Friday September 3rd 2010

Reviews

Barefoot Cooking

Barefoot Cooking

Are you looking for an easy to follow cookbook with tried and true, never fail recipes? Here is the cookbook for you Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa; Back to Basics. This may [Read More]

Bam!

Bam!

Food books, cookbooks, even food memoirs, arrive on my desk daily. Most end up being piled in stacks marked; interesting, not interesting, and, the biggest pile, redundant. This [Read More]


Food Quotes

Pocket-Size

Pocket-Size

Condensed milk is wonderful.  I don’t see how they can get a cow to sit down on [Read More]

A Delicious Endeavor

A Delicious Endeavor

Cutting stalks at noontime.  Perspiration drips to the earth.  Know you that your bowl [Read More]

Beautiful

Beautiful

Did you ever stop to taste a carrot?  Not just eat it, but taste it?  You can’t [Read More]

Doesn’t Taste as Good Either

Doesn’t Taste as Good Either

Kissing don’t last; cookery do!  ~George Meredith [Read More]

Maybe if They Had Prongs

Maybe if They Had Prongs

And I find chopsticks frankly distressing.  Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people [Read More]

My Dog’s Not Picky

My Dog’s Not Picky

Recipe:  A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to [Read More]

Immortality

Immortality

We load up on oat bran in the morning so we’ll live forever.  Then we spend the [Read More]

Food Humor

Good Parenting

Good Parenting

A family of three tomatoes were walking downtown one day when the little baby tomato started lagging behind. The big father tomato walks back to the baby tomato, stomps on her, squashing her into a red paste, and says, “Ketchup!” [Read More]

Food Festivals

Pasadena Strawberry Festival

Pasadena Strawberry Festival

The annual Pasadena Strawberry Festival is three big days of excitement and family fun, with the warm, country charm of the original Strawberry Festival. 2010 is the 37th Annual Celebration. The theme of this year’s event is Peace, Love & Strawberries. In addition to [Read More]

Mike the Headless Chicken Festival

Mike the Headless Chicken Festival

Chicken, A Huge Car Show, Great Music & Entertainment, Chicken Dance Contest, Food and Craft Vendors, More Chicken, the 5k “Run Like a Headless Chicken”, Chicken Games, Eating Contests, Mike’s Market and more. Great Family Fun! Attending this fun, [Read More]

26th Annual Poke Salat Festival

26th Annual Poke Salat Festival

The 26th Annual Poke Salat Festival, hosted by Arab’s Downtown Association of Merchants and The City of Arab, Alabama will be held on Friday May 14th and Saturday May 15th.  To learn more, go here. [Read More]


Food Tips

Incredible Edible

Incredible Edible

Fresh eggs have a rough and chalky shell, old eggs are shiny and smooth. To determine if an egg is fresh, immerse it a pan of cool salted water.  If it sinks, it’s fresh.  If it floats, it’s best to throw it [Read More]

Garlic

Garlic

When you use a garlic press or crush the garlic cloves, you get a stronger flavor than when you mince it fine with a knife. This is only noticeable when using the garlic raw Garlic can be used as a pest repellent to repell [Read More]

Fish Odors

Fish Odors

Rub your hands with salt and lemon juice to remove fish odors. Some of the products most recommended by both taxidermists [Read More]

Eggplant

Eggplant

Eggplants are perishable, so use them within 2 or 3 days of purchase. Under ideal storage, 40-45 degrees F with high [Read More]

Donuts

Donuts

Which has more calories and fat and why — a plain sugared doughnut with a hole in the middle, or a round jelly [Read More]

Caffeine

Caffeine

COFFEE (5 oz. cup) • Drip method  – 110-150 mg • Percolated   – 65-125 mg • Instant      – [Read More]

Bacon

Bacon

Bacon is cured and smoked pork. In the U.S. pork bellies are used, Canadian bacon is made from the rib eye of boneless [Read More]