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Cook the Book: Goat Cheese Bread Pudding
Oh my. If one wanted to add, say, some chopped tomatoes to this, do you think you'd need to reduce the milk a little to keep it from getting too soggy?
My Week Without Corn
What about the corn eaten by the animals you consume? If you aren't eating pasture-raised/grass-fed meat and poultry, you're still essentially eating corn.
Maybe it's splitting hairs, but animals raised on corn produce meat that is less nutritious, higher in fat, and lower in good fats. Corn syrup isn't the only evil product that comes from our cheap supply of this plant...
Seattle Starbucks Locations Shed Starbucks Logo
Please tell me this is a joke! Pretending to be independent, mom & pop coffee shops when you're a corporate behemoth? Gah! I hope this doesn't spread beyond Seattle.
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Mixed Review: Paula Deen's Sweet Potato Biscuits
But she's so *southern* and *down to earth*! If she's charging $9.99 for a box full of 60% empty space and 40% flour, sugar, and sodium benzoate, then land sakes, there must be a good reason for it!
Cook the Book: Goat Cheese Bread Pudding
Oh my. If one wanted to add, say, some chopped tomatoes to this, do you think you'd need to reduce the milk a little to keep it from getting too soggy?
My Week Without Corn
What about the corn eaten by the animals you consume? If you aren't eating pasture-raised/grass-fed meat and poultry, you're still essentially eating corn.
Maybe it's splitting hairs, but animals raised on corn produce meat that is less nutritious, higher in fat, and lower in good fats. Corn syrup isn't the only evil product that comes from our cheap supply of this plant...
Seattle Starbucks Locations Shed Starbucks Logo
Please tell me this is a joke! Pretending to be independent, mom & pop coffee shops when you're a corporate behemoth? Gah! I hope this doesn't spread beyond Seattle.
The First Annual Beekeepers Ball: A Buzzing Night in Support of New York Urban Beekeeping
I was there! It was such a great event.
Cook the Book: Eugenia Bone's 'Well-Preserved'
tomatoes, tomatoes, and more tomatoes.
Dinner Tonight: Venetian Spaghetti with Sardines
My boyfriend and I loved this. We're making it again tonight, but we're going to add some sauteed mushrooms to cut the "fishiness" a little bit. And I didn't bother boning the sardines. Actually, I didn't even bother chopping them too finely - just broke them up with a spoon while they cooked.
Happy Cows Have Flat-Screen TVs
Uh, why don't they just put the cows on pasture instead of installing waterbeds and TVs? I don't get it. It's nice and all, but seems like a publicity stunt more than an effort to give your animals a good life.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Food Giveaway: Russ & Daughters
Anything at Rosewater in Park Slope
Is Cheese Vegetarian?
As a cheese-eating vegetarian, this is something I definitely think about. My real issue with cheese, though, is the treatment of dairy cows throughout their lives. I have a bigger problem with industrial dairy operations than with small farmers who leave their cows on pasture and slaughter bull calves/adult steer to sell as beef and veal after they've led happy, healthy lives outdoors.
Cows are intelligent, complicated animals, and at most dairies they are kept chained by the neck in a barn 365 days a year, miserable and covered in manure. If you are a vegetarian because of animal rights/ethical issues, you should be eating as much pastured, (100%) grass-fed cheese as possible, in my opinion.
I suppose I've somewhat dodged your question here, but I strongly agree that, unless you are vegetarian simply for health reasons or something, people who are trying to eat ethically need to consider all the implications of their food choices.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Food Giveaway: Russ & Daughters
eggs benedict. or huevos rancheros. or an h&h bagel with cream cheese, eaten while walking through central park.
Seriously Delicious Giveaway: Zingerman's Gift Certificate
A Bobolink Dairy raw milk original - Jean Louis. Tangy, crumbly, moist, delish.
Cook the Book: 'Think Like a Chef'
Roasting, most definitely.
Mixed Review: Paula Deen's Sweet Potato Biscuits
^5 Gumdropmenace!
Mixed Review: Paula Deen's Sweet Potato Biscuits
I thought scones were a European thing, not southern-American.
Anyway, I was expecting a boxed sweet potato biscuit mix to contain something like freeze-dried sweet potato flakes. If you have to add your own sweet potato (canned or not), then the mix doesn't seem to make it significantly easier than making them without a mix.
Mixed Review: Paula Deen's Sweet Potato Biscuits
I'm not gonna sit here and defend the mix, but I will defend Ms. Deen to the last. THE LAST, do you hear me?!
Mixed Review: Paula Deen's Sweet Potato Biscuits
Make biscuits from a mix? -- And, for $9.99???? I don't think so.
Make them from scratch - without canned anything - for under a dollar, with things you probably already have in your pantry! They're so easy to make, and they'll taste better and be better for you. I guarantee it.
Mixed Review: Paula Deen's Sweet Potato Biscuits
I like Paula and RayRay but I wouldn't buy any product, of any kind, with a celebrity head on it. That includes not only food, but cookware, appliances, sneakers, sheets and blankets, tools, perfume, and even paint. They don't need the royalties as much as I need to budget my expenses.
Mixed Review: Paula Deen's Sweet Potato Biscuits
wait, the mix for sweet potato biscuits doesn't contain any sweet potato? What makes it different than Bisquik then?
Bruce's Sweet Potato Pancake mix in the 1.5 pound bag includes a recipe for biscuits as well as pancakes. There is enough mix for (so far) 2 batches of pancakes, I think we'll get one more out of it. I'm not sure what I paid for it, but it must be less than $9.99 because I wouldn't pay that much!
Mixed Review: Paula Deen's Sweet Potato Biscuits
I would personally never buy any product that has either Paula Deen or Rachael Ray on the items.
Cant stand either one of them.
You can make excellent biscuits at home with a minimal amount of effort.
And that effort will yield great results.
Mixed Review: Paula Deen's Sweet Potato Biscuits
People really pay $10 for a Paula Deen mix?
I mean, really?
They could look up a recipe and assemble the dry ingredients for less than a buck. And the result can't be any worse than the thin, nasty looking outcome from the Deen mix. What a scam.
Mixed Review: Paula Deen's Sweet Potato Biscuits
Did you use sweetened, canned, sweet potatoes? Personally, I don't see anything wrong with canned produce :) Sorry they didn't turn out well!
Cook the Book: Goat Cheese Bread Pudding
@AnnieNT: on further consideration, an 11x7x2 pan only hold 10.67 cups - so maybe you need 3/4 lb of bread - or a 13x9x2 pan (which holds just over 16 cups).
Cook the Book: Goat Cheese Bread Pudding
@AnnieNT: 1/2lb of French or Italian bread makes about 7 cups, give or take. I usually see ciabatta in 1lb loaves at my grocery.
Cook the Book: Goat Cheese Bread Pudding
Goat cheese. Bread. Rosemary. All together. Heaven.
My Week Without Corn
I've been corn-free for 4 years. I'm very allergic, and all I can say is 'thank god I moved to northern california." The abundance of multi-cultural food and speciality markets makes it much easier to avoid corn. It still sucks a LOT though.
My Week Without Corn
I've been corn free for almost 2 yrs now because my daughter is allergic. I think you missed a few things. The Luna &KIND bars have citric acid in them, the ice cream had vanilla which usually has corn in it, vitamin water is very corny, and as someone else mentioned the salt. It's definitely an entire lifestyle change and it's not an easy one! You did much better your first week than I did during mine!
My Week Without Corn
I agree with "inothernews" ... corn itself is not the enemy. Heck, corn isn't even close to an enemy ... as Pollan has suggested in his works, corn might be the single greatest boon to our civilization ever! It provides cheap, renewable sustenance, it can be dried and stored, it has a high yield, and it can be processed into fuel.
"Everything in moderation" is a good rule to live by ... Corn syrup or HFCS are not threats in themselves, as they do provide that extra "something" that some foods lack. Its when they are added in large or unnatural quantities that they pose a health risk.
Read labels when you buy foods ... make sure that what you are eating is nutritious and healthy as a foremost priority. If it suits that bill, who cares if it contains corn?
My Week Without Corn
I just had to add a comment since I am allergic to corn. One of the ingredients you haven't looked into deeply enough is good ole iodized table salt. Morton's Iodized Salt adds a corn derivative. Since almost all processed ingredients use salt, one must assume that they are not okay until proven innocent. There are a few items that list salt but really are just NaCl w/o any additives but you have to go to the manufacturer to find out. Luckily kosher salt, and sea salt are okay.
My Week Without Corn
good job it is difficult. my 10yr old son is allergic to corn, soy and dairy, along with a couple others and i know its not easy
My Week Without Corn
Like a lot of you, I try to avoid processed food. But lets face it, sometimes you want a soda. Sometimes, when I want processed food without the guilt of eating corn products, I stop by the Mexican store and buy their sodas and candies that are all sweetened with real sugar.
My Week Without Corn
do you know what i don't understand? the core of the problem. why is the government subsidizing corn and soy farms? what's in it for them? wouldn't a large part of this problem be solved if farmers were encouraged to have diversified yields instead of these mono-crops?
My Week Without Corn
HM I re-read again more carefully. I realize that the paragraph that starts with "don't get me wrong" addresses what I am saying.
My Week Without Corn
When we talk about going corn-free and the dangers of corn, aren't we really talking about processed corn, made of sub-food grade corn? Like, I feel that sweet corn is NOT bad for you, or polenta or cornmeal. HFCS or Malodextrin or anything like that is bad--or corn-fed animals, because they are also fed subgrade corn.
It seems going "corn-free" is like using a jackhammer to dig a hole for a tree. or some better metaphor to say its too extreme.
Maybe I am missing the point--that to learn to cut out processed corn, we have to cut out ALL corn, and slowly add back good corn? Yes?
My Week Without Corn
As a Southerner married to a Midwesterner, I have to say that going corn free when the sweet corn is coming in locally by the bushel (now) would be one of the worst forms of culinary self-torture I can imagine! As bad as going tomato free! We have corn at least once a day, sometimes twice, while it lasts, which is a short season. Shuck it on the way in the door and boil it immediately, or even eat it raw in the field. If you are allergic, or you want to lose weight, avoid it by all means. Otherwise, for those of us in the middle of the country, it would be like an Asian avoiding rice (or soy).
BTW, those "worms" are Corn Borers or ear worms (caterpillars), not human parasites, and are an indication that the corn has not been sprayed with noxious substances, or genetically engineered to produce toxins. They're actually a GOOD sign if you are concerned about pesticides or GMOs. Just break off the upper part of the ear and enjoy the rest.
My Week Without Corn
I didn't realize my yogurt was full of corn. Crazy!
I don't think you'll have too much trouble skipping the corn-fed creatures: you can get protein from beans/legumes (all corn-free, if you buy them plain).
And at least you found bread.
My Week Without Corn
From an allergic standpoint the use of corn exceeds its use as an ingredient, as it is used to dust many dry packages. Can't lick stamps or envelopes, either. Did you check your toothpaste and medicines? I once bought an artisanal bread that didn't list corn as an ingredient, but had clearly been cooked on a bed of cornmeal (as I cook my own breads). A call to the company confirmed they did this and it hadn't occurred to them to list it as an ingredient. I'm pretty sure our local hospital uses biodegradable corn-based "plastic" utensils.
Next up, how about a soy free week? That might be even harder, as soy is used in more plastic products and even some fabrics
My Week Without Corn
Fascinating!
Next up, how about a plastic free week?
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But she's so *southern* and *down to earth*! If she's charging $9.99 for a box full of 60% empty space and 40% flour, sugar, and sodium benzoate, then land sakes, there must be a good reason for it!