Do you secretly serve your guests take-out food?
Oh, man! Oh, man! Oh, man! This is the lowest trick ever! Apparently, many foodies and wannabes, and poseurs… Invite friends and folks they want to impress to their homes for a ‘home-made’ gourmet dinner – which they actually buy in from top-notch caterers!Read More →
How to Hard Boil an Egg – perfectly
I know. I know… Seems simple. But I keep getting questions from folks who just can’t seem to time their eggs right, or who can’t boil them without cracking them, or who always seem to get a grey/black skin on their yolks. I have a sure-fire method that solves all those problems.Read More →
Paula Deen Update: Fired by most sponsors!
Wow! The fallout from Paula Deen’s casual admission, in a statement released earlier this week, that she long ago used the ‘N’ word, just keeps coming. Seems nobody wants to stand by the old dear in her time of peril. Well… It’s often been said that paranoia, like the Plague, is highly contagious!Read More →
Leftover Rhapsody: Chicken & Turkey
Seems there’s always some Chicken left over, whether you roast it yourself or get a rotisserie bird from the supermarket or deli. And there’s always lots of Turkey left over from those family feasts we all enjoy so much. So… What do you do for an encore?Read More →
Paula Deen fired from Food Network!
Paula Deen, the self-proclaimed Queen of Southern Cuisine, has been dropped by the Food Network. She apparently made some racist and/or sexist remarks… But, “It’s been a very long time…” And what older Southern person hasn’t, at some time of their life? So much for being transparently honest.Read More →
Happy 100! A FFB milestone…
This is our 100th post to Maggie J’s Fabulous Food Blog! Seems like only yesterday… But it was actually last August – ten months ago – that we welcomed you to these virtual pages. A lot has happened since then!Read More →
It’s official: Caffeine is addictive
Actually, ‘caffeine withdrawal syndrome’ has been added to the official encyclopedia of mental illnesses. Which means that the folks who get to decide such things have, de facto, elevated caffeine to the same ‘disease’ status as nicotine, alcohol, marijuana and mild-altering drugs.Read More →
Poutine Pizza: Inspiration or Desecration?
I suppose it had to happen sooner or later. Someone – Pizza Hut, to be precise – has come out with a mass-market ‘Cheesy Beef Poutine Pizza’. Especially for Canada, we presume. And reviews of the idea, as well as the pie itself, have been mixed, at best…Read More →