Food

Restaurant Week Grand Rapids 2012 returns within a brand new timeframe – August 15 through 25 – to capture the local West Michigan harvest. Participating restaurants are excited to be able to showcase their 3-course dinners at $25 per person – or at several of the participating establishments, 2 dinners (3-courses each) for $25, all with an emphasis on farm-to-table food preparation.  After all, August is the season for the freshest farm produce, fruits and meats raised and grown locally.

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What's your favorite part of Festival Of The Arts.  In the past I've heard people joking that its name should be changed to Festival Of The Food because there is so much of it there.  Talk about arousing your sense of smell.  Festival offers it all up!  Whether you are looking for Italian, German, Vegetarian, Ribs,  Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, etc., you can find it all at Festival!

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Okay, it's Monday, Easter was yesterday, and you probably have a dozen or so colored eggs around.  You don't want them to go to waste.  And, just eating a hard-boiled egg is boring.

So why not make one of my favorite foods, deviled eggs?  Now you're talking.

We all have our special recipe for deviled eggs, but I thought I'd share two of my favorites.

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At a time when you and I are trying to save money on our pet food I thought it would be a good idea to figure out a way to eliminate waste.  Dog and cat food can be really, really cheap or very, very expensive but is price everything?  I have learned that it is not!   What really matters is the food that  goes inside the can or into the bag

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The food just keeps building up during the holidays.  There are cookies, candy, cakes, pies, muffins.....notice I'm only going for health foods here.....not to mention all of the dips and cheeses, snacks, ice cream.  And, that's before the turkey, ham, standing rib, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy and everything that goes with dinner.

Oh, boy, I think I'm going to explode!

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My trivia question on the Morning Show this morning was "you typically get a boost of energy within a minute after eating this.  What is it?"  It's a Pickle!

The Pickle.  That, sometime forgotten, overlooked, disrespected, vegetable

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Ahhh, the holidays.  Our family is gearing up.  All of our kids, and their kids, will be home for Thanksgiving.  Everybody pitches in, fixing this and that, setting the table for the big dinner, and more

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Restaurant Week in Grand Rapids is wrapping up this weekend and what a 'delicious' 10 days it has been.  Experience Grand Rapids, the organizer for 2011, says it's been another good year.  President Doug Small says, “ indications for Restaurant Week Grand Rapids 2011 show that the Grand Rapids community had room for “seconds”. We’ve heard from most individual restaurateurs that they’ve had solid business."

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Their is some delicious food waiting for you during Restaurant Week 2011.

With 71 restaurants in the greater Grand Rapids area participating in this year's event from November 3rd to the 13th, the menus are set and ready to go.

Many restaurants will offer three course meals for $25 and some restaurants will offer two meals for that price, giving consumers a chance to experience fine dining on a budget.

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The pleasures of comfort food may extend far beyond tickled taste buds. A new study shows eating fatty foods could help ward off the blues, even when people don't know they're consuming fat. Researchers injected fatty acids directly into the stomachs of half a dozen participants and then exposed them to sad music and images

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Remember those New Year's resolutions to eat better, be in better shape. Eight months in, how is it going? Maybe it is not what you eat, but where you eat it. I've always thought it was easier to lose / maintain weight during the wa

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Another great evening for grilling on the backyard deck. Is there anything better than a good, old-fashioned cheeseburger? TV 13 found the best restaurant burger was from some place up north. I'll bet we can do better in our backyard.....as long as the burger has nothing to do with olives. Hate olives.

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