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Best Packaging Tips for Custom Gold Cupcake Boxes
Cupcakes have grown in popularity in recent years. They are now more popular than ever. It looks like a cupcake shop in every town. There are several reasons that we love cupcakes so much. There are many cupcake flavors to be desired.
By Lily Gardner6 years ago in Feast
Australian Guide to Healthy Eating
Healthy eating is often seen as a difficult task, but it doesn’t need to be. Providing you plan well and are careful with your shopping choices, healthy eating can be as inexpensive and convenient as a diet based in processed food.
By Armen Bandari6 years ago in Feast
Sunday roast chicken
Cooking is Love, it’s about people ,culture and environmental status. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture you come from, everywhere around the world, people get together.
By Faith 6 years ago in Feast
THERE'S BACTERIA IN MY YOGURT?!?
I was in fifth grade when I saw “the film”. My greek yogurt which was supposed to be ready-to-eat had a slimy, ooey-gooey, and unappetizing film on top of it. Immediately, I thought my yogurt had expired! So, like the fifth-grader I was, I threw away the entire container of yogurt without knowing that “the film” I saw was actually a healthy layer of microorganisms. A decade or so later, and I am here to inform you about a type of microorganism that makes your yogurt, Lactobacillus bulgaricus well, yogurt. But before we get into the specifics, let me give you a brief synopsis on the importance of these little fermenting bacteria.
By Rachel K6 years ago in Feast
The Perfect Pairing
There is something fascinating about the coming together of two substances, two objects, two atoms, two people, two foods. We, as people, as matter, as objects, are all about connecting; coming together. We rise together. We fall together. We drink together, we eat together.
By Kerri MiLLs6 years ago in Feast
Sugar Cookies
There is one thing that me and my littles love making, and it's cookies. Now I am by no means a master baker. I fully believe in if you have a good attitude while baking it will be amazing in the end. I never used to believe this until my mom made a very good point. My father is the real baker in the family, any baked goods the first time he tries making something it's amazing from the beginning. Now every year around Christmas time, my dad makes the best cookies. He's always tweaking the original recipe and making it his own. Now I'm not the biggest fan of the holidays, actually my family will call me the Grinch of Christmas and honestly I'd have to agree. But me and my mom always say that my dad has the most Christmas spirit and that is why his cookies come out amazing each time. When I was young I just believed I wasn't good at making cookies, that I just didn't have that special touch like my dad. Until I met my now fiancé, and his sweet little angel. Obviously kids naturally love cookies and are typically happy when they get a chance to help out in the kitchen. So for a long time she would beg me to make cookies, and I would always say well lets get your grumpa (that's what my kids call their grandfather.) and you can make cookies with him because I'm not good at making them. But she insisted that me and her needed to make them, so obviously looking at that sweet face how could you say no? I knew that they would probably come out terribly, but it made her happy so I figured why not. So we set up the kitchen kicked her dad out of the kitchen and we went to work. On a side note, I really hate making a mess like it really unnerves me and I typically clean as I go. But when you have a child that wants to help out, messes happen. So even though it unnerved me to watch her spill stuff everywhere I put on a smile and told her she was doing amazing. I don't know about all of you, but I like to ask simple questions to get my kids thinking. Such as if we need 4 cups of flour, and you just put 1 cup in the bowl how many do you need to get to 4 cups? And she really enjoys it, when she gets the answer right you just can see the happiness radiate out of her. So fast forwarding to the final product, we take a bite and I swear it taste just like my dads. I was so surprised we called my dad immediately after and told him all about it! After getting off the phone, my daughter (yes I say my daughter because I have helped raised her for years at this point.) asked me why I felt that our cookies wouldn't come out good. I looked at her, and I told her that I have never been able to make a cookie that ever tasted as good as the ones we made. She sat there for a second taking in what I said. And I will never forget what she told me, she looks at me and goes, "Mom what do you always tell me?" and honestly I blanked for a second, "That we don't say we can't do something, just because we didn't get it the first time or even the third time doesn't mean we won't figure it out eventually. You also tell me I can't say that I can't do something just because it didn't work out the first time." I looked at this sweet little face and she was right. I always tell her just because we didn't succeed the first time, means we give up and not try again. Since then I've tried looking on the brighter side of things, and to start taking my own advice and to relax a little. Messes and learning are apart of life, and it's okay that we don't get it right away. That doesn't mean that we can't learn how to make something amazing in the end.
By wildchild6 years ago in Feast
UK Chinese restaurants really have only themselves to blame
Remembering back to a report in the UK's Sunday Times not too long ago where is was stated that the respective Chinatowns of Liverpool (the oldest in the UK), Manchester and Newcastle are in serious decline, diner numbers having reduced dramatically with some restaurants sadly having to close. The situation has not been remedied either by the arrival of the pandemic.
By Edward Moss6 years ago in Feast
Vegan made easy
Are you trying to eat less meat and dairy and incorporate more vegan options into your diet? Well I’m here to give you a few easy recipes you can do at home!
By Hannah Smith6 years ago in Feast
How Food Blogging Can Help You Manage Your Weight
Some people might say to never trust a skinny chef, but that's really not being fair to the chef. It's possible to enjoy food and stay healthy. Food can be your full-time job, but that doesn't mean you have to let yourself go. With the right balance, you can be an expert food blogger, and still manage your weight. Here are some suggestions.
By Dennis McKonkie6 years ago in Feast
Easy Filled Lemon Cake
Of course, you probably know me very well for invading Vocal with my film studies stuff and articles entitled ‘a filmmaker’s guide’. I have often explained that I love to bake as well. Since I was young, I have loved the idea, the creativity and the relaxation of baking different things. I love to make macarons, layer cakes and gingerbread in particular and the activity of it really gets me away from my laptop (where I’m sure you know that I spend most of my life). So, I hope you enjoy me talking about what I bake and why I bake it complete with pictures (if not very good) of me actually baking, my baked goods in the process of being created and when they’re finished. I’m really happy to share this with you. And if you like, you can show me your baking (yes, I spend a lot of time writing, but I also spend a lot of time reading other people’s articles!), I would love to see it. Since I was in school, I was always interested in creating things, whether that be pieces of writing, welding things to make small statues or baking foods and making sweets (candy, if you’re American). I hope you enjoy looking at some of the stuff that has honestly kept me sane, because I seem to be going slightly mad.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Feast
WJ'S CHEESY PRETZELS
During the beginning of the first lockdown during co-vid, a male friend and I teamed up. Instead of being bored, since we couldn't work at that time. We went to Granny's. We knew we could be more useful by keeping her and Uncle off the streets and out of the stores. Health compromised, neither of them could afford to come down with the co-vid. We had come to an agreement between all of us, that would keep them in and us at their beck and call. So we thought. These two were using the tricks I'm sure their own kids had tried. Plus how can you expect them to not want to get out of the house when they were always home after retirement. After co-vid lockdown I totally understand how one would want to just get out and drive around. It didn't take long for the two of us to get bored.
By Wendy Karyl Lowe6 years ago in Feast
THE PAIR THAT PLEASES EVERYONE
I could remember when I had my first cup of coffee. I was about fourteen or fifteen when my mom let me try it. I tried the coffee and I liked it right away! Ever since then I drink coffee with cream and sugar. There was one time in my life I was drinking coffee black with sugar. I drank this kind of coffee for a year. I started having stomach problems, I found out it was because I was not putting cream in the coffee! I went back to putting cream in the coffee when I did my stomach problems went away. I am a senior now and I drink coffee and I love to have it with Pie or Cake. Coffee goes together with these two deserts great! It doesn't matter what kind of Pie or Cake it is coffee goes great with them. I like having coffee in the morning and, I like having it with Pie or Cake. Donuts are great to have with coffee too! It was the way I was brought up, my Dad liked to have Cake or Pie with his morning coffee. To this day that is what I love to have in the morning.
By rose m lewis6 years ago in Feast