PRODUCT: Save Time, Eat Well With The “Stay Or Go” Slow Cooker

Like many people, we live a busy life: work, get home, walk the dog and put a hot dinner on the table. We do a lot of slow cooking. Until recently, we didn’t know what we were missing from our Rival Crock-Pot 5-quart slow cooker. Then we were given the Hamilton Beach Ensemble Stay Or…
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Top Pick Of The Week: Built Burger ~ The Best Burger You Can Find

Notice to all restaurants that proclaim “The World’s Best Burger”: You’re wrong! The world’s best burger comes from Built Burger in Seattle. And they’ll ship to your door. It was just last year that two burger lovers in Seattle pondered how to take our beloved national dish to a new level. Yes, there are gourmet…
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PRODUCT: Perky Jerky

Tender jerky with a jolt. Photo by Jerry Deutsch | THE NIBBLE. Here’s one of the niftiest products to come down the pike in a while. We give it an A for originality and another A for execution. Perky Jerky is “the world’s first all-natural performance enhancing meat snack.” In other words, protein- and sugar-laden…
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RECIPE: Turmeric-Spiced Chicken with Tomato-Avocado Salsa

Enjoy the recipe as a taco or atop salad greens. Photo courtesy McCormick. Turmeric and vine-ripened tomatoes, the 10th and last in the series of McCormick’s 2010 flavor trends requires a bit of a wait—unless you’re into “faux” vine-riped tomatoes (more about that in a moment). Turmeric, long consumed as a restorative tea in Okinawa,…
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RECIPE: Shepherd’s Pie With Cumin & Smashed Chickpeas

The seventh of McCormick’s 2010 food trends has an international flair: roast cumin and chickpeas (garbanzo beans). But you’ll see how this dymanic duo can enhance the most traditional English and American standards, as in this new take on Shepherd’s Pie. Cumin is a seed that is often confused with caraway (which is actually a…
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