Kitchen Dude

If you are the type of person who likes to advertise what you ate for breakfast all day long we found the product just for you.

Breakfast Earings by Amy Secrest.

Each earing features a breakfast food item accented with a 4mm teal green Swarovski Crystal. You can order two of the same or pick two different items. Current food selections are: Bacon, Toast, Pancakes, Eggs.

If breakfast isn’t your favorite meal of the day other earings feature Fortune Cookies, Bakery Items, Berries, and even Sushi.

Have you ever ran out of an ingredient mid way through a recipe and needed to make a substitute but didn’t know what to use? Cook’s Thesaurus will solve your problem.  The Cook’s Thesaurus is a cooking encyclopedia that covers thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools. Entries include pictures, descriptions, synonyms, pronunciations, and suggested substitutions.  Now you’ll never need to guess how much Tomato Paste is equal to 1 medium Tomato…

When did it become acceptable for commercial food establishments to microwave food?

I know some snack shops and small end restaurants use microwaves to heat or cook customers food but it is usually done out of the view of the customer.

Traveling through Atlanta I ran across two places that openly used microwaves in front of their customers.  The first was at Big Apple’s Bagels.  I bought a breakfast bagel including eggs, bacon, and cheese.   The eggs were sitting in a paper cup on the counter; it looked like they were hot as they had just come out of the kitchen steaming, the employee put the bacon and cheese on top of the egg and microwaved it for about 1 minute.  The microwave was right on the counter next to the rack with all the bagels.

The second microwave experience was at a Nathan’s Hot Dog Cart by my departure gate.  They sold those jumbo pretzels; you know the ones that are covered in salt.  They had the pretzels in one of those display racks that is lighted and supposed to keep the pretzels warm as they rotate around, tempting the passersby.  This one must not have worked as anytime a customer ordered a pretzel they would put it in a microwave and heat it up for 30 seconds.

I really don’t care how food is cooked, but in both cases the food lost its appeal after I saw how they heated it up.  I guess I don’t associate the hot pretzel I buy from a food stand as the same thing I can buy in a store for 1/3 of the price and throw in my microwave; when I did, it lost its appeal. In both of the above cases they could have microwaved the product outside of the customers view and I never would have known.

Some random facts about Jell-O:

• In 1936 Jell-O produced a cola flavored Jell-O.  It was canceled the next year.
• The original Jell-O flavors were Orange, Lemon, Strawberry, and Raspberry.
• When hooked up to EEG machine, Jell-O demonstrates movement virtually identical to the brain waves of a healthy man or woman.
• Per capita consumption of lime flavored gelatin is highest in Salt Lake City.
• If all of the packages fo Jell-O gelatin dessert produced in one year were placed end-to-end, they would stretch three-fifths of the way around the earth.

• The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing their hand in Jell-O.

• There was an animated comic book called “The Adventures of Jelloman” in 1990.

NBC’s The Biggest Loser has inspired overweight individuals around the country to get active and eat right. What better way to learn how to eat right than The Biggest Loser Cookbook: More Than 125 Healthy, Delicious Recipes Adapted from NBC’s Hit Show.

For those of you that are not familiar with The Biggest Loser Diet, it is described as calorie controlled, carbohydrate-modified, fat reduced, and high in lean proteins. The book features recipes broken into the following categories:

• Breakfasts
• Hearty Snacks
• Sandwiches, Soups, and Stews
• Sides and Salads
• Main Courses
• Sweet Snacks

If you are planning on using the cookbook to follow The Biggest Loser Diet be prepared to buy products you don’t already have around the house such as low fat soy sauce, I Can’t Believe it’s Not Butter Spray, Whole Grain Wheat Oat Flour, and more. You can substitute the ingredients but you will lose most of the health benefits.

I’d have to agree with other reviewers, the “Better Blueberry Pancakes” are awesome.