simply delicious home-cooked meals, etc.. ] The original plan was just the regular tacos but after browning the ground beef then combining it with the refried beans I decided to turn tacos into Mexican Lasagna. I thought I should really create other Mexican dishes to add into the Mexican category here at Feistycook. Thankfully with Mexican dishes, I noticed that take out or add an ingredient or two, you’d still have the same base ingredients yet come up with totally different dishes. I guess it depends on how you cook a dish. So let’s cook Mexican Lasagna.. First, we slightly fry up 12 corn tortillas. I forgot to take a picture of this but brown ground beef, discard the grease, then stir in a can of refried beans. Preheat the oven to 355°. Spray cooking spray in the bottom of a baking pan. Layer the 6 corn tortillas… Spread out half of the ground beef and refried beans mixture on top of the corn tortillas. Add 1/2 cup of salsa on top, then diced scallions, then diced tomatoes. Oooohhhhhhhh, Ay Papi! Mexican Lasagna : Feistycook
Recipes, Cooking Tips, Food Advice and Menus - KitchenDaily Mark Bittman Food Trends for 2011 | BiteClub Eats | Santa Rosa & Wine Country Restaurants & Dining Each year, as we kiss a fond farewell to our gastronomic past and look toward all the delicious possibilities, culinary crystal balls appear to forecast the food trends of the year. Overexposed zeitgeists like bacon and cupcakes begin to fade and newcomers take the stage. What’s does 2011 have in store? Here are some top picks inspired by what’s happening locally, social media rumblings on Twitter and Facebook, and national input from restaurant consultants like Andrew Freeman & Co. of San Francisco and Brooklyn-based Baum + Whiteman. Pies from the Petaluma Pie Company Pies are the new cupcakes: Though perhaps not as Kewpie-cute as cupcakes, the homier pie is set to have its moment in 2011. Southern cooking & Gulf seafood: The South is rising again. Haute Dogs: The lowly wiener has become more than just ballpark fare. Panini from Bliss Bakery Dessert First: Heck with dinner, why not just eat dessert? Hot Cheese, tomato soup and pickles Find more restaurants tagged: Trends
Food News and Opinion on The Huffington Post eatingwellanywhere.com The Daily Meal: America's Best Tables Finding the best table in a restaurant involves a complex interaction of interests, and varies according to what a customer is looking for at a given moment. At least, that's what restaurants would have you believe. Ask gatekeepers at some of America's most-heralded restaurants and you'll hear a similar refrain. Still, some tables are inherently better than others. But, surprise, it's tough to get restaurants to cop to the truth. Jean-Jacques Retourné, maître d' of Citronelle, shared a telling example: "Guests should understand that the seating [at Citronelle] is broken down into four sections. Landing the eight o'clock reservation for the romantic corner table won't always happen. - Michelle Kiefer, The Daily Meal More from The Daily Meal:4 Restaurants Where You'll Never, Ever Get a TableBest American Cuisine8 Unexpectedly Awesome Wine Regions14 Bank-Breaking Dishes SlideshowWorld's Best Spa Cuisine Related: 7 Places to Shop Like a Chef Photo Credit: © Commander’s Palace loading...
Best Food Towns: The Top 20 Small Towns By Michelin Stars Per Capita (PHOTOS) In August, HuffPost Food crunched the numbers and gave you a list of the 20 most Michelin-starred cities in the world. At the time, we limited ourselves to cities with more than 100,000 people, because we were really interested in major cities. But the response to that ranking was so fantastic that we wanted to give you more. So we decide to crunch even more data -- much more data -- to give you the 20 small towns with the most Michelin stars per capita. Skip the next few paragraphs and head straight for the slideshow if you just want to know the winners. Small towns proved a much bigger task than large cities, for the simple reason that there are far more of them to monitor. We found a strong negative correlation between the number of stars per capita and the size of a town. To see this trend in action, compare the per capita star rates for the 20 towns below with those in the 20 big cities from the August post. Loading Slideshow 20.
10 Useless Kitchen Gadgets Kitchen tools that make life easier are a small joy -- we're totally down with slow cookers, nonstick pans and microwaveable Tupperware. But every time we see an infomercial for the Slap Chop or the Perfect Brownie Pan, we just can't help wondering why there are so many useless kitchen gadgets out there. In fact, there is such a plethora of inane kitchen items that we had trouble narrowing our list down to just 10. Counter space is valuable; there's no need to clutter it with objects that a chipper salesman is hawking. Loading Slideshow Garlic PeelerCertain kitchen tasks are so laborious and annoying that they deserve their own tool, but peeling garlic isn't one of them (just <a href=" target="_hplink">shake it</a>!). Hide Thumbnails -25 Points
The Daily Meal: Sweet Finds And Major Disappointments At Trader Joe's If you love Trader Joe's -- the colorful shirts, the name tags, the friendly atmosphere, all its quirky products -- then you've probably done product recon on What's Good at Trader Joe's?, the four-member team review site that has been rating the store's best and worst products since August of 2010. Nathan Rodgers, his wife Sonia and their friend Russ Shelly and his wife Sandy set out almost two years ago to review the cult grocer's some 4,500 products. They've been going at a pretty good clip, and with this installment of The Best and Worst Products at Trader Joe's are narrowing in on having reviewed 10 percent of its products (more than 275 reviews covering about 325 products). That's no joke. (Photo Credit: Flickr/cathyse97). Click here to see The Best and Worst Products at Trader Joe's: Volume 4 While the reviewers are fans of Trader Joe's, they take reviewing seriously -- their first review was even negative. Click here to see The Best and Worst Products at Trader Joe's: Volume 3