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A Few More Tips for Cooking Contest Enthusiasts

Earlier this year, our own Catherine Ipcizade shared some tips for entering a cooking contest. If you’re seriously thinking about entering any of the contests that I had listed earlier this week, her blog, as well as this one are must read material! Catherine suggested getting creative, keeping it simple, and thinking outside the box. Here are a few more tips to get your recipe contest perfect! Get Your Own Tester Ask a friend who is not so handy in the kitchen to try out your recipe. Yes–you read that right. Someone who is not used to strutting their stuff … Continue reading →

Tips for Cooking Contest Enthusiasts

You might have read my earlier blog, stating that the Pillsbury Bake-Off is open for entries again. This contest is appealing to many home-cooks for a variety of reasons. First, the contest utilizes store-bought ingredients such as refrigerated biscuit dough, pie crust, and tortillas as staple ingredients. Second, the grand prize is $1 Million. You can’t beat that. If you’re a cooking contest enthusiast, or if you’ve always wanted to enter but didn’t know where to start, here are a few tips to get you into the kitchen. Keep it Simple—This seems logical enough, right? But, wait! What if your … Continue reading →

Shopping List and Tidbits from April 15 to April 22

What was I thinking last week? Oh—I remember, I was working on volcanoes and making bridges out of popsicle sticks for my children’s science fair. I was not thinking about the fact that there were hardly any recipes in my food blog! I promise this week I’ll be better and make sure that I have plenty of yummy food recipes in my blogs! Tuesday, April 16 Food Prep Businesseses You get together with a bunch of friends and cook your meals for the week or for the month. Take them home, freeze them and then voila—dinner is done every single … Continue reading →

A Little Worm with Your Fish?

WARNING: This is not the food related story you want to be reading after you’ve just eaten. In fact, if you love fish. . .don’t read this either. If you shop at Whole Foods just keep searching for another blog for your morning reading. If on the other hand you like to be a highly informed consumer, please continue. A woman bought some cod at a Whole Foods store in Columbus Circle (Manhattan) and when she went to fillet the fish, she discovered more than she bargained for: the cod had parasites. Not dead little worms but live, wriggling, crawling … Continue reading →