Craft Beer Week Events Highlight Iowa Breweries
The Iowa Brewers Guild promotes American Craft Beer Week from Monday to Sunday with Granite City locations Cedar Rapids Clive Davenport offering 2 to 5 p.m. tours and introducing Blueberry Ale. Millstream Brewing Amana hosts 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday tours.
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Cedar Rapids
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Amana
Salting Eggplants Reduces Bitterness and Oil Uptake
Large eggplants benefit from salting to draw out bitter juices and air pockets. Salting first makes slices denser and less oily in cooking, while smaller eggplants may not require this step. Peel slice salt wait rinse squeeze blot dry and proceed with recipe.
Urban Oven Tempe makes all natural savory crackers
Urban Oven of Tempe Arizona produces all natural crackers with a thin savory shortbread texture. A 7.5 ounce package sells for 6 dollars, pairing well with creamy cheeses and dips. Visit urban oven dot com for more information.
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Calorie mindful picnic ideas with produce and salads
Practical picnic guide suggests balancing carbs with portable produce such as apples pears peaches plums and bananas. Low fat cheeses and crunchy vegetables like carrots celery offer hunger relief. Easy salads highlighted include jicama with lime and chili, cucumber with sesame oil, and a beet horseradish salad that improves with pickling.
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Jim Romanov
Associated Press
Spicy Jicama Salad Start to Finish Five Minutes
Recipe notes three salads including Spicy Jicama, Sesame Cucumber, and Pickled Beet. Jicama uses lime wedges and chili powder with scallions and salt for a quick 122 calorie per serving salad.
Taste of Czech and Slovak moves to St Ludmila Church
The ninth annual Taste of Czech and Slovak, usually held at the National Czech and Slovak Museum, shifts to St. Ludmila Catholic Church Social Hall Cedar Rapids due to flood damage. Food stations feature appetizers soups meats breads and desserts with goulash and szegedin varieties on offer. Tickets cost 5 for 10 samples or 8 for 20 samples.
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Cecelia Hanley
T. Ludmila Catholic Church
Lucretia Wolsch
Andrea Liebenmann
Slovakia
St. Ludmila Catholic Church
21St Ave
Cedar Rapids
Vegetarian experiment challenges meat as a luxury
The author launches a two week meatless diet to explore affordable vegetarian cooking. Readers are invited to share inexpensive meatless recipes and tips while the writer blogs daily at The Gazette food blog and in future columns. May 17 marks the start with submissions welcome by mail or email.
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Cecelia Hanley
Cecelia. Hanley
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Cedar Rapids
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