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Have you counted carbs ... do you count carbs ... or have you just ignored the whole carb-cutting media blitz? Do your kids even know what carbs are? Go ahead and ask 'em - see if they have a good grasp of why they're important and a - - necessary part of our daily diet. Today's nutrition spotlight is in quiz form, for those of you who may - like me - find these little question-and-answer test-yourself formats entertaining. Look for the correct answers and a kid-friendly, healthy-carb recipe at the end. Go ahead and take the quiz for yourself first and...
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Break out the barbecue! Gas up the grill! Summer is finally here, and there is no better way to celebrate the official kick-off to America's fun season than with a Memorial Day feast. Intense flavors and tender meat are perfect partners for outdoor cooking. The art of marinating is the best way to achieve both in just one step. Marinating really serves two purposes. First and foremost, it adds flavor and seasoning to meat prior to being cooked. Since marinades are applied anywhere from half an hour up to one full day, they also tenderize meat, which breaks down...
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Are you looking for some fun, last minute ideas to kick off the barbecue season this Memorial Day? If your grilling menu for today is not yet set, then consider making some barbecue classics in miniature sizes that are big on taste. Little kids love finger foods and will enjoy helping put together a barbecue that is just their size. You can put a playful spin on food for this Memorial day and cook up mini-me versions of the classic grilling trilogy: hot dogs, hamburgers, and barbecued chicken -- in the form of cocktail franks, sliders, and drumettes. These...
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It is thought that sticks were the first cooking tools - and that roasted woolly mammoth might have once been a delicacy of our ancestors who lived in caves. Whether your cooking stick is pre-made and cast steel or aluminum, or you go for making one yourself (think green wood or improvised coat hanger), here's the book to get you started: Cooking on a Stick: Campfire Recipes for Kids by Linda White. Even if you've never built (or cooked over) an open fire, this is certainly the season for it, now that summer's almost here in full. And it seems that outdoor cooking and...
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Inspired by a recent trip up to Harlem for some barbecue at a place called Dinosaur Barbecue, "a genuine honky tonk rib joint" (and also a new branch of the original renowned Syracuse location), I thought about how I could make a delicious, long cooked barbecue feast at home. To me, barbecue says summer all the way. But to get that slow cooked, smoky flavor requires lots of time patiently spent watching over a hot outdoor smoker or grill. Now this can be a fun project if you have a whole day or night to spare tending to the meat; but if you have a hectic schedule, and...
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Years ago in England, a small group of American students studying abroad proposed an American-style marketing campaign to revive the beef industry post-mad cow disease. The program became a hit among their marketing student peers, inspiring trips to McDonald's for British Big Macs, lunch runs to Marks and Spencers' for roast beef sandwiches with horseradish mayo, and steak cookouts on the hot plates of their closet-sized flats. Now we might need to tell people to eat less of it. Yes, less beef. And not for health reasons; Morgan Spurlock can attest that even making a...
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Have you visited a local food truck lately? Perhaps your city has an event this Memorial Day Weekend centered around a group of food trucks, live music, and adult beverages. It's a fun way to kick off the summer! The recent food truck trend started off in cities like Los Angeles, Austin and Portland, and now mobile meals can be found in cities all over the country, at festivals, parks, and outside of workplaces and bars. Of course food on wheels has existed as part of our culture for a long time - think chuck wagons, lunch carts, and the good old ice cream truck....
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Are you looking to change up your burger routine this summer? With the unofficial start of summer underway many of us are firing up the grill today for the first official round of warm weather burgers. The building blocks to a really great burger start with the freshest ingredients. Whether you prefer ground beef, turkey or veggies as your burger choice, before you reach into the freezer section for a box of those frozen patties, consider making your burgers yourself. While the pre-made burgers are the quickest and easiest (especially when feeding a crowd) route, they won't...
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As the mother of two boys, and being married to an avid sports fan, I know our summers are likely to be filled with the All-American sport of baseball. Now I cannot profess to knowing every statistic and World Series champion going back a couple dozen years like my husband, but I have always enjoyed going to a major league baseball game. We share a common favorite memory ñ that classic summer evening sound of the buzz of the AM radio playing that night's game, and more than a few trips to the ballpark to watch a game live. Although I don't remember each play of every game, I...
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One of my latest food related obsessions has been a good cup of coffee. It's gotten to the point where I can't start my morning without one (or three depending on my level of sleep deprivation). Just like millions of other people, I need that little boost of caffeine to get going. And hey, I can rest easy knowing that caffeine in small doses is good for me - coffee is practically a health food! It has been shown by Harvard researchers to reduce the risk of Type 2 Diabetes, along with other studies showing a reduced risk for Parkinson's disease and colon cancer....
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True or False: Eating grilled meats can increase your risk of cancer. Conventional wisdom says that grilling is a healthy way to prepare foods. But, you might be surprised at what Colleen Doyle, M.S., R.D., Nutrition and Physical Activity Director for the American Cancer Society had to say when I asked her a number of questions about this issue. Question: On the American Cancer Society's website, there are articles which mention that grilled meats contain substances which may increase an individual's risk of cancer. What are those substances and how are...
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When grilling-out chicken or skirt steak this summer, especially if time was too tight for a marinade, all it takes is one breath-killing condiment heavy on the garlic and lemon to turn a boring piece of meat into something extraordinary.
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Greetings from San Francisco, land of plot-to-plate cooking. More commonly referred to as "farm to table" cooking, this movement of sourcing locally produced food was born of this city and to this day remains the proudest export of its culinary scene. Like any prideful city, there are those residents who take this notion of local cooking to, let's say, an extreme. But for those of us in other parts of the country without a vibrant local farming and artisanal food producing scene, there is much we can take away from San Francisco, even if it's just smuggling cheese and olive oil home in...
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When you meet a man in his early 40s, he usually comes with baggage. By then, we all have some. But when I met Robert, he didn't have any baggage. Instead, he had crocks. Huge gray crocks. My husband grew up on a family farm in southern Indiana. His family was German and every year they made sauerkraut. It was an activity that my husband recalled with great affection. Robert, his mother and father would spend an entire day shredding green cabbage and stuffing it into the large gray crocks that had been in his family for generations. He and his dad would pound...
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Considering that our backgrounds in food are complete opposites, my husband and I somehow find ways to meet in the middle. If not, we will just cook our own dinner, with him piling on the meat and hot sauce, while I grill chicken and toss a salad. I have tried to introduce him to new and exciting foods, with some success. There was the time I made baked tofu. He took one look as I pulled the sheet out of the oven, and said "ew." However, I am proud to say that he now eats artichokes, and loves them. When my good friend asked if we wanted to go on a double-date with her and...
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Lately, we have been having some really dreary, rainy and foggy weather. In fact, if you have you ever heard the phrase "foggier than split pea soup," that is indeed what came to mind early yesterday morning when I was heading to work. The weather on these drab kinds of days makes me want to go back home and curl up with a warm bowl of soup and a good book. But have you ever wondered about the origin of this and so many other food related phrases that we use in everyday life? Why is split pea soup foggy? And what makes a person "crabby", "ham-handed", "upper crust", or...
From The Editors At CDKitchen: Feed Daily
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Have you counted carbs ... do you count carbs ... or have you just ignored the whole carb-cutting media blitz? Do your kids even know what carbs are? Go ahead and ask 'em - see if they have a good grasp of why they're important and a - - necessary part of our daily diet. Today's nutrition spotlight is in quiz form, for those of you who may - like me - find these little question-and-answer test-yourself formats entertaining. Look for the correct answers and a kid-friendly, healthy-carb recipe at the end. Go ahead and take the quiz for yourself first and...
by
Break out the barbecue! Gas up the grill! Summer is finally here, and there is no better way to celebrate the official kick-off to America's fun season than with a Memorial Day feast. Intense flavors and tender meat are perfect partners for outdoor cooking. The art of marinating is the best way to achieve both in just one step. Marinating really serves two purposes. First and foremost, it adds flavor and seasoning to meat prior to being cooked. Since marinades are applied anywhere from half an hour up to one full day, they also tenderize meat, which breaks down...
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Are you looking for some fun, last minute ideas to kick off the barbecue season this Memorial Day? If your grilling menu for today is not yet set, then consider making some barbecue classics in miniature sizes that are big on taste. Little kids love finger foods and will enjoy helping put together a barbecue that is just their size. You can put a playful spin on food for this Memorial day and cook up mini-me versions of the classic grilling trilogy: hot dogs, hamburgers, and barbecued chicken -- in the form of cocktail franks, sliders, and drumettes. These...
by
It is thought that sticks were the first cooking tools - and that roasted woolly mammoth might have once been a delicacy of our ancestors who lived in caves. Whether your cooking stick is pre-made and cast steel or aluminum, or you go for making one yourself (think green wood or improvised coat hanger), here's the book to get you started: Cooking on a Stick: Campfire Recipes for Kids by Linda White. Even if you've never built (or cooked over) an open fire, this is certainly the season for it, now that summer's almost here in full. And it seems that outdoor cooking and...
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Inspired by a recent trip up to Harlem for some barbecue at a place called Dinosaur Barbecue, "a genuine honky tonk rib joint" (and also a new branch of the original renowned Syracuse location), I thought about how I could make a delicious, long cooked barbecue feast at home. To me, barbecue says summer all the way. But to get that slow cooked, smoky flavor requires lots of time patiently spent watching over a hot outdoor smoker or grill. Now this can be a fun project if you have a whole day or night to spare tending to the meat; but if you have a hectic schedule, and...
by
Years ago in England, a small group of American students studying abroad proposed an American-style marketing campaign to revive the beef industry post-mad cow disease. The program became a hit among their marketing student peers, inspiring trips to McDonald's for British Big Macs, lunch runs to Marks and Spencers' for roast beef sandwiches with horseradish mayo, and steak cookouts on the hot plates of their closet-sized flats. Now we might need to tell people to eat less of it. Yes, less beef. And not for health reasons; Morgan Spurlock can attest that even making a...
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Have you visited a local food truck lately? Perhaps your city has an event this Memorial Day Weekend centered around a group of food trucks, live music, and adult beverages. It's a fun way to kick off the summer! The recent food truck trend started off in cities like Los Angeles, Austin and Portland, and now mobile meals can be found in cities all over the country, at festivals, parks, and outside of workplaces and bars. Of course food on wheels has existed as part of our culture for a long time - think chuck wagons, lunch carts, and the good old ice cream truck....
by
Are you looking to change up your burger routine this summer? With the unofficial start of summer underway many of us are firing up the grill today for the first official round of warm weather burgers. The building blocks to a really great burger start with the freshest ingredients. Whether you prefer ground beef, turkey or veggies as your burger choice, before you reach into the freezer section for a box of those frozen patties, consider making your burgers yourself. While the pre-made burgers are the quickest and easiest (especially when feeding a crowd) route, they won't...
by
As the mother of two boys, and being married to an avid sports fan, I know our summers are likely to be filled with the All-American sport of baseball. Now I cannot profess to knowing every statistic and World Series champion going back a couple dozen years like my husband, but I have always enjoyed going to a major league baseball game. We share a common favorite memory ñ that classic summer evening sound of the buzz of the AM radio playing that night's game, and more than a few trips to the ballpark to watch a game live. Although I don't remember each play of every game, I...
by
One of my latest food related obsessions has been a good cup of coffee. It's gotten to the point where I can't start my morning without one (or three depending on my level of sleep deprivation). Just like millions of other people, I need that little boost of caffeine to get going. And hey, I can rest easy knowing that caffeine in small doses is good for me - coffee is practically a health food! It has been shown by Harvard researchers to reduce the risk of Type 2 Diabetes, along with other studies showing a reduced risk for Parkinson's disease and colon cancer....
by
True or False: Eating grilled meats can increase your risk of cancer. Conventional wisdom says that grilling is a healthy way to prepare foods. But, you might be surprised at what Colleen Doyle, M.S., R.D., Nutrition and Physical Activity Director for the American Cancer Society had to say when I asked her a number of questions about this issue. Question: On the American Cancer Society's website, there are articles which mention that grilled meats contain substances which may increase an individual's risk of cancer. What are those substances and how are...
by
When grilling-out chicken or skirt steak this summer, especially if time was too tight for a marinade, all it takes is one breath-killing condiment heavy on the garlic and lemon to turn a boring piece of meat into something extraordinary.
by
Greetings from San Francisco, land of plot-to-plate cooking. More commonly referred to as "farm to table" cooking, this movement of sourcing locally produced food was born of this city and to this day remains the proudest export of its culinary scene. Like any prideful city, there are those residents who take this notion of local cooking to, let's say, an extreme. But for those of us in other parts of the country without a vibrant local farming and artisanal food producing scene, there is much we can take away from San Francisco, even if it's just smuggling cheese and olive oil home in...
by
When you meet a man in his early 40s, he usually comes with baggage. By then, we all have some. But when I met Robert, he didn't have any baggage. Instead, he had crocks. Huge gray crocks. My husband grew up on a family farm in southern Indiana. His family was German and every year they made sauerkraut. It was an activity that my husband recalled with great affection. Robert, his mother and father would spend an entire day shredding green cabbage and stuffing it into the large gray crocks that had been in his family for generations. He and his dad would pound...
by
Considering that our backgrounds in food are complete opposites, my husband and I somehow find ways to meet in the middle. If not, we will just cook our own dinner, with him piling on the meat and hot sauce, while I grill chicken and toss a salad. I have tried to introduce him to new and exciting foods, with some success. There was the time I made baked tofu. He took one look as I pulled the sheet out of the oven, and said "ew." However, I am proud to say that he now eats artichokes, and loves them. When my good friend asked if we wanted to go on a double-date with her and...
by
Lately, we have been having some really dreary, rainy and foggy weather. In fact, if you have you ever heard the phrase "foggier than split pea soup," that is indeed what came to mind early yesterday morning when I was heading to work. The weather on these drab kinds of days makes me want to go back home and curl up with a warm bowl of soup and a good book. But have you ever wondered about the origin of this and so many other food related phrases that we use in everyday life? Why is split pea soup foggy? And what makes a person "crabby", "ham-handed", "upper crust", or...