You can never go wrong when you serve up tacos for dinner. This is one of my favorite foods and I love making tacos. I like eating them even better. There is a few basic ingredients that all tacos should have. A good tasting ground beef that is lightly seasoned is where I like to start first. The taco packets you buy at the grocery store contain too much seasoning for my taste buds. I will usually put in half of the pack of taco seasoning and that gets me started with a good tasting meat source for my taco. Then I will toast the shell about 5 to 7 minutes in the oven around 300 to 350 degrees. I will use the basic toppings to put on my taco. I like a little lettuce, shredded cheese (will usually go with the pack already grated and is a mixture of different cheeses), and some fresh tomatoes. These are the 3 things every taco should have. Some people will choose to add a piece of lime or some steamed rice on their tacos. Or they will pick other toppings that are not on your common taco. Just give me the 3 basics like cheese, lettuce, and tomato and this makes a perfect taco for me. What unusual toppings have you seen or used on a taco before?

For those that’s been treated to a good Japanese restaurant; probably know about the entertainment your meal comes with. The big flame is always an eye-catcher, along with the twirling of a knife or two. The chef always has some other little display under his sleeve that puts smiles on everyone’s faces sitting at the table. While the actions of watching your meal being prepared takes place, there is also some really good food that gets handed out to your plate for you to gobble down. If you haven’t tried a Japanese restaurant yet, you really must give this a try sometime.

You can’t go wrong with an hibachi dinner and this is the only way to eat a really good Asian meal (in my opinion). Don’t get me wrong, I like Chinese food a bit too. The rice you get at a Chinese restaurant is pretty plain. Most serve steamed rice, but it’s getting more common to see fried rice at Chinese restaurants. I would compare the rice at a Chinese restaurant, to the french fries with a fast food meal at a hamburger place in the United States. The fries are good with the meal, but it’s really the burger that’s the main thing. I like having the fries there and I am the same way with the rice; which gets served with your Chinese meals.

Now the rice that gets prepared by a hibachi chef comes to life and this is just as good as your main menu selection. I think most people choose a steak or chicken to order with their hibachi dinners. The main dish is good too and the rice these hibachi chefs prepare with it, is just as good too. Later that night or the next day, it will be the rice that I crave more than anything from the hibachi dinner I just ate. I will usually go with the steak or filet mignon. Seafood lovers might try something from the ocean for the hibachi chef to stir around on his hot-top stove. Regardless if you choose the steak, filet Mignon, chicken, or even a nice lobster or shrimp to nibble on, you’re going to get the mixed vegetables, probably a soup containing a mushroom or two, and that awesome Japanese fried rice!

Now the hibachi dinner mostly means that a certified chef skilled in the art of Japanese cooking, will come to your table and prepare your meal for everyone at the table to see. It’s a treat for everyone to watch and the kids like this part too. The younger folks may not appreciate the food as much as the adults, but you can rest assure the entertainment will be 2nd to none. The food from hibachi dinners may be a bit of an acquired taste. I know the first time I tried eating a hibachi dinner, I thought it was just descent. The more times I went, the more I liked it and the more new places I wanted to try.

The bad news is the price tag. It’s not too cheap to eat this great food and not idea for the average family to go out and eat nightly or even once a week. Maybe your family can afford to eat this way once a month and that’s certainly worth saving up for, if you can find it in the monthly budget for a hibachi dinner monthly. Avoid eating the actual dinner hours or in the evenings after 3 or 4 pm. Try to locate a Japanese restaurant close to your area; that will serve lunches around the noon hour. Eating at these hours can save you and the family a few dollars and you still get a lot of food and will probably need a take out plate, to take your leftovers home. This food warms up real good in the microwave and it may even be a little better; than eating it at the restaurant.

If you don’t like Chinese food, there is still hope you will like the Japanese version. This food is similar to the menu items you can get from the Chinese restaurants. However, it’s much different in the way it is prepared and in the way it tastes. I could understand someone not liking Japanese or Chinese food. I have yet to meet someone that loves Chinese food, but hates the Japanese food. If you do like Chinese restaurants, but haven’t tried one of the great-tasting hibachi dinners from a Japanese restaurant. You will have to start making plans now to eat at one in the near future. An evening meal may cost around $18 to $30; while the lunch time specials at Japanese restaurants will usually run about $9 to $15 in most cases. Give the lunch hours a try for the best prices and be sure you choose the hibachi dinner.

As spring time kicks in gear and begins putting green on our trees again, it’s also time to break the ground for those vegetable gardens. I try to grow a few things each year, so I get the opportunity to eat some of those vegetables fresh. There are just some things you can’t buy at the store that has that homegrown taste. One of the top things on my list to grow in the garden is tomatoes. The tomato plant that grows in your yard and produces vine ripened tomatoes is a lot different in taste, compared to those you pick up in the produce section. Only way to get these great tasting tomatoes for sandwiches or to make homemade soup with, is to grow them yourself.

Another vegetable that tastes better from your garden than from the can or store bought, is the green bean. Green beans have a great taste when you get the fresh homegrown ones. Takes a little work picking them and breaking them up to cook, but it’s worth the effort. My favorite two things to grow in the garden is tomatoes and green beans. Just for the simple fact, you can’t buy that quality of taste from the local grocery store.

My spring time meal made to perfection, would have to be ate in late spring or at the start of summer. The reason why is very simple. I have to grow those tomatoes and green beans first! If I get my fresh green beans and a slice of tomato fresh from the garden, I got the main ingredients of my favorite spring time meal. Adding a few cucumbers and an ear of corn to my plate from the garden would be nice, but I could live with eating store bought ears of corn and cucumbers. From this point there is a lot of directions I could go, but if I could eat my favorite spring time meal right now. I believe my cravings today would call for the following items of food:

Pork Chops Cooked on the Grill

Green Beans (homegrown)

Corn on the Cob

Cornbread

Slices of Onions & Tomatoes (fresh from garden)

Sweet Tea w/Lemon

That would be a great spring time meal and I wish I had these items now. I would fill up on these good foods and probably wouldn’t have room for desserts. However, I guess we could add banana pudding (w/vanilla wafers) as the final topping on my favorite spring time meal. Now it’s your turn to create a perfect spring time meal. Let me know what meat, two vegetables, bread, extra fixings, and dessert would be found on your plate for a spring time feast. Do you wash it down with sweet tea?

It’s hard to beat a day that you wake up early in the morning and go fishing. After you catch a few fish for you and the family, you go back home to clean them and get them ready for cooking. I don’t have any special fish recipes, just a healthy dosing of all purpose flour and sprinkling a little salt on them, is all I do. Get the stove on medium heat and let a little lard melt in the pan. After that, you just throw the fish in and let it cook for about 10 minutes on each side. Fix a little a bread to go with it and you have a great meal that you caught and ate in the same day.

Now if you wake up and go fishing and they’re not biting, you will have to change the plan. This is what we call a back up plan in the fishing and eating business and we have to use it, when the first plan doesn’t work. Chances are your stomach is set on fish and anything else you eat, just won’t be as good. We can go to the supermarket to pick up some fresh frozen fish, but normally this fish isn’t that great. The best back up plan would be to get a shower and clean up from the fishing trip. Put on your Sunday clothes and get all dressed up to go out for a nice, expensive seafood dinner. You can take the kids to a babysitter, if they get in the way. The law does require us men to feed the wife, so tell her to throw on a few nice clothes and some womens perfume, for this special dinner that is just for her. After you place your order and your fish arrives at the table. You’re just one bite away from fishing and eating fish in the same day!

Not sure how local hospitals can help; when they serve food like this in the evening time to their patients. When most people get sick, the best medicine they usually can get is from their food. How many people out there sees this plate of food and gets hungry? Seriously, I would have to pass on supper if I was the patient having to rely on this plate of food. It doesn’t look good, the food itself looks to be in poor quality, and if I did eat this plate of food, I think I really would need a hospital then.

Our local school systems have made huge jumps into the way they prepare lunches for school kids. They have been able to turn to some of the fast food restaurants and prepare a nutritional meal that works in the schools. Now kids have something they can actually look forward to; when they go to the school cafeteria.

The hospitals have not caught up to the modern times and the world we are living in today. Who ever is the person in charge for the hospital menu, they really need to throw away all the things in their cupboard. Any resemblance to the hospital food in this picture of roast beef with brown gravy, mash potatoes, and English peas; should be thrown away and never ordered again.

If you were walking down the street and saw two vendors offering free food; what would you do? You don’t let free stuff pass you by do you? I always grab anything that is free. Even if I had just ate, I would still take it, in case I got hungry later or perhaps I could take a few bites. What if the vendors had different food items they were giving away for free. One vendor was giving free hot dogs away and he had all the catsup, mustard, relish, onions, pickles, sauerkraut, and anything else you like on your hot dogs available. While the other vendor was giving away free tacos. This vendor would give you the shell and meat and then you could decide if you wanted lettuce, onions, tomatoes, cheese, or sour cream on your taco. A nice variety of mild, medium, hot, and extra hot sauces were available too, for the guy that was giving away free tacos.

Now which vendor’s food sounds the best? Which food item would be the easiest to prepare and eat while walking down the street? No matter how you like your hotdogs or tacos, both vendors would have everything there, so you could make it the way you like best. Let me know if you would choose the free tacos or free hot dogs.

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During hard times we might not be able to eat the foods we like the most. We may just have to save some of those great recipe and food ideas that we see on the Food Network for a later time. I’m sure they would adjust their programming on television if things ever got too bad and would give us new ways to prepare cheaper meals for the family. Most of us at some point in our lives had to install a food budget, so we could make it from one day to another. I think most can remember what they had to do in the past to survive and would go that route again if needed.

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I don’t understand a lot of people’s weight problems. It seems pretty simple if you ask me. If you eat less and exercise more, it would only seem natural that you would lose more weight. If you keep this routine up, you would have no need for the weight loss pills. I know it’s easier to say than do, but isn’t these the steps for losing weight? I believe the food is the main key. Finding those foods with low calories can go a long ways in the weight battle. Many of the fast food restaurants offer good food choices for those seeking to lose weight. You can see several items on the menu that are low on calories or you will see a variety of different salads. I’m not on a diet (maybe I should be) and I love to eat salads. I guess if I had to eat them all the time, I would get sick of them. A salad is a great meal for me, but I like meats on my salad and a good red french dressing or the honey french dressing. The dressing on a salad can add a lot more calories, so choosing a salad dressing low on calories is smart to do. Overall, I think if you start with your daily meals and work on eating less calories, you will see some weight loss start to take place. It takes time for some people to notice the difference, but smarter choices at the supermarket and at the fast food restaurants will result in less weight. Salad anyone?

Our grills at home were made to cook certain foods and it seems like everyone has their own favorites they like to prepare on the grill. I like hamburgers and this is probably my favorite food item to cook on a outdoor grill. I have no complaints when it comes to cooking the sister of the hamburger and I’m sure most people would consider the hotdog a sister to the hamburger. Hot dogs do taste a lot better when they’re cooked on the grill and not boiled in a pot of water on the stove. Hamburgers and hotdogs are probably the two most popular things that get cooked on the grill.

Other foods that people often throw on their bbq grill is chicken, pork chops, and steaks. The chef or cook won’t get too many complaints if they throw a nice steak or some pork chops on the barbie. When it comes to chicken, there is a lot of seasonings and marinades that can greatly influence the taste here. A few boneless chicken strips that have sat over night in a good marinade, can be a fabulous thing to prepare on the grill. You can look online for some good chicken marinade recipes and I highly recommend doing this the day before; you cook your chicken on the grill. A simple marinade for the chicken can make it taste a hundred times better and your family or guests will love the taste. A little salt on the pork chops and that is all that is needed for them. I know some people will choose a variety of seasonings for the steaks. I only add a little salt to my steaks and may dash a little steak sauce on them; 1 or 2 minutes before I remove them off the grill. Steaks taste so good naturally that there isn’t any big need to add anything to them.

There are a couple of things that are left up to debate and each person has their own style. Using tin foil is one of those debates and do you prefer to use the bare rack or put down a little tin foil and poke holes in it? To get a steak good and juicy, some will wrap each steak in tin foil and this helps preserve the juices from dripping away. I’m not picky here either way. Another popular debate is about the types of grills we choose to use. Do you prefer the old fashion method of using charcoal or is a gas grill better? I normally use charcoal and I love the smell of charcoal on the grill. I don’t mind a gas grill, but I usually will just buy a cheap portable grill that uses charcoal to cook my favorite foods on. As you can see, I will cook just about any kind of meat and I believe our grills were designed for cooking meat. I’m not good at cooking vegetables on the grill, but I do like eating grilled vegetables. Feel free to share any grill recipes or foods that you like to throw or prepare on the grill.

There are 3 big food giants in the hamburger industry. We have McDonalds, Burger King, and Wendy’s restaurants that are the kings of hamburgers. Everybody else on the hamburger list is just looking up at these 3 giants in the world of hamburgers. Now all 3 of these popular fast food chains offer a double cheeseburger for a super low price of only a buck or one dollar. Which $1 double cheeseburger do you prefer the most?

A. McDonalds Double Cheeseburger for $1

B. Buger Kings Double Cheeseburger for $1

C. Wendys Double Stack for $1

Get your votes in and let’s see who makes the best tasting double cheeseburger that hamburger lovers can buy for only one dollar.

The Wendys double cheeseburger or double stack is made on a plain bun with ketchup, mustard, pickles, onions, and one piece of cheese. They also use square hamburger patties to make their fried hamburgers; which Wendys claims is never frozen and always fresh. This is a good value and I do like the Wendys double cheeseburger. It is also worth noting that Wendys makes a junior bacon burger for only one dollar and this is also a good value. There are several listings on Wendy’s Dollar Menu and it’s a good place to eat for those that don’t have a lot of money to spend on lunch or dinner. Eating at Wendys for lunch can be cheaper and better; than if you took the time to buy and prepare your own lunches from the grocery store.

The Burger King double cheeseburger is completely opposite from the way Wendys prepares it’s double cheeseburger. They use round meat patties instead of square, sesame seed buns as opposed to the plain bun, and they grill their hamburger patties instead of frying them. The BK Double includes ketchup, mustard, pickle, and two pieces of cheese. This is an excellent tasting burger and if you like the grill taste; then you may like the double cheeseburger from Burger King more than Wendys or McDonalds. This is where consumers can get more food for their money, since this double cheeseburger offers more in bun size, but doesn’t include onions.

The McDonalds double cheeseburger is more popular and gets sold more daily; since McDonalds has more locations than Wendys or Burger King does. This double cheeseburger that McDonalds offers for one dollar has ketchup, mustard, onions, pickles, and two pieces of cheese. It’s made on a plain bun and has round hamburger patties that are fried. McDonalds does offer the smallest one dollar double cheeseburger; when compared to Burger King or Wendys. There is a unique taste to McDonalds hamburgers and it’s unique in a good way. I think this double cheeseburger is great too and it just seems like the cheese tastes better from McDonalds than other fast food hamburger chains. McDonalds has their own menu too that includes several items for $1. I think McDonalds was the first fast food restaurant to create the dollar menu, but I believe Wendys perfected the dollar menu.

So we have 1 dollar to spend and we are looking for the most food possible for that dollar. Where do we go? We certainly would want to go to McDonalds, Burger King, or Wendys to spend our last dollar. In most cases we would want to order the double cheeseburger for a nutritional meal and one that would fill us up more than other alternatives for spending that dollar. You want to avoid the soft drinks and french fries, because these items will cost you more money than the double cheeseburger will. French fries have been linked to type 2 diabetes for those that eat a lot of fried potatoes or the way most fast food chains prepare their fries. If you have extra money for a side item, try to get something other than the fries. The bake potato at Wendys would seem like a smart choice, but we want to avoid the potatoes linked to diabetes, so onion rings or something like that is a better choice for those concerned with diabetes.

I will say we are all lucky to have places like these hamburger giants to provide us with a lot of good nutritional food (to a degree nutritional) for only 1 dollar. If you have a Wendys, Burger King, and McDonalds in your area and they provide these $1 double cheeseburgers, you may want to start eating at these places more. Eating these double cheeseburgers is a good way to save money and you would spend just as much if not more money if you tried to prepare these items at home yourself.

Now the question is; which fast food chain offers the best tasting $1 double cheeseburger? If one of these fast food chains lowered their price by a dime and sold their double cheeseburger for 90 cents, would you be willing to sacrifice taste for that extra 10 cents in savings? If you want the freshest tasting burger, you probably want the Wendys double cheeseburger; since their meat is never frozen. The Burger King double cheeseburger is the one you want for that burger that tastes hot off the grill. Then you have McDonalds that produces the standard in hamburgers and has the taste that we compare all other hamburgers to. All 3 are pretty good and all 3 cost a dollar; but which one do you want if you could only pick one?

Beverly Hills is where a lot of wealth lives and thrives in Southern California. You might have heard of that famous Rodeo Drive that runs through the heart of Beverly Hills. It’s only about 3 blocks of the road that is filled with all the shops and stores that you hear about, but these 3 blocks is the highest price merchandise you will find anywhere else in the world. Only the very wealthy can afford to actually go in these stores and make purchases, but many tourists still find it a great place to just go site seeing.

The thought of going to a high profile event in Hollywood would be a great. You would have the chance to meet some of Hollywoods elite and of course your favorite movie star. The food and entertainment is always top of the line and Los Angeles catering companies like the Bashful Butler help to put on these glamorous events. I can imagine the large ice sculptures and beautifully appointed tables and rooms that make Hollywood parties what they are. Most people that live in this area probably have local get together that to most us would look like someones wedding. Thanks to the television show most of us know that 90210 is the zip code for Beverly Hills. I do think Beverly Hills has a couple of more zip codes in their area, but none are more famous than the 90210.

The holiday season is just half over and we still have good ol jolly St. Nick to celebrate on December 25th. I’m not sure how your Christmas dinners go, but for my family it is like Thanksgiving dinner again. We pretty much have the same food on Christmas Day, as the food we ate on Thanksgiving Day. Our two main things we had for Thanksgiving dinner was the turkey and the ham. We will eat ham and turkey again on Christmas. We also had soup beans, fried okra, green beans, biscuits, and a few desserts to choose from. I assume we will eat these same things again on Christmas too. We did have dressing last week and not sure we will prepare dressing with giblet gravy again. I know my belly is still full from the last big holiday meal and it may take until Christmas Day before I am hungry again. I’m not sure the best weight loss pills or best exercise routines could keep us from gaining weight this time of the year. There is just too much good food around and no one should be on a diet during the holidays. Save your dieting plans for your New Year’s Resolution on January 1st and eat all the good food that is available now. We only live once and everyone should enjoy a couple of big meals on Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Feel free to share your dinner plans on Christmas Day and give me a rough idea of what the menu might look like in your household this year. If you have any special Christmas dishes that you like to prepare; then I would love to get the recipe for it. Leave a reply with recipes, menus, or your dinner plans for Christmas day. I might just have to tweak our family’s dinner this year!

There isn’t any bad parts on a chicken. At least that is what my taste buds say. Most don’t like fried chicken livers, but I guess I am an exception to the rule. I do like chicken livers and eating them with other parts of the chicken is a good meal. I know most don’t like the taste of fried chicken livers, but they do like the drumsticks and breast from the chicken. I guess you just wouldn’t be American if you didn’t like at least one part of this tasty bird.

Now have you ever tried fried chicken hearts? They are hard to find in the supermarkets. I have seen the Tyson chicken company put a pack together that includes gizzards and hearts. It will mostly contain gizzards, but there are some hearts in it. I love fried chicken hearts and it’s probably the best part of the chicken for me. If you haven’t never tried the heart of a chicken before, you really owe it to yourself to try one sometime.

A chicken’s heart is not big. The taste of the chicken heart is nothing like the taste of the liver. So don’t worry about chicken hearts tasting like chicken liver. You can save your chicken livers for fishing and catfish love chicken liver and save the fried chicken hearts for eating. I understand why some don’t like the taste of fried chicken livers, but I think most would love the taste of chicken hearts. The gizzards in chicken is a little tough and chewy to eat. The chicken heart is easy to eat and not a bit chewy. A fried chicken heart is a wonderful treat and I’m sure there is some great health benefits in them too.

If you search different supermarkets in your area and perhaps ask the guy working in the meat department, you should be able to track down some chicken hearts. You could also call up the chicken companies like Tyson, Seaboard Farms, Pilgrim’s Pride, or Gold Kist and ask them if you could order some chicken hearts from them. All of these chicken companies should have websites online and you may be able to submit a question at one of their websites on how to order chicken hearts or where you might could pick some up at.

Killing chickens and eating them is common in the South. We have been known to have some good old fashion chicken dinners down here. If we get our hands on a few live chickens, we usually can kill and clean them our self. We can take an axe to their head and chop it off or just put their necks in our hand and begin shaking them until we break the neck and usually it separates from the body real easily. It might sound a litte gruesome, but it is a humane way to kill them.

The kids love to watch chickens getting prepared for the frying pan. After you do remove the head from the body, the body of the chicken can run around the yard for several minutes. If you ever heard the term “running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off“, you will know what it means, if you ever see this in person. The chicken’s muscles are still working in the body and especially the legs and wings, so after you cut the head off, you can see chicken running around and flapping it’s wings. This always amazes the kids and even the adults too! This is one way you can get the heart from a chicken, but there are more practical ways for those that do want to try fried chicken hearts. Please come back here after you have tried to eat some and let me know what you thought. If you have already ate fried chicken hearts before; then please let me know if you like them or never want to try another one again.

Mike Woodson the coach for the Atlanta Hawks has never been accused of being the sharpest tool in the shed and you will know why after his Thanksgiving comments to the team. He asked the Atlanta Hawks players (the NBA team he coaches) to not eat turkey on Thanksgiving day; due to a chemical in the turkey that causes drowsiness. His team had a big match up on Thanksgiving night against the Orlando Magic and this was a game that the team had to win.

Well that same chemical which is called tryptophan is found in pork, chicken, and some cheeses. Doctors say if you had an empty stomach and ate a really large amount of turkey; then a little drowsiness could occur. Most people want to take that cat nap after the big meal they eat on Thanksgiving; rather than the amount of tryptophan that is found in turkey that causes drowsiness.

Charles Barkley was wondering why the fans in Atlanta was not coming out and supporting the Hawks. They are off to a hot start and have one of the best records in the NBA. However, it’s the way Mike Woodson coaches the team and his philosphy on playing players that keep the fans from attending the Hawks games. So Chuck if you want to know why the residents in Georgia don’t go to Hawks games at Philips Arena; now you know!

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