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Published: 02/3/11

Super Bowl Snack Recipes for the Culinary Challenged [VIDEOS]

By  Steven Hoffer - AOL News
Super Bowl Snack Recipes for the Culinary Challenged [VIDEOS]

Here's a Super Bowl Sunday catastrophe waiting to happen: It's almost time for the big game and you still don't know what to cook for your buddy's pot-luck Super Bowl party. Are you going to be that guy who shows up with a bag of chips? For the third Super Bowl in a row? Not if Surge Desk has anything to say about it. Here are five Super Bowl snack recipes for the culinary challenged. 1. Instant onion dip Kudos to anyone who discovers a way to mess this up. 2. French fries If you can slice potatoes and keep your hands away from hot oil, you can cook french fries. 3. Onion rings The ...

Published: 02/3/11

Chinese New Year: 4 Easy Recipes to Celebrate the Year of the Rabbit [VIDEOS]

By  Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL News
Chinese New Year: 4 Easy Recipes to Celebrate the Year of the Rabbit [VIDEOS]

Gung hay fat choy! That's the traditional greeting for the Chinese New Year, which started today and continues for the next two weeks. Its English spelling varies, but a close translation is always "best wishes and congratulations, have a prosperous year." There are myriad customs associated with the lunar new year in China, and one of the tastiest ways to celebrate is by preparing a traditional dish. Surge Desk has found a few easy-to-follow recipes for some of our favorites. 1. White cut chicken This delicate steamed dish symbolizes purity. (Click for English ingredient list.) 2. ...

Published: 01/31/11

Super Bowl Recipes That Ignore the New Federal Dietary Guidelines [VIDEOS]

By  Steven Hoffer - AOL News
Super Bowl Recipes That Ignore the New Federal Dietary Guidelines [VIDEOS]

With the Super Bowl less than a week away, Americans hoping to adopt the federal government's new dietary guidelines may encounter their greatest challenge sooner than they would hope. According to the USDA, Super Bowl Sunday is the second largest food consumption day on the American calendar, topped only by Thanksgiving on the gluttony scale. As always, the nation will gather to spend time with family and friends, eat and drink copious amounts of food and beverages, enjoy hilarious television commercials and maybe even watch some football. So before you make healthy eating a late New Year's ...

Published: 08/19/10

Roadkill For Dinner? Organic Food Trend Goes Off the Beaten Path

By  Monica Garske - AOL News
Roadkill For Dinner? Organic Food Trend Goes Off the Beaten Path

(Aug. 19) -- Everyone encounters bumps in the road, but who knew those bumps could lead to a quick and tasty meal? Just when you thought the organic food trend had gotten really nutty, a self-professed "roadkill expert" is putting a whole new spin on the idea of all-natural, fresh food. Midwest hunter Buck Peterson, author of "The Original Roadkill Cookbook" (Ten Speed Press) and many other humor books about the great outdoors, has just penned a new parody for today's busy home chef. jupiterimages Is that a deer caught in the headlights or dinner waiting to be served? This time, ...

Published: 10/9/08

Tailgate Central: Don't Murder Your Brats

By  Mark Hasty - AOL News
Tailgate Central: Don't Murder Your Brats

Every week, FanHouse's Pete Holiday whips up a tasty dish for your next tailgate, and makes a god-awful mess in the process, to bring you Tailgate Central. This week, however, Pete has graciously allowed FanHouse's Mark Hasty to yammer on about some sort of sausage or something.Twenty-five years ago, the bratwurst was both a regional and an ethnic food in this country. If you weren't from a community in the Midwest with a sizable German-American population, you'd likely never eaten one. Now, though, the brat is everywhere, and tailgating is one of the big reasons why. Bratwurst is a little ...

Published: 09/25/08

Tailgate Central: Sweet Tea Flavored Vodka

By  Pete Holiday - AOL News
Tailgate Central: Sweet Tea Flavored Vodka

Every week, FanHouse's Pete Holiday whips up a tasty dish for your next tailgate, and makes a god-awful mess in the process, to bring you Tailgate Central. Tailgate Central had a couple of bye weeks while I moved cross-country, but it's back and we're dispensing with the whole "food" thing and focusing on a fascinating (and relatively new) invention: Firefly sweet-tea-flavored vodka. Some weeks ago my friend Charlsie mentioned this stuff to me. I was instantly intrigued. It combines two of my favorite things: sweet tea and getting toasted a nice, relaxing drink.The basics: Firefly Vodka is an ...

Published: 04/15/08

McCain Family Recipes From FoodTV's Pantry?

By  Tommy Christopher - Politics Daily
McCain Family Recipes From FoodTV's Pantry?

In the latest case of alleged plagiarism during this presidential campaign, Huffington Post is reporting that recipes attributed to Cindy McCain are actually of far more expert provenance: This past Sunday, Lauren Handel, an eagle-eyed attorney from New York, was searching for a specific recipe from Giada DeLaurentis, a chef on the Food Network. Yet whenever she Googled the different ingredients in the recipe, the oddest thing happened: not only did the Food Network's site come up, as expected, but so did John McCain's campaign site. On a section of McCain's site called "Cindy's Recipes," you ...

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