Cooking Tips
Culinary Quiz
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UPCOMING FOOD HOLIDAYS
FUNNIES: Clues Your Menu Was Hacked by Cats
Red Lobster's Coconut Shrimp
Culinary Quiz Answer
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Cooking Tips
* Peel a banana from the bottom and you won't have to pick the little "stringy things" off of it. That's how the primates do it.
* Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.
* Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!
* Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating. Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.
* Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef. It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.
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Culinary Quiz
(Answer at the bottom of page)
What readily available meat "on the hoof" did the Spanish find running wild in what is now northern Mexico, South Texas and New Mexico that they were unfamiliar with?
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Quote:
"Good bread is the great need in poor homes, and often times the best appreciated luxury in the homes of the very rich."
- A Book for A Cook, The Pillsbury Co. (1905)
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UPCOMING FOOD HOLIDAYS:
March is: National Nutrition Month
National Frozen Food Month
National Peanut Month
National Sauce Month
National Flour Month
National Noodle Month
February 24 - National Tortilla Chip Day
February 25 - National Chocolate Covered Peanuts Day
February 26 - National Pistachio Day
February 27 - National Kahlua Day
February 28 - National Chocolate Souffle Day
February 29 - National Surf and Turf Day
March 1 - National Peanut Butter Lover's Day
March 2 - National Banana Cream Pie Day
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FUNNIES: Clues Your Menu Was Hacked by Cats
9. The Kids’ Menu now features "Hot Real Dogs", and it’s all-you-can-eat.
8. Your house dressing has turned into mouse dressing.
7. Under seafood entrees, your catch of the day is now Rover sole.
6. The only side dish choice is creamed liver.
5. The dessert offerings? Chocolate mouse, salmon sherbet and creme beef brulee.
4. Your customers keep sending back their glasses of Champagne over mice.
3. You are the only Dairy Queen in town offering Tuna Buster Parfaits, Tuna Splits and Tuna Blizzards.
2. "We carry over 20 fine domestic and imported beeKATZ RU13! D065 DR001!"
... and the #1 Clue Your Menu Was Hacked by Cats ...
1. "While you wait, enjoy a complimentary egg nog in front of our burning Yule dog."
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Red Lobster's Coconut Shrimp
2 cups plain bread crumbs
1 1/2 cup corn starch - divided
2 cups sweetened coconut flakes
1 1/2 cup pina colada drink mix, divided
2 tablespoons powdered sugar
1/3 cup Captain Morgan Spiced Rum
1 Lb. large uncooked shrimp - peeled, deveined, butterflied
vegetable oil for deep frying
1/3 cup sour cream
1/3 cup canned crushed pineapple, drained
Combine bread crumbs, 1/2 cup cornstarch, and coconut flakes in a bowl and set aside. Combine 1 cup pina colada drink mix, powdered sugar, and rum in another bowl and set aside. Place 1 cup corn starch
in a separate bowl. Coat shrimp in cornstarch, then dip in pina colada mixture, then in coconut mixture, back into pina colada mixture, and back into coconut mixture. Carefully drop each coated shrimp into 375 degree oil. Fry until golden brown, remove from fryer, and drain. Combine 1/2 cup pina colada drink mix, sour cream, and pineapple. Dip fried shrimp in sauce.
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Culinary Quiz Answer:
Longhorn Cattle
Sheep, goats, and hogs were a familiar part of the Spanish diet from Europe as were beef cows, but the "Texas Longhorn" was something new altogether for them. They were described as strange creatures with huge horns and "covered with frizzled hair that resembles wool". Strange maybe but "delicious roasted" according to the early settlers. Camels were introduced into the southwest in the 1800’s with only moderate success and not often eaten!
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Culinary Quiz
Quote
UPCOMING FOOD HOLIDAYS
FUNNIES: Clues Your Menu Was Hacked by Cats
Red Lobster's Coconut ShrimpCulinary Quiz Answer
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Cooking Tips
* Peel a banana from the bottom and you won't have to pick the little "stringy things" off of it. That's how the primates do it.
* Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.
* Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!
* Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating. Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.
* Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef. It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.
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Culinary Quiz
(Answer at the bottom of page)
What readily available meat "on the hoof" did the Spanish find running wild in what is now northern Mexico, South Texas and New Mexico that they were unfamiliar with?
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Quote:
"Good bread is the great need in poor homes, and often times the best appreciated luxury in the homes of the very rich."
- A Book for A Cook, The Pillsbury Co. (1905)
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UPCOMING FOOD HOLIDAYS:
March is: National Nutrition Month
National Frozen Food Month
National Peanut Month
National Sauce Month
National Flour Month
National Noodle Month
February 24 - National Tortilla Chip Day
February 25 - National Chocolate Covered Peanuts Day
February 26 - National Pistachio Day
February 27 - National Kahlua Day
February 28 - National Chocolate Souffle Day
February 29 - National Surf and Turf Day
March 1 - National Peanut Butter Lover's Day
March 2 - National Banana Cream Pie Day
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FUNNIES: Clues Your Menu Was Hacked by Cats
9. The Kids’ Menu now features "Hot Real Dogs", and it’s all-you-can-eat.
8. Your house dressing has turned into mouse dressing.
7. Under seafood entrees, your catch of the day is now Rover sole.
6. The only side dish choice is creamed liver.
5. The dessert offerings? Chocolate mouse, salmon sherbet and creme beef brulee.
4. Your customers keep sending back their glasses of Champagne over mice.
3. You are the only Dairy Queen in town offering Tuna Buster Parfaits, Tuna Splits and Tuna Blizzards.
2. "We carry over 20 fine domestic and imported beeKATZ RU13! D065 DR001!"
... and the #1 Clue Your Menu Was Hacked by Cats ...
1. "While you wait, enjoy a complimentary egg nog in front of our burning Yule dog."
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Red Lobster's Coconut Shrimp2 cups plain bread crumbs
1 1/2 cup corn starch - divided
2 cups sweetened coconut flakes
1 1/2 cup pina colada drink mix, divided
2 tablespoons powdered sugar
1/3 cup Captain Morgan Spiced Rum
1 Lb. large uncooked shrimp - peeled, deveined, butterflied
vegetable oil for deep frying
1/3 cup sour cream
1/3 cup canned crushed pineapple, drained
Combine bread crumbs, 1/2 cup cornstarch, and coconut flakes in a bowl and set aside. Combine 1 cup pina colada drink mix, powdered sugar, and rum in another bowl and set aside. Place 1 cup corn starch
in a separate bowl. Coat shrimp in cornstarch, then dip in pina colada mixture, then in coconut mixture, back into pina colada mixture, and back into coconut mixture. Carefully drop each coated shrimp into 375 degree oil. Fry until golden brown, remove from fryer, and drain. Combine 1/2 cup pina colada drink mix, sour cream, and pineapple. Dip fried shrimp in sauce.
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Culinary Quiz Answer:
Longhorn Cattle
Sheep, goats, and hogs were a familiar part of the Spanish diet from Europe as were beef cows, but the "Texas Longhorn" was something new altogether for them. They were described as strange creatures with huge horns and "covered with frizzled hair that resembles wool". Strange maybe but "delicious roasted" according to the early settlers. Camels were introduced into the southwest in the 1800’s with only moderate success and not often eaten!
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