Archive for October, 2007

October 11th, 2007 | No Comments

Yet Another Contaminated Food…….

Today, CNN reports that ConAgra has voluntarily ceased making chicken and turkey pot pies due to salmonella. The company claims that the pies in question had been under cooked. They say that it clearly reads on the package that the pies are not ready-to-eat and have to be cooked thoroughly.

It makes you wonder what is going on? As previously posted on this site in February, the FDA has been struggling to keep us safe from contaminated foods.

JTK sez: it’s always better to make your own food than to eat some processed food anyway, and that is just what the recipe maven did: Chicken Pot, Chicken Pot, Chicken Pot Pie

And then when I was congratulating myself on making my very first from-scratch Chicken Pot Pie, my husband says “It’s not all ‘from-scratch’, is it? I mean, you didn’t make the puff pastry, did you?”

And don’t forget that ConAgra was also the conglomerate that was responsible for the earlier recall of the Sam’s Burgers.

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Posted in Baking, Food News, Healthy Foods, Vegetables

October 9th, 2007 | No Comments

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October 6th, 2007 | No Comments

What can a hamburger eating man do?

hammmmmburrrrrgeerrrrrr

I love to eat a good hamburger, but after two E.coli scares in one week ( and a particularly nasty strain I might add ) not to mention mad cow disease, methane gas from cows, etc. I am starting to wonder if beef isn’t more of a problem then it is worth.

Friday, Oct. 5, was not a good day for meat lovers. The first recall in its 67-year history proved to be the last for the Topps Meat Co. Later that same day, Sam’s Club announced that it was pulling frozen hamburgers made by agribusiness conglomerate Cargill Inc.

Topps Meats claimed to be the largest distributer in the world and has now shut their doors, gone out of business in a flash of Escherichia coli .

Wikipedia says:

(E. coli), is one of many species of bacteria living in the lower intestines of mammals, known as gut flora. When located in the large intestine, it assists with waste processing, vitamin K production, and food absorption. Certain strains of E. coli, such as Escherichia coli O157:H7, Escherichia coli O121 and Escherichia coli O104:H21, are toxigenic (some produce a toxin very similar to that seen in dysentery). They can cause food poisoning usually associated with eating unwashed vegetables and contaminated meat (contaminated during or shortly after slaughter or during storage or display).

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when it comes to the sexual abuse question: The safest place to eat a hamburger after the initial E-Coli?
If E-Coli means that we are eating cow feces, how can we get agribusiness to clean up their crap?

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October 2nd, 2007 | No Comments

An Apple a day…

Granny Smith Apples

Apple growing season is just about over and it’s time to start picking and cooking with them. Maggie Wolf has posted some tips over at the Salt lake Tribune:

Even without knowing the variety, you can still pick perfectly mature apples by observing several clues. Color change is easy to see in most apple varieties. Green skin changes to yellow as apples mature. Red-skinned varieties may be red all season, so cut open a sample apple and observe the flesh; its color mellows from greenish to yellowish white.

This simple salad recipe from the September issue of Cooking Light magazine takes advantage of the seasonal local apples that are appearing at your grocer and farmers markets.

The New York Apple Association is projecting 29.5 million bushels of apples for this fall’s harvest. One bushel equals about 42 pounds of apples. This marks the fifth year in a row that growers have seen a banner crop. New York apple growers produced 29.7 million bushels of apples in 2006, according to the association.
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