Archive for ‘food basics’

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Jan09

Weather Brisk? Try a Bisque!

by Scraps on January 9th, 2012 at 7:51 am
Posted In: food basics

I must confess a major pet peeve when it comes to menus that list things like Strawberry Bisque or Sweet Potato Bisque. Why? Because bisque is a specific family of soups–not a generic name for cream soups that you want to make sound uppity! Traditionally, bisques are only found in the varieties of lobster,  crab, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Jan18

Portion Perceptions

by Scraps on January 18th, 2012 at 7:36 am
Posted In: eating habits, food basics

Since part of getting back into the swing of things this year meant watching what (and how much and when) I eat, I’ve been paying more attention to labels so that the info I’m entering into MyFitnessPal.com is as accurate as possible. And while I always knew, and understood, the idea that we eat with our […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Feb06

Baking By the Numbers

by Scraps on February 6th, 2012 at 7:16 am
Posted In: food basics

This weekend I needed to check out a recipe I’d concocted awhile back, a bread recipe that I’d adapted from various sources and while it worked, I wasn’t 100% happy with it. Thinking the blame might lie equally with the method as well as the ingredients, I decided to just start over and then compare […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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