Gourmet Meals Delivered
Home Bistro offers chef-made prepared meals from Roasted Crab Cakes in Lobster Sauce to Filet Mignon with Béarnaise sauce and Crispy Roasted Potatoes, Home Bistro serves up gourmet meals that can be prepared at home in about 10 minutes. Home Bistro can take orders up until December 22 with guaranteed delivery for Christmas. Home Bistro’s Samplers offer a selection of prepared meals to suit a variety of tastes and dietary restrictions. The Beef, Poultry, Seafood, and Pasta Samplers each contain eight or more entrees, as do the Low-Carb, Low-Fat, Vegetarian, and Low- Sodium Samplers.
Prices range from $79.95 to $106.95. Customers can complete the meal by adding on one of Home Bistro’s deserts including New York Style Cheesecake, Chocolate Blackout Cake, Poached Baby Pears in Chocolate Sauce, and the popular Double Chocolate Lava Cake.
Home Bistro uses a cooking method called “sousvide.” This process allows for food to be cooked in Home Bistro’s kitchen, and then vacuum-sealed to preserve freshness and taste. Preparation is as easy as placing the meals in simmering water for about 10 minutes. Customers can order meals at www.homebistro.com. For information, or to request a catalog, call 1-800-628-5588.
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Chocolate Peppermint Martini, Anyone? 
Jenn Cocktail Company, announces the second of its limited edition seasonal cocktail
flavors with the creation of Chocolate Peppermint Martini. These cocktail creations
offer a mixture of chocolate and peppermint and are available for this holiday season
only. Four 100ml bottles of chocolate peppermint martinis (17% alcohol) will be sold
in a sleek, hand bag- shaped tote—a perfect hostess gift or stocking stuffer.
The Chocolate Peppermint bottles, decorated with iconic holiday images; a present, snowflake, martini glass, heart and candle. Cocktails by Jenn Chocolate Peppermint Martinis sell for $14.99 (in most areas). Simply chill and serve in a martini glass, no shaking or sifting, no fancy equipment or ingredients necessary; or even simpler, chill and sip from a colorful straw right from the bottle! |
For the Pen Gourmet
 Kyocera Advanced Ceramics has introduced pens that are sturdy enough for everyday use around the home or office yet still stylish enough for a business executive setting. Kyocera pens have a hardened ceramic ball in the tip that will not corrode the way a metal ball will. Water-based or oil-based ink carried in the millions of microscopic craters of the ball provide for a silky smooth ink flow.
The hardness of the Kyocera ceramic ball is similar to that of a diamond and ensures that the ball will always retains its original shape providing a very stable and effortless writing feel. They offer a wide range of pen styles and colors including tortoise and wood grain, more traditional silver and bronze, and blue and red.
The product line comes in ceramic ballpoint pens as well as ceramic needle-point units. Prices range from $20 for basic models to $65 for higher-end models cased in wooden hinged boxes. For more information on Kyocera Advanced Ceramic products: 800-537-0294 or visit: www.KyoceraAdvancedCeramics.com
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Give the Gift of Poker
Give your special someone the gift of learning to play poker like the pros. It’s a good bet these days that if you’re flipping through the TV channels, you’ll see a poker game being played, by amateurs like the women on Desperate Housewives, professionals and even celebrities.
Play Winning Poker In No Time (Que Publishing, $16.95) can teach you all the fundamentals to confidently “ante up” in a casual game with friends, at a live action casino table or even online at any one of the popular Internet poker sites. The book features a tear-out “cheat sheet” card that has poker information including a visual guide to poker hand rankings or “what beats what,” a color-coded starting hand chart showing which 2-card Hold ‘em starting hands to play, and an odds chart showing the percent chance of improving your Hold ‘em hand as new cards are dealt. Play Winning Poker In No Time. Published by Que. ISBN: 0789733404 |
