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Crab Dip

April 20th 2011 03:30
I've warned you I love dips. This dip adds in another of my favorites, seafood. This rich and creamy recipe is again quick and easy while offering great flavor. My wife would probably eat this just about every meal if she could. Every other week or so she calls me at work and asks if we can have crab dip for dinner.

crab dip
This dip goes great with a bread bowl



While the dip itself is great, a big reason she and I are crazy about it is because I like to put the dip into a sourdough bread bowl. I simply cut out the bowl and use the remaining bread for dipping.

As you can see from the ingredients, the dip is very rich. The dip consists mainly of cream cheese and mayonnaise to go along with the crab. I like to substitute fat free or reduced fat cream cheese and mayo; I've found it doesn't take away from the taste while making the dip less filling and heavy feeling.

My wife and I prefer a smoother texture, so we like to substitute onion powder for the onion flakes. I've had it with flakes and finely chopped onions and it is still very good.

Hope you enjoy this seafood treat as much as we have!

Ingredients:

1 6-8 oz can of crab meat
3/4 cup mayonnaise
8 oz cream cheese (softened)
1 tsp onion flakes or finely chopped onion
juice of 1/2 lemon
1/4 tsp garlic powder

salt and pepper to taste


Cooking Instructions:

1. Mix all ingredients together in baking dish
2. Heat at 350 degrees F for 15 minutes
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Food Facts: Tomato

April 16th 2011 14:00
Imagine a world without ketchup. What about waking up to realize there is no pizza sauce? Salsa is another item on the long list of creations we have to enjoy thanks to our friend the tomato. Tomatoes add flavor to sandwiches, sometimes used as the main ingredient. I've known some to even enjoy the fruity vegetable in its unadulterated form, like others would an apple. We'll take a look at the tomato and its history and see how it has formed to the food we know today.

tomato
The tomato has become a staple in most kitchens

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Tax Day Giveaways

April 15th 2011 12:30
I always thought that there were only two guarantees in life; death and taxes. It turns out that a third guarantee has developed, tax day giveaways. Eateries around the world have offered treats and freebies as compensation for the hassle we all know as tax season. It also gets people spending money in their establishments, but I'm sure sympathy is their main reason for the offers.

This year is no different as several recognizable chains are offering discounts on their treats


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Spicy Chicken and Ranch Dip

April 14th 2011 19:39
I love dips. I've taken this as far as combining foods in strange ways and basically forcing them into a dip-like substance. My wife thinks it's gross, but I see it as efficient and I'm all about the mixing of flavors.

spicy chicken dip
This dip goes great with tortialla chips

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Junk Food Crackdown

April 13th 2011 18:05
Several cities are making it harder for their residents to enjoy guilty pleasure snacks. In an effort to promote health awareness, New York, Boston and Cleveland have come out with restrictions surrounding foods regarded as harmful to their resident's wellbeing. The foods targeted include sodas and other sugary drinks, fried foods and other items containing those scary trans fats.

Employees of New York's Department of Health recently received a new set of guidelines that spell out certain office dos and don’ts. The employees are told what types of perfumes they can wear and urged to resist the temptation of eavesdropping on others. As if this wasn't enough, this guide goes on to instruct what food is allowable at company parties and gatherings. Not surprisingly fried foods did not make the cut. It goes as far advising how to serve popcorn at these parties. The salty treat must be, 'popped at the party and served in brown paper lunch bags'. Employees are to, 'cut muffins and bagels into halves or quarters, or order mini sizes'. They also are told to offer thinly-sliced, whole-grain bread. My favorite part is that when 'celebration cake' is served, the office cannot also serve cookies. New York also is hoping to reduce its resident's general intake of salt, sugar and alcohol


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School Bans Packed Lunches

April 13th 2011 00:43
Thinking back to my high school days there are certain things that I miss a lot. Playing sports and hanging out with good friends top the list. School lunches do not. In fact school lunches would be buried towards the bottom of that same list. Sure you had your good days and certain meals that those ladies got just right. On those others you always had the fallback option of packing your own lunch. You could put whatever you could scrounge up at home into a brown bag and avoid the stomach aches served at lunchtime. One Chicago school decided to take away that choice from its students.

brown paper bag lunch
Home packed lunches banned

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Easy Bisquick Chicken Pot Pie

April 12th 2011 21:00
Here's a recipe that will bring you all the flavors of chicken pot pie in hardly any time at all. You can have this home-style meal prepared, cooked and served in under an hour.

bisquick chicken pot pie

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Food Facts: Chicken

April 12th 2011 15:04
In my series Food Facts I hope to shed a little light on the history of some of our favorite fares. I will look into where they originated and how they transformed over time to the foods we enjoy today.

For the first item in this section I chose the chicken. I'm not trying to close the argument of what came first, but instead thought I would start with one of the world's most popular proteins


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This is a fantastic and simple recipe for those who want to get that fried chicken feel without those fried chicken calories.

double coated chicken with Kellogg's corn flakes

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Top Ballpark Eats

April 11th 2011 23:16
I figured what would be a better way to kick off the start of my new food blog than by combining two of my passions, food and sports. I've assembled a list of the best ball park food sold across the country.

We’ll follow the paths of ball players by starting in the minors and working our way up. Minor league ballgames are great. The tickets are much more affordable, the teams run all kinds of great promotions and they also get very creative with the grub they serve


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