http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/food/ en-us Sat, 2 Jan 2010 20:21:06 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2419658/posts Here is video of President Obama ordering a "Snowbama" and other treats for his entourage in Hawaii at a local shop. Obama took his daughters and about 20 people for a Hawaiian treat -- shaved ice. He ordered the combo named for himself -- the "Snowbama." It's flavored with lemon-lime, cherry and passion-guava syrups. Oama is continuing his two-week Hawaiian vacation where he is staying at a $9 million estate which is costing him $4,000 a night. . . . (RAW VIDEO) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2419658/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 20:21:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419026/posts PAKTYA PROVINCE, Afghanistan – An Afghan National Army Soldier unloads supplies during a combined civil assistance mission Dec. 29, while local citizens look on. The mission was a combined effort between U.S. Army Soldiers and their ANA counterparts to bring blankets, cooking stoves, food items, shoes and winter jackets to local citizens. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Andrew A. Reagan, 304th Public Affairs Detachment) By U.S. Army Sgt. Andrew A. Reagan304th Public Affairs Detachment PAKTYA PROVINCE, Afghanistan –  Afghan National Army Soldiers from the 203rd Thunder Corps, their counterparts from the Gardez Provincial Reconstruction team, and U.S. Soldiers assigned to... ISAF Joint Command - Afghanistan http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419026/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 17:44:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419008/posts Whether you eat them for luck or just because they taste good (and good for you!), here's an easy recipe to round out your New Year's Day dinner. The Cypress Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419008/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 16:58:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/599613/posts A family tradition in millions of homes the humble black eyed peas are eaten as a symbol of a prosperious coming year. Not a lot of people like the taste of them but some inventive recipes make them delicious. My wife and I and family have had them every New Years for our 49 years of marriage so why tinker with success? What is your favorite recipe for the humble little black eye? traditional food http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/599613/posts#comment Tue, 1 Jan 2002 02:01:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418233/posts A DECLINE IN FOOD SPENDING confirms a deflationary undercurrent. Consumers are still spending less on food, even while pushing a touch less forcefully on the usual money-saving levers – suggesting disinflationary retail prices may have worsened to end 2009. The deflation-induced operating deleverage that plagued food retail over the past three to six months leaves little room for further price declines – just as we enter a tough holiday season. The table is set for a competitive holiday season. Consumers continue their trend of "shopper activism" (coupons, promotions, etc.) and plan to spend less this holiday season. Twenty-four percent of... Barrons http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418233/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:48:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418049/posts Agriculture: Already buffeted by rising food prices due to biofuels, consumers face a bigger hike if climate-change legislation is passed. Farming costs will rise, and it may be more profitable to plant trees than crops. If the cap-and-trade provisions of the Waxman-Markey bill become law, you can wave goodbye to those amber waves of grain as America's heartland falls victim to a perverse set of incentives and a process called "afforestation." Soybeans and wheat will give way to elms and oaks. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack wants a review of what amounts to an agricultural impact study of HR 2454, which... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418049/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:22:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416982/posts This is a great side dish for a big breakfast. You could make them for dinner, too. Ingredients: 4 potatoes 1/2 cup chopped onion 1/2 cup chopped red bell pepper 4 tbsp. butter salt and pepper to taste The Cypress Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416982/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:00:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416270/posts This tasty dip is a perfect accompaniment with a fresh fruit tray. The Cypress Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416270/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:32:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415954/posts Global Food Crisis 2010 Means Financial Armageddon Commodities / Food Crisis Dec 25, 2009 - 04:12 PM By: Eric deCarbonnel If you read any economic, financial, or political analysis for 2010 that doesn’t mention the food shortage looming next year, throw it in the trash, as it is worthless. There is overwhelming, undeniable evidence that the world will run out of food next year. When this happens, the resulting triple digit food inflation will lead panicking central banks around the world to dump their foreign reserves to appreciate their currencies and lower the cost of food imports, causing the collapse... The Market Oracle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415954/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:28:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415842/posts --snip-- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has never made any bones, if you will, about her culinary preferences. She's a carnivore, a hunter and proud of both. So it's not really a surprise that her book, "Going Rogue," published today, extols the virtues of eating meat. "If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore," she wrote. "If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?” But the former Republican vice presidential candidate did not stop there. “I... The Los Angeles Times' Top of the Ticket http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415842/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:06:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415742/posts Ingredients: 2 large cans pineapple chunks 3/4 cup sugar 3 tbsp. flour 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese 1/2 stick butter, melted 1 sleeve Ritz crackers The Cypress Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415742/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:30:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415291/posts Ingredients: 1 small package raspberry gelatin 1 small package cherry gelatin 12 oz. jar cherries 1 large can crushed pineapple 1 cup chopped pecans 1 8 oz. package cream cheese (frozen) 12 oz. Coca Cola (partially frozen) The Cypress Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415291/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:42:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415205/posts OK, I know this thread is a bit late, as Christmas is almost over. But, I thought I would start a thread to gather FReeper recipes for some great food recipes. I'll go first. My grandma used to make this, and it is 100% awesome: Grandma Goering's Potato Casserole 1 Large bag frozen hash browns 1 can cream of mushroom soup 1 can cream of celery soup 1 chopped onion 1 small carton of sour cream garlic salt & pepper to taste Mix altogether; put into a (greased with butter) 9X13 pan. Sprinkle with Paprika and Parsley. Place small pieces... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415205/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:42:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415169/posts Here's the evening menu at the Lurker Compound. While not very traditional it sure hit the spot here: Christmas Menu 2009 Deviled Eggs with Shrimp, Dill, Goat Cheese, and Capers Seared Bacon Wrapped Scallops with Fig Jam Pickled Asparagus Wrapped with Prosciutto, Parmesan, and Cracked Pepper Butternut Squash soup with Sugar and Spiced Pepitas and Jarlsberg Swiss Chicken Rosemary Brie Ravioli with Peach Bourbon Butter and Chopped Cashews Homestyle Grilled Flatbread with House made Pork Sausage, Goat and Bleu Cheeses, Caramelized Onions, Basil, and Chopped Tomatoes Fried Dough with Sugar, Cinnamon, and Vermont Maple Syrup Drizzle Adult Beverages: La Crema... Lurker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415169/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:32:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414323/posts USA Today reported the results of a study by the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University, published in the American Journal of Public Health. The Yale University study divided diners into three groups. • One was given menus with the calories listed for the dinner entrees. • Another group was given menus that cited the calories plus a reference number that showed the recommended daily caloric intake for the average adult: about 2,000. • A third group had menus with no calories listed. Beyond Koreanfornian Cooking http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414323/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:15:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407735/posts Agri-Food's And The Global Warming Research Dollars Ponzi Scam Commodities / Agricultural Commodities Dec 14, 2009 - 03:34 PM By: Ned_W_Schmidt The Global Warming Scam may finally be on its way to well-deserved oblivion. Take your pick of discrediting events, the snow storms that hit the Midwestern U.S., snow at the start of the Australian Summer, -40 degree temps in Western Canada, or Climategate. The Global Warming Scam appears now to have been nothing more than a giant research dollar Ponzi-like scheme. Researchers would take research dollars, cook some numbers, discard other data, and exchange dubious research for more funding... The Market Oracle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407735/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:07:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406761/posts If you're a cheese lover, this is for you! You may think you've died and gone to cheese heaven...where they don't count calories. The Cypress Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406761/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:04:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406413/posts The drive-through is where one American obsession—mobility—meets another: consumption. Lately, though, this societal combo platter has come under fire, as people question the drive-through's environmental impact, its place in the evolving landscape of obesity (a 1,420-calorie Hardee's Monster Thickburger without having to leave your seat!), and even who has the right to step up to its crackly intercom. There has always been something odd in the encounter between automobility and architecture; the driver momentarily breaks her sense of hermetic enclosure, while the fast-food employee briefly thrusts himself out of the window, the two meeting amid the sickly sweet commingling of... Slate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406413/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:02:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2406103/posts Part of Julia Child’s charm is that she nonchalantly became her own authority. One of my favorite quotes is her description of her “brand-new, super-duper” Chocolate Mousse Dessert Cake: “And here it is: Le Gâteau Victoire au Chocolat, Mousseline! One of the great chocolate cakes of all time, according to me.” Not, “in my opinion,” but “according to me.” Who says that? A master citing herself, that’s who. She restates this notion of self-authority in the same television segment, a guide to an intimate tableside cooking of Steak Diane: “So, as I said at the beginning before we started cooking,... Paul Klenk | The Official Site http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2406103/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:59:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405723/posts 2 ½ cups gluten free puffed rice or corn flakes ¼ cup fine coconut ½ cup slithered almonds ½ cup milk powder 1/3 cup pure icing sugar 1/3 cup currants 1 tablespoon mixed peel (optional if fructose intolerant) 1 tablespoon glazed cherries - chopped ¼ cup dried apricots – chopped 3.38 oz Copha/ Peerless shortening The Cypress Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405723/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:07:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403212/posts Ingredients: 2 sticks butter (always a good start!) 1/2 cup cocoa 4 eggs, lightly beaten 2 cups sugar 1 1/2 cups flour 1 1/2 cups chopped pecans (optional) Pinch of salt 1 tsp. vanilla Miniature marshmallows The Cypress Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403212/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 22:40:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2402281/posts This is a fast, inexpensive and hearty dish that's great to make during the week. You can also substitute turkey for chicken. The Cypress Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2402281/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 20:34:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401710/posts Two stars of the reality TV show "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here" have been charged with animal cruelty after allegedly killing and cooking a rat to eat during filming. Chef Gino D'Acampo who won the viewer-feedback contest series, and actor Stuart Manning were charged after animal welfare activists lodged a complaint about a segment for the British TV program, which was filmed in Australia, the activists and British media reported Sunday. In a statement to The Associated Press, New South Wales state police said Sunday that two men, aged 33 and 30, were charged with animal... Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401710/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 23:23:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401496/posts The chemical Bisphenol A, which has been used for years in clear plastic bottles and food-can liners, has been restricted in Canada and some U.S. states and municipalities because of potential health effects. The Food and Drug Administration will soon decide what it considers a safe level of exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA), which some studies have linked to reproductive abnormalities and a heightened risk of breast and prostate cancers, diabetes, and heart disease. Now Consumer Reports' latest tests of canned foods, including soups, juice, tuna, and green beans, have found that almost all of the 19 name-brand foods we... Consumer Reports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401496/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 15:04:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401014/posts I suppose it was inevitable. People have been watching their ‘carbs’ for years, or ‘carbo loading’ before running a race. When I was a kid, only chemists knew what a carbohydrate was; now, everybody does. But we have yet to see Italian restaurants boast of Seven Blends of Complex Carbohydrates in Vodka Sauce on their menus. They still—so far—proudly speak of ‘pasta.’ Still, specialized food lingo is part of popular culture. We have TV chefs running around chattering about ‘molecular gastronomy’ (which mostly consists of freezing things with liquid nitrogen) and ‘balancing proteins.’ This is natural enough. Every profession develops... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401014/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 16:52:59 GMT