So… I opened up my fave food webwire service this morning to find a story about a new limited-time ‘year-end specialty’ from McDonald’s China: a new ‘Burger’ featuring SPAM. That would have been fine by itself. But they also decided to make it a crossover with OREOs…Read More →
Bet you thought you’d already pulled every trick there was to change up good old Mac and Cheese since you stared cooking more at home last winter, when the COVID-19 crisis clamped down. Well… Mac and Cheese isn’t just a single style or combination of ingredients…Read More →
Here we are less than a week to Christmas, and still the new seasonal stuff is flooding onto the Fast Food scene! I hope at least some of it stays around after New Year’s. Can’t wait to try making my own version of Guy Fieri’s sky-high Trash Can Nachos… And Pepsi dares to add Hot Coca flavour!Read More →
Who doesn’t remember the immortal Beanie Weanie (among dozens of other spellings from all over the map); that classic fusion of canned Baked Beans and Hot Dogs that formed such an important part of the young lives of millions of Boomers? Get ready to change it up!Read More →
I am well aware that I am getting grumpy and de-focused as the pandemic crisis plods on. But sister Erin, after critiquing yesterday’s post, felt moved to come down particularly hard on my deteriorating attitude to life. So I’m going to try to find happy post ideas for at least the next week…Read More →
I’ve been trying to focus on the best aspects of human nature that have been revealed by the stresses and heroics some folks have gone to, to survive the COVID-19 experience. But for every success, there’s pretty much got to be a counterbalancing failure (see: Newton’s Third Law of Culinary innovation)…Read More →
Wired Magazine (of all publications) recently asked the rhetorical question: “Can the Burger Save the world?” Their answer was, “No, but the fast Food industry might.” Their in-depth article on the evolution of our food supply and its impact on greenhouse gasses posits some fascinating possibilities…Read More →
Muse on it: It’s a solo Christmas for you, because of the COVID-19 lock downs in combination with everything else being closed for the holiday. You’d normally go to a movie, then dine at your fave resto if ‘things’ were normal. But they’re definitely not ‘normal’…Read More →