Author Archives: Meg
Smoothie Sunday: Orange Grapefruit Smoothie
One of the best grapefruit I ever had was brought back from someone’s grandfather’s backyard in Florida, and it was amazing. It was so sweet I didn’t even need to add sugar. Unfortunately, most of the grapefruit you can buy in stores is not that sweet, and can be downright bitter. I still enjoy eating grapefruit from time to time, but having to load it down with sugar seems a bit counter-intuitive in terms of eating fruit for a healthy breakfast. But, I figured if I put it in a smoothie with other, sweeter things I could still get the grapefruit flavor without all the bitterness. And thus this smoothie was born.
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Garlic Recipe Roundup
In preparation for our cooking demonstration at the Long Island Garlic Festival this week, we decided to round up some of our favorite garlic themed posts. Hopefully you’ll come stop by and check it out! If you’re not nearby enough to come watch us cook and listen to us talk though, you can still make some garlicky food this weekend to celebrate all things garlic with us in spirit.
Food 101: How to Roast Garlic
Not really a recipe, but important garlic cooking knowledge. Knowing how to roast garlic opens up other culinary doors.
Smoothie Sunday: Cranberry Pear Smoothie
Cranberries are really good for you. They are chock full of antioxidants and they’re also great for your urinary tract health. They are also rather tart. They’re not really a fruit you can just eat out of hand as a snack. I really wanted to use them in a smoothie, but I knew I needed another fruit to temper the tart a bit. Pears seemed like the perfect fruit to do this since they could help add sweetness without adding a ton of flavor of their own. In the end I think the combination worked out really well, and it ended up being a great late summer/early fall smoothie.
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Smoothie Sunday: Grape Smoothie
I have a bit of a complicated relationship with grape. As a fruit I enjoy grapes. I can just sit and eat grapes as a snack or dessert and everything is a-ok. But yet I haaaate grape flavored things. To me a lot of grape flavored things don’t actually taste all that much like the grapes I eat as a snack. Or perhaps grape flavored things just bring about flashbacks to having to take grape flavored medicine as a kid. Either way, to this day I still generally avoid grape flavored things. But since grapes as a fruit are good, I figured a grape smoothie was worth a try.
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The Snack Report: Lay’s Do Us a Flavor Finalists Part 2
Last week I reviewed two of the four 2015 Lay’s Do Us a Flavor finalists: Southern Biscuits and Gravy and Greektown Gryo. The Southern Biscuits and Gravy fared fairly well and the Greektown Gyro…did not. But there are still two more flavors to take into consideration before voting! This week I’ll review New York Reuben and West Coast Truffle Fries.
The Poor Couple's Food Guide 
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