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Cheeseburger In A Can

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Not sure what to make for dinner tonight? Well have I got the solution for you! Ladies and Gentlemen; allow me to present to you the greatest invention since the wheel… Cheeseburger in a Can! Does it come with bacon? And I have the perfect slogan for it; “Straight from the can to your can!”

Multiple Reasons to Use Extra Virgin Olive Oil

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If your doctor wants you to switch to Extra Virgin Olive Oil, these may be the reasons. Extra Virgin Olive Oil is great for the skin, hair, heart, preventing cancer, cooking, tanning, and whatever else you can think of. This article on Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Johns Hopkins University is very informative and explains why you should be using EVOO to cook with. The Benefits of Extra Virgin Olive Oil EVOO, which stands for extra virgin olive oil, is an abbreviation I first encountered watching Rachel Ray's cable TV show "30 Minute Meals." The celebrity chef has even launched her own brand of olive oil (which she's dubbed EVOO, naturally). But even though Ray uses extra virgin olive oil in abundance, I was never sure what made extra virgin different from regular olive oil. A little research revealed that there are, in fact, culinary as well as health reasons behind choosing this type of olive oil. Extra virgin olive oil, known for its strong taste and flavor, is produc...

April Is National Soft Pretzel Month

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In honor of “Soft Pretzel Month”, here is Alton Brown’s Soft Pretzel recipe from the classic Good Eats episode Pretzel Logic . Homemade Soft Pretzels Recipe Summary Difficulty : Intermediate Prep Time : 30 minutes Inactive Prep Time : 1 hour Cook Time : 25 minutes Yield : 8 pretzels 1 1/2 cups warm (110 to 115 degrees F) water 1 tablespoon sugar 2 teaspoons kosher salt 1 package active dry yeast 22 ounces all-purpose flour, approximately 4 1/2 cups 2 ounces unsalted butter, melted Vegetable oil, for pan 10 cups water 2/3 cup baking soda 1 large egg yolk beaten with 1 tablespoon water Pretzel salt Combine the water, sugar and kosher salt in the bowl of a stand mixer and sprinkle the yeast on top. Allow to sit for 5 minutes or until the mixture begins to foam. Add the flour and butter and, using the dough hook attachment, mix on low speed until well combined. Change to medium speed and knead until the dough is smooth and pulls away from the side of the bowl, approximately 4 to 5 minutes....

How To Make Mozzarella

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Mozzarella is a relatively difficult cheese to make. If you are attempting to make cheese for the first time, it is advised that you try your hands at cottage or feta cheese first. Original Mozzarella is made with water buffalo milk, but because such milk isn't always available the most common substitute is cow milk, although many use goat milk Ingredients: Fresh Milk (1 gallon - Water Buffalo preferred, but goat or cow milk will also do) Fresh Plain Yogurt (3 Tablespoons) Fresh Cultured Buttermilk (3 Tablespoons) Rennet (1 tablet) Salt Stainless Steel Pot (enough to hold 1.5 gallons) Thermometer Whisk Long Knife Colander Spoon (with slots) Glass Baking Pan Instructions: Head the milk until the temperature reaches 32C in pot Dissolve Rennet in 1/4 cup of water Mix Yogurt and Buttermilk with a small amount of milk. Blend in Yogurt-Buttermilk-Milk mix into pot Blend in Rennet-Water mix and mix thoroughly and let sit about 45 minutes Use the knife to cut the curd into 1/2 inch cubes ...

Amusing Restaurant Names

Someone actually took the time to compile a pretty extensive list of crazy restaurant names broken down by cuisine type. Enjoy! Dew Drop Inn and Lettuce Entertain You: Onomastic Sobriquets in the Food and Beverage Industry COFFEE HOUSES, ESPRESSO BARS and PASTRY SHOPS Aroma Borealis, Alberta, Edmonton, CN Brew Ha Ha, Phoenix, AZ Brewed Awakenings (chain) Bump and Grind Café (American chain and also one with the same name in Sydney, Australia) Common Grounds, Syracuse, NY Cup-A-Cabana, Corvallis, OR The Daily Grind, Oceanside, NY and Seattle, WA The Daily Grind Coffee House and Bakery, Cullman, AL The Daily Grind Cyber Café, Oak Park, IL Espresso Yourself, Juneau, AK Full of Beans (defunct) Mystic, CN Gotta Hava Java, Saskatoon, CN (chain) Grounds for Divorce, Santa Barbara, CA Happy Endings, Syracuse, NY Higher Grounds, (chain) Hot Shotz, Washington, D.C. In the Black, NY, NY Jolt N Bolt Coffee & Tea House, Washington, DC Just Desserts, (5 in the San Francisco Bay area of Californ...

The World's Best Saffron Coming To Costco In May

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Starting in May, you'll be able to buy the world’s best saffron from Spain's Castilla La Mancha region at your local Costco. Just one question remains: How long will it take to use up a Costco size pack of saffron? The world's best saffron — at Costco? When I got home I spoke with Costco buyer Gary Kotzen. "We're really excited about this," he said, incredulous that I had been in one of the very fields where Costco's "next big thing" was being harvested. But I was equally incredulous. How could this truly artisanal specialty food find its way into my local warehouse store? "We want the best of the best, and we want to offer it to our members without them having to pay the premium," Kotzen said. "We'll bring it in, package it ourselves and offer it to our members at about one third or even one fifth of the cost of similar saffron . . . We did the same thing in 1997 with Tuscan olive oil." By mid-April, or perhaps early May,...

Kirkland Beer: Costco To Sell Its Own Beer

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I hope it comes in a 250 pack! Costco looking at selling own line of beer Costco Wholesale Corp. has applied to sell its own brand of beer, according to Bloomberg News. The Kirkland Signature label applications for pale ale, amber ale, hefeweizen and a lager were approved last week by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. Bloomberg reported Costco already offers Kirkland Signature wines and is one of the top sellers of wine in the U.S. Costco to Become a New Name in Battle of the Brews The big brewers have fretted that decades of copycat, chucklehead advertising has reduced their biggest-selling brands to indistinguishable commodities in the eyes of many consumers. Now they may be reaping what they've sown: Costco, one of the nation's largest warehouse retailers, is readying its first line of private-label beers. One analyst said said the rollout of Kirkland Signature Hefeweizen is most likely to hurt sub-premium brands. The retailer has filed label applications with th...

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