Tag: Food Safety

5 Tips to Keep Holiday Food Safe and Prevent Waste

5 Tips to Keep Holiday Food Safe and Prevent Waste

It’s Thanksgiving Week … and our thoughts turn to food! Whether we’re in the middle of thawing turkeys, baking pies, or placing a last-minute order, how we store and prepare our food needs to be top of mind! Here are five essential tips for your list! With this year’s...

Despite Challenges the Outlook for Eggs Is Bright

Despite Challenges the Outlook for Eggs Is Bright

This is the time of the year when the “incredible” egg usually gets top billing. There are Easter egg hunts, Easter egg decorating, spring brunches and Sunday dinners featuring eggs in some form or fashion. However, eggs are seeing some undo focus this year as prices...

Cross Your T’s for Food Safety in the Kitchen

Cross Your T’s for Food Safety in the Kitchen

During a recent CBS Sunday Morning show, one of the segments highlighted the “Do’s and Don’ts” of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. Based on a 2015 Thanksgiving Day power outage in Seattle when folks had to pull turkeys out of ovens before they were fully cooked, the...

Pass the Pepper and Hold the Salt?

Pass the Pepper and Hold the Salt?

Salt, butter and a little sugar were common seasonings in our household growing up. My mother may have used too much salt in her cooking at times but there was a healthy respect for limits as she had to control her high blood pressure. However, home cooked meals and...