TNFNS: You have 2 seconds to reinvent the wheel. Go!

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The Next Food Network Star is that it challenges the contestants with tasks that I can’t imagine them having to face if they actually win. I watched last night with a friend who had never seen before, and he was pretty much laughing out loud. That said, I still kind of really like it. Agree? Disagree? Read on. Read more »

Tags: ethnic foods, raw food, vegan cooking, rawist cooking, diet food recipes

Amazing rice field art

Filed under: Asia, On the Blogs

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Knitted food for your weekend fare

Filed under: On the Blogs, Artisan Foods

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Tags: detox diet, vegan cooking, diet food recipes, atkins diet foods to eat, raw food

The first Jersey tomato of the season

Filed under: Fruit, Summer

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Record corn prices raise other food costs

Filed under: Grains, Dairy, Beef, Poultry, Cheese, Pork, Eggs, Meat

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Extreme Grilling: Grill green

Filed under: Barbecuing, On the Blogs, Lists, How To, Grilling, Meat, Summer

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Tags: diet food, atkins diet foods to eat, whole foods diet, food allergy, chinese food

McDonald’s is being sued by Devo

Filed under: On the Blogs, Fast Food

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When you don’t have the right flour for no-knead rye bread

Filed under: Artisan Foods, Bread

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Zotes Energy Seeds
Zotes Products LLC, of Salt Lake City, UT, is now offering energy-infused sunflower seeds.

The roasted sunflower seeds seasoned with caffeine, taurine, lysine, and ginseng. I’m not sure what these seeds actually taste like, though the ingredients list shows salt and sugar. Zotes says that a jar of these seeds has 400mg of caffeine, as much as 3-4 cups of coffee.

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Taste Test: Mott’s Plus Sauce

Filed under: Fruit, Raves & Reviews, New Products

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Taste Test: Mott’s Plus Sauce

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Copycat Olive Garden Chicken Marsala
Mushrooms were on sale at my local grocery this week, so I figured why not try out this classic Olive Garden dish!  I was able to prepare this in a flash and for a fraction of the cost of eating out. Ingredients: 4 Chicken half breasts - boneless, skinless 1/4 C. cake flour (Wondra) 1/2 tsp. Salt 1/2 tsp. Oregano 4 […]

Mushrooms were on sale at my local grocery this week, so I figured why not try out this classic Olive Garden dish!  I was able to prepare this in a flash and for a fraction of the cost of eating out.
Ingredients:
4 Chicken half breasts - boneless, skinless
1/4 C. cake flour (Wondra)
1/2 tsp. Salt
1/2 tsp. Oregano
4 Tbsp. Oil
4 Tbsp. Butter
1/2 tsp. Pepper
1 C. Fresh Mushrooms, sliced
1/2 C. Marsala Wine

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Tags: raw food, vegatarian, vegatarian cooking, diet secrets, diet

Copycat Olive Garden Tortelloni Bolognese
With all these great Olive Garden copycat recipes, I rarely ever go out to the restaurant.  I save so much money when I prepare dishes like this at home.  It also allows me to get creative and make some interesting twists in the original recipes flavor. 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 onion, finely chopped 1 carrot, finely chopped 1 […]

With all these great Olive Garden copycat recipes, I rarely ever go out to the restaurant.  I save so much money when I prepare dishes like this at home.  It also allows me to get creative and make some interesting twists in the original recipes flavor.

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Tags: raw food diet, food allergy, ethnic foods, diet food recipes, whole foods diet

Climate Change Chocolate Bar
Bloomsberry, LLC, a Salem, MA-based chocolate maker that sells its bars in whimsical wrappers, have now teamed up with TerraPass, a green energy broker, to offer these “Climate Change Chocolate” bars.

The wrappers have printed on them 15 tips to reduce your carbon footprint on the world, and in addition have included in their sale price, enough carbon energy credits from TerraPass to offset your carbon footprint for one day.

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Tags: diet, vegatarian, vegan cooking, ethnic foods, vegan

Beef Jerky - and a New Focus
I wanted to announce my beef jerky review blog…

http://www.bestbeefjerky.org

There’s a long story to why I started this, which also explains the new focus of Junk Food Blog.

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