Today’s Spotlight is on Boston Cream Pie. A Boston cream pie is a cake with a cream filling. The dessert acquired its name when cakes and pies were cooked in the same pans, pie tins were more common than cake pans, and the words were used interchangeably. In the late...
Today’s spotlight is on a Whole Hog BBQ. Whole hog barbecue involves cooking an entire hog in one piece over a pit in the ground. It’s a time- and labor-intensive process. Whole hog barbecue is a regional style of barbecue where a pitmaster cooks an entire hog....
Today’s focus is on nuts! Nuts (tree nuts and peanuts) are nutrient dense foods with complex matrices rich in unsaturated fatty and other bioactive compounds: high-quality vegetable protein, fiber, minerals, tocopherols, phytosterols, and phenolic compounds. There are...
Today’s Spotlight is on Nachos. Nachos is a Mexican culinary dish consisting of tortilla chips or totopos covered with cheese or cheese sauce, as well as a variety of other toppings and garnishes, often including meats, vegetables, and condiments such as salsa,...
Today’s Spotlight is on Chicken and Waffles. Chicken and waffles is a dish that combines chicken and waffles. It’s popular in the United States and is served in many restaurants. The dish first appeared in the United States in the 1600s in Pennsylvania Dutch...
Today’s Spotlight is on Seafood Bisque. A bisque is a French style of soup that is made from crustaceans, such as lobster, crab, shrimp, and crayfish; their shells are used to make a stock and the meat is incorporated into the finished dish. So, in a way, calling the...
