Unfortunately, knowing how to cook is not enough. It's one thing to plan out a dinner party for your friends and make some outstanding dishes with a whole day to do so, It's another thing to slap out 100 orders of the same thing while...
Gee Pump, sounds like you have a Nanny State worse than ours. I don't know how Canadian law works, but I can't ask any potential employees about their age, marital status, religion, if they have kids, etc. Therefore I know nothing. If...
Theft is rampant in the food industry. I know that. I have always known that, and yet after all these years I still am shocked when I catch somebody. And it's always the last person you would think. I hate to waste food, so I would...
I like anchovies in Caesar dressing, but have made it without also. I make a creamy style with 1 pint mayo, 1/4 cup each red wine vinegar and lemon juice, 1/4 cup or so grated parmesan cheese, 2 cloves crushed/ chopped fine garlic,...
Hi Pete, I was just quoting what Penzey's says in their catalogue. I've seen articles where it's recommended that you discard your dried herbs every 3 mos. and they're saying if you do that you're just buying the same batch from their...
Penzey's themselves state in their catalogue that you are foolish to buy herbs and spices more often than once a year as crops are seasonal and only come in once a year. They say if you throw away your seasonings every few months...
Also regarding an earlier post, it's true that fat is neutral in the glycemic index but it can inhibit the body's abitlity to use insulin. Type 2 diabetics are either insulin resistant (pancreas produces enough insulin...
There are plenty of people who don't cook or eat like Paula Deen and aren't even overweight that have type 2 diabetes. It has more to do with our overly refined, Monsanto engineered food than it does her recipes. I was apalled at...
Look in any old cookbook from between the 40s and 60s. They would devote whole chapters to the subject usually titled "variety meats". Now it's trendy again and they're back to callling it "offal". Just what I was hoping for, something...
