Lost & Found: Tenderize Beans, Peas with Baking Soda
You can use canned legumes right out of the tin. But they’ll work better in many recipes (which call for processing or puréeing them) if you tenderize them first. How do you do that? You can cook the bejaysus out of them… Or treat your beans with baking soda first…Read More →
TGI Fridays Revamp: To Open 1,000 New Restaurants By 2030
I can clearly remember when everybody said TGI Friday’s (TGIF) was on the road to Oblivi-onsville. A few years back, they were closing locations all over the place. But last year, the tide turned. And this year, TGIF is preparing to open 1,000 new restos!Read More →
Does Cooking Really Make A Man More Attractive?
I had to think long and hard on how I feel about this topic before I committed to write My Take on it. The origin post’s headline read: “Men are picking up ‘attraction hobbies’ to get dates. Does it work?” It kind of rubbed me the wrong way…Read More →
Lost & Found: Getting The Most From Your Spices
I let a genie out of its bottle when I posted my first ‘Lost & Found’ just a few weeks ago. Now I can’t stop tripping over new ones! Today’s ‘lost’ technique is truly ancient. Traditional cooks in Asia have been ‘toasting’ their spices for centuries…Read More →
Sunday Musings: Will You Eat More Cheaper Salty Snacks?
This past week, PepsiCo, the parent conglom-erate of Lays, announced it was cutting the prices of its salty snacks by 15 percent. It’s obviously a move to boost flagging sales. But there are many reasons folks are buying fewer salty, fatty, sugary snacks…Read More →
Nine Ways To Decline An Alcoholic Drink – Gracefully…
This being Super Bowl Sunday, the booze will be flowing like… Booze on Super Bowl Sunday. But if you’re among the growing cadre of those who don’t, or prefer not to drink, we present a selection of things you can say or do to politely decline a drink…Read More →
Fast Food Week: Quick Service Restaurant And Snacks News!
Loads of MAINS items in the rundown this week. And many of those have a Valentine’s Day flavour. KFC does Dollar Wings and Potato Wedges + Queso for Super Bowl. And McD’s partners with Frank’s Hot Sauce to ‘kick up your day’…Read More →
End Of An Era: Minute Maid To Discontinue Frozen Juices
It’s the end of an era – one that starts back way before I was even a gleam in my father’s eye! Minute Maid is discontinuing its hallmark frozen juice concentrates. All the more tragic a cultural loss, considering they invented the product…Read More →