FYI: Kellogg’s recalls Peanut Butter Products

This one does not seem to be plastered all over the news like the tomato/jalapeno scare last summer… At the root the recall includes Austin and Keebler branded Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers, as well as some snack-size packs of Famous Amos Peanut Butter Cookies and Keebler Soft Batch Homestyle Peanut Butter Cookies.

Full story here.

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Tasty Treats at the Olympics

This is for Mexid Cocktail in response to his post.

吃得好
(eat well in Chinese)
((I think))

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Freerice.com

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This is super cool. It's a website where they quiz you on vocabulary words. For each one you get right they donate 10 grains of rice to a starving person through an international agency. Wow – how easy is that to make a difference?

For those competitive people out there, it also gives you a score based on the difficulty of your ratio of correct and incorrect answers. Ha!

Also – these are serious GRE type words. I'd go here to study for the verbal section if I was taking it again.

Check it out…http://www.freerice.com/index.php

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Ode to the He-artichoke

Growing up is different for everyone. We all have our own trials and tribulations, successes and fun memories. Some of us were like the Huxtables, some of us were like Roseanne. I think our family was kinda Brady, kinda Partridge, kinda Dukes of Hazard. See for yourself…

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Tonight, the thing I appreciate most about my childhood was being exposed to a variety of crazy foods. Tonight I had two artichokes and a handful of prunes for dinner. Who does that? I think I inherited some insane food gene because that's actually pretty normal for me.

Let me take just a moment to tell you how much I love artichokes. They are food from the gods! If you've never had one, you are missing a unique experience. I make them as I learned from my mom – cut off the stem, put them in a double boiler, and steam the crap out of them until the leaves peel off easily.
 

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Use your teeth to scrape off the chunky end of each leaf, that is the meat. Then dip each leaf in a mixture of mayo and lemon juice.

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Once you've eaten all the leaves, cut away the tiny soft leaves and the "hair" underneath leaving the heart.

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That is the best best best part. Soooooooo yummy. I am sitting here basking in the afterglow of artichoke. That is a pretty darn good feeling.

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One cool thing I learned tonight, this is what an artichoke looks like when growing in the wild… So pretty.

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And here is the nutritional value. They make supplements out of artichoke, so you know it's gotta be good for you!

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Yes, you read that right… 25 calories in one artichoke! Holy cow! Of course, I pretty much kill that by dipping it in mayo, but it's well worth it.

Sigh.

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