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2011 Food & Wine Magazine Trends Predictions (December)

Danielle Styles — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:55:56 +0000

2011 Food & Wine Magazine Trends Predictions (November)

Danielle Styles — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:55:49 +0000

Weekly Meal Deals from Creative Loafing!

Danielle Styles — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:57:51 +0000

I love to cook, but I started this site to share my recommendations for dining out. Its a fairly expensive habit, but I’ve discover tips (lunch specials, happy hours, etc.) and tools (scoutmob, groupon, etc.) to make it a little more affordable. I recently found out about Creative Loafing’s Atlanta Restaurant Deals. The offers include discounts, pre-fixe menus and more. I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

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2011 Food & Wine Magazine Trends Predictions (October)

Danielle Styles — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:55:17 +0000

Watch This… “The Chew” on ABC next week

Danielle Styles — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:30:13 +0000

I’ll be DVR’ing this show on September 26. I know there are plenty of shows about cooking, entertaining and dining out on cable, but here is one on ABC! I’m actually very excited. Like me, I’m sure you can’t get away from the ads and sneak peaks. I’m a fan over EVERYONE on the panel, so I hope it lives up to the hype.

Best Fast Food…. According to Zagat

Danielle Styles — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:30:52 +0000

Zagat is the most popular restaurant rating organization in the world. I honestly didn’t know that they did a survey on fast food. Below is a segment from the Today Show regarding the latest survey. I learned quite a bit in just those few seconds. And here is a link to complete survey results.

For more information click HERE.

2011 Food & Wine Magazine Trends Predictions (September)

Danielle Styles — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:55:16 +0000

2011 Food & Wine Magazine Trend Predictions (August)

Danielle Styles — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:55:44 +0000

2011 Food & Wine Magazine Trend Predictions (July)

Danielle Styles — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:55:14 +0000

Making the Switch to Safflower Oil

Danielle Styles — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:29:12 +0000

courtesy of LiveStrong.com

Last week my mother came home very excited about frying fish. Naturally I was confused. She kept saying, “wait until you taste this fish.” I assumed it was some special exotic fish she’d picked up a a fishmongers. But it turns out she wasn’t as excited about the bass. She was excited about this flavorless, healthy cooking oil. I shook my head and went back to researching restaurants for Father’s Day.

Shortly thereafter, she brought over a small piece of lightly breaded, fried fish. It was delicious. “It’s safflower oil. See how it doesn’t smell or taste fishy? And the color is perfect too. My friend says its what the stars use. I knew you’d like that!” Again, I shook my head and went back to enjoying the fish.

safflower bloom

It got me thinking though. Safflower Oil? What does safflower look like? Where does it grow? And if it’s so awesome, why haven’t we heard more about it? So I started doing a bit of research. LiveStrong.com had MANY postings about the benefits. It turns out that safflower oil has a higher smoke point than olive oil and less saturated fat. Not to mention that it’s virtually flavorless.

I try to limited fried foods in my diet (at least in home cooked meals). But upon greater detail, I may switch completely from canola oil and olive oil to this fabulous safflower oil. Let me know what you find. Which oil do you prefer?