Food Blogs (313)

Just got my Bachelors degreeDoes anyone want some soup? ...........

Do you help those in dire need?My house help is here today and was in a very down & quiet mood, so I asked her what is wrong, but she said nothing is wrong. I proceeded to give her...

Fruit(less) EndeavourI hardly ever bother with fruit but when I do pick something up at the supermarket it hardly ever encourages me to do it more often. I’ve noticed tha...

NespressoMy Nespresso machine finally came For anyone not familiar, its basically an espresso machine you use at home. I just had a cup of glorious wonderful...

OIL...I take issue with oil. Not petroleum based oil or oil/fat derived from animals. My issue is with plant or 'vegetable oil' and that includes nut oils...

Duck !!and I mean it... . . Christmas Day and nearly all grocery stores and restaurants were closed. One exception was the Asian Market. We we...

Dear Mr. TescoWill you please stop putting sliced potato in your moussaka and replace it with more aubergine? I will gladly pay the few extra pence this will cost...

Get a Burger King Whopper for 1 cent....for real.Believe it or not, this is not a joke. The 'catch' is, that you have to order that Whopper within 600 feet of a McDonalds from Burger King's mobile...

The best things in life are freeSome years ago, when I was working as a building labourer, I was parked up in the pickup on the outskirts of the village where we were working, eating...

Pizza...One of our new employees asked if there was a pizza shop near the office. Yes, I replied... due west about a mile in a little shopping plaza on the le...

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...

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...