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Do you like to eat raw cookie dough?  Just one spoonful won’t hurt right?

Think again…Escherichia coli  will confine to your intestines and cause a variety of intestinal and UTI problems.   

In a major breakthrough in the nationwide outbreak of E. coli, investigators have found a sample of Toll House cookie dough contaminated with the pathogen at Nestlé’s Danville, Va., plant.

The Food and Drug Administration today told Nestlé officials they had located a 16.5 ounce production sample of Toll House chocolate chip cookie dough at the same plant where the popular confection is made. The ‘best-by’ date is June 10, 2009.

This is a huge step in the investigation, but neither investigators nor Nestlé officials know as of yet how E. coli 0157:H7 got into the dough, or which ingredient in particular is contaminated.

“It’s very disappointing,” said Edie Burge, a spokeswoman for the company, but additional testing is still needed to confirm the genetic connection with the 69 confirmed cases of E. coli poisoning in a nationwide outbreak.

Nestlé is continuing to work closely with the FDA on the matter.

(MSN)

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This is a great recipe for the summer when you have a lot of extra tomatoes. The recipe is also very light and you can adjust the spices for your taste.

1. Thinly slice a tomato and then cut each slice into four section
2. Place tomato on a plate and sprinkle lightly with garlic powder and salt
3. Chopped up fresh basil and sprinkle across the tomatoes
4. Take the ball of fresh mozzarella and cut approximately half into small, thin slices and place on top of tomatoes
5. Use a very small amount of balsamic vinegar & olive oil on top

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This is what happens to kids whose parents do not provide sugar cereals as a part of childhood. Now I am a monster… monster mixes:

1/3 cup Sweetened Condensed Milk

2 15 oz. cans of Fruit Cocktail

3 Maraschino Cherries

The monster fills a bowl 1/3 full of ambrosia mixture. Season with Fruity Pebbles to taste. If being served to children under 10, serve with sugar bowl and large spoon.

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Pineapple is ripest and sweetest when it has a perfumed aroma and is turning slightly yellow, with fronds that can be easily plucked from the crown. Also, when grilling fruit, it’s often a good idea to leave the lid open so that the fruit doesn’t end up tasting like smoke. PineappleOPE is always ripe and sweet. It is more orange than yellow.

Serves: 6
Prep time: 1 hour
Grilling time: 8 to 10 minutes
For gas grills only

Crunchies
1 cup water
1 teaspoon aniseed
Vegetable oil
1/3 cup slivered almonds, toasted
1-3/4 cups granulated sugar
1/3 cup whipping cream

1 ripe pineapple
1 pint vanilla ice cream

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1. In a small saucepan combine the water and aniseed and bring to a rolling boil. Remove from the heat and let steep for at least 30 minutes.

2. Brush a small baking sheet with oil. Place the almonds on the sheet in a single, compact layer.

3. Place the sugar in a medium saucepan. Strain the aniseed water over the sugar, pressing down on the seeds; discard the seeds. Cook over medium-low heat until the sugar dissolves, swirling the pan occasionally. Increase the heat and cook until the sugar caramelizes and turns a golden caramel color (160°F or “hard-crack” on a candy thermometer), washing down any sugar crystals that form on the sides of the pan with a brush dipped in cold water. Carefully pour enough caramel over the almonds to completely coat them. Using potholders tilt the baking sheet to distribute the caramel. Cool until firm, about 10 minutes. Remove from the baking sheet and coarsely chop by hand.

4. Place the remaining caramel back on low heat and carefully add the cream. Cook over low heat until the caramel melts and the cream is mixed in, swirling the pan occasionally. Cool, then refrigerate until serving.

5. Cut the top and bottom off the pineapple. Stand the pineapple upright on a cutting board and, using a serrated knife, cut off the skin by slicing from top to bottom. Remove eyes with a knife tip or melon baller. Turn the pineapple on its side, and cut the pineapple into 3/4-inch-thick slices. Cut out the core from each slice and discard.

6. Lightly oil the pineapple slices and grill over direct medium heat (350° to 450°F), with the lid open, until well browned on both sides, 8 to 10 minutes, turning once.

7. Reheat the caramel sauce in a microwave oven for a few seconds or over medium-low heat until melted and smooth. Thin with a little more cream if necessary. Place a pineapple slice in the center of each dessert plate and then a scoop of ice cream on top. Ladle warm caramel sauce over the pineapple and ice cream and drizzle more over the plate. Sprinkle with the toasted almond brittle. Serve immediately.

Recipe from Weber’s Real Grilling™ by Jamie Purviance

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I am normally a HUGE fan of Dunkin Donuts. They are fairly dependable for a quick coffee or a bagel. Over the last month, I have had a series of unfortunate experiences at various stores throughout the Boston area…

For instance, I went to a Dunkin Donuts in South Boston with a friend and we both placed orders. Mine was completed without error but my friends coffee was made wrong and they forgot to make her sandwich all together. She had to wait for 15 minutes to get her new coffee and food which made us late for work.
The next day I went to a Dunkin Donuts in Brookline and ordered the standard iced coffee. The person working did not understand English and I had to repeat myself 5 times…iced coffe with milk & sugar…. Even then, he made my coffee wrong. Finally, the following day I gave it one last shot at a Dunks close to the Chestnut Hill area. Again, the worker could barely understand what I was talking about and gave me a coffee so overloaded with sugar, it had to be thrown out.

My suggestion, implement touch screens so customers can place their own orders.

Coffee- 3 out of 4 stars ***

Service- 1 out of 4 stars *

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Have you ever cooked with beer?  Do you have a whole chicken laying around your kitchen?  Try this comfort food over the weekend…

What you need:

Beer Can Chicken holder from Wal-Mart
Season All Spice
3 ½ to 4 lb Chicken

Cooking Instructions:

Wash and pat dry. Cover the chicken with Season All. Place the chicken on top of ½ can of beer in the provided holder. Place in a dish with a little water. Bake @350 for 1-2 hours. Temperature should be 180 degrees in the thigh. Skin should be a dark brown.  Slice and Enjoy with a cold Budweiser

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Around foodenator labs, we have calorie laden bowls of candy around to keep the twin evils of oral boredom and low blood sugar at bay. While the Lindt truffles are a clear favorite in the pure chocolate department, when those are gone foodenator staff fight and bicker for the small squares of Dove chocolate. Apparantly, the collapse of the global economy has even the well-funded foodenator human services department making cutbacks. Appearing in our candy bowls is the obvious knock-off chocolate squares called Bliss. Foodenator found a blind man to hire two blind judges to judge them for you in what is commonly known as a double-blind clinical trial.

Ray “Fats” Falone:

The Dove was better, the Bliss tasted like a salt-lick, I think.  I have never partook of no salt-lick, that is how the Bliss seemed to taste to me. On the other hoof, dove is a dry, potent, flavor-blast of a disco in my throat as I swallow the chocolate.

Theresa Coon:

The Bliss chocolate had a honey badger taste, with a hint of hibiscus. The Dove tasted pretty much like chocolate. If I were going to melt it down, and drizzle it over my large, shapely breasts, I would have to go with Dove.

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It’s Thursday, you know what that means. The ice cream truck arrived on time. 2pm. Most everyone at foodenator was especially pumped. The weather sucked though. A quarter of Foodenator staff doesn’t have a sweet tooth. The ice cream truck was out of WWF ice cream bars, Foodenator got its second choice, the Ben and Jerry’s Cherry Garcia Ice Cream Bar. How did it fare in the mouth of Foodenator? Foodenator finds out

The bar itself was double packaged. Boxed then wrapped. Ben, Jerry,… your not fooling anyone. Your ice cream bars are in the same league as all other ice cream in the ice cream truck. For Foodenator, its just annoying to open two packages. Your ice cream isn’t special enough to require double packaging. Cherry Garcia is a decent flavor on the flavor spectrum. The chocolate used to coat the cherry garcia is awful and tastes very budget.

**** 4 (out of 10)

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Bored with the same old greasy potato chips?  Craving something salty that will leave a sticky mess on your fingers?

 
Ingredients:
-Butter
-Cheerios
-Hidden Valley powder ranch

1. Melt a few tablespoons of butter in a frying pan

5. With about 30 seconds left add in some Hidden Valley powder ranch, stir and pour into a bowl before the ranch burns

 
** Also great with powdered cheddar, sour cream & onion or salt.

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Foodenator had the opportunity to dabble in Pasta Bowls from Domino’s late last evening, after the Phish Show. Does pasta bowl go well after nitrus consumption, apparently. Is it a good mix with ‘shrooms, yep. Can you dine on pasta bowl post eating tainted brownies, mmhmm. Foodenator devoured the pasta bowls

Four Pasta bowls, one sausage and marinara, one chicken alfredo, and dos chicken carbonaras were delivered to Foodenator’s Phish at Fenway after party. They were all delicious, Carbonara being the highlight. The sausage pasta bowl could have used better sausage and more sausage. The chicken in the pasta bowls was white and tasty. Bread bowl in which the Pasta was delivered in was better than anyone at Foodenator expected. Overall, an eater really cannot go wrong with pasta bowls from Domino’s

******** 8 (out of 10)

note: unfinished Domino’s pasta bowls make decent breakfast pizzas

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