Archive for February, 2010

Poor Man’s Pizza

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

I was over at a friend’s house to celebrate his birthday, this was right after my attempts with the winning entries, and I was explaining and describing the food that I had created. It was right after I finished talking about the desert for the last award winning meal that Nikki my good friend came in and said that there were a lot you could do with butter milk biscuits dough. She then began to describe what seemed like the most brilliant idea a poor college student would love. The poor man’s pizza as described by Nikki is a pizza dish created in under 25 minutes and costs less then $5.00 if done right, but leave you with a full stomach. This is a recipe that I have to try, and will do so on film soon, with prices included I want to attempt a Poor Man’s Pizza.

Stay tuned and Stay Healthy

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Valentines Day Contest Finalists

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Hey everyone!

The Team here at Diners.org spent the whole weekend selecting our finalists for the Valentines Day contest.  Extra cookies to those of you who got their entries in during our extension!

For the future, however, we’re going to have to limit everyone to one recipe entry per contestant.  >_>

Anyway!  We contacted our three finalists who are listed below in no particular order.

Rebbecca F.,  Jiamian Y., and Carly Ann O.

Stay tune as we announce our winners in a special video feature!

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Energy to drink, not to drive

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Many people during the holidays go out and party, drink and enjoy the night. Everyone needs a chance to relax, but many of those people cannot stand the harsh taste of hard liquor and like to mix things up a bit. A splash of excitement to not only make it taste better but lower the content of the liquor, but according to WebMD mixed drinks such as Jagerbombs, and Ruby RedBull that contain energy drinks might be more dangerous then people think.  The energy drinks counteracts the drowsy effects of alcohol but does not help in the sobering of a person. Many people at that point will either drink more then they usually would because the signs of drinking aren’t as apparent as they would be without it and many are fooled to thinking they are sober enough to drive.

It’s become so popular that they have created a way to mix large quantities of Jagerbombs in a theatrical manner.

The JagerTrain!

they would be able to create a large amount out drinks that are meant to be finished in seconds. It’s become so dangerous some countries have banned the mixing of energy drinks and alcohol, the united states is also trying to ban alcoholic energy drinks, such as Sparks and Joose. The problem is that the FDA regulates the amount of caffine in soft drinks, however the amount of caffine for alcohol is unregulated thus making it quite dangerous. For more information on energy drinks and alcohol visit here, and for more information on the ban of energy drinks and alcohol visit here.

 

 

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Valentine’s Day contest extension

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Hey everyone,

Wow, we got some really awesome entries for the Valentine’s Day contest and the guys here at Diners.org had a great time going through them.  Some of them are very traditional, others give a slight twist to the norm, while a select few are totally out there.

Some ingredients we saw from different entries include lobster tails, fresh ginger, vanilla wafers, and sticky buns.  Suspense!

So even though we have our stomachs set on the winners, we are extending the contest to the end of this week.

Dun dun duuuuunnn!

If you think you can beat them submit you recipe here.

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It’s the Year of the Tiger and the Tiger’s hungry

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Happy Chinese New Years folks and Happy Valentines Day as well!

But since we’re going to be doing a Valentines Day special already, I want to share how my family prepares food for Chinese New Years.

Meals for Chinese New Years are a unique occasion.  It’s actually a three day event with different meanings behind each meal.

Last night was Chinese New Year’s eve which is more of a traditional  celebratory dinner with chicken topped with assorted meats as the main dish while surrounded by multiple vegetable appetizers.  There are also seafood and noodle dishes to round off the meal.  Altogether it took 8 hours to properly prepare everything.

Many thanks goes to my mom for tolerating having a camera go off next to her every few minutes.

Whew, that took a lot of work.  Cooking and uploading that is =)

I hope all of you are having a good weekend!

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Valentine’s Day Contest and Feature!

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

We here at Diners.org are always on the lookout for new dishes and recipes to try out.  So in celebration of perhaps the most romantic (and expensive) holiday of the year, we’ll like to announce Diners.org’s first contest!

Valentines Day Contest Flyer

Yep, we’re looking to see how romantic people can be on Valentine’s Day with their cooking recipes!  For more information, just click on the link on the banner to the right, fill in your full name and e-mail address (how else are we going to send you the Amazon.com gift card information?) and submit your recipe or idea!

The contest ends midnight on February 18th.  Winners will be announced on February 22nd.

Have fun people!

(P.S. – Yes we did make those deserts in the image and they were DELICIOUS.  You will get to see them on our Valentine’s Day feature).

if mohammed won’t go to the mountain

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Bake4me.com kthnxbbfJill

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

It’s hard to believe cooking websites or even cooking programs these days.  Anyone who even eavesdrops on the tales of Photoshop editors are wary of the pristine dishes shown in photos.   In fact, most of us are so used to realizing the blatantly bad hyped fatty foods on television for what they really are, that it amazes the mind why fast food chains even bother to try to continue to tempt us with glossy images of their products.

So it is totally awesome when I came across the blog “Bake4me.com” (you can visit it by clicking here), which broke away from the contemporary form of recipe listing with some very tasty pictures.  Less of a chemical compound formula and more of a what I like to call “POV Cooking”.

The pictures posted by the bloggers, Sally and David, are more than just cameraphone shots from someone’s forehead of kitchenware.  Their food actually look real and DELICIOUS.  I mean, take a look at the blueberries in this bowl of dough.

Mouthwatering goodness

Just take a moment to look at that.  It’s not as polished as anything you might see on PBS or the Food channel but it has that authentic feel to it.  The photo came from the Blueberry Scones entry, which is only one of the many tasty entries posted.  Say what you want, but images like the one below grab my attention more than the fake setups you see during the commercial breaks.

Now THAT, ladies and gentlemen is what delicious looks like.

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Desperate Cooking, Delicious Creation

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Many people have faced this predicament. A time when you open your fridge and find, to your horror and dismay… an empty fridge; save for a few scraps here and there. Well this is a story of how an empty fridge and a creative mind can save the day. A Writer from Serious Eats, Robert Bellinger, face that predicament and ended with something delicious.

Sweet Potato Leek Soup, from Serious Eats

The Sweet Potato Leek Soup, a delicious combo of vegetables found somewhere in the fridge, Chicken stock from Sunday’s chicken, left over sweet potato and a dash of ingenuity. This is the kind of cooking that we really enjoy. Not exactly the desperate part, but the creativity of the chef and the thought of new kinds of cooking and not the constraints of traditional recipes. People these days rely too much on constraints of classic recipes, and do not explore the world of flavor. Variations usually go only to the extent of changing the amount of salt and pepper. We at Diners.org being the hungry people we are, will try to create this soup. Enjoy.

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