The Gazette Weekend Menu Highlights
This week The Gazette features a Drive Thru Gourmet seeking an ordinary Big Mac at an extraordinary McDonald’s. Saturday’s Cue offers Roasted Chicken with Shallots and Tarragon, plus Crackling Cornbread recipe by Gazette Communications COO Chuck Peters.
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Iowa Egg Council 16th Annual Cooking Contest Set
The Iowa Egg Council will hold its 16th annual cooking contest on March 31 in Des Moines with the theme Make it Easy with Eggs. Adult and student categories offer prizes of 500, 400, 300, 200 and 100 dollars. ten finalists will cook in Des Moines.
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Iowa Egg Council
Des Moines
Iowaegg
Pillsbury Publications
P.O. Box
Harlan
Essentials 2001 in Cooking Light magazine
The January February issue highlights Essentials 2001 with 45 ideas products ingredients and tools plus nine recipes to start the year. It features five desserts cold month specials and quick easy main dishes under 30 minutes plus food and fitness updates.
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Cooking Light
Echo Ridge White Wine Impresses With Fresh Crisp Flavor
Echo Ridge offers an inexpensive California white wine with bright acidity and herbal bite. Flavors detect apple citrus and wood smoke, pairing well with shellfish white fish and Cajun Creole dishes.
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California
Echo Ridge
Pillsbury’s Come & Eat Cookbook Debuts for Busy Families
Pillsbury releases the digest sized Come & Eat cookbook for busy families. It features easy 20 minute or less dinners with color photos and nutrition info. The softcover, priced at 3 50, will be at supermarket check outs and newsstands starting today.
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Come & Eat
Pillsbury
Microwave guru turns Amana chef to perfect rapid cooking
Shawn Kiene, Amana executive chef, tests and documents microwave convection techniques using 22 ovens to speed up single servings and bakery items. He programs results for clients, explains trial and error methods, and notes the shift from restaurant schedules to a controlled factory routine.
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Heart Factory
Shawn
Kiene
Amana
Mondo’s
Tomato Pie
Coralville
Crowne Plaza
Five Seasons
Cedar Rapids
Kami Poppen
Shawn Kiene
Amana Appliance Co
Readers split on beef roast method and safe reheating tips
Nutrition expert Nancy Jolliffe warns that cooking a room temp beef roast at 375 then leaving it in a off oven for hours risks bacterial growth in the danger zone. Dietitians argue reheating leftovers in slow cookers is unsafe, favoring microwave or oven reheating.
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Nancy Jolliffe
Marion
Nancy
Iowa State Extension Service
Mary Herb
Cedar Rapids
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