Winter Food Festival 2009

The Winter Food Festival is here!

Naturally Food presents Hosting a family New year's Eve party posted at this blog, Naturally Food.

All Foods Natural presents winter holidays and easy winter family dinners.

Local Nourishment presents Blue Hubbard Squash Casserole posted at Local Nourishment.

James Ward presents Hot Holiday food posted at Family Meals Made Easy - Foodie Blog.

Grapefruit presents The Broken Vow. posted at The Daily Grapefruit.

Kate Hopkins presents 100 Foods that Make You Smarter, Happier, and More Productive posted at Online Colleges.

Jordan Knight presents Liver Detoxification Using Juice Cleanse posted at Juice Cleanse.

Brian presents Health Benefits of Turmeric: Curcumin - Optimize Your Diet posted at How To Live a Longer Life.

switch2life presents Cake Designing...........Part 2 posted at switch2life.

Carorline Dawson presents Fasting: A Healthy Detoxification? posted at Juice Cleanse.

Gin G. presents Preservation Edibles posted at Sense Scribe.

Princess Scott presents The Four Types of Healthy Fasting posted at Juice Cleanse.

Jimmy Atkinson presents Sugar ETF Surges On Supply Concerns posted at ETF Database.

MAY presents CUMI and CIKI: Lifestyle, Food, Travel and Monkey Adventures!: Name:Angku posted at CUMI and CIKI: Lifestyle, Food, Travel and Monkey Adventures!.

Deb Bixler presents What Are Ingredients In A Box Of Macaroni And Cheese? | Wow! You Are Really Lucky.... posted at Increase Metabolism & Live Healthy.

Host a Family New Year’s Eve Party

In many places, a fireworks display marks the end of a year and the beginning of a new one. There are parties and celebrations. Having children does not mean you have to miss it all. Why not organize a New Year's Eve party and get the family together - all the family, kids included. I can recommend hosting a family-oriented New Year's Eve party.

Make kids part of the celebration, include them in the fun and even ask them to help by cooking with the kids for New Year’s Eve.

Autumn Food Festival 2009

The Autumn Food Festival is here. Better late than never. Submissions came late for the autumn equinox, but made if before the end of the autumn. Find a festival of ideas for the fall here.

Foy presents Your Foy and Jeff Update: Making Wild Grape Jelly posted at Your Foy and Jeff Update.

Christina Taylor presents Lobster Soup posted at Lobster Blog.

Surbhi Bhatia presents What’s Cooking? An Interview with a Chef posted at The Viewspaper.

Christina Crowe presents Dark Chocolate Covered Strawberry Recipe posted at Salad Sticks.

Buck Says presents Roasted Vegetables with Oil posted at Buck Cooks.

Local Nourishment presents Minty Cantaloupe Salad posted at Local Nourishment.

Lisa Newton presents Sunday Recipe Sampler - Share Your Favorite Recipe Here posted at Savings With Sadie.

Piper presents A Favorite Autumn Recipe: Fall Apple Salad posted at Dishes & China.

Fit 4 Ever Young presents Spinach - The Benefits posted at Fit 4 Ever Young.

Condo Blues presents How to Cook Edamame (Soybeans) posted at Condo Blues.

bestofkidsites presents The right way to make homemade popsicles! posted at The best of kids sites on the web.

ic presents Mooncake Festival food posted at Medan City Indonesia.

Linda Mundy presents Creamed Corn and Basil Bake posted at LJM's Kitchen.

Kevin Poulis presents Sees.com – An Old Time Favorite Treat | SiteTally.com posted at SiteTally.com.

Patti Lecron presents The Fancy French Olive posted at A French Education.

Belle presents How to make Fried Zucchini - with pictures posted at Homesteaderbelle's Blog. If you have your own garden with zucchini plants or got plenty of them at good price, this will be useful.

BobW presents The Best Steak You'll Ever Make posted at Happenings at UMIdirect.

Deb Bixler presents How to speed up your metabolism naturally! | Wow! You Are Really Lucky.... posted at Foods That Speed Up Your Metabolism.

Banquet Manager presents Shrimp Gut Sandwich and My Trip To COSTCO posted at So You Want To Be a Banquet Manager....

GreedyGirl1 presents Drinks on Us: Low-Calorie Cocktails posted at Greedy Girls Guide.

Lucynda Riley presents Godiva Liquer and Best Alcoholic Recipes » Blog Archive » Warm Alcoholic Drinks that don’t include Cider or Coffee posted at Best Alcoholic Recipes.

Cheerios recipes

Introducing a great selection of recipes with Cheerios as their main ingredient. These easy recipes are a very good choice to cook with your kids. Try any of:

• Fried Cheerios
• Hot Cinnamon Cheerios
• Cheerios Muffins
• Cheerios Chicken
• Cheerios Treats
• Cheerios Candy
• Cheerios Crunch

Healthy bread

From the authors of the groundbreaking Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day comes a new cookbook filled with quick and easy recipes for healthy bread. See the new Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day.

Fend Off Tooth Decay and Treat a Soldier This Halloween

While U.S. soldiers are overseas serving the country, dentists all over America are participating in a buyback program that treats our soldiers while trying to prevent cavities in our little ones.


Children trample all over the neighborhoods, visit their friends and family on Halloween all in hopes of coming hope with the lots of yum-yum gooey sugar. They dump the candy out on the floor or table and begin to go through the candy piece by piece. They pick out what they really like and for the most part, the rest goes into a bowl and sits there for several months until mom finally dumps it into the garbage.

This magnificent mound of candy is not seen as glorious by any dentist. Dentists see tooth decay and unnecessary trips to their office for children instead. Of course brushing and flossing is the biggest prevention of tooth decay but the less sweets you eat the less chance you have of developing tooth decay. This nightmarish vision sparked within dentists everywhere to come up with the candy buyback program.

I became aware of this program last October when I got a notice from our dentist’s office. They would buy back any candy that we didn’t want from our Halloween take-home at a dollar a pound. The intent was not to rob the children of their childhood Halloween memory but to let them have a choice of what they wanted to sell back. What a deal! They explained that they would then send the goodies we sold them overseas to our soldiers.

Trying to convince young ones of how great it is to send their candy to someone else is no easy task. However, if you let them know the dentist is offering to pay them for their goods, they may be more compromising. Personally, I thought of giving the money back to the dentist in order to help with the shipping cost. My seven year old was not so agreeable.

After my son went through his candy for a couple of days, on November 2nd we went down to our dentist’s office for our first buy back. It felt good knowing that the troops were being treated; my son was making a little cash and we were doing more to help prevent cavities as well.

Operation Gratitude, a nonprofit organization out of California, distributes the candy to soldiers and I attempted to talk my son into splitting the amount of money he received for his candy. After a bit of coercing and explaining to him why this was such as good idea, he finally agreed.

If you’re interested in participating in the candy buy back for soldiers, ask your dentist or look for a dentist in your area that takes part in this program. Eat up soldiers and thank you!

Food fiction

Food fiction means entertaining stories with tasty recipes included. Learn about creative campfire cooking while reading The Proposal.

Cold picnic recipes

Summer is the perfect occasion to go on a picnic. There are plenty of ideas and cold picnic recipes to explore at All Foods Natural, just listed as the answer to the request for cold picnic recipes from one of their visitors.

Desserts, Fine Art From The Kitchen

Desserts, Fine Art From The Kitchen

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Simple meatloaf recipe with bread crumbs

Bread crumbs are used to make the meatloaf mix more tender and moist. They also act as a thickener when the mixture has too much liquid. Find a simple meatloaf recipe with bread crumbs - or breadcrumbs - within the ones listed in the Simple Meatloaf Recipes, Classic to Exotic.

Cheap, quick, easy dinner recipes

And healthy to booth!

Cheap and healthy. Being frugal and living on a limited budget does not mean you need to compromise in flavor or healthy food. Most times cooking from scratch is cheaper than food to go. At least you know what you put inside.

Grilling tips and recipes for charcoal grills

Find grilling tips for charcoal grills, gas grills and primitive fire pits. This is a selection of articles covering all aspects of grilling and barbecuing.

Find a few more recipes for the grill, charcoal or otherwise:

1. Yogurt Marinated Grilled Chicken

Chicken meat can dry when grilled. Marinating the meat before grilling helps to keep the chicken moist and tender. Plain yogurt is one of the most common marinating ingredients. ...

2. Glazed Chicken Drumsticks
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The ketchup, honey and mustard glaze adds a nice flavor and makes the chicken moist. Perfect for both, outdoors and indoors, grilling. ...

3. Quick Lamb Kebabs
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Serve these kebabs over a bed of steamed white rice, with lettuce and tomato salad on the side, and enjoy the pleasure of grilling, even if you don’t own a grill as you can cook this kebabs in your microwave ...

4. Fajita Meat Marinade
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This marinade adds an oriental touch to fajita meat and it is extremely flavorful with chicken, as well as beef meat.

5. Salmon & Monkfish Kebabs
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Tender pieces of salmon and monkfish marinated in lemon juice and whole grain mustard, grilled and served with parsley and tomato salsa.

6. Grilled Butterflied Leg of Lamb
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7. Tournedos with Anchovy Butter
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Tournedos come from the filet of beef, one of the most tender cuts of beef, as do the fillet mignon and Chateaubriand. It is a small steak cut from the center about 1 1/2 to 2 inches thick. Cooking an ...

8. Grilled Tuna with Coriander Mustard Sauce
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Set the tuna to marinate in the fridge before leaving in the morning. Grill the tuna when you come back in the evening. Serve with steamed baby potatoes and vegetables or with salad and white rice. A gourmet ...