Melamine, China and the Food Supply

The first time I heard about melamine contamination in food was last year. I had just fed the Sous-Chef her nightly meal of  Alpo Prime Cuts and Pedigree Senior Formula Dry food. As the Sous-Chef ate her dinner, I saw the pet food recall on CNN. I  went to the site, and found the food [...]

BBQ Turkey Wings

Don’t trip…
Turkey wings are great. A family member kept raving about how great the wings were. Well, I tried barbecuing them, and they were great. This is a really simple treatment that allows you to use your favorite sauce, whether it’s Open Pit ( but I would’ve hoped you have graduated from the entry-level flavor [...]

Ice Cream made of Mother’s Milk?????

So…
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA wrote a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield this past Tuesday. Cohen and Greenfield are the founders of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream, the super-premium ice cream.
In the letter, PETA asked the Unilever-owned company to consider using human milk for its ice cream rather than [...]

And the nominees are…

Over the weekend, I was nominated for an award! Why gosh, Calitejano; Thank you man!
I never won an award before, other than school stuff . I wish I could say more than this, but I really don’t know what to say. Hopefully, I can live up to the hype.
In the meantime, go visit Calitejano’s blog [...]

Hershey’s Kisses goodbye to using cocoa butter in its candy

Do you like Hershey’s Chocolate? Well if you do, then take heed: Hershey has removed cocoa butter from most of its line of candy bars and replaced it with vegetable oil.
So what, you say? Well, according to the FDA, Products such as Whatchamacallit, Hershey’s kisses and Krackel can’t legally be called milk chocolate bars anymore [...]

The McPalin Grilled Pig Sandwich

Picture this…It’s a Saturday night, and the CC has had a few glasses of wine. As I sip the heretoformentioned wine, I ran across this article on Fark.com ( I LOVE this siteI).  The owner of the Lion’s Den Restaraunt in Midtown Anchorage, Alaska came up with this sandwich after hearing the lipstick-on-a-pig comment from [...]

All Purpose BBQ Spice Rub

Well I worked on it, and worked, and worked, and then…Eureka! I finally came up with the proportions for my all-purpose BBQ spice rub. I have used it on ribs, turkey wings ( yes, people: a recipe will follow for this) and chicken breasts and thighs with a great deal of success. You can double [...]

I made it!

I survived my first week of class.  If you don’t know by now, not only am I a soon-to-be-award-winning-blogger, but I am also a full time student. I started  my last class about 12 days ago, and it is a bear of a class. So, I have figured out a way to keep up with [...]

Salmon Cakes with Roasted Pepper Tarragon Remoulade

This recipe is great for using leftover cooked salmon, or using canned salmon. Don’t use fresh salmon especially for this recipe; it wouldn’t make sense to ruin a beautiful piece of salmon this way. Remoulade sauce is French in origin and is a condiment similar to mayonnaise. Several cuisines have different variations on the sauce. [...]

Some dude ate 2 Big Macs a day for 36 years…

Don Gorske has eaten two Big Macs a day since 1972, and apparantly has proof. He’s saved every reciept, and attributes his obsession to his fascination with numbers.  This article says that he keeps himself in good shape by walking 10 miles a day, and giving up the french fries that used to order along [...]