If you’ve ever tried to butterfly a leg of lamb, you know how difficult the task can be. I try to avoid this at all possible & dread the Christmas lamb butterflying all year long. But things have changed. In the same way that you learn to knit better if you can watch someone, cooking can [...]
Back to School Banana Peanut Butter Bread Recipe
Well, it’s back to school time & you know that that means- sending the kids off with a brainy breakfast. I’m a sucker for bread, yeah- that Atkins thing just doesn’t do it for me. So I like to send them off with a brainy bready breakfast. This Back to School Banana Peanut Butter Bread recipe combines the classic banana bread recipe [...]
Jamie Oliver Summer Chickpea Salad Recipe
Well, we can’t let Jamie Oliver catch us eating Rhubarb Blueberry Pie! Try this Jamie Oliver Summer Chickpea Salad Recipe on for size, I don’t think you’ll find yourself wanting. Enjoy! Ingredients: 1 small red onion, peeled 1-2 fresh red chilies, deseeded 2 handfuls of ripe red or yellow tomatoes 2 lemons Extra virgin olive oil sea [...]
Jamie Oliver Obese for Public Health Education
31-yearold celebrity chef Jamie Oliver continues on with his campaign to educate us on childhood obesity & the lack of quality in UK school lunches. Oliver spent four hours in makeup, being covered in latex to gain the appearance of an obese man. He left the studio a different man & went to the [...]
Apple Bundt Cake Recipe
What says fall more than apples & football? Now that we have that Game Day Stadium Bundt Cake Pan out of the way, we just need an Apple Bundt Cake recipe to go along with. Enjoy this truly delicious Bundt cake recipe, I made it several times last year & hear nothing more all year except, [...]
Game Day Stadium Bundt Cake Pan
The best thing about bundt cake pans is all the crazy shapes they come in. From that wonderful Sunflower Bundt Cake Pan to the Castle Bundt Cake Pan. And what better way to ring in the football year than with this Game Day Stadium Bundt Cake Pan? Surprise the gang with this great celebration of football & [...]
Perfect Peaches & Cream Pie Recipe
Decadent Chocolate Mousse- check. Perfect Peach Pie- on the way. This Peaches & Cream Pie recipe is a grand addition to the Desserts category as well as to your palate. Enjoy & may this pie make the week a little easier on your constitution & your stomach! Ingredients: 3/4 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon salt [...]
Decadent Chocolate Mousse Recipe
All I can say is that I’m not in Mississippi & that I love a good chocolate mousse. This week is going to be of the dragging ilk, so I thought I’d cheer us up with this Decadent Chocolate Mousse recipe from Gourmet. Enjoy making this delicious treat & save room for Perfect Peach Pie. Ingredients: 2 cups chilled [...]
Helping Mississippi Peas & Carrot Rice Recipe
Let’s give Mississippi a helping hand & give her some peas & carrots. Enjoy this veggie-filled Peas & Carrot Rice recipe & put down that Moon Pie! Ingredients: 3 cups water 1 1/2 cups uncooked white rice 3 slices bacon 1/2 onion, chopped 2 stalks celery, diced 1 carrot, chopped 1/2 cup peas 1 cup fresh mushrooms, sliced [...]
Mississippi is the Fattest US State
CalorieLab has just released their 2006 Fattest US States list & it looks like the South wins again. Mississippi has taken the cake, as it were, for the fattest state in 2006. Based on a three year statistical average, 29.5% of the population of Mississippi is obese. And if you include the overweight population of the [...]
