Food Blogs (141)

Fish head soup...We stopped at the Asian Market yesterday and bought a few things. After a brief conversation with the woman at the meat counter, she went in the back...

Is It Soup Yet?Do you remember the commercial Lipton's put out in the 1970's for their 'instant' soup? I believe it was a little kid that asked the 'Mom' - is it sou...

Yogurt...There must be some scientific explanation as to why I can open a container of yogurt and the top surface is smooth and solid. After taking a scoop or...

Junior...I was around 7 years old when my family moved from New York to Miami. Life here was pretty simple. My neighborhood was a place where you didn't always...

Chocolate CoinsRemember those mesh bags of chocolate coins we got as kids ? Well, what can I buy with them now ? I might be willing to make an inves...

Banner DaysEver have one of those days where you're really busy and eating seems to be something you cram in on your way to somewhere else? Well, I have lots of...

Waste Not - Want NotI often wonder if we change as we age, or we just find our true core values and follow those instead of trying to please others? I was brought up as a...

Wipe that mole off your face...Sometimes it's not so easy considering the same word has different meanings. If a guy has a birth defect (as in a dark round often raised mark on h...

Fat tastes good...I have to say that fat tastes good. Foods that are high in fat always taste good. Fat & salt... Mmmmmm.... steak. Fat & sugar Mmmmmmm... cheesecake....

Fried Ginger...Most of my meals are cooked with thin slices of ginger. I'm okay with powdered ginger, but my wife insists on cooking with fresh ginger and that's muc...

EGGSPERT...I'm a few miles from Johnson & Wales University. It's been called 'the cooking college' because they specialize in careers in the food service industr...

The art of hand pulled noodles...I came across some YouTube videos of noodles made by hand. Two different styles were featured in the same video. One is a Chinese man who pulls them b...

The end of another MANGO SEASON...I have a mango tree in my back yard that is older than me. Every year we get lots of tasty mangoes, so many that I have to give most away. The tre...

Cooking BaconIn case you forgot how to cook bacon, one brand offers instructions.

How Does Your Garden Grow?As temperatures soar here, I find myself diligently watering the front and back gardens morning and night. The one downfall of having all those huge s...

I Scream, You Scream...We all scream for ice cream. Remember that? I think it was a commercial, way back when. One of my favourite foods in the summer time is ice cream. In...

USDA...The United States Department of Agriculture is the agency who inspects meat processing plants and sees to it they maintain health standards. Every we...

Food Allergies...For me it's peanuts. I like them but they don't like me. I don't recall any peanut allergy as a kid, but in the last 20 years or so, I break out in h...

Tofu...I'm a picky eater. I know what I like and I know what I dislike. If I had to make a list, Tofu would be near the top of the list of foods to avoid....

Healthy Eating ShockI normally try to eat healthy. It has been feeling good lately to save all my veggie matter to take to the community garden, then it dawned on me to...

There's no I in......I saw a recent advertisement for Jim Beam bourbon that states "There's no I in bourbon". For some odd reason, I had to laugh. While alphab...

chatillion's watermelon knife...Summer is here and it's watermelon season. If you like watermelon but you have trouble cutting it into pieces, an way to easily do this is to try my c...

Odd Food CombosWhat foods do you mix together that you love but other people think it's terrible? For me it's chicken and chocolate pudding. It happened about a mont...

The First of the SeasonMmm mmmmm! I don't know about anywhere else, but corn on the cob is a 'thing' here. Every year, we wait impatiently for those first ears of corn to ri...

OlivesSo, we all have experienced that situation, where you're lying in bed thinking about this and that. World politics, pretty girls, our workplaces... An...

Making Cheese the first timeThanks to a great suggestion from Molly I watched several you tube videos on how to make cheese. It looked so simple. I ran to the store and got som...

What color....Do you like painting your fingernails?...

The curse of predictive textA friend texted me a recipe not long ago and I wasted half a day scouring the shops for an ovenproof fish. By the time I realised it was a mistake I...

Top Dozen Favorite fruits to eat by meThis is MY top 12 list, it's somewhat acceptable, if YOUR list is different. #12 Plum #11 Apricot #10 Strawberry #9 Blackberry...

OodlesIf Zucchini noodles are Zoodles does that make Potato noodles Poodles?...

Eggs for dummiesAt one and the same time the most boring, yet potentially most useful, blog I have ever posted. Those who know their onions eggs can please add th...

Food poisioning....More common than we think. In the USA, some 30K cases yearly, with up to 10% being fatal ! Well, after a lunch at a street vendor's truck this week,...

The Human/Pie Genome ProjectWe have all probably eaten pies containing bits of human, now Scientists are combining human and pie DNA. A Dr.Gregg has managed to not only combin...

AS 70% OF THE WORLD HAVENOT ENOUGH TO EAT, HAVE WE BECOME SELF ABSORBED.You cannot open a Magazine /Newspaper or even watch some T.V. without being bombarded with articles on Staying young [it is a sin to age ], About Vit...

Roasted Jam and peasMay sound a lot like Toasted ham and cheese. But take my word for it they taste nothing alike...

BreakfastOk, all hands to the plough here, the challenge is to create an East meets West breakfast. So ................ easiest is to say (a) what you...

Oranges and lemonsGot home the other day from shopping to find a bag of lemons hanging on the door - they turned out to be from my new neighbours from Madrid, who own a...

I Don't Make Macaroni And CheeseI make cheese with macaroni Please correct the following in the form below: [Blog Detail] must contain at least 50 characters, you entered 45...

National day of slaughter...Instead of making a big song and dance about an outdated American tradition You should consider a moments silence ..... And bow your head in sham...

Cheerleaders ate my PonyEver since I was knee high to a zebra I had always dreamed of owning a pony, a pony of my very own. I scrimped and saved for many decades working 7 jo...

Last ChristmasI gave you my heart, but the very next day you gave it away. This year, to save me from tears, I'll give one to someone special. Here's a song...

Violent reactions to drinking; beer versus tea - research yields surprising resultsA document expressing the evidence of violent reactions to drinking from first hand research is submitted below. You may have different conclusi...