Trader Joe’s is a really fun store. I always seem to end up buying a new product; either new to me or new to the store. I purchased Trader Joe’s brand Organic Creamy Tomato Soup. I love soup and am always game to try a new brand or flavor. My grandfather, who also loved soup, ...
Naan is a delicious Indian flatbread. It is one of the most commonly ordered breads in Indian restaurants both in India and in the western world. Naan is traditionally cooked in a clay oven known as a tandoor. This imparts a delicious smoky flavor to the bread. Most kitchens, including home kitchens in India, do ...
The Big Texan. This novelty steakhouse is complete with a live rattlesnake in the gift shop aquarium, a giant stuffed bear in the lobby, and coin-operated shooting gallery between the lobby and the bar. Occasionally a continuous live piano performance occurs in the lobby, and don’t forget their 72oz. steak challenge: If you finish the ...
Finding delicious vegan alternatives to traditional meals can sometimes require a lot of Internet searching, scouring numerous cookbooks and lots of experimentation. When it came to finding a recipe for vegan “meatloaf,” the recipes that I found ended up being too dry and crumbly, not sticky enough or much too bland. After a bit of ...
Top Recipes Using Organic Dairy Foods – As talk of organic foods has become a hot topic online, on television, and in magazines and newspaper articles, and the benefits of eating organic foods has been publicized, more and more consumers are buying organic foods. A recent article in the May 2008 issue of Prevention Magazine, ...
The Portobello Mushroom provides the best of both worlds for vegetable and meat lovers. Many consider the Portobello the king of mushrooms and I would agree, for those of you that don’t think fungi should be food, then the Portobello is a great mushroom to start with. They provide what anyone looks for in a ...
This past weekend, I picked many of the apples on my tree and made large batches of applesauce for canning and freezing. While making applesauce isn’t that hard, and making applesauce from scratch gives me total control of what goes into it, peeling and coring apples for applesauce can be a royal pain. Peeling and ...
Colonel Harland Sanders is known around the world for his famous “finger lickin’ good” Kentucky Fried Chicken. His chicken, made from a special recipe that includes eleven herbs and spices, is served every day in restaurants that bear his likeness on the buildings. These establishments span the United States. You can even find his chicken ...
Japanese restaurants in America don’t serve the traditional Japanese diet. I don’t think they even serve the traditional Japanese-American diet, or the Japanese immigrant diet. Growing up with my mom, from Japan, we rarely ate sushi, tempura, or teriyaki. We didn’t really eat Japanese more than two or three times a week, but when we ...
The first thing I ever learned to cook was spaghetti, and now so many years later not only are my favorite ethnic foods Italian, but I still love cooking it. Of course now it’s a bit more sophisticated with fresh herbs and robust vegetables bursting with color, but the feeling is the same. Italian food ...