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Coffee Granita With Kahula-Cream and Shaved Chocolate

 There are distinct advantages to making granita. One is that you don't need an ice cream maker or any special tools. Chances are you have all the necessary equipment: measuring cup, spoon, metal pan, and fork. Of course you need a refrigerator, since this is a frozen dessert. Before you start preparation clear a shelf in your freezer. This is a budget-friendly dessert, another advantage. Thanks to the few ingredients--juice or coffee, sugar, and your choice of garnishes--it's relatively cheap to make. Use frozen whipped topping instead of real whipping cream to lower the cost even more. A variety of flavors is the third advantage of granita. And you have many to choose from: orange, lemon, lime, grape, grapefruit, cranberry, cherry, pineapple, pomegranate, or a mixture of juices. The choices are yours and depend on the menu and your palate. Fewer calories are the fourth advantage, something that's important to me and may be important to you. Granita has fewer calories than...

How to Make Whipped Cream from Scratch

  Learn how to make whipped cream with our foolproof recipe for fresh whipped cream. We share step-by-step instructions and call out sneaky things to avoid. In college, I worked as a server at a family-run Italian restaurant in Baltimore. From night to night the menu would change, showcasing different  Italian dishes , but one dessert never changed:  Poached Pear in Chianti Wine Sauce with Chantilly Cream . ( Psst:  Chantilly cream is just a fancy name for whipped cream.) The concept was simple, much like this  poached pear recipe , but it was probably our most popular dessert. On a particularly busy evening, one of the prep cooks asked me to make whipped cream for the dish. I stared at the bowl of cream and sugar before me and confessed that I had no idea what to do. The cook scoffed, snatched the bowl and began to whisk feverishly, by hand. Within moments, the liquid ballooned into airy whipped cream. That was it? When I tried it at home, I learned it wasn’t q...

Is LinkedIn the Most Important Social Media Tool for Professionals?

 Without a doubt LinkedIn is one of the most important sites a professional service firm should focus on from the outset and YES you should be using it to the absolute limit of its potential. However it is not the only site to really focus on: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other video upload sites,your blog, online Directories, relevant forums, article sites and social book marking sites, they all have an important part to play in your social media marketing strategy and whilst LinkedIn is very important you must develop a strategy and see it in the long term perspective. Its easy to use, its free, it's well established and liked and it's powerful for both the individual and firm alike. Do not see LinkedIn, just in the personal context alone see it as a really powerful professional networking tool at the level of the firm itself. LinkedIn, had an Alexia ranking, July 2010, of 29; this means it has the 29th highest combination of visitors and page views in the world. LinkedIn h...