The Flavors of Fall—Beyond Pumpkin and Pecan

The flavors of fall used to be cinnamon and nutmeg, mingled periodically with sage, toasted pecan, and of course, pumpkin. Have no fear, those flavors are still strong-but there’s much more to an increasingly global palate. Natalia Y//Unsplash Tier …

The flavors of fall used to be cinnamon and nutmeg, mingled periodically with sage, toasted pecan, and of course, pumpkin. Have no fear, those flavors are still strong—but there’s much more to an increasingly global palate.

Photo by Natalia Y on Unsplash
Natalia Y//Unsplash

Tier two ingredients include caramel, pomegranate, sweet potato, and honey. These are flavors we are already incorporating into our cooking on a regular basis, and they will be the flavors that evoke fall for our children for years to come.

For at least the last five years, we have been seeing more and more recipes featuring butternut squash, walnut, and stronger vegetable flavors such as Brussel Sprouts. More recently, emerging ingredients include maple, cardamom, harissa (a blend of hot chiles, garlic and more), ginger, and baharat (a blend of Middle Eastern spices).

Photo by Calum Lewis on Unsplash
Calum Lewis//Unsplash

Without question, our palates are handling hotter spices and are willing to be a bit more adventurous. We’re watching ghost pepper, more varieties of balsamic vinegar, and stronger flavors such as anise pop up in recipes and on cooking websites.

We’re also embracing flavors that tend to help even things out, like jicama and pear, plantain and pineapple and — have you noticed? — orange seems to be an ingredient in everything.

If you want to branch out and experience some of these flavors, consider one of the following recipes.

CARROT GINGER SOUPCarrot-Ginger-Soup

APRICOT SCONES WITH MAPLE-GINGER GLAZEApricot scones with maple ginger glaze

Brussels Sporuts Balsamic
Made with American Lamb stew meat in your slow cooker, it's seasoned with chard, onion, garlic, cardamom and pepper. After cooking for a short time, you add squash, apple cider, a cinnamon stick, bay leaf and cloves to simmer for 6-8 hours. 
Cider-Braised Lamb Shoulder. Photo: American Lamb Board.

The Flavors of Fall—Beyond Pumpkin and Pecan

The flavors of fall used to be cinnamon and nutmeg, mingled periodically with sage, toasted pecan, and of course, pumpkin. Have no fear, those flavors are still strong-but there’s much more to an increasingly global palate. Natalia Y//Unsplash Tier …

The flavors of fall used to be cinnamon and nutmeg, mingled periodically with sage, toasted pecan, and of course, pumpkin. Have no fear, those flavors are still strong—but there’s much more to an increasingly global palate.

Photo by Natalia Y on Unsplash
Natalia Y//Unsplash

Tier two ingredients include caramel, pomegranate, sweet potato, and honey. These are flavors we are already incorporating into our cooking on a regular basis, and they will be the flavors that evoke fall for our children for years to come.

For at least the last five years, we have been seeing more and more recipes featuring butternut squash, walnut, and stronger vegetable flavors such as Brussel Sprouts. More recently, emerging ingredients include maple, cardamom, harissa (a blend of hot chiles, garlic and more), ginger, and baharat (a blend of Middle Eastern spices).

Photo by Calum Lewis on Unsplash
Calum Lewis//Unsplash

Without question, our palates are handling hotter spices and are willing to be a bit more adventurous. We’re watching ghost pepper, more varieties of balsamic vinegar, and stronger flavors such as anise pop up in recipes and on cooking websites.

We’re also embracing flavors that tend to help even things out, like jicama and pear, plantain and pineapple and — have you noticed? — orange seems to be an ingredient in everything.

If you want to branch out and experience some of these flavors, consider one of the following recipes.

CARROT GINGER SOUPCarrot-Ginger-Soup

APRICOT SCONES WITH MAPLE-GINGER GLAZEApricot scones with maple ginger glaze

Brussels Sporuts Balsamic
Made with American Lamb stew meat in your slow cooker, it's seasoned with chard, onion, garlic, cardamom and pepper. After cooking for a short time, you add squash, apple cider, a cinnamon stick, bay leaf and cloves to simmer for 6-8 hours. 
Cider-Braised Lamb Shoulder. Photo: American Lamb Board.

The Flavors of Fall—Beyond Pumpkin and Pecan

The flavors of fall used to be cinnamon and nutmeg, mingled periodically with sage, toasted pecan, and of course, pumpkin. Have no fear, those flavors are still strong-but there’s much more to an increasingly global palate. Natalia Y//Unsplash Tier …

The flavors of fall used to be cinnamon and nutmeg, mingled periodically with sage, toasted pecan, and of course, pumpkin. Have no fear, those flavors are still strong—but there’s much more to an increasingly global palate.

Photo by Natalia Y on Unsplash
Natalia Y//Unsplash

Tier two ingredients include caramel, pomegranate, sweet potato, and honey. These are flavors we are already incorporating into our cooking on a regular basis, and they will be the flavors that evoke fall for our children for years to come.

For at least the last five years, we have been seeing more and more recipes featuring butternut squash, walnut, and stronger vegetable flavors such as Brussel Sprouts. More recently, emerging ingredients include maple, cardamom, harissa (a blend of hot chiles, garlic and more), ginger, and baharat (a blend of Middle Eastern spices).

Photo by Calum Lewis on Unsplash
Calum Lewis//Unsplash

Without question, our palates are handling hotter spices and are willing to be a bit more adventurous. We’re watching ghost pepper, more varieties of balsamic vinegar, and stronger flavors such as anise pop up in recipes and on cooking websites.

We’re also embracing flavors that tend to help even things out, like jicama and pear, plantain and pineapple and — have you noticed? — orange seems to be an ingredient in everything.

If you want to branch out and experience some of these flavors, consider one of the following recipes.

CARROT GINGER SOUPCarrot-Ginger-Soup

APRICOT SCONES WITH MAPLE-GINGER GLAZEApricot scones with maple ginger glaze

Brussels Sporuts Balsamic
Made with American Lamb stew meat in your slow cooker, it's seasoned with chard, onion, garlic, cardamom and pepper. After cooking for a short time, you add squash, apple cider, a cinnamon stick, bay leaf and cloves to simmer for 6-8 hours. 
Cider-Braised Lamb Shoulder. Photo: American Lamb Board.

Fall Preview: 9 Food Shows Coming Soon

When you’re watching insanely addictive videos on TikTok, Instagram and Youtube, it’s easy to forget that a good deal of food TV is still watched on television. Major streaming services like Netflix and Hulu offer compelling shows that offer one of …

When you’re watching insanely addictive videos on TikTok, Instagram and Youtube, it’s easy to forget that a good deal of food TV is still watched on television. Major streaming services like Netflix and Hulu offer compelling shows that offer one of two things: food competitions (that help us see the look in someone’s face when they lose a cooking competition) and dramas/documentaries that look like they took months to film because… they did.

For those of you who enjoy programming longer than one minute long, we’ve compiled a list of upcoming food shows in chronological order — from soonest to latest — with network and debut date.

 

Chef’s Table: Pizza

Network: Netflix

Debuts: September 7

Chef’s Table, the Emmy-nominated documentary series, has already covered star chefs like Dan Barber, Grant Achatz, Francis Mallman, Enrique Olvera, Michel Troisgros, Nancy Silverton, Christina Tosi, Sean Brock and celebrity butcher Dario Cecchini. This season they focus on pizzaiolos including American pizza pioneer Chris Bianco, Rome’s Gabriele Bonci, and Minneapolis’s James Beard Award-winning Ann Kimm. 

 

The Tiny Chef Show

Network: Nickelodeon 

Debuts: September 9

The Tiny Chef took Instagram by storm in 2018 with its stop-motion oddball cuteness. It spawned children’s books and products, and now Tiny Chef has come to Nickelodeon. The theme: educating kids about vegetarian eating. Expect to see more mini kitchenware, recipes, and guest stars including Tabitha Brown, Kristen Bell, and RZA.

 

The Great British Baking Show

Network: Netflix

Debuts: September 13 in the UK, September 16 in the US

The Great British Baking Show returns; series 13 has a dozen new contestants across 10 episodes — a new one airing each Friday. Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood return as judges and Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas resume their hosting duties. Competitors’ ages range from 18 to 60. Look for a holiday-themed mini-season in December, too.

 

Best in Dough

Network: Hulu

Debuts: September 19

Everyone likes pizza, right? Well, that’s the premise of Best in Dough, which features pizza-themed challenges in each episode and a potential cash prize of $10K for the winner. LA chef Daniele Uditi (of Pizzana) is head judge, Wells Adams (from “Bachelor in Paradise”) is the host, and the judges rotate, starting with Millie Peartree (chef-restaurateur), Eunji Kim (Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University), and Bryan Ford (award-winning bread baker and author). Watch the Hulu trailer and keep an eye out for when the host tells the contestants they will be making a “pizza cupcake” and the 82-year-old just says “no.”

 

Bob’s Burgers

Network: Fox

Debuts: September 25

After 12 seasons — and a movie this summer (see trailer below) — this animated characters franchise is back. Bob’s Burgers is essentially a family comedy show depicting the Belchers (great name) struggling to keep the family biz alive; it’s a burger joint in New England. Listen and watch the “Floppy Waffle” song video here.

 

Easy-Bake Battle: The Home-Cooking Competition

Network: Netflix

Debuts: October 12

Yes, the show is basically a culinary competition focused on the Easy-Bake ovens from your youth. The Netflix show page doesn’t offer much in background, but it will be hosted by Queer Eye‘s Antoni Porowski and the first season will feature eight, 30-minute episodes. According to Variety, home chefs will compete in two rounds — a savory and a sweet challenge. The ultimate winner has a chance to win a $100,000 prize; each battle is worth $25,000.

 

From Scratch

Network: Netflix

Debuts: October 22

This miniseries is based on Tembi Locke’s 2019 bestselling memoir From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily and Finding Home, which is described thusly on her website:

“[This is a] poignant and transformative cross-cultural love story set against the backdrop of the Sicilian countryside, about how one woman discovered the healing powers of food, family and unexpected grace in her darkest hour.

An incredible journey through Tembi’s life, the book tracks her relationship with her late husband, Saro through three summers spent in the Sicilian countryside. In this sweeping story, we see Tembi and Saro’s initial introduction on the streets of Florence, Italy, their move to Los Angeles as they forge a life together despite disapproval from Saro’s traditional Sicilian parents, and the rare illness that upends everything they thought they knew about family and forgiveness. Ultimately, Tembi’s tribulations lead her back to the Sicilian countryside and her mother-in-law’s table, where with the healing gifts of simple fresh food, the embrace of a close-knit community, and the power of enduring love, she finds the strength to step into a new life.”

Reese Witherspoon is one of the producers through her Hello Sunshine production company.

 

Drink Masters

Network: Netflix

Debuts: October 28

Eater wonders if it’s “Top Chef but for drinks?”… Here’s what we know: 

1) The show stars Tone Bell (stand-up comedian and actor), Julie Reiner (legendary NYC-based bar owner), and Frankie Solarik (co-owner of Toronto’s popular bar BarChef).

2) 12 contestants from across North America complete challenges against a clock — and one person is banished every episode until there’s an “Ultimate Drink Master.”

3) The cocktails will be judged by their taste and presentation.

Expect boozy humor. 

 

Martha Cooks

Network: Roku

Debuts: November 16

She’s baaaack. Martha Stewart will be hosting guest stars and chefs at her Bedford, New York, 153-acre estate in this Roku original show. You can get a taste of the vibe in this preview copy on Roku: 

The eggs from Martha’s chickens cooked to perfection to a delicious strawberry jam made with ripe berries from her garden, Martha welcomes us onto her Bedford farm and into her kitchen to share some of her personal favorite recipes. Learn everything from Martha’s techniques for preparing paella for a crowd to how to bake Martha’s three favorite cookies of all time. Working with world-renowned chefs and dear friends, she will share techniques and how-to instructions like only Martha can.”

Roku is also airing two companion shows this fall: Martha Holidays and Martha Gardens

Game of Thrones & House of the Dragon Party Cocktails and Recipes

Several years ago, when HBO was airing the final season of Game of Thrones (based on George R.R. Martin’s best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire series), the excitement manifested itself in elaborate “watch parties” around the world. Food Channel …

Several years ago, when HBO was airing the final season of Game of Thrones (based on George R.R. Martin’s best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire series), the excitement manifested itself in elaborate “watch parties” around the world. Food Channel participated by sharing a few drinks and dishes based on the warring families and on some of the more compelling characters, like the White Walkers and Dothraki.

With the debut of the prequel in 2022 (House of the Dragon), we decided to re-share this post, recipes and all.

What Is Dead May Never Die

This cocktail, inspired by House Greyjoy, was crafted with Deveron 12-Year-Old Single Malt Scotch from the Deveron Distillery in northeastern Scotland. The scotch is nuanced with the flavors of dill and caraway from Aquavit and a touch of dried seaweed from Dashi. Created by Andrew Record, National Single Malts Ambassador for Deveron in San Francisco.

This cocktail, inspired by House Greyjoy, was crafted with Deveron 12 Year Old Single Malt Scotch from the Deveron Distillery in northeastern Scotland. The scotch is nuanced with the flavors of dill and caraway from Aquavit and a touch of dried seaweed from Dashi.
What Is Dead May Never Die. Photo: Devron.

Ingredients

1-1/2 ounces Devron 12 Year Old Single Malt Scotch

3/4 ounce Svöl Danish Style Aquavit

1 ounce Meyer lemon juice

1/2 ounce Dashi syrup

Directions

Dashi Syrup: Make a simple syrup by combining a near-boiling 1/2 cup of water and 1/2 cup cane sugar. Steep one sheet of nori and 1/2 cup of bonito flake for one minute in hot liquid. Fine strain to remove all solids. Chill syrup before using.

Cocktail: Combine ingredients in shaker tin over ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into large rocks glass over ice. Garnish with sheet of seaweed.

The Usurper, Lord Paramount of the Stormlands

Inspired by House Baratheon, this cocktail pairs Royal Brackla 12-Year-Old Scotch Whiskey with the richness of Fino sherry and a zip of passion fruit to create punch fit for a king. Created by Andrew Record, National Single Malts Ambassador for Deveron in San Francisco.

Inspired by House Baratheon, this cocktail pairs Royal Brackla 12 Year Old Scotch Whiskey with the richness of Fino sherry and a zip of passion fruit to create punch fit for a king.
The Usurper, Lord Paramount of the Stormlands, Photo: Devron.

Ingredients

2 ounces Royal Brackla 12 Year Old Single Malt Scotch

1 ounce Fino Sherry

3/4 ounce lemon juice

1/2 ounce passionfruit syrup

Directions

Combine all ingredients over ice in shaker tine. Shake vigorously. Strain into tall glass. Top with soda. Garnish with handful of grapes.

The Dragonglass

The Dragonglass cocktail was created by Hemant Pathak, Mixologist of NYC’s Michelin Star restaurant Junoon. He says “One way or another, the catalyst in the final season will have something to do with Dragonglass!” The cocktail will be served in the restaurant starting April 14, a new addition to the robust Game of Thrones-themed cocktail menu.

The Dragonglass cocktail was created by Hemant Pathak, Mixologist of NYC's Michelin Star restaurant Junoon.
The Dragonglass. Photo: Junoon.

Ingredients

1.5 ounces Belvedere Smogory Forest

0.75 ounce Basil-Limoncello

0.5 ounce lemongrass-infused Cocci Americano

0.5 ounce citric acid solution

1 ounce ginger ber

Directions

Stir all ingredients with ice. Serve in small wine or rocks glass with ice sphere. Garnish with Angostura Amaro.

The following cocktail and appetizer recipes are courtesy of celebrity caterer Andrea Correale, founder and president of Elegant Affairs. The White Walker Martini recipe follows, with links to the appetizer recipes below. A GOT watch party is the kind of thing Andrea does every day for her clients, which include Brooke Shields, Mariah Carey, Jimmy Fallon and P. Diddy.

White Walker Martini

The White Walker Martini was created by celebrity caterer Andrea Correale to serve during your watch party for the final season of Game of Thrones.
White Walker Martini. Photo: Elegant Affairs.

Ingredients

1-1/2 ounces vodka

1 ounce Blue Curacao

1/2 ounce Elderflower Liquor

1 teaspoon crushed dry ice

Directions

In a cocktail shaker, place the dry ice (be careful handling dry ice, read instructions carefully). Add in all other ingredients. Shake well and strain (without the ice) into a cold martini glass.

Appetizers Fit For A Queen

Enjoy the battle for the Seven Kingdoms.

Editor’s note: This post was originally published in 2019 and updated on August 23, 2022.

Every Fried Chicken Meme Worth Seeing

In honor of National Fried Chicken Day, we bring you a finely curated collection of the world’s most interesting, insightful, and ingenious fried chicken memes. Sourced from multiple social-media platforms, these variations on a theme seem to fit …

In honor of National Fried Chicken Day, we bring you a finely curated collection of the world’s most interesting, insightful, and ingenious fried chicken memes. Sourced from multiple social-media platforms, these variations on a theme seem to fit into one of three categories:  

  1. Fried chicken is the best thing on Earth.
  2. It’s funny yet gratifying to see fried chicken where it doesn’t belong.
  3. Fried chicken pairs especially well with Jack Nicholson.

Please note we did not include memes dedicated to Chicken McNuggets, chicken wings, “chicken butt,” or “winner, winner, chicken dinner.” We’re focusing on fried chicken and only fried chicken. Cluck yeah. (If you were looking for fried chicken recipes, we have those too.)

https://www.instagram.com/p/CF-6TX3ntUG/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CfrfijuLn9e/

https://www.instagram.com/p/Boftxs0BG6b/

 

 

Fried chicken and dogs
Source: Know Your Meme (https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1090572-puppy-or-bagel)

Source: Me.me

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfrg2iGpRgt/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CJeohsfHny-/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CDKimDkBOO-/

@jukefriedchicken

TAG SOMEONE THAT YOU WOULD WANNA TRY JUKE CHICKEN WITH! #drumstick #chicken #friedchicken #foodgasm #fypシ #foodie #jukechicken #crunchysounds

♬ STAY – The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber

@editzwithcraig

Fried chicken>>> #meme #funny #song #fyp #foryou #foryoupage #tropcalblast_offical #viral

♬ original sound – Riley

@meme_m4ch1n3

#meme #memes #funny #dankmemes #kfc #kentucky #comedy #meme_m4ch1n3

♬ original sound – MEME_M4CH1N3

@lafertea2.0

WHERE IS MY MF FRIED CHICKEN #meme #foryou #johncena #Friedchicken #belt #Godmode

♬ original sound – Roy Cabb

 

rain-chicken
Source: Tenor.com (https://tenor.com/view/rain-chicken-fried-chicken-chicken-leg-chicken-rain-gif-15167791)

mr-bean-chicken

 

Source: Meme Central (https://memecentral.org/chicken-meme/)

 

 

 

Source: imgflip (https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/72555298/Fried-Chicken) 

 

needed-fried-chicken-couldnt-find-coat
Source: Meme Generator (https://memegenerator.net/instance/75176969/frozen-jack-nicholson-needed-fried-chicken-couldnt-find-coat)

 

i-want-some-fried-chicken-oh-im-sorry-was-i-yelling
Source: Meme Generator (https://memegenerator.net/instance/64883511/jack-nicholson-you-cant-handle-the-truth-i-want-some-fried-chicken-oh-im-sorry-was-i-yelling)

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_MrMGIp6le/

The Oreo x Ritz Cracker Mashup: Make Your Own or Pay this Crazy Ebay Price

The Oreo cookie and Ritz cracker combo has taken the Internet by storm. We found a video that shows how to make your ow, plus an ebay auction for a single box.

In late May, the Internet nearly blew up upon seeing the latest Oreo collab. In case you missed it, this was a sweet-n-savory mashup that paired regular Oreos with Ritz crackers and peanut butter.

The product was released in limited quantities on May 26 (free with $3.95 shipping fee), immediately sold out, and regular folks like you were left with two options if you wanted a taste: Make your own or pay auction price — which was $600 on Ebay recently.

Oreo & Ritz

It’s possible that the parent company of both products, Mendelez International, will do it again. Or will offer other creative collaborations; they also own Chips Ahoy, Triscuits, Tate’s Bake Shop, Sour Patch Kids, Wheat Thins, and Toblerone. Can you think up a mashup worth doing with any of these products?

Meantime, we leave you with this video of @alexawhatsfordinner making her own Oreo-Ritz goodness on Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CeO7OvwlpNc/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Pizza Thieves: Another “Nobody’s Gonna Know” Meme

Of all the pizza memes online these days, none worried pizza lovers more than the “How would they know” videos. The premise is simple: There’s a simple, elegant, dare we say clever way that a pizza worker could, indeed, steal a slice from a pie …

Of all the pizza memes online these days, none worried pizza lovers more than the “How would they know” videos. The premise is simple: There’s a simple, elegant, dare we say clever way that a pizza worker could, indeed, steal a slice from a pie before serving and customers would have no clue. It’s a cruel, vicious hack, but so eeeeasy.

Here’s how it works: The large pie comes out of the oven, the person with the pizza cutter carves out either a huge triangular slice or a 2-inch rectangle from the center of the pie, and then pushes the two (now smaller) halves together before dividing the rest of the triangular slices.

This video, from Visa channel, shows the technique where a triangular slice is removed from a pie, followed by the simple recombining of the two halves.

 

This video, from @pizzasalvatore, demonstrates an alternative way to snatch pizza covertly. Specifically, via a rectangular slice.

@pizzasalvatore

Quand t’as un petit creux en travaillant 😅😋 #CestUneBlague #PizzaSalvatoré #Blague #Humour #Bouffe #Pizza #Yummy

♬ how would they know bad girls club – Chris Gleason

 

Other versions of the meme scrap the “Who’s gonna know?/Nobody’s gonna know” shtick and pair the hack technique with a song (in this case “Rockstar” by DaBaby featuring Roddy Ricch, 1.4 billion streams on Spotify).

@michaelbakthomsen

Follow me for more lifehacks!#lifehack #pizza #foryoupage #explore #foodie #food

♬ ROCKSTAR – DaBaby, Roddy Ricch

The origin of the meme

According to Know Your Meme, the audio in these clips stem from an audio clip from the American television series Bad Girls Club containing the “Nobody’s gonna know, nobody’s gonna know,” and subsequent “They’re gonna know,” and ending with a “How would they know?”

If you peruse the content at the #GonnaKnow hashtag, you’ll see it means someone is doing something deceitful while lip-syncing to the clip. And praying they don’t get busted.

Cglaeason22, the original uploader of the audio clip, posted the video on March 25th, 2020. He was “debating myself on whether or not i should make a fake account just to post comments on my videos” and this clip saw more than 1.7 million views and 202 thousand likes in six months.

Other TikToks followed, including seanghedi posted a Gonna Know video captioned, “me getting my septum pierced against my parents wishes.” The video received over 496,000 views and 108,000 likes in five months.

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