Give some Free Rice and grow your vocabulary
While menu planning for our annual New Year’s eve gathering here in the FAB East kitchen, I came across this very cool site. Free Rice is home to a word game that really tests your knowledge, but has a great purpose: Help feed the hungry. For every word you get right, 20 grains of rice are donated through the United Nations. That’s great, but how do they pay for all of this rice? It’s simple, like millions of web site owners, they generate income with Google’s Adsense. This is very cool, and more than a little bit addictive! A tabbed browser makes it easy to cheat, which is a good thing in this case.
Believe it or not, I found this through Emeril’s blog
Cooking with leftovers: Ultimate Steak Sammich
When you BBQ steaks for a crowd, it’s not uncommon to have some leftover Grade A slabs of cow. There are tons of ways to use left over steak, but a great steak sammich is probably the most satisfying. When you combine it with some simple, fresh grilled veggies and a spot or two of goats cheese you have an instant winner. Best of all it is simple.
Ingredients
Steak - fresh cooked or left over
Peppers - use any color you like, we prefer nice sweet orange, yellow and red
Onions - Sweet ones like Vidalia
Goats cheese - plain or rolled in pepper or bruschetta stuff
Zucchini
Soft, long rolls
Video: Elton John gets creative
Ok, so this isn’t really food related. During some celeb encrusted variety show, Elton John puts some oven instructions to music. It’s pretty funny and amazing how talented the man is.
Shame about the bad wig!
Source Youtbue via Zentastic
Food porn: Jalapeno Shrimp
A while back, One of Seven posted a killer recipe for Grilled Citrus Jalapeno Shrimp. Over the weekend, we modified it somewhat to cook shell on in a basket rather than on skewers. As always, they were awesome and so we just had to share the view!
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Foodies Across Borders is a place where friends who live a long way apart share our thoughts and ideas on cooking, entertaining and eating out. We review restaurants and babble on about current trends in cooking. Here in the FAB test kitchens, we review recipes and the odd product here & there.
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