Food

Try New Recipes For Tailgate Grilling At The Football Game

It's football season. No reason to give the old BBQ any time off just yet! 

With a batch of grilling tips to get you to the top of your game, you can score some points while tailgating with your friends this weekend at the football field. 

Are you the kind of cook that follows a recipe to the tee?  Or is your style more or less to wing it and see where it takes you?  Be inventive, try some foods you'd never think of grilling and mix it up a little.

Before you know it, your Superbowl party will be at hand, better try out some new recipe ideas now so you'll be cheered for your great food at the big game!

Halloween Party Ideas: Unique Food Costumes & Halloween Treats

It's that spooky time of year again, Halloween is just around the corner.  What special Halloween treats are you planning for your annual party?  Will it be for kids or maybe the party will be adults only?

Imagine how cute your little ones would be dressed up as food!  Homemade food theme costumes are the latest rage.  Consider a Halloween costume of a can of tomato soup or maybe a box of macaroni and cheese.

When it's all over, here are some fun things you can do with leftover Halloween candy.

The Use By Date Is Only A Guideline, Proper Storage Is Also Important

Did you know an opened package of lunchmeat is only good for 4 days?

Most people rely on the "Use By" date on the package to determine if food is still safe to eat.  You may be throwing out good food if this is the only criteria you use to judge what's in your refrigerator.  You may also be saving dangerously spoiled food -- such as that 2 week old opened lunchmeat package already mentioned!

Universal covers that snap over standard serving bowls will help keep leftovers safely sealed in your refrigerator.  Not only will this help in containing food odors, but it will also help extend the life of your leftovers.

Healthy Taco Ingredients Can Be Used To Make Other Dishes Too

Did you know a taco salad can be a diet disaster? 

Greasy hamburger, cheese, and salsa are all loaded with sugar.  Don't lose hope. There are some easy tricks that can make your taco salad healthy in a hurry!

I bet you also didn't know there's a right way to fold a burrito.   Doing it wrong means all the good stuff in the middle falls out all over your lap. 

Don't forget you can make tacos one night then try some differant recipes using the same ingredients the next night.  Then you can decide if one is healthier than the other.

Brat Bath - My Favorite Way To Cook Brats At A Tailgate

I'm sitting here watching 5 college football games on ESPN360.com (I love technology) and I'm noticing that each game has commercial bumps featuring tailgaters and almost all of them are cooking brats.

Not that that's surprising. It's one of America's top tailgate foods (in a close race with hamburgers).

But how did a German food become one of the main menu items for one of America's favorite pastimes?

Continue reading: How To Cook Brats With A Brat Bath

Popcorn: A Healthy & Flavorful Snack Food

Popcorn, it's been around for thousands of years. 

A tasty little snack treat, popcorn has many health benefits you may not be aware of.  Whole grain, low calorie, and that's just for starters. 

There are lots of ways you can enjoy popcorn, flavored is probably the most common.  10 movie themed popcorn recipes are one direction you can take flavoring. Or maybe some healthy flavor recipes would keep the low-calorie aspect of the snack intact.

In the end, you're likely to need some floss as for sure you'll end up with popcorn stuck between your teeth.

Baked Potatoes vs Mashed Potatoes - Which is Better For Your Skin?

The two most common ways to prepare potatoes are mashed and baked.  Making perfect mashed potatoes means doing it by hand, not the food processor.  This will prevent them from releasing excessive starch and becoming mushy.

Did you also know that eating baked potatoes is good for your skin? There are many skin healthy foods that will help you look years younger.  Now go ahead and load up that baked potato with all the good stuff that makes you forget there's a potato in there.  After all you're doing it to look younger.

How To Use Over Ripe Fruit And Prevent Wasted Produce

When fruits and vegetables come into season, the price generally drops quite a bit.  Of course we want to stock up on a good deal, so knowing when certain fruits and vegetables are in season makes it easier to plan ahead. 

But what happens when you buy more than you’ll use before things start getting soft and begin to spoil?  With 7 ways to enjoy overripe fruit you will have no excuses for letting any fruit go to waste.

Making sure nothing goes to waste is how you prevent buyer's remorse when you buy too much because your eyes were bigger than your freezer.

Fad Diets Can Put Some Strange Food On The Table

With today’s obsession about obesity, many people will go to any length to lose weight.  Fad diets are all the rage -- everything from low carbohydrates to unusually high protein are being tried with varying success. 

Personally, all it really takes is to surround yourself with some rather unappetizing food to do the trick.  10 unusual foods from around the world should be just about enough to slim down anyone! 

Funny thing, one of them is a local winter time delicacy right here in Minnesota.  Lutefisk, something that should have have been left in Norway when the immigrants came over.

When Was The Last Time You Ate Spam?

No, really!

For me it was today.

I don't know what got into me... I've been all nostalgic lately watching re-runs from the 70s like the Brady Bunch and I Love Lucy. And I've been flashing back to the days when I was a kid and we ate Spam. (Didn't everyone back then?)

My dad used to make it (along with his fried eggs with ketchup), but only on special occasions.

I like it really thin and crispy, so the edges almost curl up. I don't put anything on my Spam sandwich -- just Spam. But after watching the following video, I'm asking myself why I've always sliced Spam on the narrow/short side, rather than the full/larger side. I guess that's how my dad always did it, that's why.

Continue reading: Do You Eat Spam?