LEAD-TAINTED PRODUCTS

1. 365 Everyday Value Organic 100% Juice Concord Grapes
2. Beech Nut 100% Apple Juice
3. Best Yet Bartlett Pear Halves in Heavy Syrup
4. Best Yet Chunky Mixed Fruit in Pear Juice
5. Best Yet Yellow Cling Peach Halves in Heavy Syrup
6. Chef’s Review Fruit Cocktail
7. Del Monte 100% Juice Fruit Cocktail
8. Del Monte Chunky Mixed Fruit in 100% Juice (peach, pear, grape, etc.)
9. Del Monte Diced Pears in Light Syrup
10. Del Monte Freestone Peach Slices in 100% Juice
11. Del Monte Fruit Cocktail in Heavy Syrup (peach, pear, grapes)
12. Del Monte Fruit Cocktail No Sugar Added
13. Del Monte Lite Fruit Cocktail in Extra Light Syrup
14. Del Monte Pear Halves in Heavy Syrup
15. Del Monte Pear Halves, Bartlett Pears in 100% real fruit juice from concentrate
16. Del Monte Sliced Yellow Cling Peaches in 100% Juice
17. Del Monte Sliced Yellow Cling Peaches in heavy syrup
18. Dole Diced Peaches, Yellow Cling in light syrup
19. Dole Mixed Fruit in Light Syrup
20. Dole Pear Halves in Juice
21. Earth’s Best Organics Apple Juice
22. Eating Right Fruit Cocktail packed in Sucralose
23. Eating Right No Sugar Fruit Cocktail
24. First Street 100% Apple Cider from concentrate
25. First Street Apple Juice from concentrate 100% juice
26. First Street Diced Pears
27. First Street Fruit Cocktail in heavy syrup
28. First Street Grape Juice from concentrate 100% juice
29. First Street Sliced Bartlett
30. First Street Yellow Cling Peaches in heavy syrup
31. Full Circle Organic Apple Juice
32. Full Circle Organic Bartlett Pear Slices
33. Gerber 100% Juice – White Grape Juice
34. Gerber 100% Juice Apple Juice
35. Gerber 3rd Foods Peaches
36. Gerber 3rd Foods Pears
37. Golden Star Mixed Fruit in Light Syrup (peach, pineapple, pears)
38. Golden Star Peach Halves in Heavy Syrup
39. Great Value 100% Grape Juice
40. Great Value 100% No Sugar Added Apple Juice
41. Great Value Bartlett Pear Halves in 100% Juice
42. Great Value Bartlett Sliced Pears in Heavy Syrup
43. Great Value No Sugar Added Fruit Cocktail
44. Great Value Yellow Cling Sliced Peaches
45. Hansen’s Natural Apple Juice
46. Kedem Concord Grape Juice 100% pure grape juice
47. Kroger 100% Juice Apple Juice
48. Kroger Fruit Cocktail in Heavy Syrup
49. Kroger Grape Juice 100% Juice
50. Kroger Lite Fruit Cocktail in Pear Juice
51. Kroger Value Fruit Mix (Peaches, pears, grapes)
52. Langers Apple Juice 100% Juice
53. Langers Grape Juice (Concord)
54. Langers Red Grape Juice
55. Libby’s Fruit Cocktail No Sugar Added (Sweetened with Splenda)
56. Libby’s Yellow Cling Peach Slices No Sugar Added (Sweetened with Splenda)
57. Market Pantry Diced Peaches in light syrup
58. Market Pantry Diced Pears in light syrup
59. Market Pantry Mixed Fruit in light syrup
60. Maxx Value Fruit Mix in Light Syrup (peach, pear, grape)
61. Maxx Value Pear Pieces in Light Syrup
62. Minute Maid Juice Apple – 100% Apple Juice
63. Motts 100% Apple Juice
64. Mrs. Brown’s Fruit Cocktail in Heavy Syrup (peaches, pears, grapes)
65. O Organics Organic Grape Juice from concentrate
66. O Organics Organic Unfiltered Apple Juice Not From Concentrate
67. Old Orchard 100% Apple Juice
68. Parade 100% Juice Apple
69. Polar Mixed Fruit
70. Polar Peach Slices
71. Polar Pear Halves in light syrup
72. R.W. Knudsen Just Concord Grape Juice
73. R.W. Knudsen Organic Just Concord
74. Raley’s 100% Grape Juice
75. Raley’s Fruit Cocktail in Heavy Syrup
76. Raley’s Premium 100% Apple Juice not from Concentrate
77. Raley’s Sliced Yellow Cling Peaches in Heavy Syrup
78. S&W Natural Style Fruit Cocktail in Lightly Sweetened Juice
79. S&W Natural Style Pear Slices in Juice
80. S&W Natural Style Yellow Cling Peach Slices in Lightly Sweetened Juice
81. S&W Premium Peach Halves Yellow Cling Peaches in light syrup
82. S&W Sun Pears Premium
83. Safeway 100% Juice Apple Cider
84. Safeway 100% Juice Apple Juice
85. Safeway 100% Juice Grape Juice
86. Safeway Diced Peaches in Light Syrup
87. Safeway Fruit Cocktail in Heavy Syrup
88. Safeway Light Sugar Fruit Cocktail
89. Safeway Lite Bartlett Pear Halves in Pear Juice
90. Safeway Lite Fruit Cocktail in Pear Juice
91. Safeway Organic Grape Juice
92. Safeway Pear Halves in Light Juice
93. Safeway Yellow Cling Peach Slices in Pear Juice
94. Santa Cruz Organic Concord Grape Juice
95. Simple Value Yellow Cling Peaches in light syrup
96. Stater Bros. 100% Juice Apple Juice
97. Stater Bros. 100% Juice Grape Juice
98. Stater Bros. 100% Juice White Grape Juice
99. Stater Bros. Fruit Cocktail in Heavy Syrup
100. Stater Bros. Yellow Cling Peach Halves
101. Stater Bros. Yellow Cling Sliced Peaches in heavy syrup
102. Sunny Select 100% Apple Juice
103. Sunny Select 100% Grape Juice
104. Sunny Select Fruit Cocktail in Juice
105. Sunny Select Pear Halves in Pear Juice
106. Sunny Select Yellow Cling Sliced Peaches in Pear Juice
107. Trader Joe’s Certified Organic Apple Juice, pasteurized
108. Trader Joe’s Concord Grape Juice made from fress pressed organic concord grapes
109. Trader Joe’s Pear Halves in white grape juice
110. Trader Joe’s Yellow Cling Peach Halves in while grape juice
111. Tree Top 100% Juice Apple Cider
112. Tree Top 100% Juice, Grape
113. Truitt Brothers Pacific NorthWest Bartlett Pear Halves, in pear juice from concentrate
114. Valu Time Grape Drink from Concentrate
115. Valu Time Irregular Bartlett Pear Slices
116. Valu Time Yellow Cling Peach Slices
117. Walgreens Apple Juice from concentrate 100% juice
118. Walgreens Grape Juice from concentrate 100% juice
119. Walnut Acres Organic Concord Grape
120. Walnut Grove Market 100% Apple Juice
121. Walnut Grove Market Grape Juice
122. Walnut Grove Market Natural Peaches Sliced Yellow Cling in Light Syrup
123. Walnut Grove Market Natural Pear Halves in Heavy Syrup
124. Welch’s 100% Grape Juice (from Welch’s Concord Grapes)
125. Welch’s 100% Red Grape Juice from Concentrate

White pizza with green olive tapenade, grilled onions, artichokes, chicken, chevre and comte cheese.

Pound cake sandwich with strawberries and homemade mascarpone cheese, homemade mascarpone icecream with peach/honey/saffron and a base of a strawberry coulis.

A Panama fruit company has finally brought square watermelon to the US.

The Panama Fruit Producer company has sent its first shipment of 120 to New York. Doesn’t sound like much but the company expects to produce about 3000 of these shapely watermelons this year.

No this has nothing to do with bioengineering (frankenfood) so rest easy. Instead they are grown in molds to produce the shape.

The bad news? They’ll cost around $75 each, however the producers hope to get the cost down eventually.

Whole wheat pasta with crispy ham, garlic chicken, sauteed asparagus and broccoli, tossed with a brown butter lemon emulsion and finished with gran padano cheese

Photo Essexeating, Flickr

Everyone loves popcorn and everyone loves bacon. What happens when you combine the two? You have the best popcorn in the world. Don’t believe me? Try the following recipe below.

What you need

Materials
1/2 cup popcorn
3 tablespoons rendered bacon fat
1/2 teaspoon salt or if you want to really make it extra baconlicious use bacon salt

Equipment
Heavy bottom pan
Large bowl
measuring cup
spoon

Instructions

1. Render the bacon fat. Many of us keep our leftover rendered bacon fat in the fridge for later use and this is a perfect way to use it up. If that’s not something you do, you can always render down a few slices of bacon in a heavy bottom pan. Cut the bacon into small pieces and turn heat on low-medium low with couple  tablespoons of water. The water will slow down the bacon cooking letting you get more fat out of it. Strain and you’re ready to go. If you happen to have made bacon for a meal, you can always save the pan drippings for a popcorn snack later on that day.

2. Add 3 tablespoons to the bottom and turn the heat on high.

3. Add popcorn after the bacon fat has had a chance to soften, begin stirring or moving your pan so the kernels don’t burn.

4. Stir, Stir, Stir until the kernels slow up in their popping or you can stir no longer. There should be 3-4 seconds between pops.

5. Pour Into Bowl When popping slows, dump popcorn into large bowl and sprinkle with salt. Although the bacon fat lends some salt, it’s not usually enough and a little extra kosher salt really makes the piggy coated kernels sing!

Bacon and rocketry, these are two words that really shouldn’t be said together. I won’t say much more just enjoy the video that Rather Good has put together.

Mp3 of the song can be found here

One day a long time ago, a Krispy Kreme donut fell in love with KFC’s double down and this resulted in the birth of the unholiest of all creations – the Luther Fried Chicken Double Down.

What you end up with is over 900 calories of tongue flipping delight. This thing will not only supply you with enough calories, sodium, sugar and fat for a good part of your day it will keep you up and running for a bit. The inevitable afternoon crash was not the best though…as there is now a brick in the belly. I do highly recommend you give this a shot though. I know it sounds far fetched but it’s actually quite delicious.

A note on its Web site says that R&I’s parent company (UK-based Reed Elsevier) decided to get out of the US publication business (Reed Business Information), pulling the plug on Oak Brook-based R&I as well as some 20-plus other publications (including Chain Leader, HOTELS, Graphic Arts Monthly).

Charlie Trotter’s, Arun’s, Frontera Grill, mk, Spiaggia are some of the youngsters on the Ivy Awards roster which were designed to honor “a standard of excellence in food and service and an innovative spirit.” Should your Chicago dining experiences date to 1971, you’ll remember a few of the winners that year: The Blackhawk and The Cape Cod Room ( pictured).

(source: Chicago Tribune)

Mmmmmm doesn't that look good

The beef was from Costco and was very reasonably priced.

The pulp of the lemon can be used for sauces but what you really want to use is the peel. The pith (the white part of the peel) is normally bitter but the preserving method pulls the bitterness out and turns the entire peel to a light yellow color.

Ingredients
6-8 lemons, scrubbed clean
1/2 cup kosher salt
good quality extra virgin olive oil
1 qt canning jar

Directions

1. Roll lemons on a cutting board to softened them to making juicing them easier.
2. Slice lemons in half and juice them all, saving the juice
3. Toss lemons in bowl with salt making sure to get as much salt into the lemons and place in canning jar, keep cramming them in until you no longer can fit anymore in.
4. Pour the lemon juice into jar until almost full.
5. Cap off with olive oil until oil covers the entire surface, this acts as a sealant preventing air from getting in.
6. Seal canning jar and store upside down in a dark cool area for 5-10 weeks. Make sure to flip the jar over once a week.

The hard part is the waiting but it is well worth it.