My mother would like to be called eccentric. She's not. She's just annoying and tetched. At sixty-three, she resides in a convalescent home due to COPD, obesity, and the unwillingness of her children to allow her to live in their homes. When she was a child she had some sort of a growth removed from her forehead. Her mother, my Nana, holds ( Read more... )

Well, I'm two for two in the recipe FAIL department in the last 24 hours.

I made this meatloaf tonight, adjusting all the measurements to about half since I only had half the meat required. I assumed it would be good since, hey, it's Alton Brown - my hero ( Read more... )

I've begun my experiments with baking my own teething biscuits. First try worked fine, but I made a slight error - I used rice cereal with fruit in it, which, combined with the sugar in the recipe made the biscuits a lot sweeter than I wanted. Duh. But my daughter enjoys them (of course she does - they are sweeeeet), so when she's done with ( Read more... )

I was flipping through a food magazine today and a random bit of advice caught my eye - it mentioned that if you tend to let leftovers rot in the fridge instead of eating them up, you should think of them as an ingredient instead of what you actually made, like taking leftover sweet and sour chicken and adding scallions, bean sprouts, rice, and ( Read more... )

Well this was the easiest thing I have ever made and also one of the tastiest. Thanks to javamaven1 who gave me the outline of what to do.

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between a kugel and a quiche ( Read more... )

Another miracle food doesn't live up to its labeling, says the Federal Trade Commission ( Read more... )

I'd like to start making my own teething biscuits and snacks for my 13 month old daughter. I feel foolish that I've trusted Gerber to put out a product that is healthful in this regard, but no, their stuff has just as much preservatives and hydrogenated oil and corn syrup as anything in the "grownup" cookies aisle ( Read more... )

I bought a huge bag of tater tots for my daughter, but now she won't eat them.  What should I make with them?  They take too long to bake as a snack, and it's not something we'll eat with dinner.

This article was published almost two years ago, so I am not certain about the most recent science, but it makes a point about mercury levels in high fructose corn syrup that I have never heard before. It is something to think about when offering processed foods to children.