Sometimes, you don’t want to make anything complicated for dinner, but you also don’t want to rip open a box of Kraft Dinner and call it a night. It’s times like this you need a nice, easy “feel-good” meal.
This is a recipe that we stumbled across a long time ago, and it’s been in our [...]
What an odd coincidence; I found an article today that combined my points from two recent posts: Chinese Food Imports Under Microscope and DNA Test that Sushi!
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that two consumers were hospitalized after eating pufferfish that was mislabelled as monkfish. The fish was imported from China.
Pufferfish is also known as fugu. [...]
Have you been keeping up on the pet food/Chinese import food scandal as it unfolds? It’s been quite a ride.
On April 30, the New York Times had a story about how adding “filler” to animal feed is a common practice in China. (It’s also a common practice in North America as well, although not widely-known; [...]
We had dinner at the Sushi Train last night. While we were eating, I was thinking about an article I read recently. The Chicago Sun Times did DNA testing on red snapper at 14 different restaurants around Chicago. None of them - not one - was really red snapper. Most of them were tilapia, while [...]
We have a Red Lobster just up the street from us, and we’ll go there about one a month or so with friends. The food is ok - not fantastic, and it’s your basic chain-fare - but we just love the biscuits you get before your food arrives. We call them crack-buns. Apparently they’re really [...]
