Maceration Is Not Marination Or Fermentation…
Today we’ll explore the wonderful Boozy world of Maceration. Marination, a term often misused in reference to this process, only goes part way to Maceration’s ultimate destination, and takes a lot longer to get there. Have you ever marinated something for two weeks?Read More →
Blast From The Past: Grandma’s Biscuits
Today we inaugurate a series of recipe posts reviving real old-fashioned dishes, the way they made them in your Grandma’s day. We’re literally mining the pages of the Domestic Science Text Books from Prairie High Schools of the 30′ and 40s to bring you simple delights from an age when Lard was King!Read More →
Menu Madness Hits New Heights
A mammoth platter of Chicken and Waffles – and a whole bunch of other stuff – from Darlington, County Durham, in the UK, has claimed the Fabulous Food Blog title of Most Excessive Menu Item. You have to run down the ingredients list to believe it. I’ll let you guess how many Calories the thing packs!Read More →
Never Heard Of Tiger Nuts? You Will Soon!
You’ve heard of the Paleo Diet – the one that advocates eating only foods presumed to have been eaten by prehistoric humans – but do you really know all that entails? Today, we’ll look at one prehistoric delicacy that nobody was talking about until somebody declared it a ‘superfood’…Read More →
World’s Longest Pizza Baked in Naples
Definitely file this one under ‘Pizza Lore’. Top Pizzaiolos (pizza chefs) from around the world got together earlier this month to bake the world’s longest Pizza. It came in at over a mile (1.6 km)! l’ll bet you want to know how they did it. So did I. But more compelling to me was why they did it…Read More →
Happy Birthday, Yukon Gold!
I can hardly believe it’s been that long. I remember when the Yukon Gold Potato was first introduced. I was just a kid, then, and just learning to appreciate food, and I thought, “Why do we need another Potato?” Well, the Yukon Gold turns 50 this week and it’s definitely stood the test of time!Read More →
All Of A Sudden, It’s Sangria Weather!
Who’d have thought, just a week ago, that we’d have a forecast high of 29 C (85 F) for today? Under blisteringly Sunny skies? A week ago this morning, we arose to a hard frost on all the emerging greenery. Anyway, it’s time to review the rules for one of the world’s greatest Summer drinks!Read More →
I Was Unaware Of Allergy Awareness Month
May is – has been – Allergy awareness Month. And I was totally unaware of it until I read an article by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency promoting allergy awareness. To be fair, it seems most of the country’s media were also unaware, as the dateline on the story clearly indicates…Read More →