Copycat Olive Garden’s Fried Mozzarella
Everyone loves fried mozzarella or mozzarella sticks as many call them.  This recipe is both easy and inexpensive and goes great when watching the game on TV! Ingredients: 16 oz Package of Mozzarella Cheese 2 Eggs Beaten 1/4 Cup Water 1 1/2 Cup Italian Bread Crumbs 1/2 teaspoon Garlic Salt 1 teaspoon Italian Seasonings 2/3 Cup Flour 1/3 Cup Corn Starch Preparation: Cut the mozzarella into […]

Everyone loves fried mozzarella or mozzarella sticks as many call them.  This recipe is both easy and inexpensive and goes great when watching the game on TV!

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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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Dunkin Donuts - M&Ms Donut - Milky Way Hot Chocolate
Dunkin’ Donuts has partnered with The Mars Corporation to produce two new offerings, the “M&Ms Donut” and the “Milky Way Hot Chocolate“.

Milky Way Hot Chocolate is described as a rich, smooth, hot chocolate that blends chocolate, caramel and vanilla nougat flavors, just like the classic candy bar.

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The perfect treatment for individually wrapped slices of American cheese

Filed under: Cheese, Food Oddities

I find that those slices of individually wrapped American cheese are always disappointing. I can’t remember the last time I bought them, but occasionally, when I’m at a cookout or barbecue, I forget and get them on my burger. One bite in I regret the choice, as while they have amazing melting properties, there’s really nothing redeeming about them. You get a mouthful of tasteless cheesy food product that coats your tongue like liquid plastic and ruins a perfectly good piece of grilled meat.

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Copycat Cracker Barrel Grilled Chicken Tenderloin
Here is another Cracker Barrel favorite.  This recipe is so simple, and the results are just too good!  When I’m in a jam I usually turn to this recipe because I usually already have all the ingredients available in my kitchen. Ingredients: 1 lb. Chicken Breast Tenders 1/2 C Italian Dressing (drain spices and discard spices) 1 tsp Fresh […]

Here is another Cracker Barrel favorite.  This recipe is so simple, and the results are just too good!  When I’m in a jam I usually turn to this recipe because I usually already have all the ingredients available in my kitchen.

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Eating lunch at your desk could be a health hazard

Filed under: Health & Medical

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Go Girl GLO - Hair Tonic Energy Drink
The “Go Girl” energy drink brand, which targets itself to athletic women, now includes a new variety, “Go Girl Glo”.

Produced by Nor-Cal Beverage Co. Inc. of West Sacramento, CA, it’s colored in light pink-orange, and comes with a light, tropical and bit of raspberry flavor with a starfruit and pomegranate juice blend.

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Pizza Hut and Pasta Hut
TradeMork says today that the Pizza Hut chain filed an application to claim the “Pasta Hut” trademark for themselves. You can read their article here…

http://www.trademork.com/pasta-hut/

The name “Pasta Hut” is already in use by a handful of restaurants around country.

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Green Light Beef Jerky
Green Light Jerky Company, based in Redwood City, CA, is a new entry into the world of beef jerky. If you’re a fan of thin-sliced jerky, you’ll want to take note.

For this review, I’m reviewing three of their flavors, “The Classic”, “Pepper Grinder”, and “PRD” (Prime Rib Dinner).

Overview

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Buy some Green Mountain coffee for the “Goodall” of the chimps

Filed under: Coffee, On the Blogs

Now she’s partnered with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters.

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Mississippi HB 282 - Denying Food to Obese
Some legislators in Mississippi have introduced a bill that will make it illegal for restaurants to serve fat people.

HB 282 will revoke the health department license of any restaurant, fast-food or otherwise, if it serves food to anyone who meets the department’s criteria as being, “obese”.

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Recipe: Greek yogurt cupcakes

Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Baking, On the Blogs

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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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Mother’s Day gifts for the mom who can’t cook… yet

Filed under: Mother’s Day

Rice with chicken crap. Or any one of a dozen other examples. Home cooking may be an expression of love, but in my case, perhaps I’d better content myself with buying them more Nintendo chips.

Then I got to thinking: What could one get the mom who can’t cook — but is forever trying?

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Ghiradelli introduces Filled Chocolate Bar line
Ghirardelli which bills itself as a vendor of Moments of Timeless Pleasure™ is expanding their line of chocolate indulgences in their large bar line. Their new filled bars are 3.5 ounces each.

• Milk Chocolate with Caramel — Buttery caramel soft filling surrounded by milk chocolate
• Dark Chocolate with Mint — Tantalizingly refreshing mint filling surrounded by dark chocolate
• Dark Chocolate with Raspberry — Delectably luscious raspberry filling made with real fruit surrounded by dark chocolate
• Dark Chocolate with Caramel (60% Cacao) — Buttery caramel soft filling surrounded by dark chocolate
• Solid Milk Chocolate — Rich, slow-melting milk chocolate
• Solid Dark Chocolate (60% Cacao) — Pure, intense 60% cacao dark chocolate

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