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.

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.

• 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.

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.

“Eating and drinking whatever I want, whenever I want is the best,” says Guy Ravid, owner of NineThirty at the W Hotel in Los Angeles.

If you are interested in a career as a Restaurateur check out the National Restaurant Association website.

In the mean time, here are some ideas you may enjoy:

Pack Your Kids a Creepy Lunch from the Vegan Lunch Box

Halloween Pudding Cups from KidsKuisine

Toasted Pumpkin Seeds from Simply Recipes

Leftover Candy Cake from CDKitchen

What is your favorite Halloween Recipe?

FOUL-MOUTHED kitchen genius Gordon Ramsay has been voted the scariest person on TV.

The fiery chef has struck fear into the hearts of hapless cooks on Hell’s Kitchen and Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares.

Now he has topped a Radio Times poll of TV’s most terrifying celebrities.

Read the whole article for the Top 10 Scariest TV Celebrities.

The holidays are never far away and it’s the perfect opportunity to learn how to entertain well with a great selection of food and wine. Both food and wine play an important role in our society, and if we want to be successful hosts and hostesses we must learn to serve our guests properly.

Your guests come to your party expecting to be dazzled by the edible offerings. Guests may arrive at a party with high hopes but more often than not they leave unsatisfied with the food and wine they were served. You have the power to ensure that this does not happen with your gatherings, so you need to make sure that you offer your guests only the finest food and wine at hand.

You can start by talking to your friends to discover what left them unsatisfied at some of the other parties they have attended. Also, consider some of your own reactions to the food and wine that was offered. What was it that you didn’t like about the food and wine and how could it have been improved? The key to successful entertaining with food and wine is to learn from the mistakes of others. By doing so you should be able to avoid some of the bigger mistakes made when hosting a party featuring food and wine.

Present your guests with a variety of food and wine at your party. Some people strongly dislike red wine and others feel the same way about white wine. By offering a selection of different foods and wine you will be able to make more people happy and less people feel overlooked by your food and wine options. You should also have a diverse selection of the food you are serving. Have some vegetarian snacks in addition to some meaty ones. If you have a diverse group of friends you might even want to get more diverse in your food and wine selections and perhaps have some vegan goodies for the vegans of your circle.

Taking these factors into consideration when choosing your food and wine shows that you are a caring and thoughtful host. Your parties will be the parties that people would want to attend. If you make the right choices in your food and wine then you should consistently have marvelous parties known for lots of people and good times.