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  • Recipe 2010 NASFT Fancy Foods Show
    2010 NASFT Fancy Foods Show
    I spent last weekend down in New York City, living it up foodie-style. It was awesome. On Saturday, Christine and I went to the Food Truck Drive-In, which was a ton of fun and will be featured in another post. This post is about my real[...]
  • Recipe 2010 Food Trends
    2010 Food Trends
    On day two of the Specialty Food Show the NASFT announced what they saw as the top five food trends for 2010. They were: Good-for-you foods, Coconut, Gluten-free, Exotic citrus, Nostalgic foods. As I said on my previous post, we also saw[...]
  • Recipe Damper = Biscuit
    Damper = Biscuit
    We've got cowboys, they've got rovers. We've got ranches, they've got stations. We've got biscuits, they've got damper. There are a lot of similarities between the U.S. and Australia when it comes to raising cattle - except for the vocabulary.[...]
  • Recipe Satisfying Samples
    Satisfying Samples
    If you watch The Rachel Ray Show you might know that she features a "Snack of the Day". While it's frightening to think that there are so many snacks out there that the feature will never end, it does showcase snacks you might never have heard[...]
  • Recipe Specialty Food Show
    Specialty Food Show
    Each year the NASFT holds the Fancy Food Show for food professionals. It is not open to the public, but to caterers, restauranteurs, food suppliers, grocers, etc. "The National Association for the Specialty Food Trade is a not-for-profit[...]
  • Recipe Dad Knows Best - Bentonite
    Dad Knows Best - Bentonite
    Dad knows best. Sometimes you just have to accept it. You might not always agree with him or you might even think he's a little cuckoo, but in the end he's almost always right. For years my dad has been consuming clay. Every morning he mixes a[...]
  • Recipe Rodelle Vanilla Panna Cotta
    Rodelle Vanilla Panna Cotta
    If you read my post about the Fancy Food Show in January, you might recall the story of the stupid women who had no clue what a vanilla bean was and promptly put them in their mouth and chewed on them like Twizzlers. Turns out it was at the[...]
  • Recipe Island Treasures - Rum Cakes
    Island Treasures - Rum Cakes
    I had a nice surprise this week when I was handed a box by the UPS guy. Inside was a bunch of rum cake! One of the exhibitors that we met at the Fancy Food Show was Island Treasure Gourmet who make a variety of rum cakes. They make Vanilla,[...]
  • Recipe Gluten Free Cupcake Comparison
    Gluten Free Cupcake Comparison
    Recently I have gotten samples from companies that I saw at the Fancy Food Show in January. I've also gotten more interested in gluten-free baking. Two companies had sent me boxes of gluten-free mixes and I saw that both had sent me white and[...]
  • Recipe Lamb Sausage Ragout over Gnocchi
    Lamb Sausage Ragout over Gnocchi
    As I said in my post about the Specialty Food Show , I got some samples from different vendors. Today I decided to take two of them to make dinner. The lamb sausage is from Marcel & Henri . They are an award winning charcuterie based in[...]