Right Ingredients Cooking Fest At Plaza One Hotel
A three day food fest runs March 31 to April 2 at the Plaza One Hotel Rock Island Ill. The getaway weekend features cooking glasses tastings and seminars with menus for family dining and entertaining. Price 199 per couple includes room Friday Saturday breakfasts classes tastings pool and club access. Call 1 800 447 1297 for reservations.
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Plaza One
Rock Island
Ill
Plaza
Salmonella risk from eggs labeled overstated says USDA
USDA and Berkeley Wellness Newsletter say the danger from raw or undercooked eggs is overblown. Scientists estimate about one in 10,000 eggs carry Salmonella, and it takes millions of organisms to cause illness. Your individual risk from a single egg is about one in 250,000, and proper cooking kills the bacteria.
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USDA
Berkeley Wellness
California Strawberry Recipe Contest Promises $1000 Grand Prize
Cooking Light and the California Strawberry Commission sponsor the contest offering a $1000 first prize per category and a $1000 grand prize for the best recipe using strawberries as a healthful snack salad or dessert. Entries postmarked by April 10 and mailed to Kate DeWitt in Birmingham Alabama.
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Cooking Light Magazine
California Strawberry Commission
Kate DeWitt
Lakeshore Dr
Birmingham
Ala
Cooking Light
San Antonio
East Chestnut
Chicago
Ill
Easter Basket of Healthy Goodies cookbook release
DeWitt Iowa based Healthy Exchanges has issued a 24 page booklet titled Easter Basket of Healthy Goodies featuring 20 spring recipes. The cookbook highlights low fat sugar and sodium options across salads meats sides desserts and beverages and is available for 2.50 including postage via P O Box 124 DeWitt Iowa 52742-0124.
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DeWitt
Iowa
Healthy Exchanges
P.O. Box
Dijon Glazed Corned Beef for St Patrick's Day Feast
A flavorful St Patrick Day menu centers on Dijon Glazed Corned Beef with Savory Cabbage and Red Potatoes. The brisket simmers several hours then broils briefly with glaze before slicing. Includes precise glaze and cooking steps plus sides.
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Eider
Dijon
Corned beef cooking methods and times overview
This article outlines oven stove top slow cooker and microwave ways to cook corned beef not frozen. It notes an internal temperature of at least 160 degrees Fahrenheit and provides general timing per pound along with optional vegetable additions.
Recipe Makeover Cuts Fat In Old World Chicken Soup
Cedar Rapids resident Mary Jo Bills revises her Old World Chicken Soup with dietitian Jill Gabel to lower fat and cholesterol. Changes include fat free noodles, reduced chicken, fat skim from broth, and water sautéed onions. Calorie drop to 170 and fat to 3 grams per serving with sodium considerations noted.
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Cedar Rapids
Mary Jo Bills
Bills
Jill Gabel
Northbrook Manor
Food Service
Gabel
Yogurt finds a niche as snack food trend grows
Abitha Cagan of West Hartford carries Cannon's Light a Crunchy yogurt with a separate blueberry crunch topping. Experts discuss the rise of stir-ins from granola to cereals, with Dannon and Yoplait expanding lines as sales top 1.6 billion with 5 to 7 percent yearly growth.
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Hartford Courantabitha
Becky Ryan
Tarrytown
N.Y
Dannon
General Mills
Breyer’s
United States
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