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15 Jan 2011

Doin’ the Grocery Hop

Scott Nordhues 3 Comments Tags: food prices, grocery prices

If you were stranded on a desert island for the past year or so and found yourself in a supermarket upon your return, you’d probably wonder what the heck happened to prices in the time you had been away. My wife and I have noticed that the price of virtually everything, while increasing for awhile   Read More…

06 Jan 2011

Palates and Pizza in Different Places

Scott Nordhues 2 Comments Tags: Cooking, eating, pizza, Regional cooking

Regional culinary peccadilloes are a big topic on internet food forums. Two popular subjects I’ve seen discussed are fried potatoes and soda pop, which goes by different names in the U.S., depending on where you live. I hail from a part of the country where it’s called “pop.” I now live in a state where   Read More…

29 Dec 2010

A Little Esoterica With Your Champagne

Scott Nordhues 2 Comments Tags: Champagne, drinking, holidays

I’ve probably drunk as much bad champagne as anyone to mark the New Year, weddings, rotating the tires on the car. Celebrations and champagne are like politicians and corruption – you just can’t imagine one without the other. Yet many of us probably have never had a drop of real champagne. I mean the authentic   Read More…

25 Dec 2010

We Are What We Cook

Scott Nordhues 1 Comment Tags: Cooking, eating well, fruit, Nutrition, vegetables

Am I a grinch for not even waiting until Christmas Day 2010 is history to mention the “c” word – calories? It’s not too early to throw out a reminder that what goes up – namely, your weight – should come down once the holidays are over. If you’re like me, you give yourself a   Read More…

17 Dec 2010

Break out the Rolling Pin!

Scott Nordhues 0 Comments Tags: baking, Christmas crackers, Recipes

Do you think rolling pins are passé? I mean as a cooking utensil, not as the chosen weapon of cartoon wives trying to keep a misbehaving husband in line. Ready-made crusts notwithstanding, I think there are probably plenty of “from-scratch” bakers out there who would be lost without a rolling pin. It also seems to   Read More…

11 Dec 2010

What Could be Better Than Cookie in Pizza Form?

Scott Nordhues 0 Comments Tags: baking, christmas cookies, holiday cookies

I proudly admit that I am a cookie freak. That can be a bad thing, I guess, because who really counts how many cookies you’ve had at a sitting? Not me. Three or four?  I slow down when I start to hit double figures. Maybe your cookie-consumption threshold isn’t quite as high, but cookies still   Read More…

02 Dec 2010

The Anti-Fruitcake

Scott Nordhues 3 Comments Tags: bananas, bread, holidays, Recipes

’Tis the season to be dreading the gift of fruitcakes.  So many people hate them,  I have to conclude that the only reason fruitcakes are still with us is that you can never have too many doorstops. When it comes to holiday snacking on something that actually tastes good, however, we’ve found a great alternative   Read More…

25 Nov 2010

Sayonara to Sandwiches

Scott Nordhues 0 Comments Tags: Recipes, thanksgiving, turkey, turkey alternatives

Nothing wrong with that old Thanksgiving leftover standby, turkey sandwiches.  Lots of families actually look forward to them as a change of pace from what they usually eat for lunch at work or school. But a change of pace from the change of pace can be a good thing, too. This recipe for spinach-stuffed turkey   Read More…

18 Nov 2010

Chocolate that Melts in Your Pan

Scott Nordhues 1 Comment

As fun as it is to eat, chocolate can be frustrating to work with in the kitchen. If you want praise for the chocolate goodies you serve over the holidays, you have to earn it. Even a seemingly simple maneuver like getting chocolate to melt juuuust right can be difficult.  Some tips: Keep your utensils   Read More…

10 Nov 2010

Percy Spencer’s Hot Pocket

Scott Nordhues 2 Comments Tags: Cooking, Microwave cooking, pies, thanksgiving

An Utterly Random Food Story:  When Percy Spencer felt an odd sensation in his pocket back in 1946, it changed the way Thanksgiving meals are prepared. And a lot of other meals, for that matter. Percy was an engineer for the Raytheon company. Sixty-four years ago he was testing a vacuum tube and realized the   Read More…


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