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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Quick Recipe: Korean Garlic Soy Chicken
Despite being big fans of Asian foods, the two of us have only recently come around to find that Korean food is really yummy. In fairness, it hasn’t had much exposure prior to the past decade thanks to the rise of Korean BBQ restaurants and other efforts to further the cuisine in western civilization. We happened upon this sort of stir fry two years ago in Jasmine, the restaurant at Stony Brook University’s Wang Center. We enjoyed it so much we ended up making a copycat version of our own that was as close as we could get it. This garlic-soy chicken has a really dark, awesome flavor bolstered by the addition of sesame oil. If you like garlic and stir fry, this is totally up your alley. Be warned though, there is a lot of garlic in there, so unless you’re like me and Meg and particularly enjoy the smell of garlic, you may need to brace yourself.
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.
Quick Recipe: Awesome Buffalo Sauce
One of the things I’ve had to deal with while getting older is that my body just doesn’t handle spicy food the way it used to. As a teenager and college student I could chug hot sauce and eat the hottest chili peppers raw just for shits and giggles. As an adult now, however, if I eat anything really spicy my stomach basically goes WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME and I get gastrointestinal cramps on and off for later on. Tragic, yes, but it’s all part of growing up for some people fortunately.
Luckily for me, perennial favorite buffalo sauce falls into the category of spicy foods I still eat en masse without digestive trouble later on, probably because it’s not just totally hot sauce. Fortunately, if you want you can add peppers/spices to it to take it anywhere from harmless to borderline radioactive. But once you whip up a batch of this, you can toss it on chicken fingers, cauliflower, or just use it as a dipping sauce, among other things.
As featured in our Buffalo Cauliflower Pizza!
You could just throw hot sauce and butter together, but I have my own little formula that gives it enough extra flavor to stay distinctive and yummy from your generic garbage pre-made sauce from the store.
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