After a brief time in the Miami Bureau, returning finds dead herbs, stalled projects and rather than throw hands in the air, the decision is made to answer the question – when should you add a heavily processed cheese to your grilled burger?
The Food Newsie deck was teeming with onion grass, dill, mint, basil and a sprouting couple of onions left too long in the kitchen (so why not stick’em in dirt?). Spent a week starting a massive carpentry project down south and wouldn’t you know it, Mother Nature does that “thing” she did last year that wiped out every last starter plant we had going – about 35 in all. 102 degrees while we were out for a Summer vacay; how do you combat that?
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A remarkable micro-blogger drops a bomb probably without predicting the fallout. Announcing National Snack Food Month sends bloggers and Twitter users into a tizzy – so was it wrong? Is there another way to look at Snack Food? Our take….
It couldn’t have come at a worse time. Food Newsie had just posted access to the National Restaurant Associations anticipated What’s HOT list for 2011 highlighting food stuffs to look forward to around the country. Macheesmo had just posted a summary of the Food and Drug Administration’s 211 page Revised Dietary Guidelines for America five years in the making suggesting we all consider cooking more, cutting back Salt and avoiding processed foods – saturated fat and something sugar – when it came…
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We continue with our second idea of what you can bring to the table this Thanksgiving with a healthier Chocolate that will package well as a gifting sauce this later holiday season surprising everyone with next year’s sweetener too!
We discussed earlier that Thanksgiving is more about what you can bring to the table and less about just one, silly day of thanks. Most of the foods you eat will be brown-centric in color, so let’s not only add to that to avoid shocking friends and family, but let’s also introduce to them what the surprise sweetener of next year might be! Oh yes.
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The founding fathers must have known just what fun it would be to drink in D.C. Have you seen the pattern in the roads and railways?
The concept is pretty easy. We’ve all got friends who have never seen D.C. For one reason or another, they get a chance to be here for family or work or just a long weekend get away… So here’s your chance to think it out ahead of time and possibly, be treated (with a guest) to your very own Drinking Tour of D.C.
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Cups-CAKES, that is. Any other cup size preference you’ve heard is just a myth, flatty. I’m not prone to grabbing a Hungry Girl cookbook that touts fast, easy, healthy recipes, but there one was on a girl’s dining room table. Expresso Cupcakes [sic] on page 88 seemed like something with a kick of coffee that would hit the spot most anytime. What came out of the initial efforts was a dark-brown Nerf tennis ball. Perhaps I could do better?
That’s actually the original recipe sitting next to the winning variation. This recipe is cooked in coffee mugs and come out just as pictured. The modifications are simple and give about an inch and-a-half of extra vertical cupcake-like substance….
It seems that no matter what was tried in the FoodNewsie Kitchen Lab, microwaved cupcakes are just spongy. Getting more cupcake for the effort is only a small consolation. These are indeed fast and easy treats for people looking for quality in niether the taste of chocolate nor coffee…
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