myTakes: Food & Beverage

I'm sure most people have run across the person or three who doesn't understand the concept of chewing with their mouth closed. Bits of food are sloshing around in their mouths as they try and recant the story of their...

What is a food abomination? It's is the unholy coming together of two (or more) food items to combine them into one magnificent (or really tragic) new dish. For all food abominations, just in case you didn't know it was...

Coffee, late, mocha...whatever caffeinated, warm drink you want, there are tricks that work for all of these that'll make your beverage so much more delicious! 1. Always add milk. Milk just makes everything better!...

According to the Census Bureau, the South consists of Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma...

This my take is for my friend, @smahala1991 who was recently diagnosed with diabetes. I am hypoglycemic but weirdly enough I don't have diabetes, so I do have experience with blood sugar causing problems. There was one...

Sausage, eggs and a fried slice is great served up in a greasy spoon cafe for a bunch of taxi drivers, but is no meal to present a girl you are trying to impress. Ladies Like fuss, frills and that kind of stuff, so what...

Mocktails or Virgin drinks are non-alcoholic beverages that mimic their alcoholic cousins without actually containing any alcohol. Why might you want to have a few recipes up your sleeve? At a party or a bar there will...

1. A roast chicken with a side of veg If you've never had the pleasure of being in a house where a chicken has been roasting along side some veg, you are missing out on that most pleasant of aromas wafting through the...

The majority of cookbooks you will find on a shelf are filled with recipes.... for a family of four. It's like cookbooks don't even recognize that anyone could possibly live by themselves for a spell or be 'forever...

If you're just starting off in the kitchen and learning the ropes, everything can be daunting. It's like the first day of a brand new school or the first day at a new job---everything is new and you don't really know...

I grew to hate cake after years of making them for monthly birthday parties and other events, plus a childhood of the same sheet cake with horrible green icing and red roses, turned me off cake. So every year, when it...

Cooking after a long day can be very stressful and time consuming, and of course, lead you to just give up and throw a pizza in the oven or order out, but if you do a little prep work ahead of time when you aren't busy or...

Restaurants used to either hate or be highly suspicious of people who took photos of their food . Why would they do this and what for? Understandably as a chef, you don't want some person snapping a photo of your prize...

Don't you hate recipes that require a long list of ingredients and instructions? Do you want to make your life in the kitchen so much simpler? Well, try these recipes! Overnight Oats Put rolled oats and milk (cow's milk,...