of the cookie from Momofuku Milk Bar Bakery, a place in New York City's East Village where the brilliant baker Christina Tosi takes unusual ingredients and turns them into addictive sweets. This may also be MY BEST COOKIE EVER. [photo by feministjulie via flickr]