Thanksgiving Post-Mortem
I’m baaaack! Didn’t post for the last couple of days, as I was busy cooking. Our traditional Thanksgiving is typically untraditional… if it’s unusual and sophisticated enough to qualify as a “feast,” then we’ll give it a go. We opted for Indian food this year. This was Number-One-Son’s idea. He came up with it while we were dining at an Indian restaurant in Spokane last month… the...
Stephen Colbert on “Pushy Pops”
Tomorrow is Monday… and here in SE Washington, it looks like it’s gonna be a dank, gray, frosty Monday at that. So I figured it would be good to close out the weekend with a giggle: Stephen Colbert’s take on the latest stupid, “as-seen-on-TV” food gimmick, “Pushy Pops.” The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive...
Pizza Is Not a Vegetable
So much for good intentions… Is pizza with tomato sauce a vegetable? Apparently yes, according to Congress, which on Monday blocked legislation that would have made school lunches healthier. In their final version of a spending bill that includes planning for the $11 billion National School Lunch Program, House and Senate committee members blocked or delayed major proposals from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that...
Class Action Suit Filed Against BPI Sports Over DMAA
From Courthouse News Service: LOS ANGELES (CN) – A class action claims Florida-based BPI Sports’ bodybuilding and dietary supplements “contain a dangerous amphetamine-like ingredient that poses a serious health risk and has potentially life-threatening side effects.” … “At the time plaintiffs Clint Eskenazi and Camden Brady … purchased and used the products, they were unaware the products...
Quote of the Day
I got a laugh out of the following response to an MSNBC article: “Are Competitive Eating Contests a Terrible Idea?” PDK wins the internet....
“Well’s Vegetarian Thanksgiving”
Ok, I’m not planning a vegetarian Thanksgiving… but I still found this array of veggie dishes in the New York Times appealing! Although my holiday menu is pretty much set, there are some recipes there that I’m keen to try – like the curried chickpea salad, coconut butternut squash soup, risotto with pumpkin, ginger and sage, seven-vegetable couscous and the stir-fried balasmic-vinegar carrots. Suffice it to...
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