What is in our food?

I saw this on Serious Eats US nuggets and followed the link to CNN's Sanjay Gupta section.

Which also had me looking for this clip.




Now that's Jamie's take on the prepared nuggets, he didn't add multi-syllable chemical agents to maintain form and what little texture there is.

Here is another clip of real chicken nuggets.



So tell me which one do you want to eat?

Macaroni and Cheese

No photos, but a bit of a rant. We went to the store today, as I had no clue what to make for dinner. As the three of us walked through the store, we scratched our heads and Stinky saw something. He wanted Kraft macaroni and cheese. Excuse me? You want noodles with orange food coloring? Not happening. Now I don't make mac n cheese very often. Usually when I make it, it's the baked kind with the four to six different cheeses, milk and eggs, and baked. But since he was craving it, we headed over to the cheeses and grabbed a chunk of mild cheddar and monterey jack.

Macaroni and cheese is a really simple dish, why do people buy Kraft? I don't understand it. From start to finish it takes about 20 min to make it from scratch and it's comparable timing to the boxed fake stuff. Boil macaroni, while the noodles are cooking grab another small pan and heat 1/2 to 3/4 cup of milk with 8 oz of shredded cheese of your choice over medium low heat. When the cheese is melted, the noodles should be ready, drain then put the noodles back in the pot and pour the melted cheese over the noodles and stir to mix. Gee how hard can that be? Yea there are two pots to wash instead of one, but it's so much better this way.

Stinky was happy. Oh what did we have for dinner? Fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, and green beans. It was easy and didn't take a lot of thought.

REALLY? Another food blog? Criminey...

I know, I know, why yet ANOTHER blog about food?  Hasn't it been done to death, ad nauseum, already?

Yes and no.  What this blog is really about is a place for Jo and I to share the results of both our own recipes and recipes we've found with each other as well as randomly rant about whatever happens to pop into our (exceedingly odd) minds.  If you happen to stumble upon this and find a recipe or two you like--fantastic!  If not...well, the web is an awfully big place so chances are you won't have to ever see us again.

If I haven't bored you yet, more after the jump.

Is America too stupid?

I've made an effort for the last 15 years to cook for my family and avoid prepackaged or processed food. So the other day I ran across a blog post from Michael Ruhlman, http://blog.ruhlman.com/2010/01/america-too-stupid-to-cook.html I love Michael Ruhlman, it was through his creativity and curiosity that brought to the world the recipes and technical mastery of Thomas Keller's French Laundry. I admit I haven't made any of the recipes in this coffee table work of art book. I drool at the images, the techniques, the details the chefs put into the prep of the ingredients, and the amazing outcome. But again is America too stupid to cook? No, I don't believe that is the problem. America is time crunched, or cash strapped.

More after the break...