The Food Network will be airing a very special documentary tonight on Childhood Obesity. The problem is even greater than we realize, and the consequences even higher than we’d want to admit.
Click HERE to read more about the episode as well as the epidemic.

Love, love, love these sorbet colored ice cream cone shaped ice cream dishes by Libbey. Each dish has a 10.5 ounce capacity which is big enough for a sundae or multiple scoops of ice cream. Both sound pretty amazing to me.
Speaking of Ice Cream, you HAVE TO try the new line of [...]

8 ounces baby carrots (half of a standard size bag)
4 tablespoons salted butter (not margarine)
2 teaspoons fresh thyme leaves
Fill a small saucepan with about 1/2 inch of water. Add the carrots, cover and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Lower heat to simmer and steam the carrots for about 5 minutes - [...]

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This beauty would be absolutely breathtaking hanging in a dining room. Especially if the owner happened to collect fruit-themed collectibles.
Below are more beautiful fruit tapestries. What an amazing display several would make together!

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Green [...]

We’re all familiar with the benefits of broccoli, nuts, orange juice, apples, bananas, and green tea. We even try to work them into our diets as often as possible. Fortunately, they’re all what Alton Brown would term Good Eats, so it isn’t torturesome to do so.

However, if you’re like me you’ve always hoped for more variety - more foods to add to the mix. The food gods were listening, and below are some of the newbies we can throw into the line-up:

1. POMEGRANATE: This delicious, versatile fall fruit has higher antioxidant activity than red wine and green tea! Studies show it may prevent skin cancer and kill breast and prostate cancer cells.

But it doesn’t stop there. Pomegranate also fights Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers at Loma Linda University found that mice who drank pomegranate juice experienced 50 percent less brain degeneration than animals that consumed only sugar water. The pomegranate drinkers also did better in mazes and tests as they aged………

Okay, for all my preaching about healthy eating and watching red meat, etc….I have to admit, every now and again you just have to have a big fat juicy burger. HAVE to! Look at this beauty to the left and tell me it can be refused. It’s one of the Bleu Cheese and Bacon Burgers that Sandra Lee will be making on today’s Semi-Homemade and one of the Bleu Cheese and Bacon Burgers that Joi Sigers will be making in tonight’s kitchen in Kentucky.

The Bleu Cheese topping calls for Bleu Cheese crumbles and butter (My mouth’s watering already!) The burgers, themselves, include lean ground beef, real bacon pieces, Montreal steak seasoning, and more crumbled Bleu Cheese. It’s all served with condiments on toasted onion rolls. Click HERE for the Recipe.

A perfect side dish would be the Portobello Mushroom “Fries” that Rachael Ray will make on one of her 30 Minute Meals this afternoon. Unfortunately there wasn’t a picture available, so you’ll have to use your imagination. This recipe calls for large Portobello mushroom caps,…..

I was sorting through some of my old magazines when I came across an issue of In Touch that featured some amazing-sounding recipes. I have no idea how they ever escaped being torn out and put to work in the kitchen. I guess I missed them somehow.

I’ve righted that wrong - they’re torn out and ready to go. Below is the recipe they featured for Katie Couric. She was quoted as saying, “I learned to cook from my mom growing up.” One of her earliest culinary memories was making a fried-chicken dinner for her parents (That’s my girl!).

Here’s one of her favorite recipes: “Katie’s Lemon Chicken”——–

Here’s a great sounding recipe from a February issue of USA Weekend:
Crispy Cheese Cauliflower:
Olive Oil spray
2/3 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 tsp. ground cumin
1/8 tsp. cayenne pepper
salt and black pepper, to taste
1/2 large head cauliflower, broken into pieces
2 eggs, beaten (or egg substitute)
1/2 cup finely chopped parsley
1 lemon, cut in wedges
Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
Spray [...]

Any other LOST addicts out there? I’ve got it bad for this show - for one hour each week, I’m completely lost in LOST. You know a show is pretty amazing when, as soon as one episode goes off, you’re counting the days till the next one. The acting on this show is [...]

2 pounds lean ground beef
2 eggs
2/3 cup oatmeal
1 package dry onion soup mix
1/2 cup ketchup
Set aside 2 Tablespoons of the ketchup.
Combine beef, eggs, oats, soup mix, and remaining ketchup. Shape into a round loaf for crock pot or an oblong loaf for the oven.
Place inside your crock pot, top with remaining ketchup, cover and [...]