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Buffalo Chicken Rolls. I’m thinking we’re very comfortable together at this point, me and you. You and me. At best, we’re virtual soul mates bonded through food and cooking. At worst, we’re in a one-sided pen pal relationship and you’re not keeping up your end of the bargain. I’m tired of paying for postage when you never write back. But really, it’s mostly good, isn’t it? Beautiful, even. Give and take. So today I’m going to ask you a favor. Ready? Okay. Please get your cute bottom to the market, pick up a package of egg roll wrappers, some hot wing sauce, blue cheese, toss in a box of Junior Mints for good measure, and then get situated in the kitchen to make these.

Buffalo Chicken Rolls. They are beyond perfect for the Super Bowl. The exterior is a crispy, crunchy flour shell. Here’s the step-by-step process to make them yourself: **Note: Find egg roll wrappers in the refrigerated case of the produce department at your grocery store. Ingredients Instructions Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Notes. Dinner at an Exhibition - Rat, Prepared Many Ways. Beyond Meat: Fake chicken that tastes so real it will freak you out. Photograph courtesy Beyond Meats The first time a vegetarian tastes Beyond Meat’s ersatz animal flesh, he’ll feel delighted and queasy at the same time. There’s something about the way these fake chicken strips break on your teeth, the way they initially resist and then yield to your chew, the faint fatty residue they leave on your palate and your tongue—something about the whole experience that feels a little too real. “My first reaction was, if I was given this in a restaurant, I’d get the waiter to come over and ask if he’d accidentally given us real chicken,” says Biz Stone, one of the founders of Twitter, who has been vegan for more than a decade.

“It has a plumpness to it, what they call a ‘mouthfeel,’ like a kind of fattiness. When you eat other leading meat analogues, they’re delicious, but you kind of know they’re not real. They’re missing something that’s hard to identify. This has a very realistic, meaty, delicious quality.” Beyond Meat is not perfect. Avocado Recipes - Easy Recipes with Avocados. Chewing Chia Packs A Superfood Punch. Hide captionThe chia plant is "a petite nutrient-packed powerhouse" writes Wayne Coates.

There is evidence that the Aztecs used the seeds as early as 3,500 B.C. iStockphoto.com hide captionWayne Coates is a professor emeritus at the University of Arizona and an ultra-runner. He first encountered the chia plant more than two decades ago. Sterling Publishing Wayne Coates is a professor emeritus at the University of Arizona and an ultra-runner. He first encountered the chia plant more than two decades ago. When you hear the word chia, you probably think of chia pets. Or maybe not, but lately, chia seed has been getting buzz beyond those terra cotta figurines.

Wayne Coates grows and sells chia seeds and has a book called Chia: The Complete Guide to the Ultimate Superfood. He's also an ultra-runner. He tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz that chia has long been known as a runner's food. "An example is the Tarahumara Indians of the Copper Canyon in Mexico. "Add it to anything. 1. » goober Midnight Snack Beast. I’m going to take the liberty to kick this Snack off with a little piece of this website’s mission statement.

The idea behind MSB is two-fold. First: to put on display an array of interest-sparking Midnight Snacks; and second: to inspire you guys to create beastly and delicious Midnight Snacks as well. Now, my modus operandi isn’t always going to be something that you would necessarily want to eat. I have been accused of having no taste buds, or a care of what I am consuming, or a general disregard of my better-food conscience (sorry for being a Beast). That being said, while still on my hamburger kick, I decided to keep the ball rolling.

I have always wanted to own and operate my own burger shack; adding creative twists and using special signature trademarks to separate my establishment from all other burger places. Right now, It’s quite obvious that my career is not headed down that thoroughfare. For now, let’s just keep it to Beasting after Midnight. The Idea: I’ve heard whispers. Kitchen Window: Thinking Outside The Bento Box. Hide captionOriginally a convenient lunch for Japanese field workers, bentos today can be high art, with flower-petal carrots, hard-boiled eggs shaped into bunnies, broccoli sculpted into trees. But you don't have to cook Japanese food — or make cute cutouts — to reap the benefits of the bento. Debra G. Samuels I'm sure you're a very good cook. But if you want to feel bad about yourself, spend five minutes cruising the Internet for photos of bento boxes.

They won't be hard to find. Originally just a convenient boxed lunch for Japanese field workers, bentos today can be high art, with flower-petal carrots, hard-boiled eggs shaped into bunnies, broccoli sculpted into trees. Confession: I have a problem with food that is cute. Bento boxes go back to at least the 5th century A.D., when Japanese field workers, hunters and fishermen would pack dried rice into boxes. Michele Kayal is a food writer specializing in the intersection of food, culture and identity. It doesn't have to be complicated. 5 Delicious Grilled Pizzas. 10 Strangest Milkshake Flavors. For those who love their shakes warm and fatty, this shake is, in fact, bacon-flavoured rather than bacon-infused.

That means it's technically vegetarian if you wanted to stretch the point. It comes from the Jack In The Box chain in the U.S., and is flavoured with Torani bacon-flavored syrup, rather than thick, chunky strips of pure hog fat. Speaking of odd food flavors, here are some buffalo-wing milkshakes. So weird!! Behold the cocktail that only the most ardent McDonald's lover would drink (and maybe not even then): The McNuggetini. Sweet potato milkshake. Pie Shakes. Caramel Corn in drink form sounds a little odd, but it's yummy. It's a little strange to put an avocado in a milkshake, but these are actually very popular in Asia and South America. Pumpkin pie milkshakes! Beer milkshake! Healthiest Meal Ever: Food Researchers Create World's Healthiest Meal. Put away the broccoli, tuck that quinoa in the pantry, and don't even look at those apples -- scientists have come up with the healthiest meal in the world, and the menu looks pretty darn tasty.

Employees at UK-based Leatherhead Food Research, a marketing and research company for the food industry, were given a challenge by their boss: come up with a meal that incorporates the 222 health claims the company had determined were valid and scientifically based, from an original pool of 44,000. Originally intended as an airline meal, CEO Dr. Paul Berryman came up with the idea flying back from a food conference. "I had spent three days talking about health claims and at a round table event I suggested that Leatherhead could make a product with all 222 claims, no problem! " he states in the company's press release. "It wasn’t that simple, but we did it within one week! " So what goes into the world's healthiest meal when scientists have a say? Loading Slideshow.