Remember the Great Football Party, Not the Trip to the ER!
Cooking up some awesome Big Game Super Foods for your Bowl Party is actually pretty easy. Keeping your friends and guest safe may take a few minutes of extra thinking. Football Bowl Game parties are fun, but make sure your friends remember the great game, your party, your food and not a trip to the emergency room because of food poisoning!
If you are going to grill out, have finger foods, a table full of items or just a bowl of chips and some dip from the grocery store make sure that a few simple things are done in order to prevent the post game ER visit. Most are common sense! Take a look and enjoy the game. Here are a few basic safety tips you should follow for safe cooking.
FIRST DOWN!
Keep the cold food cold and the hot food hot.
It's really pretty simple! Keep the cold food cold cold and the hot ffo hot! For many people this means tossing a bunch of ice in a cooler and letting things roll.
Searching The Web for BIG GAME PORK Chow!!
The mission started with a simple email asking about a few ideas for ribs or pork chops for the BIG GAME! Our crack team of researchers hit the key boards with the speed of an offensive lineman pulling a train in order to find a few recipes from the World Wide Web that are geared towards PORK and your Big Game Football Party! This was tough work, playing with laptops and smart phones while dreaming about football party food. It was touch, but somebody had to do it. In the end we came up with five suggestions for Big Game Dishes featuring Pork that we thought you might enjoy!
Check out the Slider from the National Pork Board - Be Inspired... We Were!!
Look over our quick list of dishes and please feel free to post a few of your own or share your favorite Super recipe!
The Home Town Cookbook Series.
The Books Flavors Dishes
Get ready for hometown cooking!
Tonya’s Tip! – BAKING TIP #1:
This is a great tip! And it is so simple. Bring your ingredients to room temperature. This provides for more even blending of the ingredients. Approximately 68 degrees is the ideal temp but don’t get too hung up that.
London broil and London chicken?
So you're asking the question, “Chicken and London broil?” Did you know that a London broil does not have much to do with London? Go figure! You have to love meat trivia. It’s just a recipe, or style of cooking, for tougher cuts of meat to make them tender. This recipe simply combines a style of marinade to a more delicate cut of meat. I’m going to give you a quick recipe for beef and poultry.
So... WHAT THE HECK IS A LONDON BROIL?? Butchers will label several cuts of meat as being a "London broil". This is confusing because as I said above, the actual term does not refer to a specific cut, but the method of preparation and cooking. Most of us think of a London Broil as being a flank steak, but you can find top round, roasts and more as being labeled as a London Broil. I've been told that the reason may be as simple as it's easier to sell when labeled as being a "London Broil." I can see that.
Are You Ready for Some Football Food?
Heck, I'm always ready for some football. Championship Sunday is almost here and that means die hard football fans are going to need some extra chow around the house in order to watch football. It's a great time to tryout a few dishes before the big Bowl Game that is SUPER comes around. The Super Bowl demands good grub!
Here are two recipes that will make a flavor filled dish with only a few simple ingredients. ENJOY!
The first recipe is from Checkered Flag Cooking, my recipe collection and stories gathered from fans, teams, drivers and drivers moms on various racing circuits. It's pretty easy and is a hoped up version of a big crock pot of meat balls. The second is a rib recipe that should bring great results ran or shine and it's from my collection of recipes that I use with my Timbertech cooking dishes.
Valentine Cooking Tips!
Chocolate Martini! A Month for Love… & Cooking Tips
Here are a few tips on how to make a valentines meal a bit special. With everyone working on a budget these days the first tip would be to keep it simple. Well, that applies to a Romantic dinner for two. When it comes to things such as diamond rings this chef relies on a jeweler.
Simple is the ticket! That's my big tip during the month for lovers. Do you want to impress your dinner partner? Great, but that does not mean picking a dish that requires you spending all of your time in the kitchen. Nothing says love like waiting for hours while food is cooking. Keep it quick and simple.
Keep it fresh. This applies on two levels, fresh foods and a fresh recipe. Avoid bland frozen items and choose a dish that is not something the two of you would eat on a regular basis. If every Tuesday and Thursday is soup night, then soup would not be the best choice.
Cooking in Kuwait!
NOTE: My book, The Meals of War - Feeding the Greats and Grunts During World War Two, features chow memories from WWII veterans. These posts are dedicated to Veterans of other eras and WWII veterans that are not in the book.
I went to school with James and his brothers as well. Here is a CHOW memory for James Renegar from his service in Kuwait.
My best friend in Kuwait and I decided to host a cook out (something different at the base). So we invited the Army, Navy, and Marines (Of course the Air Force). We were given approval from the fire department, base support commander. We obtained the necessary food from the chow hall ( hamburgers, hotdogs, steaks, chicken, etc ... ). We had the bonfire going and had guitars and people singing.
When I hear the term "Comfort Food," I've always thought of a hot bowl of chili on a cold winter day... or grits, eggs, and biscuits for breakfast when you have to get up extra-early... or a piece of my Mom's chocolate pie made special when I come to visit.
When I was young and newly married, I would look inside my refrigerator and think, "I do not know how my Mom has so much stuff in her fridge." I thought mine would never be full.
I can remember going to the grocery store with a one hundred dollar bill and fretting over everything I put in the cart. I carried a calculator with me so that, as each item was finally chosen, I could enter the amount plus a little more for tax to be sure I would not overspend.
At the checkout counter, I would mentally add every item as I put it on the belt. The dollar total would climb and climb as the person checking me out scanned each item. I was constantly fretting and thinking, "Did I forget to put that in the calculator? Did that milk scan for more than I thought it was? What if it goes over $100?"
Dogs in the Kitchen
Thunderstorms & Dogs in The Kitchen!
I have to start of with a plea of understanding. We have a golden retriever named Moses, or Big Mo, to his friends. Ally and I say we have three kids. One is 22, named Mace and is ARMY strong and now attending college. The other two are short, furry and every bit as spoiled as their human big brother. But today I'm talking about Lucy...Fur and her big brother Moses. Yes, it's the same Big Mo that is featured in my book for kids titled Big Mo's Tennis Ball Hunt. You can tell your kids that Big Mo does exist, I'll leave the Santa issue up to you. The plea of understanding is this. Please understand that Ally and I do not generally allow the pups, Mo or his mini sister Lucy...fur, in the kitchen. They are allowed to stand outside of the kitchen when we cook inside, or on the deck when we grill. Mo tells me when to flip the burgers or add water to the water pan when smoking ribs.
Anyway, today was an exception forced by mother nature. I was working on a few recipes for the West Virginia Hometown cookbook
Butter Done Right!
I'm a big fan of seasoned butters. I've made a few small bowls here and there for different dishes. I bet you may have done so as wel, at least on a small scale. How many times have you blended butter with cinnamon or brown sugar for toast, added Italian seasoning or other spices for a steak butter. I'm a sucker for hot cinnamon toast. Imaging doing those simple dishes.... and then taking it about ten levels higher!
That's what Dave Smith and Paul Tripp have done with Dave and Paul's Compound Butters. Now, I'm not bashing my good old cinnamon toast, but I have to be honest and say that the Dave & Paul's Oddly Orange Compound Butter put put my toast topping to shame! I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to sample some of Dave and Paul's creations and try them in a few recipes.
Meet our monthly cookbook winner Jess! - Jessica L. White is this month's cookbook winner. White, a native-born Chattanoogan, recently moved back to Chattanooga with her fiance Amir. The move comes after living in Brooklyn, New York.
The couple returned to the South this summer and Jess say's that she is "glad to not have to parallel park that much anymore" and "to have a backyard again." While living in NY, she studied hoop dancing (hula hoops, that is) and now makes hula hoops, as well.
German Chocolate is the Favorite!
Can you believe it? German Chocolate Cake beat out Fruit Cake as the prefered Christmas cake! the official results are in from thedeckchef.com poll. Readers voted German Chocolate as America's favorite when it comes to selecting a Christmas and holiday treat. Here are how the results stacked up. Oh, if you think everyone is waiting for a great Spice cake... think again. The runner up was any type of European Christmas Cake. Here are the results and a few recipes.
Congrats! You’ve almost made it through the holiday feeding frenzy. If you’re like our family you may have some extra candy and cookies scattered around the kitchen. Some you made to give to friends, and some friends made to give to you. Eventually we all hit the wall on how much candy and cookies we can handle during the holiday months.
If you feel bad about letting things go to waste don’t worry. Here are a few ideas that can breathe new life into salvageable items. Granted, some things should be tossed, but many items can be frozen, saved, used in other dishes or quietly nibbled on during a late night visit to the cookie jar.
Flavored Creamer – There are several versions of specialty coffee creamers available during the holidays. Since it’s creamer it should be used. If you don’t want it in your coffee anymore and would prefer plain old milk and sugar then try this. Use the creamer as a flavor enhancer in a batch of pancakes or even French toast. Chances are that you won’t have too much creamer to use up unless you bought in bulk!
Prep it, Crock Pot it and Relax!
Looking for a few fix it and forget it meals during the cold months and during the busy holiday season? Here are four crock pot recipes from several of Kent's Cookbooks that are sure to please. The great thing is that you can adjust the ingredients to what you have on hand or to your families tastes! - Enjoy!
Cheesy Corn Chowder
2 cans cream corn
2 cups boiling water
1 cube chicken bouillon
4 cups diced, peeled potatoes
25 FACTS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT TAILGATING
from www.onlinecolleges.net
There are lots of reasons to tailgate! www.onlinecolleges.net took a deeper look into tailgating and came up with some pretty fun stuff! Now you can add some tailgate facts to your next grill side conversation.
For many, tailgating is as much as part of the game day experience as the game itself. While millions will tailgate around the U.S. this year for everything from college football games to Jimmy Buffet concerts, many know little about the history, demographics, and economics of this popular tradition. Read on to learn some interesting facts you can share with other fans at your next tailgating meet up. Some may seriously surprise you and make you see tailgating in a whole new light.
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